Word: markhams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...known, however, that some faculty members were much more pleased with the resolution of the case of Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics, than with the three others-Leon J. Kamin, research assistant in the Laboratory of Social Relations, Helene Deane Markham, assistant professor of Anatomy, and Daniel Fine, senior resident in Medicine...
...Markham this spring completed her 11th year as an assistant professor at the Medical School. This is the limit at this rank and she was not in line for promotion. Fine's was a one-year appointment and he was not seeking re-employment...
...Furry, having first refused to state whether he was, or ever had been, a member, subsequently, on April 16, 1953, had amended his testimony to state that he had not been a member of the Communist Party during the preceding two years. Dr. Markham had remained constant in her refusal to testify as the past or present membership. Mr. Kamin had stated that he was not a member of the Communist Party but had refused to say whether he had been a member on the day preceding his testimony...
...Fifth Amendment is "entirely inconsistent with the candor to be expected of one devoted to the pursuit of truth." Nevertheless it ruled that these three teachers should be retained. It found that Dr. Furry was "not now under the domination of the Communist Party," that Dr. Markham "is not, and never has been, a member of the Communist Party," and as to Mr. Kamin, that "About July, 1950, he ceased writing for the Daily Worker and dropped out of the Party without formal resignation...
Subsequent events do not sustain the Corporation's decisions. One week after its announcement, Dr. Markham, whom, the Corporation found had never been a member of the Party, reappeared before the Senate Subcommittee and again invoked the privilege to withold statements regarding present and past membership. Harvard Corporation then suspended her, stating that developments raised a question whether her conduct merited dismissal "either because she had not old us the truth, or because of her attempts to ally us with her in her refusal to testify*** or because we can no longer reasonably believe that she is free of Communist...