Campus & Community

Since summers lease hath all too short a date, why not make the most of it by catching a performance of Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream, staged in the open air of Adams House courtyard?

A century after it was given to Harvard by railroad tycoon Edward Harriman, the Tlingit totem pole that formerly stood guard in the Peabody Museums Hall of the North American Indian is returning to its original home on the coast of Alaska.

In July 2, 1641 – President Henry Dunster marries Elizabeth Glover, widow of Cambridge clergyman Jose Glover, who owned the English colonies first printing press. (In 1640, this machine had produced the Bay Psalm Book, the first book published by English colonists in America.) By 1646, the press is installed in the Presidents Lodging. Sometime before Dec. 1654, Dunster gives or sells the press to the College.

Haley Surti 01, died in a bus accident in Peru, on June 12. Haley was a resident of Mather House, a concentrator in biochemistry, a writer/researcher for Lets Go, and a member of the South Asian Association (choreographer and dancer), the Mather House Chamber Music Society (violinist), Kuumba, and the womens lacrosse team. She was also the fundraising director for Project Baby at the Boston Medical Center (2000-01), a teacher in Costa Rica for Worldteach (1999), a tutor at the Bureau of Study Counsel, a volunteer for the Mission Hill Afterschool Program, and the editor of Sanskar, an anthology of South Asian poems and short stories. After graduation, Haley had planned to spend the summer in Peru and Bolivia, and the fall in India.

Gazette reporters Ken Gewertz, Beth Potier, and Alvin Powell roamed through Commencement Day, eyes, ears, and notebooks open. Some of their observations follow.

Photos from the 350th Commencement ceremonies at Harard University

Having ridden his political fortunes from the Holbrook Town Planning Board to the Massachusetts state legislature to Washington, D.C., White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card knows a thing or two about public service. Card shared many of those lessons during an inspirational Class Day address to Kennedy School graduates and their parents on Wednesday, June 6.

At the Radcliffe Associations annual luncheon on Friday, June 8, Madeleine Albright provided the star-power, but she shared the spotlight with womens education, womens advancement, and the new role of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

The President of the Harvard Alumni Association announced the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers last week. The results were released at the annual meeting of the association following the Universitys 350th Commencement. The five newly elected Overseers, in order of their finish, are Harold Hongju Koh, 20,519 Susan Graham Harrison, 19,406 Paul A. Buttenwieser, 18,099 Bruce M. Alberts, 17,941 Deborah C. Wright, 17,913 and the candidate who received the sixth-highest number of votes, 15,913.

One week he dodged grizzly bears another time it was an attack by raccoons on yet another day he found evidence of wild bobcats inside the Chicago city limits. That all happened to Richard Forman as part of a project to visit the most remote areas in the contiguous United States.

Former Harvard coach Robert L. Scalise has been named Harvard’s Nichols Family Director of Athletics, announced Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and Jeremy R. Knowles, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, at a press conference on Monday, July 16.

On Friday, June 8, at approximately 4:50 a.m., an assault and battery was reported inside the entry gate to the Academy of Arts and Sciences at Bryant and Scott Streets.…

Paul Bénichou, a critic recognized by students of French literature as one of the premier scholars of the 20th century, died in a Paris hospital on Monday, May 14. He…

Harvard University announced yesterday (June 13) that the Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, professor in religion and society and chair of the Executive Committee of the Faculty of Divinity, will resign as head of Harvard Divinity School (HDS) at the end of 2001 to become president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, a network of more than 1,400 social-service agencies across the country. Catholic Charities USA made a concurrent announcement yesterday at its headquarters in Alexandria, Va.

Center for Ethics accepting fellowship applications The Center for Ethics and the Professions is accepting applications for 2002-03 residential faculty fellowships in ethics. Fellows will participate in the center’s weekly…

James Cuno, the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums, has been elected president of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD).

Institute for Advanced Theatre Training names new director The American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) has announced that Hungarian theater and film director János Szász has been appointed director of the A.R.T…

The University has announced this year’s Harvard Housing Innovations Program (HHIP) grant winners. The awards ceremony took place on Friday, June 8, at the Business School. These awards are the…

As a 10-year-old child visiting a historical society in Cabot, Vt., Sarah Anne Carter was fascinated by two small dolls dressed in plain black, lying in wooden coffins. Carter has…

Under the auspices of the Alumni Association of Phillips Brooks House Association, nine students are interning this summer at not-for-profit organizations and one government agency. The host agency is paying each intern’s salary, except for two students who are receiving work study funding.

After finishing high school in her native Greece, Marina Gerolimatos spent several years studying cosmetology near Athens, then earning a scholarship to study the profession in Paris. While her siblings left for the United States, she finished her studies in Paris and went back to Greece, near her mother, to open what became a successful beauty salon.

The Davis Center for Russian Studies has announced the recipients of fellowship, dissertation, and research travel awards for 2001-02.

The coldest place in the universe is not millions of miles away in a dark corner of outer space but in an exotic laboratory in Cambridge, Mass. It’s a place where Harvard University researchers are slowing and compressing light and probing exotic states of matter.

One of nature’s best shows features the signals that fireflies exchange as they search for mates on warm summer nights. Few people can watch it without wondering how the little bugs turn their belly lanterns on and off so quickly.

Harvard University announced June 28 the establishment of a new interdisciplinary Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC), based at Harvard Business School and directed by Michael E. Porter.

June 1, 1774 – Several parliamentary punishments for the Boston Tea Party (December 1773) take effect, and British troops occupy Boston. “[C]onsidering the present dark aspect of our public Affairs,”…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending June 9. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…

Lawrence H. Summers will be officially installed as Harvards 27th president on Friday, Oct. 12, in an outdoor ceremony in Tercentenary Theatre.

John Kenneth Galbraith has received Indias second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan, comparable in importance to the U.S. Congressional Medal of Freedom.

Seeking to make online information open to everyone, Harvard has embarked on a program to make Web sites accessible to the visually impaired.