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After a tour of Widener Library and its famous stacks last Friday, Katherine B. Loker, who had previously donated $10 million for Loker Commons, decided to help out the Harvard libraries...
...speech addressing the Committee on University Resources (COUR) at the ARCO Forum on Saturday morning, COUR Chair Robert G. Stone Jr. '45 announced that Mrs. Loker had donated $17 million for the Harvard libraries...
...Loker's gift is such a shot in the arm for our great goals for Widener. I don't ordinarily get $17 million every weekend; I am overjoyed," said Sidney Verba '53, director of the Harvard University Library and Pforzheimer University Professor...
...Katherine Loker's stunning new gift gives [Widener] Library a wonderful boost," said Dean of FAS Jeremy R. Knowles. "This takes a great stride towards funding the Widener renovation project, which has a very high priority...
...During Loker's tour of Widener with Verba, Cline and President Neil L. Rudenstine, she saw the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Room and the large reading room along with the stacks...