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President Drew Gilpin Faust of Harvard University.
Nannerl Keohane (whom I once met in passing), past President of Kenan University at Duke, as well as of Wellesley College, now teaches at Princeton University.
Robert Reich and Barack Obama -- two of the LARGEST protectors of the "One Percent", today -- no matter HOW MANY LIES they tell. ACTION speaks louder than WORDS!!!
Scott Kenan shared a link.
President Drew Gilpin Faust of Harvard is a TOTAL hypocrite -- REFUSING to look into The University of the South (aka Sewanee), having STOLEN Tennessee Williams' estate from Harvard -- something even Harvard's now retired top Legal Admin told me is true. Today, this would be a BILLION dollars, and Nanerl Keohane (Harvard Trustee now and former President of Duke U. and Thomas S. Kenan III's TOP ally), refuses to even discuss this travesty of justice -- as does Pres. Faust of Harvard, despite my many calls and emails not only to her, but most of Harvard's trustees -- and yes, I documented this all in my blog.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/02/20/harvard-university-gets-150m-gift-largest-in-its-history/?intcmp=latestnews
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/02/20/harvard-university-gets-150m-gift-largest-in-its-history/?intcmp=latestnews
FIRST, I'd like to SALUTE Mr. Kenneth Griffin for his gift -- to be used to maintain Harvard's "Needs Blind" admissions policy!!! Denison University has a similar policy and it is the ONLY way I could have afforded to attend that school.
And I should REPEAT my view on Tennessee Williams' Estate that he had intended to go to Harvard rather than Sewanee -- The University of the South, an Episcopalian school and the only Episcopalian Seminary in the "Old South", noted for its symbol of power, the Confederate Mace, which it only retired in 2005.
And WORSE, is that disgruntled Sewanee alumni who are lawyers in Birmingham, AL, contacted me in about late 2008, to claim that alumni of this EPISCOPALIAN UNIVERSITY had REVOLTED over the loss of the Symbol of WHITE SUPREMACY, so J. Neil Alexander, then Arch-bishop of Atlanta and titular head of Sewanee (he's now head of the Theology Department there), was using the Walter Dakin Fund (named for Tennessee Williams' grandfather who graduated Sewanee), to COVER the COLLAPSE of alumni gifts over this loss.
J. Niel Alexander
Tennessee Williams' estate in early 1982 was worth just under $11,000.000.00, according to the statement from his accountants that Tennessee showed me. These Sewanee lawyers claimed it was THEN (2008, during the WORST of the stock market crash), at 1/3 BILLION, so I assume it has grown in value -- especially since Tennessee's work is CONTENT for the new Electronic World.
And I must say that unlike in earlier years, Sewanee seems to now be a better steward of the rights, few ridiculous experiments like all-black casts of CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (cutesy racial play DISTRACTS from the real message, but would be FINE off-off Broadway), and the disastrous premiere of
IN MASKS OUTRAGEOUS AND AUSTERE two years ago -- SO BAD that its website was DELETED two months after it closed. The character Mac was based on me, and Sewanee actually had the GALL to hire John Uecker (who murdered not only Tennessee Williams, but the family of James Purdy has Uecker tied up in Courts as John inherited Purdy's entire estate and the family suspects fowl play -- AND Uecker LIKELY gave his long-time star drama student, James Gandolfini, the BAD DRUGS that killed HIM -- before he spilled the beans on Mr. Uecker).
My point had MEANT to be that John Uecker was SO CONFIDENT that he told me in 2009 that Sewanee had contracted HIM to collate and complete this un-completed play -- and WRITE MY CHARACTER OUT!!! My re-emergence caused Sewanee to CAN Uecker and hire someone else to keep the character Mac IN the play.
And I must ALSO SAY that since I contacted President Faust of Harvard MANY times by phone as well as email -- and ALL trustees of Harvard, especially Nannerl Keohane and Robert Reich), that I could find email addresses for (I could not find two of them -- see here for names: http://www.harvard.edu/about-harvard/harvards-leadership/president-and-fellows-harvard-corporation ).
I DON'T CARE which school keeps the money or which handles the RIGHTS, now. Tennessee's work has enjoyed a HUGE upsurge in appreciation and production in recent years -- perhaps the two schools could split it. But if Kenneth Griffin's $150 MILLION gift to Harvard is the LARGEST they've ever gotten, then they OUGHT to consider the now BILLION-DOLLAR gift Tennessee Williams TRIED to give them, with help of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, no???
Thomas S. Kenan III of Chapel Hill, North Carolina is the BIGGEST BLOCKER of Tennessee Williams' will being RESPECTED!!!
The James G. Kenan Memorial Organ in All Saint's sometimes Cathedral in Atlanta is one of the most respected organs in America, now -- installation completed in 2004.
James G. Kenan also endowed the Atlanta History Center enormously.
Much of James G. Kenan's personal (rather than family) wealth came from leasing land in Appalachia to coal-mining companies.
FACTS!!!:
1. William Rand Kenan, Sr. was the ONLY Confederate soldier ever credited with penetrating Washington, DC defenses enough to take a clear shot at President Lincoln (he missed and killed Lincoln's body guard).
2. As head of the Customs House in Wilmington, NC, WRK, Sr. grew FAT from bribes, and PISSED OFF when a new US President appointed a BLACK MAN to take his job. At that time, Wilmington was a mecca for educated blacks and a MAJORITY black city, many top political and business positions were held by blacks and racial harmony ruled -- except among a large group of Christian Confederates.
3. William R. Kenan, Sr. and the then Pastor of First Presbyterian, Wilmington fomented the 1898 Wilmington Insurrection (aka "Race Riot" -- and the ONLY literal coup d' etat to have happened on US soil -- Kenans spending FORTUNES to keep it OUT of history books), that led to political positions and businesses being STOLEN from blacks and hundreds of them fled the town. NO ONE ever got compensation, and the severed heads of about 100 blacks were impaled on stakes that BRISTLED on the spit of land between the Cape Fear and Northeast Cape Fear Rivers in plain view of downtown until they ROTTED. This was called "Niggerhead Point" for years.
This example is PRIMARILY why White Racist Christian Republican types believe they can murder ANYONE because they are WHITE and CHRISTIAN -- and get away with it. It happened already -- and WORSE, is that EMBOLDENED by Mr. Kenan's coup, Southern legislatures passed ALL the Jim Crow Laws across the South within TWO YEARS -- DUE TO THE KENAN FAMILY.
So Harvard should WAKE UP and see how they as an ORGANIZATION now protect racism and poverty for all but the One Percent -- REGARDLESS what they teach.
ALL these subjects are WELL covered previously and in FAR greater detail in my blog. Google my name in quotes with name or subject to read more.
Scott
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