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...every several years, the University Marshal gets to oversee another grand Harvard ceremony the installation of the new Harvard President. Anderson, who began it's term under Nathan Pussy '28 organized Derek Bok's small inauguration ceremony...
...early retirement in 1963. The next year Anderson came back to Harvard to organize his 25th reunion. "I never had so much fun," the sailor man says, and apparently he was telling the truth because it was that event which inspired William G. Anderson to become Harvard's University Marshal...
...strong and able mind, but without a major time commitment to keep him active. He felt a renewed dedication to his alma mater, so he called one of his friends--a Harvard fellow--to see if he could do anything with the University. At that point, the current University Marshal was stepping down. The fellow asked Anderson if he had travelled much. Anderson had gone around the world twice, visiting a number of smaller countries, and with that requirement filled, the former businessman became Harvard's diplomat-at-large, gracing the University Marshal's office in Wadsworth House the next...
...heavily that one could not see 10 feet ahead. Anderson still laughs when he recalls picking up the Prime Minister, whose plane was nearly two hours late. Returning in the limousine. Anderson attempted to point out some of Cambridge's highlights. "Mr. Prime Minister, that's MIT," the Marshal would say, as Fraser stared into the pitch-black clouds, trying to recognize the landmarks without much success...
Security measures, which are only used for hands of state, can make the University Marshal's job quite exciting, but somewhat nerve-wracking. "Some visitors, like the Shuh of Iran, bring their own security police. You don't want blood spilled anyway, but you'd hate to have it spilled particularly at Harvard," says Anderson some of the early Soviet and Chinese visitors were closely--guarded in the preliminary stages of international exchange, but now feel comfortable walking through Harvard Yard, when Helmut Schmidt, the former Chancellor of West Germany spoke at Commencement in 1979 more than 200 secret service...