Word: burr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turbulence of 1969 is generally regarded as a turning point in the University's history, but Corporation members disagree Francis H. Burr '35, who retired in 1982 after 28 years on the board, says that while the events of 1969 greatly affected the lives of the people involved, it was merely a bump in the road for Harvard. "There was a lot of rhetoric thrown around," he says, "but I don't think there were many substantive changes...
...that were all, there would also be nothing more to be written. But there is more there is the conclusion, reached without discussion, that Harvard should be destroyed for its sins. As we picketed in front of Burr Hall on the sunny spring morning after the Bust, an aged member of the Harvard Corporation, a dark hat shielding his face from the heavy sun, stormed and raged at us, demanded that we consider what we were doing asked whether we wanted to destroy Harvard University. No reason occurred to me why Harvard should not be destroyed. Harvard's only...
...Every dean and vice president develops a five-year plan, and the budgets must all conform to that plan. "If the faculty comes to us and says it wants two new professors, the first thing we say is 'all right, where's the dough?'" says Francis H. Burr '35, who served on the Corporation for 28 years until...
Occasionally the Corporation must deal with a specific policy question which cuts across faculty boundaries. Calkins and Burr, who were both on the Corporation during the student upheavals of the late 1960s, say much could have been avoided if the University had adopted its decentralized structure earlier and been more responsive to community concerns. Calkins says that if Harvard then had a vice president in charge of community relations, many of the issues of the day either would not have developed or could have been dealt with much more easily...
...comment on Harvard affairs. His involvement with Harvard's governing boards dates back to a stint as chairman of the board of Overseers and an advisor to Bok on University-industry relations. At the time he was chosen, Harvard needed a replacement for 28-year Corporation member Francis H. Burr '35, a lawyer with the local firm of Ropes and Gray. And Mockler was perfect replacement Like Burr, he is a solid, cautious, but forceful and committed, successful middle-aged Bostonian...