Campus & Community

William Berenberg was born October 29, 1915, in Haverhill, Mass. He moved to Chelsea at a young age and was educated in the public high school before attending Harvard College as a day student. There he participated in basketball and baseball and was a member of the Phillips Brooks House. He compiled an excellent academic record, allowing him to be admitted to Boston University School of Medicine from which he received his MD degree in 1940. He came to Children’s Hospital as a pathology intern under Sidney Farber, following an internship year at the Brockton Hospital. His arrival at Children’s Hospital was five months before the bombing of Pearl Harbor and shortly before the death of Dr. Kenneth Blackfan, Children’s Hospital’s long serving Physician-in-Chief. That began a commitment to an institution that he both loved and served for 60 years.

Orlov-Rubinow service on Feb. 25 Service for HBS’s Robert Newton Anthony on March 2

The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced the 12th funding cycle for the Kuwait Program Research Fund. With the support of the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, a Kennedy School faculty committee will consider applications for one-year grants (up to $30,000) and larger grants for more extensive proposals to support advanced research by Harvard faculty members on issues of critical importance to Kuwait and the Persian Gulf. Grants can be applied toward research assistance, travel, summer salary, and course buyout.

Thomas W. Lentz, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM), has announced the establishment of the Maisie K. and James R. Houghton Curatorship of Contemporary Art at the HUAM. This new position was funded by a gift from the Houghtons, and will be filled by its first incumbent, Helen Molesworth, when she begins her new role at the Harvard University Art Museums this month.

The Harvard University Department of Music has announced the appointment of Gunther Schuller as Fromm Visiting Professor of Composition. This is the second time Schuller has received this appointment.

Liu Dapeng (1857-1942), the subject of Henrietta Harrison’s book “The Man Awakened from Dreams” (Stanford University Press, 2005), seems an odd choice for a biography. A Confucian scholar and teacher in the village of Chiqiao in Shanxi province, northern China, Liu was poor and unknown, and, although a prolific writer, never published a word.

The producers of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, Evan Eachus ’08 and Scott Wilmore ’08, will present Man of the Year honoree Ben Stiller with his Pudding Pot on Friday (Feb. 23) at 8:10 p.m. in the Zero Arrow Street Theatre, prior to the start of the opening night performance of “The Tent Commandments.” The theater is serving as the temporary home for the theatrical group while its Holyoke Street location undergoes major renovations.

A wind chill in the low single digits and streets that resembled the Greenland ice sheet could not keep this year’s Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year parade from being one of the most festive and raucous in recent memory.

Harvard women’s water polo kicked off its 2007 campaign with a 3-2 showing at the Brown-hosted Ivy League invitational this past weekend (Feb. 9-11), ultimately falling to the host Bears, 11-4, in the championship meet. The Crimson squad advanced to Sunday’s title game (Feb. 11) on the strength of three straight wins against Villanova, Dartmouth, and Penn.

Harvard’s top line of Julie Chu ’07, Sarah Vaillancourt ’09, and Sarah Wilson ’09 combined for 14 points to propel hockey past Northeastern, 8-0, in the consolation game of the 29th annual women’s Beanpot at B.C.’s Conte Forum on Tuesday night (Feb. 13).

Northeastern tallied two unanswered goals over the second and third stanzas to get past Harvard, 3-1, in the consolation game of the 55th annual men’s Beanpot this past Monday night (Feb. 12) at TD Banknorth Garden.

With all the subtlety of a slam dunk, the Harvard women’s basketball team shot into first place in the Ivy rankings following a two-game home sweep against Princeton and Penn this past Friday and Saturday (Feb. 9-10). Really, though, Harvard’s spirited play and subsequent rise to the top might be better characterized as a blindfolded slam-dunk. After an 0-6 start and four-game slide dating back to December, who saw this turnaround coming?

Ten months after professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to establish secondary fields as part of the ongoing Harvard College Curricular Review, the College has approved and is now offering 28 of the optional programs to undergraduates.

In Harvard Yard just before noon today (Feb. 15), there was ice, slush, wind, a 2-degree wind chill – and there was Scarlett Johansson.

Nearly 23,000 students have applied for admission to the Class of 2011. While the final number is yet to be determined, thus far 22,920 have applied, exceeding the previous record of 22,796 for the Class of 2009 and last year’s 22,754.

This month in Harvard history

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Feb. 12. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

The Faculty Fellowship Committee at Harvard Medical School (HMS) is sponsoring an information session March 5 from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Waterhouse Room (first floor of Gordon Hall) on the subject of invitational research fellowships and grant opportunities for HMS postdocs and faculty.

David Galland Freiman, M.D. was born on July 1, 1911 in New York City, the son of Leopold and Dorothy (Galland) Freiman. After graduating from City College of New York, David attended the Long Island College of Medicine (now Downstate Medical Center SUNY), receiving his M.D. degree in 1935. David completed an internship in Internal Medicine, followed by an internship and residency in Pathology at Montifiore Hospital in New York. His first staff appointments were at the Massachusetts General Hospital (1944-1950) and Cincinnati General Hospital (1952-1956). In 1956, he returned to Boston as Chief of Pathology at the Beth Israel Hospital (now the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center), a position he held until 1979. David Freiman died on December 10, 2003. He is survived by his wife, Ruth (Schein) Freiman, his children, Nancy and Len, and three grandchildren, Emily, Nathan and Eli.

On the last day in May, 1962, Professor Richard Howard received the following civil subpoena: “You are hereby commanded to appear in the United States District Court [and to] bring with you the entire card catalog of all books, pamphlets, monographs etc. now located in the Administration Building at Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain.”

Jerome Hamilton Buckley, Gurney Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, was born in Toronto on August 30, 1917, and received his secondary education at Humberside Collegiate Institute where the principal called him “one of the most brilliant pupils” ever to attend the school.

Physician, scientist, teacher, writer, and musician, Bill Beck’s life gave zestful expression to his many creative talents.

The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies has announced the arrival of its 2007 spring fellows. The center is dedicated to fostering the study of European history, politics, and society at Harvard. Visiting scholars play an active role in the intellectual life of the center and the University. While in Cambridge, the scholars conduct research, advise students, and give public talks.

Sponsored in part by Harvard’s Office for the Arts (OfA) grant program, more than 1,000 students will participate in 38 projects in dance, music, theater, and multidisciplinary genres at the University this spring. Grants are designed to foster creative and innovative artistic initiatives among Harvard undergraduates.

The late Eileen Jackson Southern, a music scholar and Harvard’s first black female tenured professor, is the subject of the latest painting in the Minority Portraiture Project, established in 2002 by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations.

Now in its third year of operation, the Australia-Harvard Fellowship supports innovative researchers who may be planning collaborative work with Australian research organizations. Sponsored by the Harvard Club of Australia (HCA) Foundation, the fellowship aims to support learned exchange between the University and Australia.

The University operates the call-in number 496-NEWS for major School and University-wide closings due to inclement weather or other special circumstances affecting the Harvard campus.

Simple arithmetic supplies one of the most striking facts of Harvard history: since 1640, the institution has had only 27 presidents. The United States – nearly 140 years younger –…

Text as prepared for delivery Seven years ago, when I was named as the first dean of the new Radcliffe Institute, I said I was deeply honored to have been…

Drew G. Faust, an eminent historian and outstanding academic leader who has served since 2001 as the founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will become the twenty-eighth president of Harvard University, effective July 1.