Word: mccord
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...American Alumni Coun gave McCord a special award for his writings over the years for the Harvard Fund, of which he has been Executive Director since...
Fund-raiser, poet, friend of Harvard men, fisherman, painter, and collector of Harvardiana, David McCord '21 will retire this June after 37 years of service to his alma mater...
...McCord has become well known for his revolutionary approach to alumni fund raising. As a man of letters, McCord introduced to the inevitable pleas for money a pleasant style and a literary touch. Brooks Atkinson '17 once said in a New York Times column about McCord's informal essays, "on't is wonderful that brochures written on such a high level of style, thought, and erudition, also delight the givers...
Calls to Ministry. Mackay's work has been handsomely carried on by President McCord. 42, a jowly Texan who manages to be both a respected theologian and a top-drawer administrator. He himself teaches two courses-and is famed among students for his gestures: "the punt" (cupped hands suggesting firmness) and "peeling the cabbage" (when he appears to chop ideas from his head). He has strengthened an already good faculty by adding such scholars as Old Testament Expert James Barr of the University of Edinburgh and Pastoral Psychologist Seward Hiltner of the University of Chicago, brought in language machines...
...great independent schools, McCord believes, have never been able to affect any single church the way Princeton...