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Krebs' "strength"--be it from his toppings of choice or a personality to match--has propelled him to the head of the Class of 2000 as the popularly-elected First Class Marshal, the voice of the undergraduates at today's Commencement exercises and a summa cum laude nominee from the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature...
Krebs hypothesizes that his more than 1,600 classmates elected him as their marshal because of his high visibility on campus as the leader of the Immediate Gratification Players (IGP), an improvisational comedy troupe. He has also been involved in several dramatic productions and served for a year on the Harvard-Radcliffe Drama Club board of directors. And he admits that he just plain knows a lot of people...
Krebs was chosen to speak by a University committee that included University Marshal Richard Hunt and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Minister in the Memorial Church Peter J. Gomes. He acknowledges that with his appearance and beliefs he might be an unexpected choice to speak at fair Harvard's commencement. (" I did shave before I went," he says...
...best of my knowledge, [Kissinger] has not attended any University function in Cambridge since the end of the Vietnam War," says University Marshal Richard M. Hunt. And Kissinger has declined to attend his 50th reunion, refusing interviews and photo requests...
Fellow Class Marshal Terry McGovern '00 added that "there was some arguing," but that they "tried to make it as fair as possible...