Photographs on naming of director of the John F. Kennedy Library, 1972.

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Photographs on naming of director of the John F. Kennedy Library, 1972.

Consists of photographs taken at the time that Dan Fenn was named the Director of the Kennedy Library, spring of 1972. Included in an archival category entitled Chronological miscellany, which consists of materials relating to or created by the Corporation, organized by date.

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Harvard University Archives.

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Dan Huntington Fenn (b. 1923), educator and government official, was a faculty member of the Harvard Business School from 1955 to 1961. During 1961, he was also Special Assistant to Senator Benjamin Smith of Massachusetts. He was the staff assistant to President Kennedy from 1961 to 1963, and Tariff Commissioner from 1963 to 1967. Fenn served as president of the Center for Business-Government Relations from 1969 to 1971. He was Director of the John F. Kennedy Library from 1972 to 1986, and serve...