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Once a self-professed vagabond. Myra Mayman has rarely stayed in any one job for more than a year. In fact, before coming to Harvard 10 years ago as the first director of the Office for the Arts. Mayman--only seven years out of Bryn Mawr College--had held seven different jobs in almost as many cities. As she explains it: "I had no specific career plan in mind...
...Harvard has proved to be the exception to Mayman's lifestyle, and after 10 years, she can still be found in her small one-room office in Agassiz House, working on broadening the Harvard community's access to the arts. And while the chicly clad Mayman readily admits that she may not want to stay at Harvard permanently, she gives no hints of her imminent departure. She promises, moreover, to ensure that her charge will thrive "as long as students come to Harvard interested in the arts...
That means the office is here to stay and grow in what has evolved over the years as its double-barrelled role of putting students in touch with leading artists and pushing them to do creative projects With student and faculty participation with the office increasing yearly. Mayman and her staff of three are consistently put to the task of dreaming up imaginative ways to do this...
...Harvard leading seminars or giving lectures about their careers. But the office has also sponsored longer-term projects, such as the Artists in Residence program, as well as performing the all-vital role of funding various student art-related projects like original plays and dances. And this year, Mayman and her staff are arranging a year long "festival to the arts," in honor of the office's 10th anniversary (See accompanying article...
...Each year is more interesting than before [in bringing] a whole new set of problems to solve," Mayman says...