Word: wofford
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While contributing to studies of interest to the Institute, the associates will work with the faculty and undergraduate groups who are concerned with their particular fields. John G. Wofford, Associate Director of the Institute, emphasized the "ad hoc" nature of the plan and commented that "no single decision as to their function has been made yet. Their affiliation to the Institute will be of a very flexible nature," he said. Gardner added that the initiative for the experts to appear before students will have to come from the undergraduates themselves...
...difficult to cast the Fellows into any particular category of responsibility. Some of them are hard at work on Ph.D. dissertations, others are writing articles and books. Still others came to Harvard for the specific purpose of reflecting on their government experience, and as John G. Wofford '57, one of the original Fellows and now the Institute's Associate Director, says "to get caught up on reading...
...early January, a member of SDS's executive committee called Neustadt and told him the group had started thinking about the Goldberg visit. Neustadt arranged a meeting between three members of the executive committee and the Institute spokesmen--John Wofford, its associate director, and Ernest R. May, professor of History and chairman of its student activities committee. Neither had been involved in the planning for the McNamara visit...
When they met in Littauer on Jan. 16, May and Wofford pressed the SDS leaders to define just what sort of meeting with Goldberg they would accept. A large, public meeting with him, they said, might not be the best idea; the larger the meeting, the greater the chances for its getting out of control...
They proposed several arternatives--and one of them sounded good to the SDS delegation. Goldberg would discuss Vietnam with a small group of people selected by SDS; the discussion would be carried to auditoriums around the University through loud speaker and, perhaps, closed-circuit television. The Institute would prefer, Wofford and May said, that the meeting be "off-the-record"--that is, closed to newsmen...