Word: weishan
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...According to Weishan, the preservation of the room’s features from the original floor plan to the antiquated pull-chain toilet is intended to not only pay tribute to the former president, but to serve as testament to the dramatic changes in student life that have occurred since FDR first occupied the suite more than ten decades...
...Beginning in his early days in boarding school, the young Roosevelt maintained a constant correspondence with his mother Sara Roosevelt. Sara—who according to Weishan predicted that Roosevelt was destined for greatness as a child—saved everything from his baby shoes to locks of his hair...
...Weishan attributed the renewed interest in historical preservation to University President Drew G. Faust’s role as a leading Civil War scholar. Faust serves as the honorary chair of the project...
...preservation of Harvard’s history is not something that is always undertaken with great relish,” Weishan said, noting that when the steeple of Memorial Hall burned down in 1956, then-University President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 is said to have remarked, “Too bad the whole damn building didn’t burn down...
...addition to heading the restoration effort, Weishan is charged with the task of recruiting donors amidst a deepening economic crisis. Weishan said that the primary sources of funding will be private individuals, corporations, and people with an interest in presidential history...