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...legacy. Matthew Wiederkehr's final wish, after learning in December 2003 that he had fatal colorectal cancer, was to make a difference in the lives of other cancer patients. So Wiederkehr, then 33, a sales manager for Google and the father of two, asked a childhood friend, Randy Reiff, to help him start a foundation to make cancer treatment more humane. Throughout his illness, Wiederkehr repeatedly used the phrase "I promise" in conversations with his wife Jennifer Wiederkehr and Reiff. "I promise I'm going to get iPods put in these treatment rooms so patients can listen to music during...
...believe that the renovation plans which will drastically alter one of the grand spaces of the interior are wrongheaded and misguided," Reiff says...
...letter to Harvard Magazine, Reiff wrote, "The remodeling plan is more than just unworthy of Harvard. ...I think alumni deserve an explanation of this planned barbarism...
...Even if they have to cut [the hall] into three rooms, the best solution would be not to change the ceiling or the wall paneling. Any alteration should be done with the greatest sensitivity to the historic labric and should have as little impact as possible," Reiff says...
...Reiff refers to the plans to alter the original plaster relief that now constitutes the ceiling. The renovations will create a skylight in the new ceiling, while raising one section and lowering another. Some of the original wood paneling will also be discarded...