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...private life has provided him with a window into the life-styles of luxury. His first wife, who died several years ago, was Francoise de Langlade, editor in chief of the French Vogue. He is now married to Annette Reed, a daughter of the late metals industrialist Charles Engelhard...
...March 7 article, "Mining Heiress Engelhard Donates $300,000 to ART," The Crimson should have stated that Claude Convisser '85 spoke for publication only for himself, not as a representative of the Endowment for Divestiture...
...kinds of insularities bred by the walls around us, and they can be noticed in the causes we espouse and in the attitudes that color the way we conduct our lives. The most salient example is the soap-box posturing that now passes for campus politics. The Engelhard Library flap, the controvers over the McCloy fellowships. South Africa investments recent history at Harvard is littered with the remnants of feel good politicking that leaves little to show for itself except the staking out of a position for which one has no responsibility. (And the Crimson editorial page cannot be wholly...
...example of the dilemmas that can arise from fundraising is the case of the Charles W. Engelhard Library of Public Affairs. The Charles W. Engethard Foundation gave the Kennedy School of Government $1 million in 1979 for a public affairs library. The catch was that the man whose name and money grace the foundation had made his money in gold mining in South Africa...
Months of intense student and faculty protests, by those who saw the donation as a endorsement of the apartheid South African regime, resulted in a compromise between the Kennedy School and the Engelhard Foundation. The $1 million was accepted, but the library remains nameless with only a plaque in the magnate's memory...