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About one-third of the 10,383 students at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College in Richmond, Va., another Ford recipient, are black students seeking a four-year degree are getting help in filling out college applications and financial-aid forms and in selecting courses from members of the school's newly formed alumni association. Reynolds' alumni are also visiting every public high school in the city, where the enrollment is 90% black, seeking to recruit students of promise. Says Richard Starling, president of the alumni association: "We're like a funnel. We want to move minority students...
Students at the Law School who take a seminar called "Corporate Planning and Counseling" share an unusual practice with Harvard's top administrators: Both groups receive legal advice from Ernest J. Sargeant...
...Sargeant is the managing partner of Ropes and Gray, one of Boston's oldest and most prestigious law firms. Another Ropes and Gray partner, Francis H. Burr '31, helped set the policies which ran Harvard for 28 years, until he resigned from the University's governing Corporation in 1982. A former partner in the firm, James Vorenberg '49, now supervises Sargeant's seminar as dean of the Law School...
...Sargeant and Burr say these multiple connections between their firm and their alma mater are purely coincidental, but the two institutions' histories have long been intertwined. Like Sargeant, John Chipman Gray, a member of Harvard's Class of 1859 and one of the firm's founders, simultaneously handled Harvard's account at the firm and lectured at the Law School a century ago. Burr is the third in a string of lawyers which provided Ropes and Gray with virtually uninterrupted representation on the Corporation from 1905 to Burr's resignation, and Gray's co-founder John Codman Ropes, Class...
Ropes and Gray has always attracted a large number of its attorneys from Harvard Law School. Sargeant recalls that after he joined the firm in 1947, almost all the lawyers hired over the next five years were Law School graduates. That trend has continued to the present: 58 percent of a recent batch of new associates in the firm were Law School alumni, according to the American Lawyer Guide. And Sargeant says, "We still have a keen interest in hiring from Harvard...