Word: putnam
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...George Putnam, treasurer of the University and a Corporation member, said yesterday Heiskell's business expertise will help guide the Corporation through the University's upcoming five-year, $250 million capital campaign...
...Corporation consists of President Bok, Putnam, and five Fellows of the College, and is the University's chief executive authority. Heiskell fills a vacancy created by John M. Blum, professor of American history at Yale, who left the Corporation in July...
...wanted someone who could be helpful with the fund drive, someone who could be helpful with the New York business community, and we also wanted somebody who knows a lot about Harvard," Putnam said. "He's a forceful kind of person," he added...
...Corporation considered whether to replace Blum with an academic or to maintain its mix of two lawyers, two businessmen, and two academics, but decided that during the capital campaign the extra businessman would help, Putnam said. He added that Heiskell would probably not serve for more than five or six years...
LETTERS by John Barth; Putnam; 772 pages...