Stanford Engineering

Engineering Memory of the Month

Relaxed and smiling graduate students from the off-campus Stanford Village group of dorms.

Life in Stanford Village

Student life surely wasn't always easy 50 years ago, but it seems a breeze in scenes like this one, provided by mechanical engineering alumnus Herb Lindberg (PhD '58). Here, relaxed and smiling graduate students from the off-campus Stanford Village group of dorms (Terman for men and Sterlingfor women) could be found soaking up the sun at a picnic back in 1955.

Pictured (from left) are Rosalie Franzoia, Fred Leckie (in profile), Theron Skyles, Don Gage, Dick Clark (front and center), Art Vassiliadis, Bob Campbell (holding a drink), and Dean Lytle (back to camera). Lindberg reports that Leckie became an engineering mechanics professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara, while Gage became an electrical engineering professor at the University of Colorado.

Indoors in a typical Stanford Village dorm

Indoors in a typical Stanford Village dorm, life seemed less cluttered than it would in a dorm today. Note the conspicuous absence of cords hanging down from the desk, except one to power the only electrical device there: a lamp.

Our thanks go out to Lindberg, who went on to direct research on structural dynamics and explosions at SRI International. He married alumna Mary Pagels (MA '55 Education) and they are retired and live in Penn Valley, CA today.

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