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Some graduate schools used a different, more formal method of decision. Since the Corporation decided the celebration would be a University-wide affair, the graduate schools were given free rein to select their alloted representatives on whatever criteria they deemed fit, Koivumaki says...
...privacy wishes" of the representatives, the specially created 350th office has no plans to publish a list of those singled out to serve as alumni representatives. But without knowing the identity of all the representatives, many have still criticized the method used by the various alumni organizations to select delegates...
...when Harvard's family celebrates the University's 350th birthday, don't look for long lists of non-Harvard celebrities; a select group of John Harvard's true-blue friends will be there to blow out the candles on the 350th cake next September...
...Select alumni were offered special "Crimson Circle" tickets for the stadium celebration. A pair of the elite tickets goes for $350 but $300 of that is tax-deductible. Glimp says that the special tickets were offered to those who did a lot of work for the Harvard Alumni Association and Admissions Office, and were not designed to butter up potential fat-cat donors...
...wife Marilyn took the call and relayed the unexpected invitation from the Chief of Naval Operations. "You jumped on that like a buzzard on a dead cow," she told him as he went out the door the next morning for his re-enlistment physical. Kennedy and a select group of other noncommissioned officers with years of skill and leadership were chosen by the Navy to help bring the Missouri and her sister battleships, the Iowa and the New Jersey, back to active service...