Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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ADMINISTRATION Ms. Richard Lyman A Special Perspective on the University Changing society’s traditional view of women — Iwhether it's employing talent, raising community consciousness as a civic leader, or entertaining in the early-California style Hoover Mansion — it’s a 24 I hour-a-day task for Ms. Richard (Jing) Lyman. The Quad has chosen to highlight Ms. Lyman, the I first lady of Stanford University, because of her very special perspective on the President. Q. WHAT ARE YOUR UNSPOKEN DUTIES AS FIRST LADY OF THE UNIVERSITY? A. This position has changed dramatically, even in | the five years in which Dick has had his job. About the time he became president people were I just beginning to realize that maybe it was unfair to just assume that you had to do all the sort of social things that went along with the job. Dick said. You |do what you want and I'll back you up.’’ It’s been a challenge to see how we could utilize a I resource such as this, the Hoover Mansion. I felt that when we moved in we needed to keep all the positive Stanford traditions since we were throwing out a whole lot of negative traditions. We’ve tried to use it in a new and different way; there's a revolving art show displayed here by artists in the Stanford community. It’s been a challenge trying to figure out how we can entertain graciously in this kind of place and at the same time do it sufficiently economically. We have nothing but students doing all our table-waiting land bar-tending for state occasions, whose names we Iget through Financial Aid. Students get the work, we Iget contact with students, and we also get good value Q. WHAT ARE SOME OF THE MANY ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAMS IN WHICH YOU ARE INVOLVED? A. In 1964. I was instrumental in organizing an ongoing Fair Housing group which dealt only with fair housing in the traditional sense; equal opportunity in the ethnic sense as it was then. Now it's expanded to include, Housing cannot be denied on the basis of race, creed, national origin, sex. or physical disabil-ity. We also began to realize that unless you deal with the problem from an economic standpoint, in terms of providing a number of economic options in housing. you’re not offering true equal opportunity. My organization, Citizens for Fair Housing, is one which has dealt with both aspects of the problem. I’m also a founding member of the Stanford Mid-Peninsula Urban Coalition, and served for three years as the Fair Housing Task Force chairman. During that time we started a program called Operation Sentinel which deals with the problem of discrimination in housing and assists anyone who thinks that he or she has been discriminated against illegally. You may have heard some of the ads — dial H-O-U-S-I-N-G — that’s the Sentinel program. When you dial that anywhere in the Bay Area, it feeds into the Urban Coalition office down here on campus. Here’s a perfect instance of my getting involved with one of the academic programs of the University: through the task force and the coalition. I sought the 18