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When University Hall was taken over, the Gazette was founded as a public relations organ for Harvard. They had a P.R. photographer already, but Rick convinced Harvard there was a need for someone to shoot the demonstrations and street action. "I wasn't a journalist; I was a photographer--I took what they told me to take. Now, after I switched to the News Office, I do much more P.R.--we avoid demonstrations, especially using pictures for identification. Chuck Daley [vice president for government and community affairs] decided we should get out of the police business. That was a very...
...Because Rick moved from one job to another for 25 years at Harvard, he has a broad social circle. He'll chat in the yard with John Finley about the resident birds or discuss his last assignment with a Harvard cop. "I have a very deep vertical cut because of the way I came up in the university," Rick says. "I still have a lot of friends who are engineers and janitors and I talk and eat lunch with them--they're old friends. But I've come up a little...
...Rick has a gallery of his pictures in his Harvard studio--one wall is filled with the Harvard Magazine covers he has shot from 1970 on, another has framed prints of Galbraith, Eliot Richardson, even one picture signed "Rick God! I'm happy--Bette Middler." And in the Harvard Neighbors Office he has another kind of gallery, six photographs that make him feel very proud. There's a picture of James Baldwin that captures something very gentle in him, something that came through to Rick when he read Baldwin. "I've got a lifetime's worth of association with graphics...
...Rick has some friends in galleries around town, and he often considers showing them his work. "I've been playing too close to my vest," he says. "I'm scared--no one wants to be rejected." The competition looks very good, he says, and it intimidates him. "There are some people who when I look at their pictures I wonder why I didn't take up hairdressing." There is an everlasting division between artist photographers and working photographers evidenced for Rick in his difficulty in making ties at Carpenter Center. After a while it can get to a photographer...
...Rick Stafford often thought of leaving his public relations job and finding one that was more journalistic, or trying free-lance photography. But in January he was told he has been ill with diabetes and hypertension for a long time. As he lay in the hospital he mulled over his goals and his work, and the old dreams faded. "I thought about it for a while and decided I'm well-suited for what I'm doing and I like it. I don't mind the words 'Public Relations.' I like the University." So he'll stay here and dream...