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Other highlights of the weekend included the presentation of the Harvard Arts Medal to poet Maxine Kumin ’46, a 50th anniversary celebration on Saturday night for the Harvard Bach Society Orchestra, and Friday night’s presentation of Johannes Brahms’ “Ein deutsches Requiem” by the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum...
...Inside the Halo” brings readers deep inside the Kumin hearth. We meet her grandson Yann, who would later live in Pennypacker Hall and Lowell House before graduating with a degree in history last June. He follows in the family tradition: both of Kumin’s daughters hold Crimson-emblazoned diplomas...
...Kumin says that she and her Radcliffe classmates still harbor some hard feelings toward the University that—in her words—“swallowed” their alma mater in a 1971 quasi-merger. “We feel quite bitter about it,” she says...
...Kumin particularly mourns the demise of the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study, once a vibrant center for female scholars where both she and Sexton served as fellows in the early 1960s. The current Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, she says, is but a shadow of its former incarnation...
...While the Arts Medal adds just one more feather to a cap that is already laden with honors, “it’s a very significant award for me,” Kumin says. “I am very humbled by it—especially by the company I now share.” Kumin joins the ranks of such past recipients as Yo-Yo Ma ’76, Jack Lemmon ’47, and John Updike ’54. Sixty-two years after a cocky English Department instructor told Kumin...