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...Harvard’s Class of 1956 comes doddering back to Cambridge for its 50th reunion this week, many of the old men (and the women of Radcliffe’s Class of 1956) are less than overjoyed with the changes that have taken place. There is grumbling about the fact that Harvard has just lost its president, driven from office for, among other sins, expressing his own ideas about the apparent dearth of women in the ranks of scholars in the sciences. The fact that today’s college administrators, as well as faculty, are at risk...
...reins of the Athletics Department when he accepted an offer to be Athletics Director, a post he retained until his retirement in 2001.Cleary has also received multiple other honors, including being picked as U.S. Hockey Player of the Decade for 1956-1966, named to the NCAA Ice Hockey 50th Anniversary team, and inducted into the International Ice Hockey Hall of Fame and the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame.He was offered positions on professional hockey teams at his graduation, but chose instead to continue as an amateur while at the same time running the insurance business he started...
...University and one of whom went to Yale.While Leder plans to retire in the next few years, he plans to devote his time to his grandchildren. “I’ve discovered great joy comes from my grandchildren,” according to his submission in the 50th Anniversary Class Report. “In the next few years I will retire from a life in genetics, which I’ve loved, from the genetic code to the human genome. But I won’t retire from those grandchildren, and I suspect that many...
...straight from him, as much as I could.” Like Alfred, Valentine likes to listen to students’ work read aloud in class. She also brings in other poets’ work to “enlarge the room a little.”At her 50th Radcliffe reunion next week, Valentine will read poems from her new manuscript, tentatively titled “A Bowl of Milk,” set to be published at the end of 2007. The reading will be held on June 6 at 2 p.m. in Sanders Theatre...
...says, chuckling. Her “eclectic” dating history included a theater excursion with Sadruddin Aga Khan where she met actor Christopher Plummer backstage.Nevertheless, Whitman made her choice long ago that night freshman year. She was married a week after Commencement and will be celebrating her 50th wedding anniversary after her 50th Harvard-Radcliffe reunion.FIRST LADYWhile her marriage put her right with her contemporaries, Whitman still broke out of the mold. “One of the things I did was pick the right spouse,” she says. “If he hadn?...