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...Wharton's memories of Cambridge stretch beyond extracurricular activities. He stresses the importance of "the interaction with individuals [with whom], over the years,...[I] maintained relations and contacts in a variety of different fields...
...history concentrator, Wharton named two history professors, Frederick Merk and Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, as among the most memorable figures he encountered at Harvard. "They were just superb teachers," he says...
...star-studded list of his classmates and colleagues Wharton cites Jack Lemmon '47, the actor; Arthur A. Hartman '47, former ambassador to France and to the Soviet Union; S. Douglass Cater Jr. '46-'47, former Crimson business manager and later head of the Bloomingdale's department store chain; and the late John Knowles, who served as president of the Rockefeller Foundation while Wharton was a trustee there...
Michigan State established the Wharton Center for Performing Arts in 1982 in honor of Wharton and his wife, Dolores, who is president of the Fund for Initiatives, which helps women and minorities in business. Dolores Wharton also is a director of the Gannett Co., which owns USA Today...
...Wharton served as the first black chair and chief executive officer of a Fortune 500 company, TIAA-CREF, from 1987 to 1993. In his six years leading the third-larges U.S. insurance company and the world's largest pension fund, Wharton was lauded as being "phenomenally successful at redirecting TIAA-CREF," Marcus Alexis, a Northwestern University professor of economics and management, told USA Today...