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Some say Smith is similar to the person whose seat he will fill on the corporation. The late Colman M. Mockler Jr. '52, who chaired the Gillette Corporation, was also a local resident, skilled businessperson and a graduate of Harvard College. Mockler was seen by many as a mediator who tried to find compromises when members of the Corporation disagreed...
Smith, like Mockler, is a local. Corporation Member Judith R. Hope says the Corporation was looking for someone who was "if possible, from the Boston area." And University Marshal Richard Hunt says one of Smith's assets is that he is "very prominently known in the Harvard-New England area...
Still, Hope says the search committee was not looking for an exact duplicate of Mockler...
Smith, well-known philan-thropist and a Forbes 400 millionaire with assets totaling about $460 million, will fill the seat on the University's chief governing board left empty when Colman Mockler Jr. '52, chair of the Gillette Corporation, died last January...
...want someone who lived around here and will give a lot of his time," said Geyser University Professor Henry Rosovsky, a Corporation member. "He's a man of very wide experience and will add a lot to the Corporation. He is really Colman Mockler's replacement. He's used to running a large enterprise...