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Honoring Our Own
The HAA awards recognize graduates who have shown unusual dedication to the University through a variety of alumni activities. The five 1998 recipients' interests reach into all of Harvard's corners, from fundraising to interviewing to waving the "Little Red Flag" at The Game each year. The awards will be presented at the opening dinner of the annual fall meeting of the HAA, on November 5.
Charles E. Balbach '56, M.B.A '60, of Orchard Park, New York, has served as president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Club of Western New York, president of the Harvard Business School Club of Western New York, and as a member of the Business School's volunteer educational program in Buffalo for more than 20 years. Currently a member of the Committee on University Resources and the Boston major-gifts steering committee, Balbach has also been a regional director of the HAA.
J. Dudley Fishburn '68, former president, for 15 years, of the Harvard Club of London, currently chairs the visiting committee to the University on the renovation of Widener Library. From 1986 to 1989, Fishburn served as an HAA elected director. In 1990, he became the first member of Parliament ever to be elected to Harvard's Board of Overseers.
Rodney D. Hardy '60, of Minneapolis, has long been involved with the Harvard Club of Minnesota, serving over the years as treasurer, vice-president, and president. A former regional director for the central states, he now co-chairs the Peddie Fund, which has produced a film about Harvard that is used by the Harvard-Radcliffe admissions office. He has also co-chaired his thirtieth and thirty-fifth class reunions.
Patricia Cleary Miller '61, BI '94, who chairs the English department at Rockhurst College, was the first woman president of the Harvard Club of Kansas City (Missouri). She has been a schools and scholarships interviewer for more than 30 years, and is a founding trustee and co-chair of her club's endowment fund.
Harold B. Sedgwick '30, of Lexington, Massachusetts, has been chairman of his past five class reunions. A loyal Harvard football fan, Reverend Sedgwick is the seventh custodian of the "Little Red Flag," which has been waved at the Harvard-Yale football game each year since about 1890. Sedgwick has attended 59 Harvard-Yale games since 1923, and in 1993 was elected an honorary life member of the Harvard Varsity Club.