Stanford Historical Society elects four new board members
The Stanford Historical Society membership recently elected Jeffrey Fenton, Adrian Miller, Stephen Peeps, and Sunny Scott to the Board of Directors at the annual members' meeting on May 1. The four new board members will begin their first three-year term on July 1. Among other responsibilities, they will participate in and serve on one to two committees and assume leadership roles or undertake special assignments.
Jeff Fenton is a Senior Staff Cyber Governance, Risk and Compliance Analyst in Lockheed Martin Corporation’s Corporate Information Security group. Fenton leads cybersecurity policy and supports security education and compliance with U.S. and international laws, regulations, and standards. His earlier responsibilities with Lockheed Martin included security architecture; network security; business continuity; emergency management; and telecommunications design, operations, and project management. Fenton holds a BA in economics from the University of California, San Diego, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He holds an MA in economics and an MS in operations research from Stanford University; and an MBA from Golden Gate University. He also holds professional certifications in information security, business continuity, information technology governance, and information privacy.Fenton’s love for history dates to elementary school, advanced placement courses in high school, and an undergraduate minor. He avidly follows Stanford football, men’s and women’s basketball, baseball, and other sports, dating to the start of his student days in 1980. He enjoys the history of the sports as much as the competition. He contributed an oral history interview, focusing on Stanford sports, to the Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program (posted in September 2023). He is a longtime SHS member and has served for several years on its Governance Committee. He has served three terms as president and many years as a board member of the Stanford Palo Alto Alumni Club and Stanford Peninsula Alumni, has served as a Stanford fundraising volunteer, and is a volunteer interviewer for Stanford Undergraduate Admissions. He is a member of Stanford Associates and the Stanford Founding Grant Society. He has also served his undergraduate alma mater as a member of U.C. San Diego’s Athletic Board and Alumni Association Board of Directors.
Adrian Miller is a food writer, James Beard Award winner, attorney, and certified barbecue judge who lives in Denver, Colorado. He is featured in the Netflix hit High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America.Miller received an AB in international relations from Stanford University in 1991, and a JD from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1995. From 1999 to 2001, he served as a special assistant to President Bill Clinton with his Initiative for One America – the first free-standing office in the White House to address issues of racial, religious, and ethnic reconciliation. Miller went on to serve as a senior policy analyst for Colorado Governor Bill Ritter Jr. From 2004 to 2010, he served on the board for the Southern Foodways Alliance. In June 2019, Miller lectured in the Masters of Gastronomy program at the Università di Scienze Gastronomiche (nicknamed the “Slow Food University”) in Pollenzo, Italy. He is currently the executive director of the Colorado Council of Churches and, as such, is the first African American, and the first layperson, to hold that position. He is also the co-project director and lead curator for the forthcoming “Proclaiming Colorado’s Black History” exhibit at the Museum of Boulder.
In 2018, Miller was awarded the Ruth Fertel “Keeper of the Flame Award” by the Southern Foodways Alliance. In 2019, he received the Judge Henry N. and Helen T. Graven Award from Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa. In 2022, he received an Honorary Doctorate from the Denver Institute for Urban Studies and Adult College.
Stephen Peeps (class of ’74) is currently a senior partner in Meng Peeps, a national search firm dedicated to nonprofit institutions. He had spent over 20 years at Stanford beginning in Undergraduate Admissions followed by serving consecutively as Special Assistant to President Donald Kennedy, Director of University Relations, Associate Vice President of Public Affairs, and Associate Vice President of Development. While in Public Affairs, he served simultaneously as Executive Director of the Stanford Centennial Celebration for which he was awarded the Kenneth B. Cuthbertson Award for exceptional service, Stanford’s highest distinction for non-faculty members, in 1992. He was also appointed a University Fellow. After his tenure at Stanford, Peeps served for 10 years as the Founding President and Chief Executive Officer of the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health. He also served for two years as Chairman of its Board of Directors.
Sunny Scott has lived on campus in a 1936 house designed by William W. Wurster, with a Tommy Church garden since 1989. She has used her house and garden as a venue for book launches, book talks, women’s club teas, class reunions, Law School dinners, Hoover cocktail parties, Cantor Arts Center luncheons, weddings, and, most recently, A.I. gatherings.Before moving to campus, Scott worked as an interior decorator, historic preservationist, fine artist, and graphic artist. More recently, she has worked on the Stanford Historical Society (SHS) Historic Houses book series (2008 to 2016), served on the SHS Publications Committee, and is the photographer for SHS. She assists with historic photographs for SHS programs and publications including Sandstone & Tile, Stanford’s Wallace Sterling: Portrait of a Presidency, 1949-1968, and Voices from the Hennessy Presidency, as well as for The Stanford Lawyer.For the last 11 years Scott has been working on a book with Mary Montella about Peter Coutts and his buildings. Together, they shared the 2018 Karen Bartholomew Award for exceptional service to the Stanford Historical Society.
In addition, the following board members were re-elected and will serve their second three-year term commencing on July 1, 2024:
Margo Horn began teaching in the Stanford Department of History in 1985. She is a US social historian, specializing in the history of women and the history of medicine. Horn has a longstanding fascination with the history of madness and psychiatry, and is the author of Before It’s Too Late: The Child Guidance Movement in the United States, 1922-1945, among other publications. She was awarded fellowships from the NIMH, the Radcliffe Institute, and the Commonwealth Fund. In 2018, Horn was appointed the Silverman Visiting Professor at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science, at Tel Aviv University.In addition to her Stanford teaching, Horn served as Director of the Innovative Academic Courses Program, part of Stanford's School of Humanities and Sciences, and through the Office of the Vice-Provost for Graduate Education, offered workshops for advanced doctoral students across the university on the future of their research. She now teaches courses on the history of women and mental illness, and the history of women and medicine in the United States, in Stanford’s programs in Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies and American Studies. Horn’s current research projects center on the history of women physicians in the US, the history of women and mental illness in America, and global women leaders. Her local community service includes current roles as Commissioner, Los Altos Historical Commission, and Steering Committee member, Los Altos Affordable Housing Alliance.
Horn received her AB degree in history from the Cowell College, University of California Santa Cruz, and her MA and PhD degrees, also in history, from Tufts University.
Beverly Kiltz joined Stanford University in 1967 at which time she served in an administrative role in the Office of Development as assistant to the Director of Major Gifts. She has held several positions within the Office of Development throughout her Stanford career, including 12 years, in the 1974-1986 timeframe, in the Office of Medical Development. Since the late 1980s she represented the Office of Development in the Pacific Northwest until her retirement a few years ago. Kiltz was born and raised on a farm in the Willamette Valley in Oregon and she attended Portland State University with a major in business administration. She has lived in Saratoga for the past 45 years and raised her son there. She has served on the Stanford Historical Society Membership and Development Committee since the fall of 2017.
Robert David Siegel taught his first undergraduate class at Stanford in 1981 and has continued to teach here to the present. Siegel’s primary appointment is in Department of Microbiology and Immunology where he ran the required preclinical curriculum in Infectious Disease for 20 years. Recently, most of his courses have focused on human viral disease and on nature photography. He has also taught classes in other areas including evolution, chemistry, global heath, biogeography, molecular biology, and even a course about Stanford entitled The Stanford Safari.Siegel has taught in many Stanford programs including Honors College, Sophomore College, the Introductory Seminar Program, the Reflections Program, the Continuing Studies Program, the MLA Program, the Medical School’s Early Matriculation Program, and the Bing Overseas Studies Program including serving as faculty-in-residence at the Santiago, Cape Town, and Oxford campuses, as well as leading eight overseas seminars in Tanzania, Namibia, Madagascar, England, Tasmania, and Brazil. He holds joint appointments with The Center for African Studies, The Woods Institute, The Master of Liberal Arts (MLA) Program, and The Program in Human Biology.
Siegel is a frequent speaker for Homecoming Weekend, Stanford Sierra Camp, and other campus events including Founder’s Day, Admit Weekend, Experiments in Learning, and so on. He is on the advisory board for a number of educational and service organizations. His interviews and OpEds regarding the COVID pandemic have appeared frequently in the local, national, and international press.
Siegel earned three degrees from Stanford – BA in psychology, MA in education and MD in medicine, as well as MS and PhD degrees from the University of Colorado.
