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Hope's selection for the lifetime post comes after students and alumni have called on the Corporation, which chooses its own members, to name a woman to its ranks. Administrators and Corporation members contacted yesterday said they thought Hope's selection would help diversify, but not radically change, the formerly all-male board's views...
...think that there will be a change in perhaps subtle ways in having a woman on the Corporation," said Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54. "I think that is all to the good...
According to Rosovsky, the search for Heiskell's successor was marked by a desire to offer the post to a woman. But Rosovsky added that Hope was the most qualified candi- date of any gender...
Hope, who was the first woman member of her lawfirm's executive committee, has held a slew ofpolitical posts. A well-connected Republican, Hopeserved in the Ford Administration and was generalcounsel to the 1988 presidential campaign of Sen.Robert Dole...
While students, alumni and University officials yesterday praised the first appointment of a woman to the Harvard Corporation, outgoing Corporation member Andrew Heiskell said he didn't think her selection would change the 339-year-old governing board that much...