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unusual facts about Vere Fane Benett-Stanford


Preston Manor, Brighton

In October 1867, she married Vere Fane Benett-Stanford (1840-1894) of Pythouse near Tisbury, Wiltshire in a ceremony at St Peter's Church, after which a wedding breakfast for forty guests was held at Preston Manor.


1901 Stanford football team

Stanford was invited to represent the West in the Tournament East-West football game to be held in Tournament Park in Pasadena, California on New Year's Day, 1902, facing East representative Michigan, a team which had yet to yield a point all season.

2002 Stanford Cardinal football team

In head coach Buddy Teevens's first season at Stanford, the Cardinal won only two games, ending the season with a 2–9 record, the school's worst since a 1–10 season in 1983.

2007 Stanford vs. USC football game

To compound the situation, Stanford's starting quarterback T. C. Ostrander had suffered a seizure the previous week and backup quarterback Tavita Pritchard had never started a game and had only ever thrown three passes.

2008 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament

After Texas went up two sets to none, Stanford came back to win in five sets behind play from seniors Foluke Akinradewo and Cynthia Barboza.

2013 Pacific-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

Induction for the Hall of Honor on March 16, 2013 were: Jason Gardner (Arizona), Dennis Hamilton (Arizona State), Shareef Abdur-Rahim (California), Cliff Meely (Colorado), Chuck Rask (Oregon), Charlie Sitton (Oregon State), Ron Tomsic (Stanford), Lucius Allen (UCLA), Forrest Twogood (USC), Keith Van Horn (Utah), Nate Robinson (Washington) and Jim Keen (Washington State).

A. King Dickson

The three wins were against the University of the Pacific, Santa Clara College, and the San Jose Normal School; the two losses were versus Berkeley and Stanford (1st teams?).

Chorus of Westerly

This list includes "Songs of the Fleet" by Charles Villiers Stanford, "Lux Aeterna" by William Mathias, "Birthday Madrigals" by John Rutter, "Mass of the Sea" by Paul Patterson and several other works of George Dyson, Patrick Hadley and Gilbert Vinters.

Collective memory

Jan Assmann: Religion and Cultural Memory: Ten Studies, Stanford UP 2005

Dan Millman

During Millman's tenure at Stanford, he trained in Aikido, eventually earning a shodan (black belt) ranking, and studied T'ai chi (Taiji) and other martial arts.

Dance marathon

Stanford's Dance Marathon benefits primarily Partners in Health and FACE AIDS, and they also choose a local beneficiary each year.

Daniel Weisiger Adams

Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001.

Edward Salwey

Salwey was the son of Humphrey Salwey of Stanford Court, Stanford-on-Teme and his wife Anne Littleton, daughter of Sir Edward Littleton.

Edwin C. May

His technical expertise is well respected, and he has given presentations at the famous World War II site Bletchley Park (UK), Harvard University, the Universities of California at Los Angeles and at Davis, Stanford University, the University of Edinburgh, Trinity College Cambridge, Eötvös Loránd University, the University of Stockholm, Imperial College London and others.

Electronic Life

The computer crime entry, for example, is three pages long and contains only four hard facts—specifically, that institutions were then losing $5 billion to $30 billion a year on computer crime, that Citibank processed $30 billion a day in customer transactions using computers, that American banks as a whole were moving $400 billion a year in the U.S., and that the Stanford public key code (not otherwise described) had been broken in 1982.

George Myers

George S. Myers (1905–1985), American ichthyologist from Stanford University

Hardin Craig

He earned his A.B. from Centre College 1897, and served as principal at Stanford Academy in Kentucky for one year.

Heart–lung transplant

Building on his research at Stanford, Dr. Bruce Reitz performed the first successful heart–lung transplant on Mary Gohlke in 1981 at Stanford Hospital.

IBM 1500

Seeded by a research grant in 1964 from the U.S. Department of Education to the Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences at Stanford University, the IBM 1500 CAI system was initially prototyped at the Brentwood Elementary School (Ravenswood City School District) in East Palo Alto, California by Dr. Patrick Suppes of Stanford University.

James Kip Finch

He married Lolita P. Mollmann (d. 1964) on June 25, 1910, in Stanford, New York.

Jeanne Ruark Hoff

Jeanne Ruark Hoff (born c. 1960 in Mississippi) is a former college basketball player for Stanford University and the mother of Olympic swimming medalist Katie Hoff.

Kate Paye

Her father was a running back for Stanford's football team while her brother John was a quarterback for the team in the mid-1980s, and later was her basketball coach at Menlo School.

Labor and Employment Relations Association

It originally consisted of about 100 researchers (economists; management, human resources, and labor relations researchers; attorneys, historians and sociologists) from 30 universities, including California-Berkeley, Columbia, Cornell, Illinois, Massachusetts (several campuses), MIT, Michigan, Michigan State, Northeastern, Rutgers, Stanford and UCLA, as well as universities in Canada and the United Kingdom.

Lifespring

Studies commissioned by Lifespring in the 1980s by researchers at Berkeley, Stanford, and UCSF, including Lee Ross, Morton Lieberman, and Irvin Yalom, found that an overwhelming majority of participants in this training called it either "extremely valuable" or "valuable" (around 90%).

Loopt

That summer, Stanford sophomores Sam Altman and Nick Sivo worked to build the first prototype of Loopt.

MercadoLibre.com

Marcos Galperin, current CEO, began the company while still in business school at Stanford University.

Michael Klausner

In 1991, he joined the New York University School of Law faculty as a professor until 1997 when he became a professor at Stanford.

Monroe Spaght

A named Chair in Chemistry was created in his honor at Stanford University; the incumbent Monroe E. Spaght Professor of Chemistry is Edward I. Solomon.

Neill Franklin

Stanford "Neill" Franklin was a police officer in Maryland for 33 years and is now a Huffington Post blogger and the executive director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP).

Nutt Bluff

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) at the suggestion of Arthur B. Ford, leader of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) geological party in the Dufek Massif, 1976–77, after Constance J. Nutt, geologist, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, a member of the USGS party.

Oakland Unified School District

During its early twentieth century history, Oakland was one of the first school districts to use the I.Q. test developed by Stanford Professor Lewis Terman to track its students.

Phil Northrup

At the 1925 NCAA Men's Track and Field Championships, he helped Michigan take second place as the Wolverines narrowly lost the team title to Stanford.

Roger Everett Summons

Before joining MIT in 2001, he held appointments at Stanford, Australian Iron and Steel, the Australian National University and at Geoscience Australia.

Roger K. Summit

Their eldest child, Jennifer Summit, is professor of English at Stanford University.

Rouge Dragon Pursuivant

The College of Arms, Queen Victoria Street : being the sixteenth and final monograph of the London Survey Committee, Walter H. Godfrey, assisted by Sir Anthony Wagner, with a complete list of the officers of arms, prepared by H. Stanford London, (London, 1963)

Ryan J. Orr

He received his PhD from Stanford University in 2005 from Raymond Levitt, William Richard Scott, and Douglass North (nobel laureate).

Rye Harbour

At 6:45 am on the morning of 15 November 1928, the Mary Stanford from the Rye Harbour RNLI station responded needlessly to a Latvian steamer in distress.

Scott Stanford

Stanford also makes appearances in Zack Ryder's weekly Z! True Long Island Story YouTube series.

Stanford Center for Design Research

The Center for Design Research was founded in 1984 by a collection of faculty from Stanford's famed Design Division, with money from companies including Apple Computer, BMW, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, and Toshiba Corporation.

Stanford Clock Tower

On May 10, 1983, when then-Stanford president Donald Kennedy unveiled the new clock tower, he burst out laughing: the clock's west face had been covered with Mickey Mouse's face and hands by an unknown prankster.

Stanford University Network

The original router software was called NOS, Network Operating System, written by William Yeager, a staff research engineer at Stanford's medical school.

Steve Dils

He played six seasons with the Vikings and started most of the 1983 season, where he was paired in the backfield with former Stanford teammate Darrin Nelson.

Terman

Frederick Terman (engineer; 1900-1982), Provost of Stanford University, credited with establishing Silicon Valley

Teyo Johnson

He also played forward for two years on the Stanford basketball team, alongside future NBA players like Josh Childress, Casey Jacobsen, Jason Collins and Jarron Collins.

The Teacher Salary Project

American Teacher also features interviews with US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Deputy Secretary of Education Brad Jupp, the founder of The Equity Project Charter School Zeke Vanderhoek, Stanford Professor of Education Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford economist Eric Hanushek, and several regional and national teachers of the year.

Thomas Blom Hansen

He has two children with his first wife, and is married to an Assistant Professor at Stanford Sharika Thiranagama, daughter of the Tamil activist Rajini Thiranagama (1954 –1989).

Valery Chalidze

The primary translator of Amerikanskie Federalisti was Gregory Freidin of Stanford, with consultation from Leon Lipson of Yale Law School.

William Snow

William Snow (academic), Stanford University professor affiliated with formation of the American Social Health Association

William Ward Duffield

Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.


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