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Just what does the Happy Committee do? For starters, the 20 alumni who compose the group perform variegated duties, ranging from the chief marshal's luncheon (attended by honorary degree recipients and University bigwigs), seating and ushering, organizing the procession of alumni, escorting the older alumni in the march proper, and managing the "tree spread" (lunch for alumni in the 50th reunion class and older). The committee as a whole meets but once a year, because its members are so well-trained in their respective tasks...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Keeping Commencement Happy | 6/5/1980 | See Source »

After accepting the degree, Cronkite will attend a luncheon here with his wife before returning to New York to anchor the CBS evening news. He will miss his June 4 broadcast...

Author: By David R. Merner, | Title: Cronkite to Accept Honorary Degree | 5/14/1980 | See Source »

...lunch with a physician retired from CIA, an expert on what Hunt called "the unorthodox application of medical and chemical knowledge." Hunt introduced me under my operational alias, "George Leonard." We lunched in the Hay Adams Hotel, just across Lafayette Park from the White House. The purpose of the luncheon, Hunt had explained to me previously, was to prepare, for the approval of Hunt's "principal," a plan to stop columnist Jack Anderson. Hunt and I often used the term "my principal" rather than identify our superiors. I, at least, had several. Hunt, to my knowledge, had only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Watergate's Sphinx Speaks | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

...They don't ask, 'Are you gonna win it,' they say, 'Win it,'" N.U. coach Paula Dumart said yesterday at a pre-Beanpot press luncheon...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Northeastern: The Search for a Beanpot Sweep | 2/22/1980 | See Source »

...Luncheon guests trickle in, the first an hour before Reagan is scheduled to arrive. The master of ceremonies begins the proceedings by pointing out luminaries; the biggest hand for the chairman of the East Longmeadow Republican Town Committee. Reporters, most of them from local radio stations, stand attentively in the roped-off press area, their secret service badges pinned on conspicuously, so all can know they are members of the "Press Corps." The Secret Service men don't have much to do--hostility looks beyond the emotional range of most of those occupied with the turkey roll. So they talk...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Reagan's Last Chance | 2/16/1980 | See Source »

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