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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fund-raising is the flip-side of alumni social activities, and officials in Cambridge are well aware that active local alumni groups are a valuable way for them to stay in touch with potential contributors. Harvard clubs like Rochester's usually don't participate directly in fund-raising--that's left to local class agents of the Harvard College Fund. But more often than not, an alumnus who wants to stay in touch with his classmates also feels close enough to the College to want to support it financially...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Cocktail Parties and Capital: Cambridge Calls On Rochester | 9/28/1979 | See Source »

...Rochester, Russell A. Sibley '44, whose family founded the city's main department store, has been the College Fund representative and an active fundraiser for many years--he managed the local effort of the Campaign for Harvard College in the 1950s, Harvard's last major capital drive, and last year ran his class's 35th reunion as well. Rider says the Harvard Club has left most of the fund-raising work to him. "You need to have one enthusiastic guy like Russ Sibley to keep things going and to keep other people interested," he says...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Cocktail Parties and Capital: Cambridge Calls On Rochester | 9/28/1979 | See Source »

...capital campaign hasn't shaken Rochester up yet. At a luncheon meeting last January about 20 local alumni gathered to evaluate the prospect for donations, but no one has given the Campaign much thought since. And the Harvard Club doesn't expect it to cause a major upheaval, either. "The only way it might really affect us is by making it harder for us to get people to pay dues, with the competition from the fund drive," Rider says...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Cocktail Parties and Capital: Cambridge Calls On Rochester | 9/28/1979 | See Source »

...drive hasn't geared up in the Rochester area, Clifton says, and local reports bear him out. Sibley says, "I have not heard of any activity in this area affecting the fund drive, period." Development officials have earmarked the first year-and-a-half of the Campaign for gifts of more than $25,000, and Sibley says that rules out practically every potential contributor in the area...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Cocktail Parties and Capital: Cambridge Calls On Rochester | 9/28/1979 | See Source »

Sibley has asked not to manage the Campaign in the Rochester area since he just finished work on his 35th reunion, Clifton says. Sibley says he thinks the two local alumni who had organized the January luncheon may have taken charge of the local campaign...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Cocktail Parties and Capital: Cambridge Calls On Rochester | 9/28/1979 | See Source »

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