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The Director's Notes
Posted on Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Post by Mark Gonnerman
For a preview of Frans Lanting's LIFE: A Journey Through Time (our program with Stanford Publishing Courses on July 14), click here.
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Aurora Forum History
The Aurora Forum at Stanford University is part of a history of free public programs that goes back to the University's founding. Leland Stanford Junior University opened in October 1891, and by December of that year President David Starr Jordan—an educator who believed that "the final end of education is not learning or official position, but service to humanity"—launched a fortnightly public lecture forum intended "to share the fine specialists on this campus and their knowledge with the community."
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The Aurora Forum Logo History
Stanford's Committee on Public Exercises oversaw all public lectures, concerts, and assemblies (such as commencement) from the founding of the University in 1891 through the 1960s, when this simple logo was used on its stationery and printed programs.
When the Aurora Forum was founded in January 2003, we employed a logo designed in collaboration with Tim Dunn that emphasized our name imposed on a rising sun inspired by an image on the masthead of the American Aurora, a radical American newspaper of the 1790s. From 2003-2004 our tag line was "Exploring American Ideals." This was changed to "Exploring Democratic Ideals" in 2004-2005.
Our new logo (2005- ), designed in collaboration with Progressive Download combines the Stanford archways of the 1960s logo with the rising sun, an expression of Aurora, the dawn, the hope that is the harbinger of new and better days.
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