Notes on Harvard Project
By ELDON JOHN EISENACH H’60: A.B. magna cum laude; UCBerkeley: M.A. ’62; Ph.D. ’69 (Government; Political Science)
Eldon says he became interested in the post-graduate achievements of our class when he discovered that, at UCBerkeley the Harvard Class of 1960 could field two softball teams organized by his ex-roommate, John Leonard (famed young editor of the New York Times Book Review). The teams were determined by whether the classmate was raised east of the Mississippi River or west of the Mississippi River. After our 25th Anniversary Report (Red Book), he thought he would check up on all of the Berkeley people from H’60 … which then led to his larger project.
Here is Eldon’s methodology and some of his findings:
Methodology:
1. Entered all classmates with post-A.B. degrees and those without but with books = 747 entries (out of 1131 classmates who matriculated in September 1956)
2. Entered all with no reports
3. Searched previous class reports for those without reports in 25th: Anniversary Report
4. Deleted all without more information
5. Tabulated all non-Ph.D. professional degrees: MD, JD, MPA. M.Arch, etc. and list most typical schools. 6. Deleted all non-Ph.D. without books or academic connections (e.g. Med/Law Faculty) 7. Counted books by non-Ph.D. and non-Med/Law Faculty etc.
Berkeley Nerds Methodology
1. Counted Berkeley Ph.Ds. And Berkeley MA or ABDs (All But Dissertation)
2. Counted Ph.D. fields
3. Counted academic books
4. Listed most successful academic careers
Honors Methdology
1. Contact National Merit
2. Contact Woodrow Wilson
3. Contact Rhodes
4. Contact Marshall
5. Contact Harvard to check Rhodes and Marshalls
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Findings:
MD = 160 (Harvard 28; Columbia 20; Tufts 18; Case Western 11; Rochester 7; Yale 7; Penn 7). Twenty-four of the MDs became med school faculty (not clinical); plus 2 with both MD and Ph.D on med faculty.
JD = 177 (Harvard 94; Columbia 9, BU 7; Michigan 6)
Ph.D., D.Phil., Ed.D. = 240
Medicine, Law, and Doctorate = 577.
Ph.D distribution by school (239) =
Schools:
Harvard 41 (Sci = 11; Hum = 18; Soc Sci = 9; Unknown = 3
Berkeley 41 (Sci = 14; Hum = 15; Soc Sci = 11; Unknown = 1)
Columbia 14
Chicago 9
Princeton 8
MIT/Cal Tech/Wisc/Stan 7 (each)
Berkeley and Harvard = more than 1/3rd of all Ph.Ds from class of ‘60
Five universities = almost ½ of all Ph.Ds from class of ‘60
Science and Math Social Sciences Humanities (incl. History)
93 50 85
Physics 34 Econ 14 English 26
Chemistry 19 Anth 10 History 31
Mathematics 13 Pol 10 Phil 4
Biology 11 Psy 8 Lang 4
Soc 4
Number of Ph.Ds in academic jobs in 1985 (including PhDs in Med schools): 137/239 (+6 Ed.D).
Distribution: Science and Math 36/93; Soc Sci 33/50; Hum: 68/85
Law Profs: Only 6/177 !
Other: Education = 6
Summary: 143 professors; when MDs as professors not clinical (24) = 167.
As one of six admitted from South Dakota, I reflected on the influence of Fred Glimp, who wanted to extend the geographical reach of admitted students. This, combined with the first group of National Merit Scholars (100 of 200 were in our class) created a qualitatively different group of Freshmen — thus the inordinate number of Ph.Ds and academics and, I think, a record number of U.S. Rhodes Scholars (8).
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A huge number of classmates served in the military or government (practically all MDs) with many ROTC, Naval ROTC, drafted or joined not to be drafted; many work for military or government as career (suspicious number of probable CIAs), a quota of State Department, etc. Foreign Service Officers at least 4. CIA who knows, but many addresses in McLean area of Virginia. (Note: this is an interesting finding when considering that there were no U.S.-involved wars being fought, the draft really wasn’t a consideration at graduation and, in the end, very few classmates died during military service.)
Very high number of Ph.Ds not in academia, many of whom work for government or private defense related research and development or consulting groups.
Despite all the military, national defense connections, the class poll (Cf. 35th, 40th, 45th and 50th Anniversary Reports) shows extraordinary support for the Democratic Party and left-liberal policy positions.
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Stephen Robert Harris was an intelligence officer on the USS Pueblo and spent 1968 in a North Korean prison. He retired as a Lieutenant Commander of the Navy.
Jorgen Justus Hartnack was a Diplomatic Officer of Denmark
George Edward Noonan, Hingham, MA, has fathered ten children, 1962-82 with one wife.
Wayne Allen Winkelgren graduated summa cum laude in 1960 and received his Ph.D. in psychology from Berkeley in 1962.
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BOOKS
There was a Widener Library display of class of ’60 books in 1985. (Not aware of an available list.)
Sole author: 431 (but remember Boice [58] and Babbie [16])
Co-author: 103
Ed/Trans./Illustrator: 155
Grand total of 689, but well over 700 counting things I didn’t count as books – e.g. manuals, handbooks, revised editions of textbooks, translations into other languages, etc.
Earl Babbie (Berkeley, Sociology): 16 as sole author; 10 as co-author. With revisions of both sets = 70 books.
James Montgomery Boice (Princeton, Basel): 58 sole author (plus translations); 11 co-author; 10, ed./preface.
Vincent Crapanzano’s Serving the World; Literalism … Pulpit and Bench
Lowell Edmunds wrote The Silver Bullet: The Martini in American Civilization (1981); and Martini, Straight Up: The Classic American Cocktail (1998, Hopkins) and 2003 paperback.
W. Timothy Gallwey wrote the “Inner Game” books: Tennis, Golf, Work, etc. The Inner Game of Tennis still being published and selling well in 1997 revised edition
Fred Marc Leventhal (FM) edited about ten collections on British Workers, Taylor and Francis, 1985.
Charles L. Mee was editor in chief of Horizon and then went on to write about ten books on important historical subjects and events.
Alan Rinzler (4 books + 2 edited) was an associate publisher and vice-president of Rolling Stone.
Michael Brunswick Ritchie, a major film director and producer.
Nicholas Simonds Thompson (Calvin Simonds, pseudo.) wrote three books on garden birds, backyard gardens, etc..
Richard Titlebaum, Ph.D. in English from Harvard, wrote the obligatory book and some articles, but then went on to paint, illustrating five books.
John Wilmerding: authored 10+, co-authored 9, edited 4 on American art; including American Light: The Luminist Movement (1980). Deputy Director, National Gallery of Art; then Professor at Princeton.