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...patriarch of the 350th modestly defers credit for planning the celebration to others. "David Aloian ['49] is really the conceiver, the father of this. He initiated the idea, he cleared the planning committee, and his staff has carried a major burden," Stephenson says about the former Harvard Alumni Association head. "My job has been quite simple really; it's just been to make sure that all the plans mesh...
...Stephenson's colleagues say orchestrating an event as large as Harvard's $1 million birthday celebration is anything but simple, and call Stephenson the man most responsible for resolving its daily difficulties and occasional crises...
...want details, Steve Stephenson is the man to see. He tackles the nitty-gritty details of the job," says Francis H. Burr '35, former senior fellow of the Corporation and one of the celebration's chief organizers...
...Stephenson, who has been involved with all aspects of the 350th's planning, says he is most proud of the symposia. Attending every symposia would be the equivalent of a college education, he boasts, paraphrasing a friend...
During his own college days, he headed the Harvard Debating Council and competed with an orator from England's Cambridge University as part of Harvard's 300th anniversary. Stephenson says he auditioned to give the featured undergraduate address at the celebration, but lost to a "track star," whose speech he couldn't recall...