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Haden put down his professional roots in Los Angeles, winning fame first as a session man, then as creator of two formidable West Coast jazz groups, the Liberation Orchestra and Quartet West. He met Jones three years ago, when both did guest turns on an Abbey Lincoln-Stan Getz album. Then, at a Verve Records anniversary celebration at New York's Carnegie Hall, Haden, with a little trepidation, cornered the dapper pianist backstage, proposing that they do an album of spirituals together. Jones agreed simply by starting to suggest song titles...
...Getz says that every class is made up of people with differing abilities to give money and that only a few will be able to give large gifts. It is from these large gifts, however, that Harvard obtains the most money...
...Getz adds, "The alumni love [Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R.] Knowles, and among professors [Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J.] Gomes is really good...
Others are recognized through the mass of publicity which the development office puts out to try to focus on the volunteers more. Getz, for example, received the second most pledges of any College Fund fund-raiser and was given credit for his achievement in the fundraising bulletin sent out by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...There is no quid pro quo per se," Getz says. "At Harvard, a donor's place is to [donate], not run the University...