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Harvard Board of Overseers Election Results

By Alfred Brophy

This seems like a lot of inside baseball, but those following Harvey Silvergate's attempt to get on the Harvard Board of Overseers will be interested in knowing that his petition candidacy was unsucccessful.  From the Crimson:

Lawyer Morgan Chu, cardiologist Walter Clair ?77, former New York Times reporter Linda J. Greenhouse ?68, New York City Public Schools Chief Operating Officer Photeine M. Anagnostopoulos ?81, and the Smithsonian?s Director of the Museum of Natural History Cristián Samper won six-year terms in an alumni vote to serve on the 30-member board.Former CEO of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Joshua S. Boger, who received the sixth most votes, will serve the remaining three-year term vacated by Arne S. Duncan ?86, who left to serve as U.S. Secretary of Education. 

Those six beat out four other candidates, two of whom were nominated by petition. Professor Margaret Levi, a professor of international studies at the University of Washington, and Mark D. Gearan ?78, the president of Hobart and William Smith Colleges, were nominated by the Harvard Alumni Association, and lawyers Robert L. Freedman ?62 and Harvey A. Silverglate ?67?who informally ran together?were nominated by petition. 

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on June 17, 2009 (boomark / email).