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...those groups, the Ernest G. Stillman Forest Committee, founded by New York freelance writer George W.S. Trow '63, suggests that some $2 million remain with the forest. Trow said the group would consider taking action against the University if an amount of money substantially less than that were secured...
...ongoing battle, the Attorney General's office has asked Harvard to produce evidence showing what Stillman intended when he gave the endowment and the forest. Harvard has claimed that the cash and the forest were separate, and has based much of its argument on correspondence with Stillman's elder son, Calvin W. Stillman '39, of New Jersey. Calvin Stillman, unlike his outspoken brother, has remained on the sidelines for most of the contest, according to Steiner...
...Calvin Stillman said in a recent interview that he believes his father, who gave Harvard cash gifts throughout his adult life, was unsure whether Harvard would even accept Black Rock, an "unproductive forest." As a result, he arranged to give the forest only after his death...
...said the gift of the land was separate in time and place from the many cash gifts that Ernest Stillman gave to Harvard, Calvin Stillman also said that while his father was living, he emphasized gifts to the Harvard Forest at Petersham, rather than the Black Rock Forest...
...John S. Stillman '40, a New York lawyer, disagrees. He says that its father's main interest was Black Rock, and that Ernest Stillman would be "very upset" to find that Harvard wants to violate that trust...