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Although Bok declined to comment on this question, and indeed on the entire program, a representative from the Ford Foundation said Bishop Desmond Tutu, secretary-general of the South African Council of Churches, is organizing a committee to take note of "the needs of black South Africans" and to help develop a scholarship program. President Bok, coincidentally, gave an honorary degree to Tutu last June...
William Carmichael, head of the Ford Foundation Office for the Middle East and Africa, said yesterday, however, that the Ford Foundation and the Institute for International Education (IIE), two groups represented at the meeting, discussed a scholarship program with Bishop Desmond Tutu, secretary-general of the South African Council of Churches...
...Ford Foundation could not launch a scholarship program with its own financial resources and administrative ties, Carmichael said, adding that a program can only be established through the cooperation of colleges, corporations, institutes and foundations...
...Gerald Ford once tried to recruit David McLaughlin. But the Grand Rapids high school football hero turned down the local Congressman's come-on for the University of Michigan; instead McLaughlin yearned for Dartmouth. There he set pass-catching records that stood for more than 20 years, made All-Ivy and Phi Bete and spurned a Philadelphia Eagles offer in order to go to graduate business school. Now, at 47, rangy Dave McLaughlin invests a quarter of his time as chairman of his college's board of trustees and the rest as chief executive of Minneapolis' Toro...
Over the two-year period of heated debate on the morality and justifications for Harvard's South Africa-related investments, IBM remained Harvard's number two investment, and Ford and Eastman Kodak were dropped from the top ten. Harvard decreased its investments in Ford because of a downturn it predicted in the auto industry and demoted Eastman Kodak to an "average investment" over the two-year period because of the costs of the company's stock. The principal reasons for the movement of the two stocks were not, Walter M. Cabot, deputy University treasurer, says, considerations of the companies South...