It's nice just to be recharged. I'm going to be more excited about my research when I go back. Olkin says that the program has worked wonders. Almost everyone who has been here has had some kind of success story. One is Kathy Ensor, who received tenure at Rice University shortly after participating in the summer program in 1993 and returned for a fall sabbatical in 1994.
Many good people go different places and do a lot of traveling.
I would not have been able to do that without the opportunity Ingram provides. Also in the program during the summer of 1993 was Lorri Thombs, now a tenured professor at the University of South Carolina. Thombs said she built valuable personal and professional relationships that she would otherwise never have enjoyed. To get involved with the associations your name has to get dropped. I think my exposure at Stanford helped to make that happen.