Word: shultz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shultz's staff in Wads-worth House acts as a "switchboard," as he puts it, in coordinating alumni activities, but the core of the alumni organization is the clubs. There are about 90 active clubs throughout the country, most of them very different from the Boston and New York Harvard Clubs, the only two with their own real estate. The others are more loosely structured and meet only a few times a year, usually in a rented hall or someone's house...
After the 1969 strike, the directors moved quickly to speak at club meetings and give a detailed account of the events and issues. According to Shultz, they were aided by alumni who had children enrolled at Harvard at the time and had already discussed the crisis with them. The club meetings. Shultz believes, eased some of the tensions that the strike created, and although there was a 10 per cent drop in contributions the following year, alumni support soon resumed...
...feedback from individual alumni to Harvard's faculty and administration is also filtered through the directors. Shultz thinks this system of educating the directors first is preferable to more direct communication with alumni because, he says, it allows for more complete explanations and exchanges of ideas. It also adds a personal element to administration-alumni communication. Since the first presentation of any new development is so important. Shultz would rather trust the job to a director than to an impersonal newsletter...
...system does have its drawbacks: As AHA President John L. Moore, Jr. '51 admits, "The board of directors doesn't speak for everyone." And according to Shultz, some directors are shy about appearing before clubs. Shultz says that the largest hitch in the system is that all the clubs don't get equal attention, although the directors, one-third of whom are regional directors appointed by the clubs, try to spread themselves around...
Naturally, the AHA is always trying to find ways to involve more alumni, particularly now that economic problems have made the private gift more important. A drive is underway to attract younger alumni to counteract the long-standing tendency of alumni to "disappear until their tenth reunion," as Shultz puts it. Maurice Lazarus '37, former AHA president, already sees a "growing interest on the part of more recent alumni," and the AHA is considering forming a New Class Officers' Organization that would bring together young alumni between reunion years. Shultz imagines this group will offer six week seminars...