The Idiot was privileged to open a remembrance ceremony for the Stanford Class of ‘70s departed members. (Photo: David Gonzales, Stanford Alumni Association.)

The Idiot produced three resounding rings on a singing bowl to open the remembrance service for the Class of ‘70 at Stanford University. (Photo: David Gonzales, Stanford Alumni Association.)

The first classmate that the Idiot ran into from the Class of ‘70 during his 50th reunion was actor Ted Danson whose photo adorns the hallway at the Stanford Park Hotel. Danson left Stanford after our freshman year and went on to bigger and brighter things.

A founding father at the Stanford Park Hotel observed pandemic protocols, stayed out of the rain and picked a pumpkin during the weekend of The Idiot’s 50th reunion at Stanford University.

Auguste Rodin’s “The Burghers of Calais” seemed to have lost their luster and verve during a year of pandemic isolation on the campus of Stanford University.

The Idiot attended a reunion gala dinner with hundreds of other graduates under the full moon in Memorial Quad on the campus of Stanford University.

The Idiot walked across a clean Memorial Quad the day after a dinner for hundreds of reunion guests.

The Idiot met current Stanford swimmers and visited the university’s impressive aquatic complex with a teammate from the Class of 1970.

The speakers on one panel that The Idiot attended featured (right to left) former HUD secretary Julian Castro, columnist and Oregon gubernatorial candidate Nicholas Kristof, educator Sal Khan and moderator Jim Steyer from Stanford’s Graduate School of Education.

The Idiot had a mini-reunion with classmates who attended Stanford’s campus in Vienna with him in 1968.

A photograph of Stanford’s campus in Vienna in 1968 contrasts with contemporary buildings on Stanford’s campus in Palo Alto, CA. (Photo: Anna Evers)

The Idiot chilled out in Memorial Church.

The Idiot visited a number of new buildings on the Stanford campus, including the new hospital.

The Idiot went off campus to meet local friends Steven and Allison Aldrich whom he met in the Galapagos on a Stanford Alumni Association Travel Study trip. (Photo: Steven Aldrich)

The Idiot was caught in a dark alley in downtown Palo Alto with Dwight Clark, a Stanford dean in the 1960s and the founder of Volunteers in Asia, and classmates Bill Jamison and Gina Campbell.

A contemporary fountain on Stanford’s campus before the Sunday storm.