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...friend looked over the list of the symposia and said that if you could attend all of them, it would be the equivalent of a college education," says Thomas W. Stephenson '37. Stephenson is the general secretary of the celebration's administrative staff--the guy in charge of all the nitty-gritty details whose job it is to see that the four-day celebration runs smoothly...
...Corporation decreed early on that there should be no fundraising done in connection with the celebration," says Stephenson. "But, realistically, such an event creates a climate of giving." Similarly, Glimp notes that "anytime you get President Bok, Henry Rosovsky [the former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences] and Michael Spence [the present dean] going around the country talking to people, it raises the level of interest--its the positive background music to fundraising...
...think the committee set up in 1980 to set up the concept for the 350th Celebration felt a 50th did not have quite the stature of a centennial, and they didn't want to repeat the 300th," says Stephenson...
Thomas W. "Steve" Stephenson '37 plays down his role in planning Harvard's 350th Celebration...
...those who have worked with him putting together the Crimson's big birthday bash see Stephenson's role a little differently. "If you 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 ceremony's chief organizers...