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...Houghton, chairman and former chief executive officer of his family’s glassworks company, Corning Inc., is likely at the tail end of his service on the Corporation. At 69 years old, he is a year away from the board’s informal age limit, though the rule has been flouted before. Houghton’s 70th birthday is in April...

Author: By Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Corporation To Find Itself Under Scrutiny | 8/5/2005 | See Source »

Following years of precedent, Corporation members say little, if anything, publicly. As he has since January, Rubin did not respond to repeated requests for an interview. An assistant to Houghton said he was out of the country and unavailable for comment...

Author: By Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Corporation To Find Itself Under Scrutiny | 8/5/2005 | See Source »

Indeed, the letter arrived—on time—at Massachusetts Hall the following morning, setting off a flurry of commotion among Harper’s suddenly former colleagues on the board. In the two weeks before the resignation would be officially announced, James R. Houghton ’56 and Robert E. Rubin ’60 tried repeatedly to change Harper’s mind, an individual familiar with the board’s discussions said. But their attempts were to no avail...

Author: By Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harper Has Activist Past | 8/5/2005 | See Source »

Harper, the only African-American ever to serve on the Corporation—the University’s highest governing body—wrote that he was compelled to resign following a disagreement with James R. Houghton ’56, senior fellow of the Corporation, over a three-percent increase in Summers’ salary. Harper objected to the raise and said Houghton had not allowed for adequate discussion among the Corporation’s members...

Author: By Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University Releases Harper's Letter | 8/5/2005 | See Source »

Harper described the issue of Summers’ salary as the breaking point in his relationship with the seven-member Corporation. Houghton, according to Harper, did not want to discuss further the matter at the Corporation’s retreat last month...

Author: By Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University Releases Harper's Letter | 8/5/2005 | See Source »

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