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During the Exercises, teaching prizes were bestowed on three professors—Lawrence Buell, Benjamin M. Friedman, and Richard J. Tarrant—who had been nominated by graduating seniors elected into Phi Beta Kappa. Eight individuals present—including five members of the class of 1960 and poet D. A. Powell—also received honorary membership...
...Friedman modeled these visits—during which he would load thousands of dollars of electronics onto a cart and let patients choose their favorite—after the candy carts that would come around Friday evenings during his own hospital stays, Landau added...
...average gift, ranging from netbooks to handheld video game systems, costs around $300, according to Les G. Friedman, Mikey’s father and the CEO of Mikey’s Way. He added that the foundation also gives televisions and gaming systems to equip the hospitals’ permanent playrooms...
...Cancer research [and] all those foundations that deal with tomorrow are wonderful. But these kids are suffering today,” Les Friedman said. “My dream would be to do 52 Mikey’s Way Days a year...
...Friedman, who is remembered as an optimist by his friends, did not talk much about Mikey’s Way or his own battle with cancer during his time at Harvard. Emily S. Shire ’11, a friend of Friedman’s and an inactive Crimson magazine editor, said that she did not know about his cancer until nearly the end of their freshman year...