Word: marshaling
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Halfway through the brunch, the group looks up to see the beaming face of its most recognizable resident. Franklin was elected first class marshal of this year’s graduating class, after a Harvard career spent accumulating a laundry list of extracurricular pursuits. Franklin, a gregarious and engaging social studies and African and African-American studies joint concentrator, breaks into a wide smile. Before long, he’s cracking jokes and regaling his entrymates with long-forgotten anecdotes and fondly-remembered antics...
...Class of 2005’s first class marshal was on a first-name basis with most of the seniors; by the end of that Sunday, two weeks ago, he was conversing with the winemakers by name...
...joint concentrator in social studies and African and African-American studies, Franklin’s extracurricular profile rivals that of even the most overactive Harvard students: actor, Kuumba singer, a leading member of the Black Men’s Forum, founder of the California Club, and first class marshal. He has also spent time abroad studying in South Africa—where he hopes eventually to live—and has earned a language citation in Urdu-Hindi...
Franklin says his job as first class marshal, to which he was elected in November, involves serving as a “link between the Harvard Alumni Association and the senior class” for planning Class of 2005 activities...
...have so much Harvard love. This school has opened so many doors for me, that to be able to represent it for the rest of my life is an honor,” he told The Crimson in October, after being named first class marshal. “Am I shirking down from duty? No! It’s a lifetime thing, baby...