Word: joan
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...letter, by Board of Overseers President Joan T. Bok '51, urged alumni to think "carefully" before voting for"specific issue" candidates. Alluding to the threeAlumni Against Apartheid candidates, Bok--norelation to President Derek C. Bok--wrote thattheir election would make for "a very differentBoard than it has been heretofore...
...also said that he supported the decision of President of the Board of Overseers Joan T. Bok '51 to send a controversial anti-divestment mailing to alumni. A letter included in that mailing cautioned alumni against voting for three divestment candidates on this year's ballot for the Overseers, which is one of Harvard's two governing bodies...
...also defended Joan Bok's decision to send the letter with election ballots urging alumni not to change the way the Overseer body works and not to vote for the three alumni campaigning on a divestment slate...
Students and alumni have criticized Joan Bok's move as in-house electioneering and have called for the invalidation of the election...
...demanded that the University fund a "full alumni mailing" on behalf of the three divestment candidates. He did so in response to a letter from Overseers President Joan T. Bok '51 included with a statement of Harvard's position toward divestment in the official election packet. The letter cautioned alumni against voting for candidates running on a single issue...