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...professional life over the past year, as well as her reserved personality, have prevented her from gaining the trust of the student body as the chief College administrator. And in her personal life, the diagnosis of her wife, Alexandra, with cancer soon after her acceptance of the deanship has compounded the struggles of the past year...
...DEANSHIP DERAILED...
...contrast to the reputation Hammonds has gained over the past year, her full-time predecessor—Benedict H. Gross ’71, who left the deanship in August 2007—was noted for an inclusive leadership style...
...hoped to use her “freshman year” to accustom herself to College life, including learning how to navigate the College bureaucracy. He and Kidd say that the nature of this year has prevented her from getting the chance to ease her way into the deanship...
Former Harvard Medical School Dean Daniel C. Tosteson ’46, whose reforms catalyzed a revolution in modern medical education around the world, died last Wednesday due to complications from a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 84 years old.Tosteson held the deanship for 20 years from 1977 to 1997—a transformational period during which the Medical School overhauled its teaching methods, restructured its academic departments, and increased its endowment nearly ninefold.“He had all the necessary clarity and force of intellect, the capacity to lead and persuade...