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...With reporting by Aaron J. Klein/Tel Aviv
...recipients include Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, a drop-out of Harvard College; former University President Lawrence H. Summers; former Harvard Corporation member Conrad K. Harper; Harvard history professor Daniel Aaron; British astronomer S. Jocelyn Bell Burnell; philosopher Richard M. Rorty; Celtics star center Bill Russell; gender historian Joan W. Scott; New York Review of Books founding editor Robert B. Silvers; and University of Texas mathematician Karen K. Uhlenbeck. [CORRECTION APPENDED...
Several students chose to independently finance the plays they wanted to see performed. The American debut of Jean Genet’s play “Deathwatch” was one such independent undertaking, produced by John M.S.W. Eyre ’57. Also directed by Aaron, the play earned the critical acclaim of The Crimson and was later invited to perform at the Yale Drama Festival in the spring...
...Others [non-students] all became quite vocal about theater and quite vocal about the fact that Harvard did not have a theater,” Aaron says, recalling the determination of then Dean of the Faculty McGeorge Bundy to secure a dedicated performance space for students...
Though the theater was not opened until 1960, three years after Aaron and his classmates had already left Harvard, the Loeb Drama Center still stands as a reminder of the theatrical Class...