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...four continuing members of the ACSR are: Milton C. Weinstein, professor of policy and decision sciences in the School of Public Health; Theodore Chase '34, a retired lawyer; Ernest Monrad '51, of Northeast Investors Trust of Boston; and Joan Keenan '45 of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company...
Virtually unknown today, William Franklin cut a grand figure in 18th century America. He was Royal Governor of New Jersey for more than a dozen years and a believer in the divine right of King George III. Other families were similarly split--John Hancock and John Adams had royalist in-laws--but none came asunder with quite the intensity of the Franklins. The result shocked contemporaries but, like imperceptible fissures that suddenly expand in an earthquake, took considerable time in the making...
...Hancock, one of Boston's wealthiest merchants, gave generously to his alma mater, and the Corporation rewarded him by naming him treasurer. But Hancock had little taste for the job and spent most of his time travelling on business or political missions, neglecting the University's finances. He failed to collect term bills or pay debts, and complicated matters by carrying the University's financial records on his travels...
...April 11, 1775, President Samuel Langdon sent Hancock a letter threatening to replace him, but the treasurer did not respond. A series of follow-up letters went similarly answered, and the Corporation sent a tutor to look for Hancock, then in hiding during the war. He failed and Hancock remained it office until his death, when he left 16,000 pounds for money he had University accounts and a personal debt to Harvard of 1495 pounds, for money he had unscrupulously borrowed...
...highly sensitive equipment at his Oxford St. lab, he and his crew travel down the National Scienific Balloon Facility in the heart of the cowfields of Palestine, Texas. There they carefully assemble and load up unmanned balloons--which when inflated reach the the same height as Boston's John Hancock tower--with equipment that will measure the gas composition of the stratosphere...