Word: melendez
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brian Melendez '86 is the kind of guy who over-achieves in his spare time, and Dolores skips nary a beat when asked where her son wants to go in life: "To the White House...
...while Melendez is now universally admired and acknowledged as the father of the current student government, his public persona may have accounted for his near defeat at the hands of little known challenger Betsy Touhey '86 when he ran for a second term as Council chair in February of 1985. Touhey, who became a candidate only after a group of council representatives drew straws earlier that evening, lost to Melendez by one vote...
...Melendez readily admits that has not always been his own best advertisement. "I'm still an extremely shy, insecure, socially inept person," he says. He is leaning back Lee Iacocca-style on a cushion in a closet-sized South House single, packed with electronic gimmickery, file cabinets, and impeccably stacked back copies of The Crimson, The Independent, The Salient, The Gazette, and the Harvard College Forum...
...Melendez regrets that for all his success at Harvard, he has not been able to overcome his own insecurities. "I'm very uncomfortable at parties; I'm very awkward at dealing with people; I can't ask women out on dates for the most part--although I can ask people for votes and I can try to persuade people to think like I do," he says. "I'm not afraid of crowds and speaking to people. I'm afraid of small groups where I have to be myself rather than be an officer of the Undergraduate Council or a public...
...small groups that Melendez sheds some of his business-like exterior, exposing a side rarely seen in public...