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...percent during her first five years in charge. “I believe I was able to leave [Wellesley] in a much stronger position than what it was when I came in,” Mendillo says. “Wellesley gave me the top-down strategy background that I was looking for and it layered very well on the asset class specific experience I had at HMC.”THE BEGINNING OF THE STORMWhile her sojourn at Wellesley prepared her to take the helm of Harvard’s mammoth endowment, the company she returned to was dramatically...
...remained in the background until last month, when the first round of cuts across the University’s largest school drew outrage from constituents who felt as though the real talk—which led to $77 million in cutbacks—had happened behind closed doors...
That realization hastened jazz’s fade into the background of my own life. The curious alchemy of Harvard also played a part; my time here transmuted my interests in mysterious ways. I had once treated jazz as a possible future occupation, but during my time in college I stopped practicing and found that I couldn’t ignore the allure of rap and rock (I guess I’d been missing lyrics). I became increasingly interested in writing about music, not playing...
...passion. I never planned on making jazz my life—I simply don’t have the love for the saxophone that turns eight hours of practice daily from a chore into a routine—but I never thought it would be relegated to the background to the extent that it has been here. No matter. As long as Harvard supports quaint old jazz, Collectives will come and go, and other musicians will get a taste of what might have been...
...winning artist and co-founder of a record label, Compass Records.But though she first picked up the instrument when she was ten, it was not until 1987 that she was able to make it her profession.PRODIGAL ROOTSBrown’s first year roommates found the combination of her California background and musical interest both delightful and bizarre. “If you are a bluegrass fiddle player, why are you from San Diego?” Monica A. Angle ’84 recalls thinking. Yet when Brown moved from her self-described “surfer chick?...