Word: stephenson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Corporation decreed early on that there should be no fundraising done in connection with the celebration," says Stephenson. "But, realistically, such an event creates a climate of giving." Similarly, Glimp notes that "anytime you get President Bok, Henry Rosovsky [the former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences] and Michael Spence [the present dean] going around the country talking to people, it raises the level of interest--its the positive background music to fundraising...
...think the committee set up in 1980 to set up the concept for the 350th Celebration felt a 50th did not have quite the stature of a centennial, and they didn't want to repeat the 300th," says Stephenson...
Thomas W. "Steve" Stephenson '37 plays down his role in planning Harvard's 350th Celebration...
...those who have worked with him putting together the Crimson's big birthday bash see Stephenson's role a little differently. "If you want details Steve Stephenson is the man to see. He tackles the nitty-gritty details of the job," says Francis H. Burr '35, former senior fellow of the Corporation and one of the ceremony's chief organizers...
...accolades should come as no surprise to Stephenson, who is no neophyte when it comes to Harvard birthday celebrations. Leaning back against the chair of his tiddy Holyoke Center office, Stephenson recalls his own undergraduate days and Harvard's Tercentenary Celebration...