Alma Mater | STANFORD magazine
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By Mary Poindexter McLaughlin, '87
No doubt she’s disappointed. Such a disgrace I turned out to be. Not a policy-maker Or tech-savvy entrepreneur. Nothing of note. I gave birth three times and sent three tall, kind people into the world I offered words of consolation I planted sunflowers I listened Elected official? Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist? Cutting-edge thought-leader? MD, PhD, CEO? Oscar, Emmy, Tony? Nobel? Anything? I closed my mother’s eyes when she died and again, my father’s I made no fortune no headlines nothing went viral I sang and danced for no one I remembered I noticed I…
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