Profession: Vice president and first general counsel of Harvard University; in 1978, wrote a brief that convinced the Supreme Court that an affirmative action program for college admissions was constitutional; chief of legislative programs for the State Department’s Agency for International Development; general counsel and staff director for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; the first non-musical president of the New England Conservatory; served in the Air Force Reserve.
Degrees: Earned his A.B. and J.D. from Harvard, in 1954 and 1958, respectively.
Quotes: “He loved Harvard and what it stood for at its best in a way that no ordinary lawyer could ever love his client”; “He guided one through tortuous problems with a calmness that made one secure about the outcome.”
Death: June 11, 2006
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