Word: slive
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Donors serving on the supervisory Visiting Committee for the Fogg confirmed a recent public statement by Fogg Director Seymour Slive that millions of dollars pledged to the museum addition have already been lost because supporters have withdrawn donations in the wake of Bok's decision. In the future, these sources added. Harvard's main capital fund drive may lose substantial support from benefactors angered by the sudden cancellation of the Fogg expansion...
Several Fogg officials and visiting committee members denounced the decision. "The Fogg has been dealt a blow from which the museum and the university it exists to serve may never recover," Seymore Slive, the museum's director, said...
James Stirling the British architect whose design of the building was acclaimed by critics when the Fogg unveiled it in April, was "extremely disappointed" by Bok's decision, Slive said...
...Slive said that no specific alternative plan to the cancelled proposal have been discussed
Ralph T. Coe. president of the association said Tuesday that the sale of artwork for construction violates codes of the Professional Practices of Aert Museums and that at its last meeting the association resolved "to express its concern" over the contemplated sale to Slive and other University officials...