Word: simpson
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Anyway, Steven Simpson '66, also a lawyer and co-chairman of the powerful Harvard schools and scholarships committee of Philadelphia, says many of the alumni belong to the exclusive Merion and Philadelphia Cricket Clubs and other private clubs that make owning a large Harvard clubhouse in town superfluous. Simpson explains that most alumni nowadays don't live in center city, but more often come home to the Main Line in fashionable southwest Philadelphia or Chestnut Hill, the silkstocking district that barely falls within the city's northwestern limits...
...Harvard alumni act as a particularly unified elite. Simpson, of the schools and scholarships committee, says despite the proximity of many of the club members, most of whom, he says, live and work within 1000 feet of each other, the really cohesive and identifiable group in town is not Harvard at all but the Princeton grads who exert a noticeable economic and social power. "If you put ten Princeton men and ten Harvard men in a room together, you'll be able to pick out the Princeton grads immediately," he explains...
...Stephen Simpson makes up the other half of the schools and scholarship committee leadership. Simpson's function is to coordinate the more than 40 Philadelphia alumni interviewers who spring into action after he receives the names of all who applied to Harvard from the Philadelphia area. The job is time-consuming--he tries not to miss a single one of Philadelphia's more than 140 applicants--and pressed into saying why he takes the time away from family to run the interview program, he says. "Like a sponge I soaked up a lot of Harvard when I went there...
...Simpson said he feels his work with the interviewing is the most he can do for Harvard right now--"I can't give $10,000, so I do this." As for the motivation behind alumni interest in seeing who gets in from the area, and their desire to play a role in who does, Simpson sees the drive as a blend of civic and old school pride as well as the desire to repay the school for pleasant memories and opportunities...
...Faye, Karen Black displays the selfishness and banality of a seductive blonde eternally on the make. Always on the defensive, she seeks to extract what she can from any situation while giving up as little as possible. When Tod asks why she has taken up with Homer Simpson, a retired clerk from the midwest, she brays impatiently that Homer is the only one who "doesn't want anything from...