Stegner, Wendell Berry, Ken Kesey, John Wesley Powell, Sandra Day O'Connor

  

"Stegner taught at the University of Wisconsin and Harvard University. 

 Eventually he settled at Stanford University, where he founded the creative writing program. His students included  

Wendell Berry,  

Sandra Day O'Connor, 

 Edward Abbey, Simin Daneshvar, Andrew Glaze, George V. Higgins, Thomas McGuane, Robert Stone,  

Ken Kesey, 

 Gordon Lish,  

Ernest Gaines, and  

Larry McMurtry. "

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"In the 1940s, Stegner was a leading member of the Peninsula Housing Association, a group of locals in Palo Alto aiming to build a large co-operative housing complex for Stanford University faculty and staff  

On a 260-acre ranch the group had purchased near campus. 

 Private lenders and the Federal Housing Authority would not provide financing to the group because  

three of the families were African-American. 

Rather than be a party to housing discrimination by proceeding without these families, the group abandoned the project and eventually sold the land" 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Stegner 

 

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" Powell had a restless nature and a deep interest in the natural sciences. 

 This desire to learn about natural sciences was against the wishes of his father, yet Powell was still determined to do so. 

 In 1861 when Powell was on a lecture tour he decided that a civil war was inevitable; 

 he decided to study military science and engineering to prepare himself for the imminent conflict" 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wesley_Powell

"John Wesley Powell (March 24, 1834 – September 23, 1902)[1] was an American geologist, U.S. Army soldier, explorer of the American West, professor at Illinois Wesleyan University, and director of major scientific and cultural institutions. He is famous for his 1869 geographic expedition, a three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers, including the first official U.S. government-sponsored passage through the Grand Canyon."