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...Board of Overseers began six-year terms on the University's senior governing board on Commencement day last month. The new members of the 30-member board are: Andrew Heiskell of New York City, a 1936 graduate of the Business School and president of Time, Inc.; John U. Monro '34 of Birmingham, Ala., former dean of students here and now director of freshman students at Miles College; Elliot L. Richardson '41 of McLean, Va., former U.S. attorney general and secretary of Defense; Lloyd H. Smith, Jr. of San Francisco, a 1948 graduate of the Medical School and chairman...
...Drive underpass at Boylston Street (the plans were later revised). Of course, it was only semi-political: the next week, Harvard students swelled the ranks of the 100 demonstrators against a ban on elevator riding at the Chandler School for Women in Boston, chanting, "We want dogs!" John U. Monro '34, the dean of Students, announced that students' "mere presence" at such demonstrations would henceforth be considered a "serious breach of discipline," and police-rejected the Civil Rights Coordinating Committee's request for a picketing permit for later in the week...
...students have always respected high officials," John Monro, the dean of Students, said angrily, denouncing "mob rule" and joining Dean Watson in an official University apology--one seconded by 2700 undergraduates who signed an apologetic petition. McNamaras called the apology "unnecessary," recalling his own student days at Berkeley, but Monro took to meeting with SDS members regularly, and Harvard activism took on a new importance, menacing or hope-laden depending on the onlooker...
...predominantly white universities, Pitts, the son of a tenant farmer, defended the role of traditionally black institutions. In his ten years as president of Miles College, which serves Birmingham's black community, Pitts increased the endowment tenfold, doubled the enrollment and won white allies like John U. Monro, who left his post as dean of Harvard College in 1967 to join the Miles faculty full time. Pitts left Miles in 1971 to become president of his alma mater, Paine College...
...play our same game," Monro said and added he would adjust as the situation arose. "I do have some things in mind," he said, but added he would "see how the game goes. A lot depends on what happens in the middle of the field...