Word: marshalling
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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...
...while Krebs studied belonging and identity, both are themes that he seems very comfortable with in his own life. As First Class Marshal he must represent and tie together a disparate class and their University, with whose policies he does not always agree. The most important part of his job, Krebs says, is keeping the class in touch with each other, but he also feels able to serve in the complex position of liaison with the University...
...afternoon also included a moving Harvard Oration by Brooke M. Ellison '00, a second Harvard Oration by Jason R. Stevenson '00 , the humorous Ivy Oration by Jacob F. Lentz '00 and opening remarks by First Class Marshal Justin M. Krebs...
...survival is lost in the mists of time, but I think it is a nod to tradition and a certain sign that Harvard still takes ancient learning seriously," says University Marshal Richard M. Hunt...