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Other highlights of the weekend included the presentation of the Harvard Arts Medal to poet Maxine Kumin ’46, a 50th anniversary celebration on Saturday night for the Harvard Bach Society Orchestra, and Friday night’s presentation of Johannes Brahms’ “Ein deutsches Requiem” by the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum...
Chamberlain is now Waters' partner in life and business. Their beer, launched in November, won a silver medal just three months later from the Florida Brewers Guild. Southern Wine & Spirits, the biggest liquor distributor in the country, put in an order. "I think in your 40s you're wise enough to have the guts, and you figure, 'What the hell. What's the worst thing that can happen? You've got to get a regular job?' " Waters says. "My stepfather on his dying bed said, 'If only I had ...,' " she says. "I don't want to have regrets...
...spent nine years on the World Council of Churches and met with every U.S. president from Dwight D. Eisenhower to William J. Clinton. Jimmy Carter awarded him the Medal of Freedom...
...awarded the country’s highest award for scientific achievement, the National Medal of Science, in 1989, and over his lifetime published 100 papers and authored or co-authored six books...
...While the Arts Medal adds just one more feather to a cap that is already laden with honors, “it’s a very significant award for me,” Kumin says. “I am very humbled by it—especially by the company I now share.” Kumin joins the ranks of such past recipients as Yo-Yo Ma ’76, Jack Lemmon ’47, and John Updike ’54. Sixty-two years after a cocky English Department instructor told Kumin...