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Ameen Akhalwaya, a political reporter with the Rand Daily Mail of Johannesburg, South Africa, echoed the praise for Harvard, but said his activities here are related to a more immediate confrontation than the one between Washington and Moscow...
William M. Rand, Jr. '43 and Peter K. Barber '70 are products of different eras, of different wars, of different sets of values. One grew up with the Andrews Sisters, the other with the Rolling Stones. Yet they have a couple of things in common: they both went to Harvard, and they are both volunteers in the current $250 million capital fund drive. Their reasons for joining the drive, as might be expected, differ radically...
...William Rand, the turmoil of the Late 60s have caused problems of the opposite nature--though to a far lesser extent. Where Barber must deal with alumni who still resent Harvard's conservatism during that era, Rand must face classmates who balk at Harvard's alleged liberalism. "Some people were upset when the University got rid of its military programs--though they were bucking under to pressure. Some others thought Harvard had a communist element stirring then...
While Barber's generation feared the military and tried to avoid service at all cost, Rand's generation learned to worship it, and to want to be a part of it. "there was no question but that we were ready to go to work for our country--no question like there was in the 60s," says Rand, who joined the Navy directly upon graduation...
Like his father--now 95 and living near his son in Lincoln--Rand is a class agent, and he has actively participated in fund-raising for the University since his 25th reunion in 1968. He is, in every sense, a loyal Harvard trooper. Both his brothers went to school here. He supports the drive, not so much for its specific goals, but because it is Harvard and because it is Harvard and because he revels in what he calls "very high class" dinners and functions Harvard provides for fund drive supporters. Had this been a "bricks-and-mortar" drive...