Word: shenton
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...renovations, which are scheduled to begin the day after commencement and end on October 1, are necessary because the club's electrical and plumbing systems are "in advanced stages of decay," wrote Robert Shenton, secretary to the governing boards and president of the Faculty Club Managing Board, in a letter to officers and faculty...
...Photos, Please: Members of Harvard's two governing boards have long been wary of the press, and Secretary to the Governing Boards Robert Shenton has not spoken to any Crimson reporter in recent memory. When a Crimson reporter asked one of Shenton's assistants if a photographer could take a picture of the Corporation meeting room at 17 Quincy St.--while it was empty--the assistant said that would be impossible because the room contained too many valuable artworks and antiques...
Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 and Secretary to the Governing Boards Robert Shenton flew around the country in the months before the vote--visiting nearly 20 of the 30 overseers--to raise their concerns with a direct vote on the issue and to propose possible alternatives. The agenda for the February meeting, set by the Executive Committee of the Overseers, did not include a vote...
...administration has taken pains to inform board members of this view. A vote on a proposal for divestment was scheduled for the February meeting of the Overseers, but Steiner and Secretary of the Governing Boards Robert Shenton visited two-thirds of the board members before the meeting to discuss the implications of that vote, and to present the administration arguments against such a move...
Steiner says after the visits that he and Shenton told the overseers that discussion between the boards "was more appropriate, more productive, and more consistent with Harvard's form of governance" than a formal vote on the divestment question...