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 In addition to making academic and head-of-state visits, President Neil L. Rudenstine met with officers of the four Harvard clubs of Brazil (left to right): Ronal Gunn, SMP '86 (Business School); Maria Christina Mattioli, LL.M. '94 (Law School); Marcelo Mester, M.D. (Medical School); and Sellers McKee '68 (Harvard University Club). Photograph by Robert Hein |
During World War II, when he served as a scientific adviser to the government, James Bryant Conant shuttled to and from Washington by train. President Neil L. Rudenstine's signature mode of transportation is the long-distance jet. Having planted the Harvard flag in Asia (Arts and Sciences dean Jeremy R. Knowles and Provost Harvey V. Fineberg have also visited recently), Europe, and Mexico on several previous trips, he and Angelica Zander Rudenstine ventured farther south, to Brazil and Argentina, in early September. They traveled with David Rockefeller '36, G '37, LL.D. '69, founding benefactor of the University's Center for Latin American Studies, which bears his name. Rudenstine met with alumni from the Harvard Club of Brazil in So Paulo--an event organized by Robert Hein, M.B.A. '60, Harvard Alumni Association regional director for Latin America and a former Princeton undergraduate classmate of Rudenstine's--and with the Harvard Club of Argentina in Buenos Aires. Government visits included appointments with President Fernando Henrique Cardoso at the Palacio do Alvorada, in Brasilia, and with President Carlos Menem at the Casa Rosada in Buenos Aires. Underscoring Harvard's academic engagement with the region, Rudenstine announced the launching of a Brazilian studies program within the Rockefeller Center--anchored by a new professorship endowed by Jorge P. Lemann '61, of So Paulo--and the opening of the Business School's newest international outpost, the Latin America Research Office, in Buenos Aires.