April 6, 2022 Newsletter
- On or about April 1, you should have received your election validation number for the elections of the Harvard University Board of Overseers and the Elected Directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). Be sure to add your “WISDOM VOTES”!
- Even though this is not a year for one of our quinquennial reunions, consider attending the HARVARD ALUMNI ASSOCIATION CRIMSON SOCIETY EVENTS to be held in-person on Thursday, JUNE 2 (box lunch, symposia, dinner) and Friday, JUNE 3 (tree spread, alumni parade, alumni day featuring two-term U.S. Poet Laureate Professor Tracy K. Smith AB ’94 as speaker. You should have received a letter about this from the Crimson Society Planning Committee Tri-Chairs. Our classmate RON GOODMAN is cited in the letter as a leader with his Crimson Society supportive efforts.
To register … and to find out more about the Crimson Society go to alumni.harvard.edu/haa-crimson-society.alumni.harvard.edu/haa-crimson-society.
Note: the Crimson Society is also sponsoring an event that is both in-person and virtual concerning the Radcliffe College Alumnae Oral History Project on RADCLIFFE DAY, MAY 27.
Additional virtual Crimson Society events are planned for APRIL 19 (Provost Alan Garber) and MAY 12 (College Dean Rakesh Khurana, Dean of Students Katie O’Dair, and Dean of Undergraduate Education Amanda Claybaugh). Note: past virtual Crimson Society programs are available on the Crimson Society website.
- Suzanne Keohane, daughter of our deceased former Class Secretary HANK KEOHANE, continues to raise funds for the Alzheimer’s Association through her participation in the Boston Marathon. If you haven’t already done so, please consider supporting her efforts at https://www.givengain.com/ap/suzanne-keohane-raising-funds-for-alzheimers-association-ma-nh-chapter-44504. Thank you!
- Please go to our website, https://h1960.classes.harvard.edu/, to see recent additions to H’60 News / H’60 Headlines featuring our classmates DANIEL A. POLLACK (and his wife Susan) and MERRILL C. BERMAN and their impressive contributions to the arts.
- Our esteemed Class Treasurer, LIONEL SPIRO, adds the following:
Our Class Treasury balance has been increased from $9700 to $17,500. Gifts were received from 74 classmates in recent months and ranged from $10 to $1000. The request for consideration went to 510 classmates for whom we have email addresses. The suggested range was $5.00 to $150.00.
Our (Henry & Lionel) sincere thanks to each of the 74 who sent gifts. A list of donors will appear on the website https://h1960.classes.harvard.edu/, under “Replenishing Our Class Treasury” under “Class Business”. We will add to this list as additional donations are received.
Gifts will be welcomed from any others who wish to help. Our hope is that we may never again need to ask for donations.
Checks should be payable to “Harvard Class of 1960” and mailed to Class Treasurer: Lionel Spiro, 21 Old Pocha Rd, Edgartown, MA 02539.
We are a 501c3 and you will receive a thank you letter which also serves as a receipt for tax purposes.