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...smorgasbord of events," says Vice President for Alumni Affairs Fred L. Glimp '50, who chairs the celebration commission's steering committee. Lining up for the smorgasbord of excitement will be 25 to 50 representatives of each College alumni class, selected by their class committees, as well as representatives from all the graduate schools and 50 members of each current undergraduate class, who were chosen at random. "If they want fun and glitz, they can get it," Glimp says...
...Harvard being Harvard, of course, due homage will be paid to scholarship and learning. What Glimp calls "the real meat of the affair" are the dozens of academic symposia to be conducted by the University's 10 faculties...
...would be a mistake for Harvard to pat itself on the back," says Glimp. "We'll have fun and at the same time be intellectually serious." The symposia constitute the serious part of the celebration...
Select alumni were offered special "Crimson Circle" tickets for the stadium celebration. A pair of the elite tickets goes for $350 but $300 of that is tax-deductible. Glimp says that the special tickets were offered to those who did a lot of work for the Harvard Alumni Association and Admissions Office, and were not designed to butter up potential fat-cat donors...
...Corporation decreed early on that there should be no fundraising done in connection with the celebration," says Stephenson. "But, realistically, such an event creates a climate of giving." Similarly, Glimp notes that "anytime you get President Bok, Henry Rosovsky [the former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences] and Michael Spence [the present dean] going around the country talking to people, it raises the level of interest--its the positive background music to fundraising...