Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Treasurer George Putnam '49, also a member of the Corporation and a director of Harvard Management, said yesterday that President Bok and members of the Corporation have "reacted very favorably" to the performance of the company...
...Putnam said the increased confidence in Cabot's staff and the decrease in the overall size of the portfolio will be factors in the directors' willingness to allow a higher percentage of the portfolio to remain with Harvard Management...
George Sigular, assistant to Harvard Treasurer George Putnam '49, said Friday that because public utilities cannot increase their charges to customers in line with their raising costs they are not considered good investments at this time...
...more democratic appeal that women's colleges fund drives traditionally have is particularly important in light of recent financial trends. Harvard and universities throughout the country are beginning to learn a lesson in contemporary fund raising from Radcliffe and other women's colleges. Peterson, George Putnam '49, Harvard treasurer, and almost anyone else who knows the current money situation at Harvard, say that the University is going to have to concentrate on a much more universal and balanced fund raising effort in coming years if it intends to keep up current donation rates...
...this time last year, Harvard treasurer George Putnam '49 and the other members of the Corporation were floating the idea of establishing an independent, but internal, company to manage Harvard's financial portfolio. By January, Harvard will not only have a new management company with about five outside companies to help handle small segments of the $1.3 billion portfolio, but it will almost certainly have a new custodial bank to hold its accounts, and possibly a whole new roster of "service vendors" to provide the management company with technical assistance--brokers, bankers, auditors, and even legal consultants...