Word: alum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this is in the effort to tap Harvard's 234, 136 alumni, including 81,000 graduates of the College, for donations. "We hope every alum will give as much as they can every year and periodically more than that," says Thomas M. Reardon, director of the University development office. With a $650 million annual budget, "Harvard is a large business," says Reardon. "If you look at what Harvard tries to do, we need all the support we can get and we need to get over the stereotype that we're rich. It's costly and time-consuming...
...eligible to vote for the first time, at the age of 21. Kennedy was the favorite son and won 62 percent of the Class of '61 vote. When Kennedy brought Camelot from the Senate to the White House, the Class revelled in the glory of every Harvardian's favorite alum...
...three football players bumbling a play, reach back to days when Ivy sports were less professional. An 1871 posed photograph of the Natural History Society in suits, bowties, and hats captures two mischievous members stuffing a small alligator into a jug. Only in these pictures might a nostalgic Harvard alum finally recover a piece...
Nguyen is on the Strand Fellowship, a program set up by a University School alum for students to pursue scientific research. Nguyen has chosen to work with a doctor investigating the neurochemistry of anti-psychotic drugs, concentrating particularly on a scary-sounding narcotic called tritiated spiroperidol...
Johnson says his status as an alum has made a difference in his effectiveness. "Harvard is a corporate culture," he says. "The more you know about the people you are communicating with, the better...