Word: jewett
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Other alums, including Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 and Thomas E. Crooks '49, like it here so much they've never really left. But Crooks, who is the special assistant to the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Parents Association, never planned it that way. In fact, both administrators thought of working here in the same temporary terms echoed by Johnson and Chertkov...
...Jewett, who is midway through his first year as dean of the College, has been a part of the administration since he graduated from the Business School in 1960. After serving as a proctor for freshmen, he was asked to stay on and start the Senior Adviser program...
...Even at that time I assumed it would only be a temporary interlude from the business world," Jewett says. "For the first five or six years, I didn't necessarily view it as a permanent career path...
...advice to aspiring undergrads, Jewett says that there is a great deal of luck involved. "One of the problems with it is that there isn't a clear cut path as in law or medicine," he says. "I was lucky enough to be in the right spot at the right time...
...Jewett, like Crooks, found himself unwilling to leave in the face of new assignments. "Every time I was about to leave, a new and interesting opportunity came along to do something different," Jewett says...