Word: overseerers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Overseers accepted Heiskell's appointment and selected Mockler Sunday. Mary E. Procter '63, an Overseer who chaired the meeting, said the Overseers' debate on Heiskell focused on whether to replace an academic with a businessman.
Of their 18th century cousins in England, Daniel Defoe would say "there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse." In New England, in order to prevent such a mistake, one...
Harvard honored two judges in this year's ceremony: Richard Amni Cutter '22, an associate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and a former Harvard Overseer, and Bora Laskin, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
In 1971 Billie Sol Estes was paroled from a federal prison after serving six years for amassing a $ 150 million business empire through fraudulent land deals and nonexistent fertilizer tanks. He went to work in fundamentalist Abilene, Texas, as an overseer on his brother's cattle ranch and as...
To head the Stage 2 program, Carter would like to name Alfred Kahn, a somewhat ironic choice. As chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, Kahn became famous for freeing airlines from burdensome federal regulation. As overseer of the guidelines, he would be in charge of much greater Government intervention in...