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...Following Summers’ resignation, Keohane was briefly considered for the interim presidency, but she took herself out of the running. Instead, she and the Corporation’s senior fellow, James R. Houghton, travelled in person to Sarasota, Fla. to convince Bok to come out of retirement. Still, just days after Summers’ resignation, Keohane’s name was being added to lists of possible permanent presidents...
Following Summers’ resignation, the six fellows of the Harvard Corporation, the University’s most powerful governing body, and three members of the alumni Board of Overseers were charged with finding a new leader. James R. Houghton ’58, the senior fellow of the Corporation and chairman of glassworks company Corning Inc., headed the presidential search committee, joined by former Vassar president Frances D. Fergusson, computer science professor Susan L. Graham ’64, former Duke and Wellesley president Nannerl O. Keohane, Georgetown Law professor Patricia A. King, Boston lawyer William...
With more than a decade of experience on the Corporation, Houghton was the only current member who had served on the committee that selected Summers in 2001. Though Keohane had spent little time at Harvard and had only been on the Corporation for two years, her broad-ranging knowledge of higher education quickly made her one of the most influential voices on the committee...
Even before Commencement 2006, Faust had quietly gained early support from some committee members who admired her deft handling of budget cuts and administrative overhauls as she established a research institute at the site that once housed Radcliffe College. Privately, Houghton praised Faust’s ability to calm concerned Radcliffe alumnae during the transition, according to two individuals who discussed the matter with Houghton last spring. Unlike Summers, who consistently attracted controversy throughout his five years as president, Faust had largely kept a low profile as she rebuilt Radcliffe...
...Only days before, James R. Houghton ’58 and Nannerl O. Keohane, two of the seven Harvard Corporation members responsible for governing the University, had flown down to the Florida coast to convince the then-75-year-old tennis enthusiast to reprise the role he held 15 years before...