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...college was so poor that it had not been able to afford a new building for 35 years. Then the board of trustees began asking various university heads to recommend a man who might make a good president. At Columbia University, McCann read the letter addressed to his boss, and sent it along with a scrawled memo: "A good candidate for this job occupies the adjoining room to you. Will you recommend...
...first McCann was on campus only occasionally (he wanted to see Ike through the campaign), but he never forgot his duties. He turned the $20,000 royalties from his book over to a Mamie Eisenhower Scholarship Fund. He made speeches, sent the fees back to the college. He also began nagging some of his old friends for money. By the end of his first year, Defiance...
...McCann upped his endowment to $300,000, increased faculty salaries an average $1,500, persuaded Editor DeWitt Wallace of the Reader's Digest to contribute a new recreation center, got the Philadelphia Bulletin to donate a press on which he hopes to print books of Americana. Most important, McCann raised enough money to start building the new library...
Last week, after seeing his old boss off to his train, President McCann was percolating plans as hard as ever ("I can dream, can't I?). Among his dreams: a new office building, a chapel, a field house, two dormitories, a $1,000,000 endowment, at least 300 students...
...This week, Ike called Kevin McCann back to Washington as a special consultant (mainly speech writing...