Word: smith
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...Friday, Hugh Calkins '45, chairman of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, will debate Harvard divestiture at the Science Center with Mark Smith, '72-4, the spokesman for the anti-apartheid movement at the dedication of the K-School last fall...
...last October's dedication of the K-School library, Smith criticized Harvard for accepting a donation in the name of Charles W. Engelhard and called the proposed naming of the library after Engelhard a "travesty and a damn shame...
...Neither Smith or Calkins could be reached for comment yesterday...
...known that he had selected Josiah Gumede as the country's first black President and ceremonial head of state. Gumede, a civil servant in London during the days of the Central African Federation (1953-63), resigned from his government post after Prime Minister Ian Smith's unilateral declaration of independence for Rhodesia in 1965; a grateful British government promptly awarded Gumede an M.B.E. Bishop Muzorewa has been accused of playing favorites by appointing too many of his fellow Shona tribesmen to office; since Gumede is a Matabele, the second largest ethnic grouping in the country after the Shonas...
DIED. Gordon M. Smith, 72, foresighted director of Buffalo's Albright-Knox Art Gallery from 1955 to 1973; of a heart attack; in Buffalo. By boldly purchasing works by such contemporary painters as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns and Arshile Gorky before they were widely bought by larger, more affluent museums, Smith and the museum's angel, Woolworth Heir Seymour H. Knox, assembled a collection of abstract expressionist art that is virtually unsurpassed...