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Daniel S. Cheever '39, lecturer on Government and Director of University Alumni Affairs, recently emphasized the increased sense of responsibility which these forums, and others like them, indicate: "The American alumnus has become extremely important. The University and the alumni must move forward together not only in carrying out effective alumni programs, but in identifying the goals such programs are to serve...
...Cheever sees these goals, the importance of the alumni to the independent university is to maintain its independence of, or freedom from, "political pressure, financial worry and narrow thinking. Independence in this broad sense is largely dependent on alumni support--moral, intellectual and financial...
...post which Cheever has occupied since its creation in 1956 has as its purpose the strengthening this support by "providing a closer connection between the educational program in Cambridge and its graduates." As a liason officer he holds his post as a presidential appointee, yet works primarily with officials elected or appointed by alumni groups--Cheever has the task of communicating the University to various bodies of alumni...
...supervision of the election of Overseers, which Cheever calls an "overriding constitutional responsibility," is a result of agitation almost a century ago within the University, particularly by alumni, to free University policy from control of the state...
...Cheever praised the new plan for drawing the groups closer together in one co-ordinated program. "Surely this is one way to attack the problem of hostility to the intellectual," Cheever said, "for the liberal arts alumnus is often in a better position than a president or professor to interpret his university's activity to his own community...