{"id":18,"date":"2002-07-05T19:20:45","date_gmt":"2002-07-06T03:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2002\/07\/05\/what-makes-stanford-such-a-strategic-mission-field\/"},"modified":"2002-07-05T19:20:45","modified_gmt":"2002-07-06T03:20:45","slug":"what-makes-stanford-such-a-strategic-mission-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/07\/05\/what-makes-stanford-such-a-strategic-mission-field","title":{"rendered":"What Makes Stanford Such a Strategic Mission Field?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Today They Learn, Tomorrow They&nbsp;Lead<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In a very real sense, schools like Stanford function as a steering wheel<br>\n        for our society. Whichever way they turn now determine how our society<br>\n        will turn out a few decades down the&nbsp;road.<\/p>\n<p>Alumni include<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Government<\/b>: 4 current Supreme<br>\n          Court Justices (Chief Justice <a href=\"http:\/\/supct.law.cornell.edu\/supct\/justices\/rehnquist.bio.clr.html\">William Rehnquist<\/a> and Associate Justices <a href=\"http:\/\/supct.law.cornell.edu\/supct\/justices\/oconnor.bio.clr.html\">Sandra Day O\u2019Connor<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/supct.law.cornell.edu\/supct\/justices\/kennedy.bio.clr.html\">Anthony Kennedy <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/supct.law.cornell.edu\/supct\/justices\/breyer.bio.clr.html\">Stephen Breyer<\/a>),  California governor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gray-davis.com\/\">Gray Davis<\/a>, 5 U.S. senators, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.us-israel.org\/jsource\/biography\/barak.html\">Ehud<br>\n          Barak<\/a> (former Prime Minister of Israel)<\/li>\n<li><b>Business<\/b>: the CEOs of 3Com, Hewlett-Packard,<br>\n          Nike, and Sun Microsystems<\/li>\n<li><b>Celebrities<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Witherspoon,+Reese\">Reese Witherspoon<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who2.com\/chelseaclinton.html\">Chelsea Clinton<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/sections\/nightline\/Nightline\/nl_koppel_bio.html\">Ted Koppel<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Weaver,+Sigourney\">Sigourney           Weaver<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Danson,+Ted\">Ted Danson<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Palance,+Jack\">Jack Palance<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Connelly,+Jennifer\">Jennifer Connelly<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Savage,+Fred\">Fred Savage<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Sports<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tigerwoods.com\/aboutme\/bio.sps?sid=825&amp;lid=1&amp;aid=0\">Tiger Woods<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/qbclub\/elway.html\">John Elway<\/a>,<br>\n          and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisfame.org\/enshrinees\/john_mcenroe.html\">John McEnroe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Education<\/b>: the presidents of&nbsp;Yale,<br>\n          the University of Arizona, and Johns Hopkins.<\/li>\n<li><b>Science<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.worldcom.com\/global\/resources\/cerfs_up\/\">Vinton Cerf <\/a>\u201cthe Father<br>\n          of the Internet\u201d, and 17 astronauts (including <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.lucidcafe.com\/lucidcafe\/library\/96may\/ride.html\">Sally Ride<\/a>), and the <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.yahoo.com\/info\/misc\/history.html\">founders of Yahoo! <\/a>(most<br>\n          popular site on the Internet) and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/corporate\/history.html\">founders of Google<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In other words, Stanford is one of the most strategic mission fields in the world! For an even fuller list of alumni, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/home\/stanford\/facts\/alumni.html\">check out the Stanford famous alumni list!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Stanford is one of the most strategic mission fields on the planet: today they learn, tomorrow they&nbsp;lead!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanfordministry-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}