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While the process of choosing visiting committee members is extremely flexible, each committee must have at least one Overseer. Suggestions for other members are solicited from sources inside and outside Harvard, according to Elizabeth A. Gray '70, senior associate secretary of the Board of Overseers.
The current reevaluation does not mark the first time the visiting committee system has been examined critically. In 1977, a report, spearheaded by then-Overseer president Helen S. Gilbert '26, completely redefined the criteria used for selecting committee members, according to Sheila L. Weiner, senior associate secretary of the Board...
The 30-member Board of Overseers is often criticized as an unwieldy, powerless body that can have little practical effect on the lives of students or the success of the institution. By inspiring and helping to plan one frenzied, arts-filled weekend, Overseer John Lithgow '67 went a long way...
Alma Harrington Young '69, an overseer from New Orleans, said that there were definite opinions among the group about Powell. "There was some discussion about the issues," she said. "A number of people felt strongly one way or the other, [although] I did not feel that strongly."
"As a commander, I have respect for him," says one department employee. "But as an overseer of department policy, he is uninformed of the atmosphere and the conditions we're working under."