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Edward B. Whitney '66, a Wall Street investmentbanker who was invited to last week's event, sayshe was courted with a reception, an address by thepresident, a faculty panel and tickets to thefootball game against Princeton...
...clearly a warm-up for the 25threunion," Whitney says. "It's supposed to leaveyou with a warm feeling in the pit of yourstomach." And, he says, "most people know that the25th is a special reunion--you're expected to givean especially large gift...
...Although Whitney says he has not beenapproached for a major gift yet, he says he'sconfident "the call will come" because theweekends are "oriented toward potentiallysignificant givers...
...least according to Whitney, thatstrategy has paid off. Whitney, an annualcontributor to the Harvard College Fund, says hedoes so because he remembers his time at theUniversity fondly...
...have an enormous loyalty to an institutionwhere you spent such formative years of yourlife," Whitney says...