Correspondence and other records. 1955-1960 (inclusive).

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Correspondence and other records. 1955-1960 (inclusive).

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Administrative records of A Program for Harvard College, a three year fund raising campaign, 1956-1959. Includes the correspondence and other records of Program officers. Records include or relate to the Program's plans of operation, campaign goals, quotas and schedules; lists of prospects; and correspondence, arranged geographically, regarding solicitation of these prospects; interim and progress reports; correspondence relating to Program dinners, meetings and conferences; and Proceedings of the 1957 Alumni Conference. Also includes memoranda, scripts, reports and publications regarding Harvard's Day of 1958. Records also include printed materials for circulation, interviews with university officers, President Pusey's gift letters to donors, statements and speeches of the President and other Program officers, personnel information, and the Program's relation to other university funds and endowment. Among the major Program officers, whose correspondence is included, are the following: President Nathan Pusey; James R. Reynolds, Program Manager; Justin H. Dempsey, Assistant to the Program Manager; Alexander M. White, General Chairman; H. Pelham Curtis, Assistant to the General Chairman; Philip H. Theopold, National Alumni Committee Chairman; Donald L. Kersting, Assistant to Theopold; Laurence O. Pratt, Director of Public Relations; Frank A. Pemberton, Assistant Director of Public Relations; Thomas S. Lamont and Henry U. Harris, Co-Chairs of National Advance Gifts Committee; Howard L. Brooks, Assistant Executive Secretary of National Advance Gifts Committee; Robert F. Duncan, Counsel to General Chairman; Paul C. Cabot, Treasurer; Dean McGeorge Bundy, Faculty Committee Chair; Eugene Kraetzer, Recording Secretary; Wolcott Street, Advance Gifts Committee Secretary; and Byron Shimp.

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Harvard University Archives.

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Harvard University Archives.

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