Word: clubs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That club, with a mailing list of about 1300 alumni and 250 dues-paying members, is Harvard's most visible intrusion on life in Rochester. The club holds parties for alumni and students, supports a $5000 scholarship for one home-town student, and acts as the admissions office's eyes and ears in the area...
...admissions and scholarship work is serious business, but for most people, Harvard Clubs primarily mean cocktail parties. Rochester has no separate building for its Harvard Club like the New York City club's luxurious midtown quarters, so its alumni use prestigious local clubs like the Genesee Valley Club for their functions. The Harvard Club sponsors a getaway picnic," a freshman upperclassmen party, a Christmas luncheon, and a winter outing each year...
...people at each of our functions, but they're usually a different 30 or 40," Trueheart says. "The club reflects Harvard--it's very plural. There are a lot of different, individual people, with very distinct interests...
...composition of the club hasn't changed much over the past couple of decades--it remains mostly lawyers, doctors and businessmen. The reasons one alumnus joins the club and another stays away are varied, but alumni in the area agree there is no tight-knit Harvard community. "Just because you're a Harvard alumnus doesn't mean you're any more likely to get to know, or to want to know, other Harvard alumni than you wanted to know the guy across the hall in Winthrop House," Trueheart says...
Each local Harvard club has a character determined by the people most active in it. William D. Rice '56, a Rochester businessman, tells of his visit to the Harvard Club of Buffalo, N.Y. "Buffalo is supposed to be friendly, and Rochester, people say, is stuffy," he says, but when he walked into a Buffalo party no one spoke to him for 45 minutes. Finally he approached the one friendly-looking face in the crowd, but it turned out to belong to a visiting Princeton alumnus...