The 108th annual commencement at Stanford : videorecording, 1999.

ArchivalResource

The 108th annual commencement at Stanford : videorecording, 1999.

Video tape (and DVD copy) of the 1999 commencement activities; includes commencement address by Robert Pinsky and commencement remarks by Stanford University President Gerhard Casper.

1 videocassette: col; VHS.1 video disc.

Related Entities

There are 2 Entities related to this resource.

Casper, Gerhard.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mg8k7f (person)

Formerly Dean of the Law School and University Provost at the University of Chicago, Gerhard Casper became the 9th president of Stanford University in 1992. His concerns while in office included restoration of the campus after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, a comprehensive study of undergraduate education, recruitment and retention of faculty, the integration of the Stanford Alumni Association into the university, and the creation of a new Science and Engineering Quad. He left office in 2000 t...

Pinsky, Robert

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tq62k7 (person)

American poet and literary critic, was born in 1940 in New Jersey. He studied English at Rutgers University (BA, 1962) and Stanford Univeristy (MA and PhD, 1967). He has taught at the University of Chicago (1966-67), Wellesley College (1967-1980), and the Univeristy of California, Berkeley, (1980-present). Since 1979 he has been poetry editor for The new republic. From the description of Robert Pinsky papers, circa 1960-2008. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 462019356 ...