Word: fellows
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...each year, the department also awards a $1,000 study prize to the best teaching fellow, "It's good incentive to see that their teaching is appreciated," Rivers says...
From Harvard, Mockler went to Business School, where he later served as a research associate and doctoral fellow from 1955 to 1957. And in 1957, he joined Boston-based Gillette as a comptroller staff assistant for insurance matters--beginning a long climb which culminated in a heady nine-year whoosh to the top from the office of treasurer. He took five big steps up the corporate ladder from 1967 to 1971, became president and chief operating officer in 1974, and finally chairman...
Much like Mockler, George Putnam Jr. '49, who as Treasurer also holds the title and responsibilities of a Fellow, is a successful Boston businessman. Very much a Brahmin, Putnam oversees the huge Putnam Family of Funds, a group of 19 different mutual funds...
...Treasurer, Putnam's major responsibility has been Harvard's endowment and major capital expenditures, but he also takes part in bi-weekly Corporation meetings, and votes as a Fellow. When he assumed the position from George Bennett '33 in 1973, Putnam made the fairly radical decision to start up an in-house management group to handle Harvard's endowment, and the Harvard Management Company was born the next year--with a Putnam protege, Walter M. Cabot Jr. '55, at the helm...
Since graduating, Slichter has advised a variety of federal agencies, served on the Presidential Committee on the National Medal of Science, and been an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow from 1947 to 1963. But, he says, "Most of all I like to be a professor of physics. Most administrative jobs require that you quit the primary job of being a professor. The Corporation job lets me do both...