Word: washburn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Henry B. Washburn '91, former Dean of the Episcopal Theological School and long-time director of Harvard's Memorial Church, died yesterday morning...
Managers earn a basic salary and receive "incentive pay" for extra sales according to a pre-arranged contract. If an individual greatly expands the business, he "naturally" will earn a good deal, explained Michael A. Washburn '62, chairman of the committee. The next manager, however, then has a higher basic quota to fill...
Today, thanks to Seymour Knox, the gallery's major claim to fame is as a showcase of contemporary abstraction. By 1939 Knox was president, and that year Director Gordon Washburn, now director of fine arts at the Carnegie Institute, set aside one room for abstract art. For a while all purchases went through a committee, but Knox soon grew impatient with the wrangling. "I decided," says Knox in his no-nonsense way, "that I was providing most of the money, so I should have more to say about what we bought-with the help, of course, of the gallery...
Second to One. With Washburn and his successors-Andrew Ritchie, now head of the Yale Art Gallery, and the present director, Gordon Smith-Knox has had a relationship any museum man would envy...
...have enough time to go fully into the books of each agency, and this should definitely be done," Washburn noted. Also, he hopes a Council committee will closely observe the next appointment of new HSA managers, to ascertain "exactly what criteria" are used in selecting personnel...