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I certainly knew of both of them. Lyman, of course, had been provost only a year or so before I got there. But Terman, though his tenure went back further -- he started in the job in 1955 -- was renowned as the guy who built Stanford into a national university.

I find this idea that provosts are obscure characters to be odd. Of the names on the list in Yvonne's link, the only two unfamiliar to me are Douglas Whitaker, who left the job just a year after I was born, and James N. Rosse. (I must have been asleep that decade.) Seriously -- have you never heard of John Etchemendy, the current provost?

Of course.  Every year since I graduated, beginning while a penniless grad student, at least one donation pitch from the Provost du jour has been included in the barrage.  Until then, though, no.  Maybe if I had been politically active, or on the Daily staff, but I wasn't.  My parents certainly knew the Provost's name as they were subjected to the donation barrage even while struggling to pay my tuition.  Still true?  I know we got them when our kids were in school.

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I certainly knew of both of them. Lyman, of course, had been provost only a year or so before I got there. But Terman, though his tenure went back further -- he started in the job in 1955 -- was renowned as the guy who built Stanford into a national university.

I find this idea that provosts are obscure characters to be odd. Of the names on the list in Yvonne's link, the only two unfamiliar to me are Douglas Whitaker, who left the job just a year after I was born, and James N. Rosse. (I must have been asleep that decade.) Seriously -- have you never heard of John Etchemendy, the current provost?

Of course.  Every year since I graduated, beginning while a penniless grad student, at least one donation pitch from the Provost du jour has been included in the barrage.  Until then, though, no.  Maybe if I had been politically active, or on the Daily staff, but I wasn't.  My parents certainly knew the Provost's name as they were subjected to the donation barrage even while struggling to pay my tuition.  Still true?  I know we got them when our kids were in school.