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When I had the signal opportunity to chair construction of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington D.C., Harvard graduates ensured that amidst the huge ten-year controversy its construction continued without fail. Each Harvard alumnus who participated gave hundreds of hours of devotion and time. The Atlantic Monthly Editor James M. Fallows ’70, a former President of The Harvard Crimson, in two hours wrote and placed an op-ed in the Washington Post to blow the whistle on an egregious move by opponents of the design. People with connections to Harvard were numerous among those...
...wondering why we’re talking about alumni giving—after all, you’re not even a student here, let alone an alumnus. But while you’re getting ready to start your four years at Harvard, we’re getting ready to leave. And we depart with the knowledge that Harvard has provided opportunities we couldn’t have gotten anywhere else. Yet we—like the majority of seniors in our class—will graduate debt-free. We know that this...
...most memorable part of college. Some alumni joke about the fact that they came to several choral reunions before attending a class reunion. “My parents would accuse me of concentrating in Glee Club, minoring in the band and occasionally taking classes,” said nostalgic alumnus David F. Jackson...
...women’s squash team to take a training and service trip to India in January. The Albert H. Gordon Track and Tennis Center and the Albert H. Gordon Professorship of Business Administration bear the name of his late father, the class of 1923 alumnus and former Crimson editor who ran track and led a stock brokerage firm through the Great Depression...
...program’s inaugural tutor Andrea R. Flores ’10—who is an alumnus of Expos 40—said that Harvard needs to offer more resources and opportunities in public speaking to students...