Word: marshalled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...second job of the University Marshal is to send Harvard delegates to domestic and foreign universities which are installing new presidents. Often President Bok was invited to the inauguration ceremonies, but was unable to attend. Anderson would then secure a Harvard representative to go in place of Bok: often it was a former academic colleague of the new president, or an alumnus from the area. The delegate usually returned, delighted because he led the procession--which, according to Anderson, always goes in the order of the founding year of the institutions represented...
When the University Marshal is not chatting with Harvard's international colleagues, he is organizing and preparing for the academic exercise for Commencement Day--the culmination of the intellectual part of Harvard's year. "I [was] ordered to 'run' the Commencement." Anderson says, explaining the extent of the organizing feat: "There are 19,000 seats in Tercentenary Theatre and 27,000 people who wish to come, so there is a space problem." In addition to taking constant notes for next year's event, the marshal marches in the scholarly procession that morning, dressed in academic gown, and awards the dozen...
...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...