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...large, though, the Faculty give Lord's office an added touch of prestige. "My brothers and sisters in other press offices have to go out and beat the drums," she says. "Here, people come to us." Lord has, over the years, nurtured many relationships with professors here, and her colleagues elsewhere in the Ivy League speak admiringly of her ability to provide a spokesman for any subject and to make even the most ornery of ornithologists chirp willingly for the press. "She stands apart in her mastery of her resources," Fred Kneubel, director of public relations at Columbia University, says...
Indeed, though, she is known for occasional fits of moodiness. Lord commands the respect and affection of many of Harvard's finest minds. "To the people who work for her and with her, her vitality, generosity, and warmth in this cool culture are all the more welcome." David Riesman '31, Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus, says. Relaxing in the Faculty Club dining room, she must interrupt herself regularly to greet friends, and one scholar unabashedly gives her a big hug and kiss. "She knows the place, gets around a lot, and reports the news very straight every time." President...
...object of all this academic affection ran her own class a few years back. Lord decided to teach Expos because she was distressed over the College's inability to train undergraduates in basic prose. She remembers that her most successful sessions included lectures from professional writers who shared their experiences with her neophyte authors. Gloria Emerson, who wrote moving accounts of the Vietnam war, brought many students to tears, Lord remembers, by describing the utter tragedy of her subject. "You have to figure out some way to move the kids," Lord says...
...teacher herself, Lord feels qualified to classify Harvard professors as "a mixed bunch, not all wonderful." But she says she sometimes has to remind her Gazette co-workers to set aside personal opinions and emphasize their role as public relations staffers. "A big problem is containing some of the people who are really journalists," she says. "They want to hear the whine of the old bullets and have the freedom to whack it out with the city editor and expose things, but we are not out to expose corruption in the administration...
Felicity Beringer, now a national affairs reporter for The Washington Post, was one aspiring journalist who could not be broken to the PR regime, says Lord. Beringer "would go up to the fundraisers, and they would call me, and say, 'Deane, who is your newest employee? She makes us feel as if we are hiding something.'" Beringer agrees that she sometimes resented her role as a writer on a leash, pointing out that everything written for the Gazette must be cleared with University sources for publication...