Biographical Profile |
Wendy provides a rambling narrative of her incredibly memorable years at Stanford, including several changes in direction towards a major, extraordinary professors, independent study in Tepoztlán, Mexico, Stanford-in-Italy, and dorm and house life on campus. She relishes the close friendships maintained to this day, as well as many special events she never missed such as football and basketball games, the Big Game Bonfire, and Sunday Flicks. Wendy reminisces about the impact of local, national and world events that took place during her 4 years, one being President Nixon’s resignation during her time in Italy and the bewilderment of her Italian friends regarding her shock that any American president would resign; another delves into the thoughts she felt during a change from having the Indian as our mascot to being represented by nothing more than a color, and how she views that controversial issue now compared to back in ’72-’75. Wendy considers the flexibility allowed to students to have been very progressive for the decade; she was able to take two winter quarters off to work and ski. Other college events include spending many school breaks on trips with Stanford friends; sports participation and spectating; and some weekends ‘studying’ on the beach, usually in Carmel or along the north coast. A retired Spanish teacher who has lived in Boulder, CO, for 43 years, Wendy compares and contrasts the 4 generations of family experiences at Stanford: hers, her grandfather’s, her parents’, and her daughter’s. Her late husband, Kit Blakemore, was Stanford ’73, University of Colorado JD ’76, and daughter, Katy, was Stanford ’04, M.Ed. Vanderbilt ’09. Her son, Patrick was Cornell ’07, JD ’12. Her grandfather was Carl E. Johnston ’1912; her mother Carolyn Dean Johnston Slobe, and father, Robert John Slobe, both ’50.
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