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Three members of the Board of Overseers joined the six members of the Corporation for its nine-month-long odyssey: Richard E. Oldenburg `54, Thomas E. Everhart `53 and Overseer president Sharon E. Gagnon...
...thus, the line-up was made. Seven men, two women. Seven New Yorkers, one Alaskan (Gagnon) and one Chicagoan (Gray). All independently wealthy. All but one white...
...Around noon, the committee made its final decision. Gagnon and the two other Overseers stood and left: their job was done. Gagnon headed to the Coop to buy a Harvard sweatshirt. Oldenburg and Everhart went to check out of their hotels, leaving the Corporation alone for their regularly scheduled afternoon meeting...
...though we are pleased that Harvard has admitted to forcing the resignation of former Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Raymond S. Ginger, the University should have also apologized for its role. In a letter to Ann Fagan Ginger, the widow of the former professor, Board of Overseers President Sharon Gagnon wrote that she would not presume to “second-guess the motives or judgments of individuals in that difficult time.” In light of Harvard’s overt misbehavior in Ginger’s case, we adamantly disagree with Gagnon’s neutrality...
...admit its fault, apologize and issue a statement that reasserts its commitment to preserving academic freedom. The Board’s reply fails on all three counts. It baffles us that Harvard could admit that it forced Raymond Ginger to resign but omit any notion of wrongdoing. Although Gagnon expressed “sympathy and regret” for the imposed hardship on the Ginger family, she skirted the issue of Harvard’s culpability...