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...name of President Reagan came up. Here some new actors enter the picture. Lori A. Forman, a Kennedy School class marshall and long-time Republican activist, worked in the Washington office of Decision Making, Inc., a polling and research firm run by master Reagan strategist Richard L. Wirthlin. Forman "informally" discussed with Wirthlin the idea of Reagan's appearing at commencement. Wirthlin apparently brought the matter up with Deaver's office, which handled some aspects of presidential planning and appearances. The response was encouraging. Despite the assassination attempt which wounded Reagan on March 30, the president planned to accept invitations...
...after the story appeared, April 15, Forman, Schmidt and Allison met in Allison's Kennedy School office to assess the situation and decide what to do next. It was a meeting, Schmidt recalls, to "get our signals straight" and clarify that if Reagan came it would be to the main Commencement ceremonies...
Others are not as willing to believe that the school is doing what it can. Elsa Porter, a member of the school's visiting committee, calls the school's record "dismal," and Lori A. Forman, a member of the K-School Student Association, citing the school's refusal to hire a minority recruiter, argues that "the budget has constantly dictated policy rather than what was ethically or socially right...
...popular with K-School officials, Forman has won the hearts of students and staff. Everyone who sees her at the K-School takes the time to stop and chat: She take issues, but not herself, seriously. Once, when her contemporaries were furiously studying for finals, she bought a kite and flew it on the K-School lawn...
...Forman's big-city experiences have radically differed from her days in South Dakota, "where the big difference between people is whether they belong to the American Lutheran Church or the Lutheran Church of America." But, in some ways she finds Harvard less advanced than Augustana. "Back home, people were thought of as people," she says. When she came here, for instance, she was surprised by the dearth of women and minorities in the classroom. "I was never really concious of being a 'woman' until I got here. I expected a lot from Harvard. I was amazed