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Doing 50 push ups, however, is not an instant formula for success...
Peter D. Shultz '52, general secretary of the Associated Harvard Alumni, would be the first to say that constant communication is the key to success in alumni affairs. People tend to think of the Alumni Association only around reunion time, but the business of keeping the alumni abreast of new developments, answering their questions and complaints, and maintaining their interest is a year-round operation...
Even so, many otherwise active alumni never attend club meetings. Attendance fluctuates greatly from meeting to meeting, depending on the speaker (well-known Harvard figures, such as John Kenneth Galbraith, can double attendance), the success of the last meeting, and the time of the year. When Moore was president of the Atlanta Harvard Club about ten years ago, there were about six meetings a year, each of which attracted 100 of Atlanta's 8000 alumni. Robert W. Phifer '69. AHA assistant general secretary for clubs, thinks about 15-20 per cent of Harvard's alumni (including the graduate schools) attend...
Peterson points to the Harvard-Radcliffe Today program as a success in involving alumni with the school. Between 30 and 40 alumni come to Harvard for a four-day period. Peterson explains, and "We play it straight with them. They have breakfast in the Union attend classes and see the University as it really...
...position to devise reforms that will alter the quality or nature of the nation's institutions of higher learning, as it did in 1945. In fact, given the attitudes of Faculty members in a research-oriented university like Harvard, Rosovsky's study will have achieved no little success if it is able to maintain the Faculty interest in undergraduate education elicited by its initial stage...