Three to join Harvard Corporation
In its first expansion in more than three centuries, the Harvard Corporation will add three new members this July: a distinguished university president soon stepping down from his post, a leading computer scientist and former president of the University’s Board of Overseers, and an admired business and civic leader widely active in Harvard alumni affairs. Tufts University President Lawrence S. Bacow, Susan L. Graham of the University of California, Berkeley, and Joseph J. O’Donnell, an influential Boston executive who is the chairman of Centerplate, will join the governing board formally known as the President and Fellows of Harvard College, after a five-month search that yielded more than 500 nominations. The appointments were announced today (May 25) in a message to the Harvard community from President Drew Faust and the Corporation’s senior fellow, Robert D. Reischauer. “We’re very fortunate to welcome such a capable and committed trio of alumni to the Corporation,” said Faust....