Harvard Awards 350th Medals

The University yesterday conferred Harvard Medals upon 20 of Harvard's most loyal and active alumni, including past presidents, professors, deans, and fundraisers.

President Derek C. Bok honored the recipients at the third convocation of the 350th celebration.

The recipients are Nathan M. Pusey '28, Mary Bunting Smith, David Aloian '49, Erwin N. Griswold, James L. Adams, Kenneth R. Andrews, Edward L. Barnes '38, Marvin Bower, Allan R. Crite, Paul A. Freund, Francis Keppel '38, Margaret G. Kivelson '50, Adetokunbo O. Lucas, Agnes Mongan, Raymond J. Nagle, Edward M. Purcell, Muriel S. Snowden '38, Harry Starr '21, Robert G. Stone Jr. '45, and Carl W. Walter '28.

Pusey served as president of Harvard from 1953 to 1971, when Bok succeeded him. He engineered a major strengthening of the University--and ordered police to storm University Hall after the 1969 takeover.

Smith was president of Radcliffe from 1960 to 1972.

Dean of the Law School for 21 years, Griswold has argued more cases in the Supreme Court than any other living man.

Keppel served as dean of the School of Education for 14 years, and as aide to Presidents John F. Kennedy '40 and Lyndon B. Johnson.

Aloian is retiring this year from his position as executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association and as master of Quincy House. Aloian has also served as president of the Harvard Club of Boston and as co-chairman of the Harvard-Radcliffe Parents Committee.

Snowden, who helped found an important community service organization in Roxbury, has been an active alumna and served on the Board of Overseers.

Starr, a major force behind Jewish studies at Harvard, has also been a strong supporter of the Kennedy School of Government.

Stone, who rowed in a record-setting 1947 crew during his College days, has served on the Harvard Corporation since 1975. He lead the Harvard Campaign that raised $359 million for the University.

Walter, a leading surgeon, served on the faculty of the Medical School for 35 years.

A tropical disease specialist, the Nigerian-born Lucas studied at the School of Public Health.

Mongan was the only woman museum director in the Western Hemisphere from 1968 to 1971 at which time she served at the Fogg Art Museum.

Gade University Professor Emeritus Purcell is a Nobel Laureate in physics.

Kivelson, an astrophysicist at UCLA, served as an overseer for six years. Adams earned two graduate degrees from Harvard and was Mallinckrodt Professor of Divinity at the Divinity School until he retired in 1968.

Andrews, David Professor of Business Administration Emeritus, was on the Business School faculty for four decades and served as master of Leverett House for 10 years. A leading scholar of the Supreme Court and the Constitution, Freund taught at the Law School for 37 years.

Barnes, a leading architect, has been a major figure at the Graduate School of Design, and he designed Rockefeller Hall at the Divinity School.