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Some club meetings are designed to discuss goings-on at Harvard, and, understandably, the Strauch Committee report was the focus of many meetings this year. Instead of relying on articles in the Harvard Magazine or Gazette, which tend to be incomplete or misleading, the alumni organization disseminates information and answers questions by sending its directors, 75 representatives who meet at Harvard three times a year to speak at the clubs. The three Harvard meetings include lectures, seminars, and panel discussions aimed at educating the directors as thoroughly as possible before they talk to the alumni at large. The directors have...
Another example of alumni influence is the vigilance of the Associated Harvard Alumni (A H A). Prior to the publication of the Strauch Report--advocating the merger of the Harvard and Radcliffe admissions offices and the adoption of equal access admissions--members of the A H A met with members of the committee to discuss the proposals...
Peter D. Shultz '52, general secretary of the A.H.A., says that "extensive discussions with members of the Strauch committee were incaluable for providing background to Alumni." Shultz says that meeting with the committee and a May, 1974 A H A huddle including discussion of the proposals, were an important factor in the eventual AHA support of the Strauch Committee proposals...
...relations have been "fanastic," that the alumni office has effectively communicated Cambridge developments to the alumni. Miller, also chairman of his 25th year reunion committee and a member of the A H A's committee on undergraduate relations, says that during the A H A's meetings with the Strauch Committee. "We were encouraged to question the proposals and later asked to respond in writing to the committee." He adds, "This encouragement of feedback is just one example of the strong attempt to involve alumni with the operating body of the University...
Only an issue like the implementation of a one-to-one male-female ratio (few alumni were aroused by what they knew of the Strauch report's "equal access" recommendations, most thinking it won't change the existing ratio) or quarrels over Philadelphia being shortchanged in the number of acceptances would inspire any sort of a letter or phone call campaign by alumni. But even then the feedback would probably come mostly individually, with the club itself not acting as any sort of interest group. Such was the case when Episcopal Academy, ego badly bruised by a series of admittance...