Stanford Historical Society elects five new board members
The Stanford Historical Society membership elected five new board members and re-elected two current board members to the Board of Directors at the annual members' meeting on May 28. The new board members will begin their first three-year term on July 1. Among other responsibilities, they will participate in and serve on one or more committee and assume leadership roles or undertake special assignments.
The following individuals are elected to serve their first three (3) year term:
David Daly's ties to Stanford history are manifold. His parents, both class of ’69, met overseas — his mother studied in Vienna and his father in Florence, and they met in an Irish pub in Trafalgar Square on New Year’s Eve. His cousin is married to the grandson of President Sterling. As an undergrad in the class of 2005, Dave served as chairman of the Axe Committee, keepers of Stanford lore and traditions. After graduation, he worked for the Office of Government and Community Relations and then for the University Archaeologist Laura Jones. In the later position, he used historical blueprints, photographs, and excavation records to build a virtual 3D model of the men’s gymnasium which was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and the ruins of which lay where Bing Concert Hall now stands.
Dave was the first student board member of the Stanford Historical Society Board. He served on the SHS Program Committee and eventually became the committee chair. As chair, he advocated for all SHS programs to be taped for uploading to iTunes U. He spearheaded efforts to share Stanford history and traditions at New Student Orientation with SHS-initiated programs and by sharing copies of Chronology with the freshmen. He also oversaw the revitalization of the Beyers Prize for Excellence in Historical Writing into a contest that has produced some excellent scholarship for publication in Sandstone and Tile.
Imelda Diego DuBose is the Director of Alumni Education at the Stanford Alumni Association. Since joining in 2022, she has spearheaded the development of the "Back to College" program, allowing alumni to experience the first-year course requirement for a civil, liberal, and global education. Imee recruits faculty to share their scholarship with alumni at various regional or professional events, including Reunion Homecoming, webinars, and the Sierra Camp Summer Program. Prior to her current role, Imee served as the first Associate Director of Scholar Engagement & Community at Knight-Hennessy Scholars, where she was instrumental in launching the global fellowship program for graduate students. Imee's previous roles at Stanford also include project manager for the University's 125th anniversary celebration in 2016 within the Office of Public Affairs, program coordinator for Stanford Alumni Mentoring, and assistant director at Stanford Career Education. Her initial role at Stanford began in 2012 as operations manager in the Occupational Health Clinic at Stanford Environmental Health & Safety.
In addition to her professional duties, Imee is an active volunteer at Stanford. She has served as a longtime member of the Asian American Activities Center Advisory Board, co-leader of the Filipino American Community at Stanford (FACS) and Staff Groups, and currently serves on the Office of Campus Engagement Mini-Grant Review Committee and the Stanford Historical Society Program Committee. She enjoys participating as a university commencement marshal each year. Imee also contributes to her broader community by volunteering at the Table of Plenty in Half Moon Bay and serving as a trained cuddler at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. Imee and her husband, Dr. Anthony DuBose, a physician at Stanford, are proud parents of five grown daughters and have a Bernese mountain dog. Imee has a bachelor's degree in social sciences from the University of California, Irvine and a master's degree in health policy and management from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Richard Fikes is an Emeritus Professor, Research, in Stanford's Computer Science Department, and the former director of Stanford’s Knowledge Systems Laboratory. He has a long and distinguished record as an innovative leader in the development of techniques for effectively representing and using knowledge in computer systems. He is best known as co-developer of the STRIPS automatic planning system, KIF (Knowledge Interchange Format), the Ontolingua ontology representation language and Web-based ontology development environment, the OKBC (Open Knowledge Base Connectivity) API for knowledge servers, and IntelliCorp's KEE system. At Stanford, he led projects focused on developing large-scale distributed repositories of computer-interpretable knowledge, collaborative development of multi-use ontologies, enabling technology for the Semantic Web, reasoning methods applicable to large-scale knowledge bases, and knowledge-based technology for intelligence analysts. He was principal investigator of major projects for multiple Federal Government agencies including the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Intelligence Community’s Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA).
Since retiring from Stanford, Richard has been professionally active as a consultant on design and development of knowledge representation and reasoning technology, an expert witness in cases involving disputed patents of Artificial Intelligence technology, and a mentor of high school students learning how to do research. In the last few years, he has been an interviewer of emeritus faculty for the Stanford Historical Society’s Oral History Program, and he currently serves on the committee that provides oversight and guidance to the program. Richard has a bachelor's and a master's degrees in mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin, and a doctoral degree in computer science from the Carnegie-Mellon University.
Gina Hernandez-Clarke, ’89, MLA ’23, is a lecturer in Chicana/o – Latina/o Studies in the Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity (by courtesy) and Director of Community Engaged Learning in the Arts at Stanford. Gina earned a bachelor's degree in history (1989) and a master's degree in liberal arts (2023) at Stanford, as well as a master's degree in theater, film and television (1999) from the University of California, Los Angeles. She forged a career at Stanford which began in 2001 as the first executive director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts (IDA) which has become a national model for research at the intersections of race, diversity, social justice and the arts. At IDA, Gina built a quarter-long artists teaching residency to expand the arts offerings to Stanford Undergraduates. In addition to administering a multifold portfolio of curricular programs in the arts, Gina lectures and teaches courses in Latino visual, community-based and public art. She has a long history of leadership in the arts beyond Stanford having served as director of development for the Santa Clara County Arts Council, Cine Acción in San Francisco, a review panelist for local, state and national arts awards and as a participant in the Smithsonian Latino Center Museum Studies Program (2009).
Rich Jaroslovsky, ’75, is Senior Advisor at SmartNews, an international news-discovery and aggregation service for mobile devices. He previously was Vice President for Content and started its U.S. business. Rich began his career at The Wall Street Journal, where he spent 18 years in the Washington bureau, including stints as White House correspondent and national political editor, when he also wrote the Journal’s weekly page-one Washington Wire column. In 1994, he was the founding managing editor — the top newsroom job — of The Wall Street Journal Online (WSJ.com), a position he held for the first seven years of its existence. He also founded and became the first president of the Online News Association. In 2004, he joined Bloomberg News, where he was executive editor in charge of its worldwide economic, political and governmental coverage. A longtime writer for technology magazines as well, he later launched a column on personal technology for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek magazine, and appeared regularly on NPR’s “Morning Edition.”
Rich has a bachelor's degree in political science from Stanford where he was also editor-in-chief of the Stanford Daily. He is a former chairman of the Stanford Alumni Association, Stanford Associates and Stanford Daily boards. He has taught courses on media and journalism at Duke, Columbia and, currently, both Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley. His professional awards include Editor & Publisher’s EPPY for outstanding individual achievement in online media; Columbia’s Hearst New Media Fellowship; the White House Correspondents Association’s Aldo Beckman Memorial Award; and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education’s gold medal for an article he wrote for Stanford magazine. Rich and his wife, Mindy Seltzer, live in Emerald Hills, CA. They have two children, and two grandchildren.
The following individuals are elected to serve their second three (3) year term:
Jean McCown retired after working for 18 years in Stanford’s government and community affairs office where she represented Stanford with community-based organizations, government officials, local businesses, and citizens to support effective communication dialogue within the Stanford community as well as between Stanford and its neighbors. Jean was a member of the Palo Alto City Council from 1990 to 1998 and served as mayor in 1993. She also served on the Palo Alto Planning Commission and on regional transportation committees including the Caltrain Joint Powers Board and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Before joining Stanford in 2004, Jean was a partner at the law firm of Ritchey Fisher Whitman & Klein, where she focused on land use, environmental, and real estate matters. She has served on boards of the Greenbelt Alliance and the Palo Alto Community Fund and is currently a board member at Alta Housing (formerly the Palo Alto Housing Corporation.) Jean grew up in Berkeley, CA, and received her bachelor's degree in history from the University of Michigan, a master's degree in history from the University of Wisconsin, and a law degree from the University of California Law School (Boalt Hall). She has lived in Palo Alto since 1974.
Karen Springen, ’83, teaches undergraduate and graduate reporting and writing classes at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. She recently finished two three-year terms on the university's faculty senate, where she chaired the student affairs committee. Previously, she spent 24 years at Newsweek, where, as a correspondent, she reported on everything from serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer to the Hunger Games. Over the years, she has written stories for Publishers Weekly, Chicago magazine, Stanford magazine and many other publications. She still regularly reviews books for the American Library Association's Booklist.
Karen’s Stanford service includes writing the Stanford class of ’83 column for the alumni magazine for the past 42 years and serving a five-year term on the Stanford Alumni Association's board and a four-year term on the Stanford Associates board. She received her bachelor's degree in international relations from Stanford and her master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. She and her husband, Mark Kerber, ’81, are the proud parents of Jasmine Kerber, ’20, MA ’21, and Gigi Kerber.
