Word: fergusson
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...would become Harvard’s 28th president.Board members continued to exit the building. Overseer Richard I. Melvoin ’73 signalled his support for the president-elect by donning a crimson tie emblazoned with golden trees, the symbol of the Radcliffe Institute that Faust currently leads.Frances D. Fergusson, one of the three overseer members of the nine-person presidential search committee that recommended Faust for the post, emerged a little after three o’clock and described how Faust was informed of her official selection.“When she came back in, everybody stood...
...Frances D. Fergusson, an Overseer and member of the presidential search committee, tells a Crimson reporter that Faust spoke to the Overseers in Loeb House for 45 minutes before leaving the room for the unanimous confirmation vote. When she returned, according to Fergusson, Faust was greeted with a standing ovation and toasted with champagne...
When asked when a new president would be announced, search committee member Frances D. Fergusson replied: “I’m sorry, wish I knew...
...real estate investor Kenneth G. Bartels ’73 says he “was rather impressed” by the search committee’s outreach effort after he attended a dinner in New York organized by Houghton and search committee member Frances D. Fergusson, a member of the Board of Overseers and a former Vassar College president...
...talking to the search committee.” TABLE TALKThe members of the search committee show no sign of taking the summer off.At the Harvard Club of New York last month, two members of the committee—Houghton and outgoing Vassar College President Frances D. Fergusson, an overseer—worked a room of alums to gather input for the search. Houghton and Fergusson discussed the search process and then opened the floor to questions from the 15 to 20 gathered alumni before splitting up into two tables for dinner.“They showed no bias or leaning...