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...Excuse me." A chilly command from above froze me in my tracks. I had wandered smack into the path of a chestnut gelding and its charming 12-year-old rider, who was pert in her manner, precise in her dress and, in my opinion, a pain in the ass. I mustered up a feeble apology and let her trot by. The manure be damned: I raised my eyes and strode straight ahead...
...belong to the exclusive Merion and Philadelphia Cricket Clubs and other private clubs that make owning a large Harvard clubhouse in town superfluous. Simpson explains that most alumni nowadays don't live in center city, but more often come home to the Main Line in fashionable southwest Philadelphia or Chestnut Hill, the silkstocking district that barely falls within the city's northwestern limits...
...many alumni are looking to for the answers confronting the club and the role of Philadelphia alumni in general is Martin A. Hecksher '56, also a lawyer and a resident of Chestnut Hill. Hecksher is not anxious to discuss specifics about the club's problems with finding a home, except that a study being made on the question has made no recent progress--but he does place the club's priorities far away from any goal of increased clubbiness He says he sees his role in the club as three-fold: to maintain Harvard ties; keep up on the intellectual...
...same side. Philadelphia alumni rarely coalesce on the same issue, Hecksher says. "Even when Clark [Joseph S. Clark '23, blue-ribbon mayor in the city during the '50's and later a Pennsylvania senator] was running for mayor there were only stray followers." Louis G. Hill '46 of Chestnut Hill, a mayoral candidate whom Mayor Frank Rizzo overwhelmed in a recent primary, also failed to engender much Harvard-related support, Hecksher says...
...Philadelphia area. It is Humenuk's job to notify Harvard of particularly attractive candidates, to go into the schools and meet guidance counselors, attend high school college nights and check the local papers for write-ups of exceptional scholar-athletes that may appear. Humenuk, a lawyer from Chestnut Hill, has been at the job for an exhausting four years. In that time he has tried to redirect, as much as one man can, the Harvard admissions office from choosing solely from Philadelphia's more prestigious prep schools--as has always been the case--to at first some unexamined outer suburban...