Word: humenuk
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William A. Humenuk '64, co-chairman of the schools and scholarship committee, does more to determine the make-up of those 23 admittees than almost any single alumnus in the Philadelphia area. It is Humenuk's job to notify Harvard of particularly attractive candidates, to go into the schools and meet guidance counselors, attend high school college nights and check the local papers for write-ups of exceptional scholar-athletes that may appear. Humenuk, a lawyer from Chestnut Hill, has been at the job for an exhausting four years. In that time he has tried to redirect, as much...
...Humenuk says he is a little dissatisfied with the way the admissions process currently works. He complains about getting little assistance from other alumni who prefer the easier candidate interviewing to going into the non-traditional schools and trying to convince guidance counselors to encourage their kids to apply. And one of the single biggest obstacles he faces is little direction from the Harvard admissions office directors, whom he regularly asks to spend more time in Philadelphia recruiting in the unexamined schools. With the exception of a list of basketball and football players worth checking from the Athletic Office, Humenuk...
...goes the debate over the large Fund figure. Some of the newer slate of officers would like to see both the $15,000 endowment and more money from local alumni used for funding scholarships for area students, an area where Philadelphia's Harvard Club lags far behind others, Humenuk says. Philadelphia's alumni are wealthy but they regularly give to their class instead of the local-level scholarships, Randall says not un-approvingly. He claims the Philadelphia alum's give most religiously, especially when the funds are badly needed, regardless of what is happening on the campus--including the strike...