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Again, I along with the other alumni who made it back, honor you for your self-evident achievements and your bold creativeness to take the initiative to create these new linkages between past and present Harvard. Don't let that fade away. Nurture it. It has great potential. Spencer C.D. Jourdain...
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing. Arthur Fry, 53, a 3M chemical engineer, used to get annoyed at how pieces of paper that marked his church hymnal always fell out when he stood up to sing. He knew that Spencer Silver, a * scientist at 3M, had accidentally discovered an adhesive that had very low sticking power. Normally that would be bad, but for Fry it was good. He figured that markers made with the adhesive might stick lightly to something and would come off easily. Since 3M allows employees to spend 15% of their office time on independent projects, he began working...
...Usually you can walk in and it's a big Harvard social club" says Anne Terman '85. "When not studying I come Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, some Saturdays and occasional Sundays" she says, though given a choice, "I'd rather go to Paris than go to the Filly." Bill Spencer '85 calls the Filly "a very good bar, with a lot of Harvard people, especially undergrads from Eliot, Kirkland and Winthrop. The owners are great," adding "they make you feel like you're having fun and not that they're out to make money...
...Wing. For example, she explains, "I pick up on something that he's unhappy with . . . He may make some comments that I think would be helpful for Mike (Deaver) to know, and might facilitate a situation, and I might call Mike and tell him." She calls Baker less often. Spencer, who comes to Washington regularly, is her third confidant; a week before Christmas they had a serious luncheon talk...
...adoring her husband. Maintaining consensus has inevitably meant a tempering of the original Reaganite agenda: the New Right's fractious social issues have been down-played at the White House, and nuclear-arms control is, belatedly, being pursued. "She's as good an instinctive politician as her husband," says Spencer, who has known them both since 1965. "She's more tactical, he's more strategic...