Word: drives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rochester, Russell A. 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...
...given the Campaign much thought since. And the Harvard Club doesn't expect it to cause a major upheaval, either. "The only way it might really affect us is by making it harder for us to get people to pay dues, with the competition from the fund drive," Rider says...
...drive hasn't geared up in the Rochester area, Clifton says, and local reports bear him out. Sibley says, "I have not heard of any activity in this area affecting the fund drive, period." Development officials have earmarked the first year-and-a-half of the Campaign for gifts of more than $25,000, and Sibley says that rules out practically every potential contributor in the area...
...Virgil Conway, who doubles as chairman and president of Seaman's Bank. Next on the campaign's hit list is Sidney Weinberg Jr., a partner of Goldman, Sachs, the investment banking firm. When and if he is forced off the Stevens board, the campaign will once again attempt to drive Finley off the boards of Sperry Rand and Borden...
...With no one able to drive in Boston, it could get really heavy here," Sullivan said...