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Besides its primary role of fund-raising, the Fund Council office also acts as a sort of informal public relations center. Until recently, when the College started a special office for this purpose, McCord's mailbox was one of the only areas for graduate opinion. McCord makes it a point to answer all letters personally and deal with as many alumni as he possibly...
...other extreme of public relations, McCord received the following message several years ago: "My friends of the Fund I greatly fear/ I cannot be dunned/ For another year/ It now costs me/ Five thousand dollars/ To make children three/ From books to scholars/ Of this large sum/ Old Harvard fair/ To teach my son/ Now gets her share/ So I ask ye/ At this costly time/ Please patient be/ Till I have a dime...
Another function of the Fund Council office is to keep the graduate up to date on the happenings in the College. The annual pamphlets, explaining current Fund activities, often include sections with reports on progress within the College. By performing this service, the alumni office makes the graduate feel that he still is a part of the College and can play an active role in her future...
...actual mechanics of the Fund rest with the class agents. Most of them come from the Boston-Cambridge area, since they must work quite closely with Wadsworth House. McCord tries to know each of his agents personally--he has dealt with 318 of them, spanning 101 years--and thus increasing the Fund's efficiency...
...efficiency of the class agent has a great effect on the success of his class in relationship to the rest of the Fund. The Class of 1943 has only one agent, David Place, but nevertheless it has consistently led the Fund in the number-of-men-contributing category and in contributing percentage...