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The Alumni
In September, 1966, Harvard and Radcliffe freshmen registered together for the first time.
In September 1966, Harvard and Radcliffe freshmen registered together for the first time.

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Presidential Volunteer
"Private happiness carries with it the obligation to be publicly useful," Carl Pforzheimer III '58, M.B.A. '63, wrote in his twenty-fifth reunion report. This formulation helps explain his long history as a volunteer in higher education-in particular at Harvard. He's equally plainspoken about his commitment as the new president of the Harvard Alumni Association: "Now I'll run the three yearly meetings, instead of just attending."

Pforzheimer Pforzheimer seems to absorb executive responsibilities with ease. The managing partner of his family's investment banking firm, he has spent the last 26 years serving on, and often leading, various boards, including those of the private Horace Mann School, the Scarsdale public schools, and Pace University. He says it's the highly capable staffs, including "[HAA executive director] Jack Reardon and his crew," that enable him to help out at the eight not-for-profits at which he currently volunteers and still have time to manage his business.

Pforzheimer also keeps up with his hobbies, glassblowing and lampworking among them. And he is a grandfather five times over, so his new HAA post can't claim all of his attention. Nonetheless, he is happy to have the challenge. "I am very pleased and very honored to be president of the HAA," he says. "I hope I can contribute just like the rest of the gang."

A Distinguished Half-Dozen
The focus for this year's fall meeting of HAA directors is high technology, but participants will also acknowledge the old-fashioned footwork of six outstanding alumni. At the opening dinner on October 31, the HAA will present them with its 1996 Alumni Awards, recognizing their extraordinary commitment to the University through alumni activities.

Claire Richardson Bennet '49, Ds '48-'49, the first woman president of the Harvard Club of Indiana, has interviewed for the club's schools and scholarships committee for more than 30 years. She has also served as an HAA regional director for the Ohio Valley, as president and secretary of the Radcliffe Club of Indiana, and as a Radcliffe College Alumni Association regional director.

Frank Boas '51, LL.B. '54, has endowed the Maurits and Sophie Boas Memorial National Scholarships for undergraduate students, and the Maurits C. Boas Professorship at the Center for International Affairs (CFIA). In addition, the Frank Boas Foundation sponsors the Paul-Henri Spaak Lecture series which, in conjunction with the CFIA, brings a distinguished European leader to Harvard each year to address U.S.-European relations. Boas has also served as a member of visiting committees to the law school and the CFIA, and on the Committee on University Resources.

HAA Directors James R. Donovan '54, M.B.A. '56, has served as president or chairman of Harvard or Harvard Business School clubs in Rochester, N.Y.; Westchester, N.Y.; Fairfield County, Conn.; St. Louis; and Naples, Fla. He has been an HAA regional director and chair of the HAA clubs committee, and has also served as a director of the business school's alumni association and a member of his business school class's thirty-fifth and fortieth reunion committees.

Walter F. Greeley '53, LL.B. '60, chief marshal of his twenty-fifth reunion class, has been active as an HAA elected director, as member and chair of the HAA Alumni Awards committee, as a visiting committee member to the department of athletics, and as a member of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility. He has also been active in the Harvard College Fund, serving as reunion gift chair, class chair, council member and reunion gift area-class agent.

Mary Blue Magruder-Hurwitch '69, coauthor of the Class Leader's Guide for Joint Reunions, has been cochair of the HAA subcommittee on joint reunions, and cochair of her fifteenth, twentieth and twenty-fifth reunions. As class president, class agent, and class activities chair, she was also a member of the RCAA Board of Management for more than 10 years and a former RCAA regional director.

Robert Shapiro '72, J.D. '78, has served as president of the HAA, chaired the HAA committee on Harvard-Cambridge scholarships for 10 years, and served on the Overseers and directors nominating committee. He has been a member of the reunion gift and class steering committees for the Harvard College Fund, and is currently cochairman of his twenty-fifth reunion.

A Gifted Listener
The Harvard-Radcliffe Admissions Office has named Edward D. Yost '52 the recipient of the 1996 Hiram Hunn Award, which recognizes unusual commitment and quality in interviewing candidates for admission to the colleges. Yost began his "S&S," or schools and scholarships, service by interviewing hopefuls for the class of 1960 and has recruited and interviewed Cleveland area candidates over the ensuing 40 years.

The award honors the late Hiram Hunn '21, who interviewed applicants to Harvard College for 55 years. It will be presented to Yost on November 1, after a formal announcement at the HAA's fall meeting.

Continue Your Education
Harvard Alumni College holds its fall program on November 9 and 10. "Russia: Facing the 21st Century-Yeltsin and Beyond" is presented jointly by the HAA and the Kathryn W. and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Russian Studies. Tuition, approximately $150, covers all sessions and continental breakfast and lunch on both days. For more information, call (800) 422-1636, or contact Harvard Alumni College, Wadsworth House, Cambridge 02138.

Tapping the Talent
The HAA nominating committee seeks candidates for Overseer and elected director of the HAA. Nominations of outstanding graduates from all parts of the University, including professional school graduates and younger alumni, help the committee present the best possible slate for elections. Send names and supporting information to Charles L. Brock, J.D. '67, AMP '79, Chair, HAA Overseers-Directors Nominating Committee, Wadsworth House, Cambridge 02138.

The HAA's alumni awards committee also seeks nominees, for Harvard Medals and HAA Awards. Send names and supporting details to Eric L. Eversley, CAS '73, Ed.D. '76, Chair, HAA Committee on Alumni Awards, Wadsworth House, Cambridge 02138.

Members of the Harvard community are invited to suggest possible honorary degree candidates for degrees awarded in June 1998 and afterward. Nominations should be submitted by November 8, 1996. Please submit biographical material and comments in support of recommendations to Professor Henry Rosovsky, chairman of the Harvard Corporation's advisory committee on honorary degrees, or to Michael Roberts, secretary to the Corporation, at Loeb House, 17 Quincy Street, Cambridge 02138.

Comings and Goings
Among those trekking to Harvard outposts in September and October are Jack Reardon, executive director of the HAA, who visits the Harvard Club of Montreal on September 27; Marshall Goldman, associate director of the Davis Center for Russian Studies, who addresses the Harvard-Radcliffe Club of Southern California on September 28; and dean of the College Harry Lewis, who is the guest of the Harvard-Radcliffe Club of Rhode Island on October 7.

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