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...active member of several boards of directors of various companies, and the current chairman of the board of trustees at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Upon graduating from Harvard Business School in 1962, Houghton spent much of his professional career at Corning Incorporated—a maker of specialty glass and ceramics—where he eventually rose to the top posts of chairman and CEO in in 1983, and again...
Since stepping down as chairman at Corning for the second time, he has continued to play a role at the firm. He also remains a longtime trustee of the Corning Museum of Glass...
...which he gave the unofficial but catchy name Things for Kings. Very soon he negotiated both the acquisition of the ancient Temple of Dendur from Egypt - over the opposition of Jacqueline Kennedy, who wanted it installed in Washington as a memorial to JFK - and the construction of a giant glass-enclosed addition to the museum to house...
It’s not uncommon for freshmen to exit Annenberg feeling like they’ve left a time warp (where did the last two hours just go? Ah, lost to that stained-glass refectory forever). But at yesterday evening's Study Break with University President Drew G. Faust (sorry Drew, Larry was a better dancer: see left, with the original caption) and Dean Thomas A. Dingman ’67, students entered a parallel universe of chocolate crepes, hot apple cider, and….a dance floor waiting to be thronged with freshmen letting...
...much more personal side of Keats is revealed at the new Houghton display, which includes two of Keats’ original letters to Brawne. Even through a strong plexi-glass case and after 200 years, Keats’ cursive seems to stream off the page. Without a scratch or crossed-out word, his letters speak to a passionate and sometimes humorous rapport with his beloved, whom he often addressed as “My dearest girl.” Keats wrote in one letter, “If illness makes such an agreeable variety in the manner of your eyes...