Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fall of 1981 Rochester may be in for some big-name visitors indeed, names like Bok and Rosovsky. Peter F. Clifton '49, executive director of the Harvard College Fund, says Harvard's $250 million, five-year capital campaign is tentatively scheduled to "kick off" in Rochester then, with a big dinner for local alumni and top brass from the University...
...Rochester, Russell A. Sibley '44, whose family founded the city's main department store, has been the College Fund representative and an active fundraiser for many years--he managed the local effort of the Campaign for Harvard College in the 1950s, Harvard's last major capital drive, and last year ran his class's 35th reunion as well. Rider says the Harvard Club has left most of the fund-raising work to him. "You need to have one enthusiastic guy like Russ Sibley to keep things going and to keep other people interested," he says...
...capital campaign hasn't shaken Rochester up yet. At a luncheon meeting last January about 20 local alumni gathered to evaluate the prospect for donations, but no one has given the Campaign much thought since. And the Harvard Club doesn't expect it to cause a major upheaval, either. "The only way it might really affect us is by making it harder for us to get people to pay dues, with the competition from the fund drive," Rider says...
...drive hasn't geared up in the Rochester area, Clifton says, and local reports bear him out. Sibley says, "I have not heard of any activity in this area affecting the fund drive, period." Development officials have earmarked the first year-and-a-half of the Campaign for gifts of more than $25,000, and Sibley says that rules out practically every potential contributor in the area...
...past, strikes and declining sales were the major "irritations" for corporate directors. But today, the corporate campaign threatens them in a more personal way, leaving many directors outcasts from the financial world, a world in which their faith is no doubt shaken...