Word: chairmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seems implausible to explain the 22 percent drop in participation as the result of a death of information, there was no such death. During the Kickoff for the Senior Gift drive, the 1983 Gift Co-Chairmen sent each senior a letter explaining the nature and purpose of the class gift. For its part, the Endowment for Divestiture Committee held its first press conference in mid-April. Shortly after this conference, the 1983 Class Committee sent all seniors an informational letter which included both the Endowment for Divestiture and the Senior Gift as viable options. At year's end, the Class...
...wire-rim glasses, he fidgeted restlessly and riffled through the pages of his speech, which was bound in a red folder. Two hours before he stepped up to the polished, dark wood lectern to nominate Chernenko for President, his own name came up on a list of parliamentary committee chairmen. The neoclassical hall was wrapped in a post-luncheon lethargy and few delegates were in their seats when the announcement was made that Gorbachev had been appointed head of the Foreign Affairs Commission. The choice was significant, for the post has traditionally been held by the party's second...
...with the election of the senior Marshals and the Class Committee under the auspices of Wadsworth House (the Alumni Association). Though they have no jurisdiction over the Class Gift drive--which is handled by a separate Harvard organization, the Harvard-Radcliffe Fund--they choose the senior Class Gift co-chairmen...
...chairmen are responsible for working with the Harvard-Radcliffe Fund in Holvoke Center and getting the Class Gift machinery humming. They choose regional gift captains, each in charge of a couple of Houses; then there are two gift co-captains for each House: and finally there are the many class agents in each house who do the bulk of the soliciting. For all these people there are special activities: a kick-off dinner at the Boston Harvard Club; during the drive there are progress parties where agents can discuss their progress and their problems; and at the end there...
...Mario Cuomo. Says a Mondale campaign official: "New Yorkers are tougher, more cynical and not as taken by the idea of newness. Plus Hart's newness has been out there a while." New York City Mayor Ed Koch backs Mondale, as do Cuomo and 55 of 62 county chairmen. Unlike Illinois, New York does not allow independents and Republicans to vote in the Democratic primary, thus stripping Hart of his ability to reach outside the party. Says Hart's national cochairman, Theodore Sorensen: "It's tough. The entire Establishment is against...