Gold Spike Award

The Gold Spike annually honors volunteer leaders with decades of distinguished volunteer service to the university.

Jeffrey S. Raikes, ’80

Jeff Raikes is an extraordinary leader who has guided the university through significant challenges and opportunities as chair of the Board of Trustees. With deep-seated care and commitment, he has served Stanford through decades of volunteer roles including the Dean’s Circle, Hoover Institution Board, and the School of Engineering’s Strategic Council, and provided visionary philanthropic leadership for the new Graduate School of Education campus along with countless other schools, centers and initiatives. Dedicated to embracing diversity and multiple viewpoints, Jeff is an inspirational changemaker and Stanford citizen.

Mindy Basham Rogers, ’84, MBA ’88

Mindy Rogers is a champion of health care, education and athletics who leads with an unparalleled combination of dedication and generosity. On the Board of Trustees, she was known as a strategic innovator and consensus builder. Mindy has also brought her singular wisdom to the Graduate School of Education’s Advisory Council, the Lucile Packard Foundation Board, the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, the Athletic Affairs Committee, and the Stanford Health Care Board (of which she is vice chair). Mindy's remarkable enthusiasm and impact exemplify her outstanding career of service.

List of Past Recipients

Fred W. Alvarez, ’72, JD ’75
Roy Anderson, ’47, MBA ’49
Vernon Anderson, ’53, MBA ’57
Thomas Bailard, ’64, MBA ’69
Rocky Barber, ’73, MS ’73, MBA ’75
Bill Barnum, ’76, JD ’80, MBA ’80
Danily Bell, ’29
Warren Berl, ’42
Helen Bing
Peter Bing, ’55
John Birke, MBA ’65
Eugene Bishop, ’31
Reid Briggs, ’32
Harry Bright, ’29
Alden Brown, MBA ’48
Douglas Brown, ’59, MBA ’61
Robert Brown, ’31
T. Robert Burke, ’64, JD ’67
Malin Burnham, ’49
Royal Bush, ’35, MBA ’41
John Butler, ’53
Mariann Byerwalter, ’82
Julie Greer Campbell, ’65
Jim Canales, ’88, MA ’89
Kenneth Christensen, ’30
Donald Clark, ’56
Roger Clay, Jr., ’66
Clyde Cook, 1918
Benjamin Crocker, ’56, JD ’58
Donald Crocker, ’56, JD ’58
Joseph Cusick, ’51, Sloan ’73
Kenneth Cuthbertson, ’40, MBA ’47
Ralph Davidson, ’50
Richard De Luce, JD ’55
Irving Deal, ’50
Roberta Bowman Denning, ’75, MBA ’78
Steve A. Denning, MBA ’78
James Dickason, MBA ’51
Susan P. Diekman, '65, MA '67
Sue Bricker Dorn, ’55
Morris Doyle, ’29
Charles Ducommun, ’35
Herbert Dwight, Jr., ’53, MS ’59
Lewis Eaton, ’42
William Edwards, ’50
Charles Eldon, ’48, MBA ’50
W. Noel Eldred, ’31, ENG ’33
Leonard Ely II, ’48, MBA ’50

Patricia Engasser, ’59, MD ’62
Barbara Denning Finberg, ’49
Nathan Finch, ’31, LLB ’34
Doris Feigenbaum Fisher, ’53
Thomas Ford
C. K. Poe Fratt, MBA ’59
Bradford Freeman, ’64
John Freidenrich, ’59, LLB ’63
W. Parmer Fuller III, ’33
James Gaither, JD ’64
Frederic Glover, ’33
John Goldman, MBA ’75
Kay Sprinkel Grace, ’59, MA ’75
Richard Guggenhime, ’29
John A. Gunn, ’66, MBA ’72
Ruth Levison Halperin, ’47
Allan Harris, ’45
Lawrence Harris, Jr., ’32
Barbara Herrmann Hart, ’59
W. W. Henry, ’26
Walter Hewlett, MS ’68, MS ’73, DMA ’80
David Heyler, Jr., ’48, JD ’51
George Hume, JD ’75, MBA ’75
Leslie Bryant Hume, MA ’71, PhD ’79
John Isaacs, ’31
Franklin Johnson, Jr., ’50
Stanley Kaisel, MA ’46, PhD ’49
William Kimball, Jr., ’41
Marcus Krupp, ’34, MD ’39
Annie Huntress Lamont, ’79
William Landreth, ’69
Joan Lane
Melvin Lane, ’44
Chien Lee, ’75, MS ’75, MBA ’79
John Leland, Jr., ’56
John Levin, MA ’70, JD ’73
Robert Levison, Sr., 1921
Roger Lewis, ’34
John Lillie, ’59, MS ’64, MBA ’64
Frank Lodato, ’49, MA ’56
Lawrence Marx, Jr.
Susan R. McCaw, ’84
Bowen McCoy, ’58
Dorcas H. McFarlane, ’53
Burton McMurtry, MS ’59, PhD ’62
Linda Randall Meier, ’61
J. D. Middleton, 1925
A. A. Milligan, ’38

Gretchen Hartnack Milligan, ’73, MBA ’75
Kendyl Monroe, ’58, LLB ’60
John Morgridge, MBA ’57
Stuart Morshead, ’50, MBA ’52
Robert Moulton, Jr., ’40
Nancy Barry Munger, ’45
Wendy Munger, ’72
R. Chandler Myers, ’54, JD ’58
Angela Nomellini, ’75
Denise O’Leary, ’79
Susan Packard Orr, ’68, MBA ’70
John Packard, ’55, MBA ’61
Templeton Peck, 1929
Gregor Peterson, ’54, MBA ’59
Charles Pigott, ’51
John Pike, ’56
Frederick Rehmus, MBA ’61
Claude Rosenberg, Jr., ’50, MBA ’52
Robert Rosenberg, ’54, LLB ’56
Victoria Post Sant, ’61
Karl Schwarz, ’55, MS ’59
Mary Carroll W. Scott, '66
John Scully, MBA ’68
Perry Seiffert, ’64
Jack Shepard, ’53, MA ’55, MBA ’56
Ram Shriram
V. Joy Simmons, ’74
Leon Sloss III, ’49
Ralph Spiegl, ’45, MD ’48
Garen Staglin, MBA ’68
Noel Stearn, 1918, MA 1919
Isaac Stein, MBA ’70, JD ’72
Paul Stock, MBA ’61
Jeffrey Stone, ’78
Earle Talbot, 1902
Dorcas Hardison Thille, ’53
James Triolo, ’35, MA ’36
Gene Walker, 1928
Alan Weeden, ’45
J. Fred Weintz, Jr., ’48
W. Frank West, ’47, MS ’48
Vaughn C. Williams, JD ’69
Julie Stulce Williamson, ’66
Robert Williamson, Jr., ’66, MBA ’68
Ward Woods, ’64
William Wraith III, ’54, MS ’58, MBA ’59
John Young, MBA ’58