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| HOMECOMING: Terman arrived with his final traveling companion, Gary Lanahan. |
| Rod Searcey |
Frederick Terman may have died
in 1982, but that didn’t stop him from hitchhiking across the country
last summer. Terman, ’20, Engr. ’22, former Stanford professor
and provost, was one of six Silicon Valley legends whose
likeness was used for a traveling art project. Artist Jim
Pallas created life-size wooden cutouts of each pioneer (with the exception
of William Hewlett, ’34,
Engr. ’39, and David Packard, ’34, MS ’39, who have
a composite sculpture), each of which was fitted with a
GPS tracking system. With the help of Julie Newdoll of
San Francisco-based YLEM: Artists Using Science and Technology, the cutouts
were left in public places with requests for passersby to help get them
to specific Silicon Valley destinations relevant to their history. Hitchhiking
wasn’t
necessarily a fast mode of transport: late engineering
professor William Shockley had to make only the brief trip from San Jose
to Mountain View—four
people and six days later, he arrived at Shockley Labs.
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The
Terman cutout began his adventures July 30 at MIT, where
he earned his doctorate. On September 27, Terman arrived on campus to
a small crowd. He was the last Stanford-related hitchhiker to return to
the Bay Area.
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