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When Boston architect Henry R. Shepley '10 received an honorary degree at the 1957 Commencement, the citation said that "his monument is the good red brick and mortar of his college." Shepley had designed a host of University buildings, including the Houses and Lamont Library; and his death last weekend marked the end of an era in Harvard architecture...
Besides the Houses (Shepley designed both the older, Georgian buildings and also Leverett Towers and Quincy), he drew the plans for the Medical School's Vanderbilt Hall and several freshman dormitories--Wigglesworth, Straus, Mower, and Lionel...
...Shepley (1954-60), now chairman of the board of directors. Both men gave Washington a name for academic freedom, added luster to its faculty and first-rate medical school. Eliot's job is to bring the main 165-acre campus up to the standards of the medical school, which has harbored nearly all of Washington's six Nobel prizewinners, gets much of the income from the university's $100 million endowment...
Last week, half an hour before Montero met with Shriver in Washington to work out a final agreement, Shepley called with the glad tidings: the State Department had reversed itself and was ready to put up the $100,000 grant after all. Jubilant over the sudden outpouring of funds, Montero accepted the Kennedy money, hopefully assumed that the State Department money would also be available for the student program...
...attack turned sympathy toward him. Minnesota's Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy called Scott's speech a specimen of "Political Murder, Inc." and Nixon obliquely disowned it. Suddenly it was not the Kennedy camp but the Nixon camp that was asked to explain. "Who is Mr. Shepley?" Arkansas' William Fulbright, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, wanted to know. "I tried to get money for students who were to come from Egypt, and we secured only part of the funds requested. I could not do it. How in the world can Mr. Shepley go down to the State...