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While Rockefeller has bequeathed much to this University financially, more significant still will be the legacy of former Dean of FAS Jeremy R. Knowles, who died this past April. A towering figure in the modern history of the University, Knowles led the Faculty for 12 years and oversaw some of its most ambitious recent projects, such as balancing its budget in the early 1990s, opening the Barker Center for the Humanities, and renovating Memorial Hall after a devastating fire. We hope that many in the University administration choose to follow his example of visionary and active leadership...
...electricity nor running water, and his parents both left school at the age of 14. But most Harvard students know him only as the man who put an end to the free booze.A man who spent much of his career eschewing the limelight, former Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam found himself at the helm of both the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the College over the past year and half—serving as the interim dean of the Faculty last spring when Jeremy R. Knowles fell ill and as the interim dean of the College this...
...Hammonds succeeds anthropologist David R. Pilbeam, who served in an interim capacity for the year after the retirement of Benedict H. Gross ’71, a professor of mathematics...
...first to hold the position in its current form—he began his term as dean of undergraduate education, which focused more on academic than student life issues, but in 2003 his position was merged with the dean of the College position, held at the time by Harry R. Lewis...
...When Thomas R. Benson ’09 and his blocking group came to Cabot for dinner as freshmen shortly after Housing Day, they were sitting by themselves—but Harris, who already knew some of their names, approached and asked if he could join them...