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...person who was the key to the success of the whole thing was Bob Stone," agrees Fred L. Glimp '50, vice president for alumni affairs and development, who calls him "energetic and tireless. He's got to be the best volunteer leader any university has ever had for any fund drive...
Again, it was major donors--officially classified as giving $100,000 and up--who care through for Harvard. Of course, many of those gifts, explains Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development Fred L. Glimp '50, had been in the works for a while "I don't think we had any rabbits in the hat It was just a lot of hard work," says Glimp, noting that a big gift almost always has a lengthy "gestation period" between the time a prospective donor is first contacted and when he ultimately signs the check...
...propitious establishment of the challenge fund by the top names in the drive, says Glimp, was critical. "It made it really clear that [the campaign's leadership] really believe in the thing." Without the challenge, the drive would have ended up with no more than $330 million...
With the more serious atmosphere fostered by Pike and by the team's three co-captains, Wood, Sarah Spence and Sally Glimp, the squad began to take itself a lot more seriously...
...personal toll of the crisis was great: in late April, then-Dean of the Faculty Franklin L. Ford suffered a stroke, and later resigned; Fred L. Glimp '50, then-dean of the College, left Harvard for 10 years. On the student side, 13 were eventually asked to withdraw from the University, 20 were given "suspended suspensions," 99 were placed on warning. Many of those who participated in the strike, such as G. Garrett Epps '72, would say years later that the event remained "the most important experience of our lives...