Word: alumni
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard will announce the start of the five-year, $250 million Harvard Campaign today with ceremonies for 700 visiting alumni and alumni wives, an address by former Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon '31, and lectures from well-known faculty members...
Sources in the development office said yesterday alumni have pledged at least $52 million in advance contributions. Fund--raising officials traditionally gauge a campaign's chances for success on the size of donors' advance pledges...
Tomorrow night the alumni, who are chairmen of class committees or major advance donors, will attend a cocktail party and dinner at the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston...
...campaign has a number of worthy stated goals, including endowment of faculty salaries, building renovations, student financial aid, new junior faculty positions, and the Public Policy program. It would be a shame, though if none of the millions raised from alumni ever makes its way to students in the form of eased tuition increases. Faculty officials say the $120 million or so they will raise to endow faculty salaries and student financial aid will give them much more flexibility in annual budget-making, by freeing money currently restricted to specific uses for whatever purposes Dean Rosovsky and his Faculty budgeters...
...understandable that Geoffrey would shy away from the awful truths about his father, but it's peculiar that at no time did a suspicious employer challenge Duke Wolff with a copy of the Yale Alumni Directory. No one bothered to question his patently phony credentials, because Wolff's devil-may-care lifestyle harmonized with American post-war values, which rated bravado far above competency. Both the child, Geoffrey Wolff, and the nation idolized men who--like Duke--"despised prudence, savings accounts, looks before leaps...