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With a $1 million dollar donation, C. Douglas Dillon '31, whose family has played a central role in Harvard fundraising, last week established a Kennedy School professorship, Dean Graham T. Allison '62 recently said...
Although Harvard professorships usually cost $1.5 million, Allison said he let the former Secretary of the Treasury and former President of the Harvard Board of Overseers establish the Douglas Dillon Professorship of Government for only $1 million in appreciation of his donations to the Kennedy School in its early days...
This is the second full-time tenured professorship that bears Dillon's name. The Douglas Dillon Professorship of the Civilization of France was established by Dillon's father...
...previous record for a class gift was $1.8 million, given by the class of 1960 for its 25th reunion last year. That gift was also used to endow a professorship in enterpreneurship...
Although the gift specifically endows a professorship, the fund will be used for programs aimed at "furthering the study of entrepreneurship," until the dean of the Business School selects someone to occupy the chair, Goodson said...