Word: phifer
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...Kenneth Galbraith, can double attendance), the success of the last meeting, and the time of the year. When Moore was president of the Atlanta Harvard Club about ten years ago, there were about six meetings a year, each of which attracted 100 of Atlanta's 8000 alumni. Robert W. Phifer '69. AHA assistant general secretary for clubs, thinks about 15-20 per cent of Harvard's alumni (including the graduate schools) attend at least one club meeting a year...
...biggest problem that Phifer faces is lack of leadership in the clubs. Sometimes club presidents perform very well their first year, but gradually loss interest in their duties. Phifer, who visits over 30 clubs a year, tries to prod officers to hold regular meetings and offers advice on getting speakers, putting on seminars, and lowering costs, but the officers he supervises are volunteers, and he must treat them gently...
...club activity that seems to need very little encouragement in local interviewing and recruiting of applicants. Each club has a schools and scholarships committee to perform these functions and provide freshman scholarships. Many clubs, according to Phifer, consider this their most important job, and sometimes a club will all but stop meeting during a year when very few of its good local applicants are admitted to Harvard...
...might have for undergraduates, particularly for those who want to take a leave of absence. The clubs simply collect names, forward them to the school and then students inquire after the jobs themselves. This type of program is already underway in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and according to Phifer, is working very well and should be expanded...
...blacks view Livingston? They have already demanded and won an all-black dormitory. Just a bit startled, the faculty likes to view a stay in the dorm as a temporary phase for most black students. Says Donald Phifer, a black admissions officer: "When they discover that they are holding their own with whites in class, they will want out of that black dorm." So far, the dorm remains black, and it is overflowing into part of an adjoining building...