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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flip-side of alumni social activities, and officials in Cambridge are well aware that active local alumni groups are a valuable way for them to stay in touch with potential contributors. Harvard clubs like Rochester's usually don't participate directly in fund-raising--that's left to local class agents of the Harvard College Fund. But more often than not, an alumnus who wants to stay in touch with his classmates also feels close enough to the College to want to support it financially...
...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...
...Jewish community," he initially discusses the parallel between the increasing numbers of Jews at Harvard and the movement of Hillel toward the center of campus. Rosovsky said, "Harvard has helped in many ways. Most of all Harvard has made us feel at home. We are neither hyphenated nor second class citizens. We have to be leaders in keeping Harvard's gates open to all those who have the merit to enter." Though against quotas, Rosovsky said he favored "sympathy and tolerance." Moreover, he added, Jewish faculty and students should work for the incorporation of Jewish Studies into the curriculum...
...status of the department decreases the chances of bringing in African American faculty, especially outside of "Afro-Am." Like Hillel, the development of the African American Studies Department parallels our movement at Harvard. With its inception in 1969, the department signalled increasing numbers of faculty and students. This "second class" status may be the signal of decreasing numbers of faculty and students. Compare this with the increasing numbers of Jews in the faculty and the student body...
...Boston, however, the militancy of the late William Henry Cardinal O'Connell and the rising affluence of the Irish Catholic middle class between the world wars ensured that the Catholic presence was here to stay. The Cardinal, among others, even began to worry that success would do to the faithful Catholics what it had done to the third generation of Puritans: lead to diminished zeal and cultural identity...