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Even 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...
...From what we can see … it does appear that Mr. Ginger was asked to resign from his term appointment as Assistant Professor of Business Administration in 1954 because he declined to answer a question regarding whether he was at the time a member of the Communist Party,” Gagnon wrote...
...days later, after Ginger’s resignation, he and his wife left Boston for New York to stay with relatives, where Mrs. Ginger gave birth a month later as a charity patient...
...personal tragedy for the Ginger family came as a result of what is definitely one of Harvard’s strongest—and least publicized—anticommunist actions during the McCarthy...
...Ginger had a three-year contract as an assistant professor that he was forced to abandon, but there is still no known case in which a tenured professor was forced to resign...