Word: petersons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That morning's mail had brought a nice note from Rodney Peterson, the young minister at, Memorial Church who runs Morning Prayers during the summer. Peterson had written Crooks in impeccable handwriting to thank him for leading the prayers a few weeks before...
Edited by MERRILL D. PETERSON 589 pages. Viking...
Howard F. Gillette, assistant to Peterson, credits the "rapport" within the alumni affairs organization to the "excellent communications" Peterson maintains with Bok. "It was an important move to place Peterson at the vice presidential level." Gillette says, "because it assured that the recommendations of the staff and the concerns of the alumni would be communicated...
...Peterson, he says, apparently knows the cost of being candid with the alumni. "Without the generous support from the classes between 1910 and the 1940s the current open admissions policy without regard to financial situation would not be possible. It was a painful decision for many alumni because they knew full well it would lower the chances of having their children attend Harvard." Peterson says that it is the classes of the next 30 years that he must worry about even now. He explains that the graduates of the 30s and 40s "had inherited wealth to give," but the classes...
...Peterson says he dislikes the word 'alumni' because it is a word that defines people by what they once were. Alumni are certainly not "has-beens." For Peterson they remain an "active and vital part" of the Harvard University he deals with...