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Chairman Albert H. Gordon '23 told the Fund's annual meeting yesterday that he expects the Fund to have $3.9 million by the end of the month and that "there's a chance to break $4 million." This year's total represents gifts from 31.6 per cent of living alumni compared to 30.1 per cent last year...
...Gordon credited this "stupendous record" to the College Fund staff. "In the past couple of years, during theperiod of lunacy-to use the words of Kelman-the staff here at the Fund never lost its cool," Gordon said, referring to Steven J. Kelman '70, a socialist and author of a book on Harvard politics which was well received in some quarters...
...Gordon attributed this good sense on the part of the Fund staff to their Harvard education. "When you've had a Harvard education," he said, "you realize that things change but-as the French say-the more they change, the more they stay the same...
Another factor in the success of the Fund during the past year, according to Fund director Schuyler Hollingsworth '40, was new fund-raising techniques such as the establishment of a "Presidential Associates" program. Under this scheme, as described by Gordon, any alumnus who gives $5000 or more during a non-reunion year becomes a "Presidential Associate"-which entitles him to a free dinner with the President of Harvard and football tickets on the fifty-yard line...
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