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Rockefeller has held high positions in educational, cultural, and financial institutions, serving as a life trustee of the University of Chicago and as chairman of the board of New York's Museum of Modern Art. He has been chairman of the board of Chase Manhattan Bank since...
Along with Rockefeller, a former president of the Board of Overseers, four other men who have helped govern Harvard received degrees: George P. Baker '25, dean of the Business School, who received a Doctor of Laws; Dr. Robert F. Loeb, a former Harvard Overseer and professor of Medicine at Columbia, who received a Doctor of Science; James B. Fisk, a former Overseer who is now president of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, who also received a Doctor of Science; and A. James Casner, Weld Professor of Law, and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Law, who received a Doctor of Laws...
Udall, a graduate of the University of Arizona, became Secretary of the Interior under John F. Kennedy '40 in 1961 and continued as Secretary through the Johnson administration. He has long been noted as a supporter of conservation and anti-pollution efforts, and he is now chairman of the board of The Overview Group, an environmental consulting organization...
Since receiving his M.D. from Harvard in 1919, Dr. Loeb has been elected to many international medical societies and has been a member of several governmental advisory boards. He was chairman of the medical board of review of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in 1947 and has been a member of the President's Science Advisory council...
...formal structures of the government probably cannot be changed. The Character of 1650 which the province of Massachusetts-Bay granted Harvard College indicates that the Corporation--specifically composed of the President, Treasurer, and five Fellows--and the Board of Overseers shall be the governing bodies of the university. The state constitution, adopted in 1780 and still in effect, bestows on the Corporation "forever" all the rights which they had enjoyed in colonial days...