Happenings Around Harvard

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The new Conant Fellows - five teachers from the Boston and Cambridge Public Schools selected by the Graduate School of Education (GSE) - at the Faculty Club. Front row : Barbara Boyle, of Cambridge's Longfellow School; Cambridge Superintendent of Schools Bobbie D'Alessandro; and Marcia Pertuz, of Cambridge's Kennedy School. Dean Jerome T. Murphy of the GSE; Norman E. Townsend, of the Boston Public Schools; and Brent Stephens, of Boston's Winship School. Not pictured is Emma Sanchez, of Cambridge's Kennedy School. The Conant Fellowships support study at GSE. As a stipulation of the award, fellows are required to return to their school systems for at least one year after receiving their GSE degree.

St. Anthony's School 3rd-graders Melissa Charles, Judy Norton, Jennifer O'Brien, Billy Matson, and Erin Shea were excited to see The Island of Anyplace at the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) last Wednesday. Harvard's Office of Community Affairs made it possible for hundreds of area elementary school students to attend last week's A.R.T. performances, some of which were interpreted in sign language.

Sarah Wald , assistant provost and chair of the Disability Advisory Group (DSAG), Eileen Finan , of the Office of the General Counsel, and Marie Trottier, University disability coordinator, at a seminar on "Addressing Emotional Disabilities" sponsored by DSAG, on May 4. The seminar, which was attended by more than 100 administrators and staff from throughout the University, also featured a panel of medical experts, including Charles Ducey, director of the Bureau of Study Counsel (FAS), and Richard Kadison, director of the Mental Health Unit (UHS), and a panel on accommodations and approaches from student services and human resources personnel. To receive materials presented during the seminar, send an e-mail to marie_trottier@harvard.edu.

Twenty-five-year employee Bill Brooks, who works as a custodian at the University, and Vice President for Administration Sally Zeckhauser attended the 44th Twenty-Five Year Recognition Ceremony held at Pound Hall at the Law School last Thursday evening. One hundred and thirty-six people were honored for their work.

Eleven students from the Kennedy School traveled to Washington, D.C., to brief Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin on their proposed plan for Social Security reform. The students' briefing of the Secretary was the culmination of the Kennedy School's Spring Exercise on Social Security Reform. In the exercise, 200 students and their faculty members took a break from regular classes to work together on a public policy issue. The task was to prepare and deliver a briefing book on different aspects of the Social Security debate to the administration.