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is very good--financial, not so much the investing aspect of finance but the control aspects of finance: using financial tools as control tools in directing, in organizing, in shaping the university. And of course, he looks to Henry [Rossovsky] for inside knowledge.

Q:

Okay. Let's go back to the overseers again. Who--were there any particularly disruptive overseers when you first got there?

Heiskell:

Yes!

Q:

Who were they?

Heiskell:

(sigh) I've forgotten their names.

Q:

[pause]. Okay. You can put them on the transcript if you'll recall them.

Heiskell:

Yes. I'll try--I'll have to look back at the list of the Overseers.

Q:

Who were some of the people that you were responsible for bringing in? You know, that you had talked to the Alumni Committee about? You said there was--

Heiskell:

Oh, it wasn't so much that--it wasn't that I was pointing at individuals. I was saying, “People such as”--classifications, categories, so on so on--





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