DailyAlumni.org - Information for alumni of the The Stanford Daily

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While the Friends of The Stanford Daily were officially formed as a 501 c(3) non-profit corporation in California in 1991, its genesis goes back to 1973.

The Stanford Daily had just become an independent non-profit corporation in response to The Stanford Daily v. Zurcher 1971 lawsuit. The plaintiffs, including Felicity Barringer, Hall Daily, Richard Lee Greathouse, Ed Kohn, Robert Letterman, Fred Mann and Steven G. Ungar, formed a task force to determine the best course for The Daily organization in light of the police search and resulting legal action. It was determined that The Daily should place some distance between itself and the University so as to better protect its rights as an independent news gathering organization.

A group of the first editors under the new independent Daily decided that The Daily might need a strong alumni group to help the paper in the future, if needed. Charlie Hoffman, Jim Wascher, Christy Wise, Vlae Kershner, Rich Jaroslovsky, Don Tollefson, Bob Bacon and others began organizing alumni dinners the night after Big Game, beginning in 1975. For the first seven years, banquets were held in San Francisco for games at Cal and at the Farm for home games. Since the early 1990s, banquets have been held only for Stanford-Cal home games. Attendance is in the 100-175 range and Daily staff from the 1930’s to the present come together to share stories and listen to interesting programs. Harry Press and Elna Tymes have been instrumental over the years in organizing the banquet and tracking down lost Daily staffers.

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