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Raising so much money is not easy, and the University has not left its capital campaigns to chance. President Pusey has developed an elaborate fund-raising system to obtain new support. The whole operation centers in the office of James R. Reynolds, Assistant to the President for Development and known informally as the "Grand Old Man of the business...
...Galilee and was a delegate to the founding conference of Histadrut, Israel's powerful labor organization, which now controls some 47% of the economy. A congenial man who speaks six languages (Yiddish, Hebrew, German, Russian, English and French), he was a frequent shaliah (emissary) on fund-raising tours of Europe. When Hitler came to power, he spent three years in Berlin on a double mission: getting Jews out of Germany and smuggling arms to the underground Jewish army back home...
...Wilson, 57, class of '31. Now board chairman and chief executive of Xerox Corp., Wilson has been a member of Rochester's board of trustees for 18 years, chairman since 1959. This year he took on the added task of heading the university's $38 million fund drive for new buildings and professorships, and kicked in $5,000,000 in stock to get the ball rolling. When the campaign bogged down despite his best efforts, Wilson and his wife Katherine simply signed over 50,000 more shares of their own Xerox stock, worth $15 million at current...
Most of the money for the endowment was raised in Holland by industrial groups. Ten per cent was a gift of the Dutch government, and one quarter of the fund was raised in the United States by a committee of Netherlands-American businessmen and members of the Harvard Faculty...
...face of such problems, a number of companies have found it possible to reduce costs-and create good will-by changing their methods of operation. San Francisco-based Fireman's Fund American Insurance Companies, for example, two years ago started to pay off many accident claims immediately-without first demanding a waiver against future payments...