Word: fenn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...November 1975 the library corporation had narrowed its choice down to two alternatives--the Cambridge/Charlestown archives/museum split or the Columbia Point "we'll take the whole thing" option. While Cambridge residents continued to protest, Dorchester opened its arms and welcomed the library. It was, as Dan H. Fenn Jr. '44, director of the library, says, a "very, very painful, difficult, unhappy time for everyone." President Kennedy had, after all, personally favored a Harvard site. But as family members and library corporation officers retreated for a now-famous weekend meeting in New York, Harvard Square seemed less than hospitable...
...senator attacked what he called "a small group of intransigent opponents" in Cambridge, adding that the library corporation had decided the institution's two halves should not be split. Fenn says that although the President did want the library at Harvard, "the corporation was not willing to accept conditions which residents essentially imposed." In retrospect, says one source close to the family, the corporation had to make a choice whether the split-site proposal was worth the trouble--and they decided that it wasn...
...Columbia Point Peninsula in Dorchester, six miles from Cambridge. Designed by I.M. Pei and Partners, the complex includes two theaters, a museum, an eight-story archive, and-to take advantage of the site's sweeping view of Boston harbor-a glass pavilion. "The location," says Library Director Daniel Fenn, "is a smash." Cambridge, we hardly know...
...faculty in denouncing the administration after a student strike and a police bust. Galbraith's fans, like Nobel Laureate Wassily Leontief, say that "as economic theory has gotten narrower he has provided a bridge to the real world." Others demur. Says Harvard Business School Lecturer Daniel Fenn: "I think his field has not primarily been Harvard. He has used it mainly as a base of operations. My feeling is that he has dropped in from time to time...
...Fenn Jr. '44, head of the Kennedy Library, said last night the effect of the council's vote on the decision not to build portions of the complex in Cambridge cannot be judged until specific action is taken by the Cambridge City Council...