Word: petersons
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...short time since Harvard received the grants, the Japanese money has all but dried up. "It is an uphill battle now," Vogel says citing Japanese inflation and exorbitant oil prices that have caused many Japanese doors to close on University fund-raising efforts. But Dr. Chase N. Peterson '52, vice president for alumni affairs and development, says the University has now placed East Asian Studies second only to President Bok's recently announced public policy program on the priority list of fund-raising efforts. By doing that, Bok has taken the work out of the hands of the professors--many...
...Peterson and his team of fund-raisers in special projects, including William S. Olney '46, director of special projects, and Morrison L. Edwards '69, development manager of the program for Harvard and East Asia, to come up with the rest of the estimated $15 million for a Japan Institute. Actually, Peterson has always had his hand in Japanese fund-raising, as well as all of Harvard's other national and international fund-raising, since he took office in the spring of 1972. He says it is his job to "know where the other hand is going," to insure that nobody...
...office assesses the priorities for Bok, tells groups whom to call and decides who has first crack at a particular donor. The East Asian drive is typical of the effort Peterson expects to mount in the future. He is not particularly optimistic about the prospects of increased Japanese contributing--"we might even think we won't be more successful at all in Japan," Peterson says. But he is not giving up on international fund-raising...
...difficulties, having already begun to tap middle eastern sources and U.S. corporations linked with Arabic nations. A.J. Meyer, professor of Middle Eastern Studies, is the University's biggest gun in the Middle East, one of the few men in the U.S. having close ties with Saudi Arabian interests. Although Peterson claims no one from the University has yet been able to develop the contracts in the Middle East to bring any substantial grants to the University, the proposed Harvard feasibility study of the graduate institute in Iran may forge the contacts necessary to give Harvard some of the Middle East...
...four outside directors of the 3M Co., including two former Cabinet members -onetime Treasury Secretary Joseph Barr and former Commerce Secretary Peter Peterson -summoned the company's president to an urgent meeting. Barr put a startling question...