Word: seltzer
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Lemmon's agent, David Seltzer, proposed to the HPT this summer that the actor star alongside his wife, Felicia Farr, in a production of A. R. Gurney's two-person play "Love Letters." Details were finalized last week, and the HPT had already sent out a press release announcing the performances at the 360-seat Hasty Pudding Theater when Seltzer called to cancel...
...Seltzer did not return phone calls asking for comment...
...Seltzer was named the 1996-97 recipient of the Radcliffe Junior Faculty Fellowship at the Bunting Institute, a fellowship that allowed her to begin her work on VINO. That fellowship was established in 1995 out of a concern about the low percentage of tenured women professors. Seltzer has proved that such programs allowing talented junior faculty to pursue their research away from the demands of administrative work and teaching can be useful. In fact, the demands of the tenure process are almost simultaneous with the demands with parenting. Programs which alleviate some demands on junior faculty during their prime parenting...
...Seltzer was tenured because she was an outstanding candidate and a noted academic in her field. The fact that she embodies so many of the characteristics so noticeably absent among many Harvard faculty members--teaching excellence among them--is secondary to this fact. However, her tenure indicates that programs which exist to make academia friendlier to working parents--not to mention the recognition given to professors who are teachers and mentors as well as great minds--can eliminate some of the non-academic pitfalls in the tenure process...
...programs, awards and policies which worked together to help Seltzer along her way should be expanded and improved so that Harvard can continue to attract, retain and nurture the best academics in the nation. We welcome you, Margo Seltzer, to the ranks of the tenured with great joy, for our sake as students, and for yours. We hope that your appointment shows the University that tenure is for mothers...