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acceptable people.

Q:

Which meant what? That they weren't a woman, a minority, or a radical? [laughter].

Heiskell:

No, not quite. But if they belonged to any of those categories, they would hopefully think of themselves as being there to take care of the interests of the university, not the interests of their particular sector. I also tended to load it down with businessmen--for two reasons: one, you needed them for the capital drive, and [two], they are more trained to operate in a committee structure--most of them have been on a lot of boards, and don't take advantage of the fact that they're on the board to express every view in the world.

Q:

Wherein lay your influence with the Alumni Association that you were able to influence the slate, shall we say?

Heiskell:

Well, I would talk to the director of the Alumni Association, I would talk with the secretary of the Corporation, and I would talk with anybody who had any power in this regard, and tried to convince them that it was very important to reform the body and to give it the kind of muscle that would help in the capital campaign. And the capital campaign was a very handy tool to achieve those ends. In my fourth year, I was nominated to be president of the Board of Oversees--it's a very funny thing, I don't know why you're a president instead of chairman, but you are. You're president of the





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