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...Crimson greets with mixed feelings the selection of Robert E. Rubin ’60 by the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) to deliver this year’s Commencement address. Rubin is a leading national figure and certainly a worthy candidate to deliver a graduation speech. Yet we are concerned that, through no fault of his own, Rubin’s speech may be regarded by many seniors as simply more of the same. When giving his address this June, Rubin will follow Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen and Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan, two speakers whose major interests...
...global economies have been the specialties of the past two graduation speakers as well. Rubin will also be the second Treasury Secretary to be invited to campus in so many months; Rubin encouraged the selection of his successor Lawrence H. Summers as Harvard’s next president, although HAA president Scott Abell has said that Rubin was picked to speak several months before Summers was chosen...
...very proud [of the winners]," said HAA Associate Director Kay Hall '87. "We could have easily given the award to [a student from] each House...
Hall said the HAA hoped the Aloian award would ensure that students' contributions to House life are recognized and celebrated by the community and alumni...
...award was established in 1988 to honor the late David P. Aloian '49, a former HAA executive director and master of Quincy House...