Word: petersons
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...Chase N. Peterson '52, vicepresident for alumni affairs and development, said yesterday that Colt was chosen because "we needed someone with the best skills and contacts to work with Bok on major projects and maximize the efficiency of Bok's time...
...appeal to self interest," Dr. Chase N. Peterson '52, vice president for alumni affairs and development, explains, "and claim that our program will benefit the group that we approach." In the East Asian Studies Program, for example, the University has been remarkably successful in convincing Japanese, Korean, and other East-Asian-based corporations that an East Asian center at Harvard will ultimately benefit these corporations because it will strengthen ties to the United States. In this same way a group of Korean business men has contributed $1 million for a chair in Modern Korean Economics and Society, hoping the chair...
...make-up of Harvard University determines the underlying push of these fundraising efforts. Not only are few programs free from the financial squeeze, but Peterson is now beginning to claim that if Harvard cannot "get off the plateau" and significantly increase its sources of funding, then the "golden era of Harvard College when the University could always afford to offer substantial scholarships could be nearing its end." "Harvard is the place of pre-eminent excellence," Peterson believes, and it is the fundraising done on a year by year basis that makes the University go. Without momentum, if we just...
...week that the financial well-being of Harvard is a "fundamental long-term problem." "Harvard is more fortunate than many other institutions but it is now imperative that we must work very hard to control expenses, plan more carefully, and raise more money in order to make ends meet." Peterson now begins every corporation meeting by briefing members on the long range questions of fundraising...
...Peterson can readily reel off a list of programs and parts of the University that are most acutely hit by the financial bind...