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Raines To Receive Award from Law School's Black Students Group
The Harvard Black Law Students Association will hold its Second Annual
Alumni Speakers Series at the Harvard Faculty Club on Tuesday, April 14,
at 5:30 p.m. Franklin D. Raines, a 1976 graduate of the Law School,
will be honored.
Raines, who has served as president of the Board of Overseers, is recognized
for both his professional record and dedication to communities in need.
He currently serves as director of the White House Office of Management
and Budget.
Also participating is Christopher Edley, a 1978 graduate of the
Law School and current Law School professor. He served as the inaugural
Alumni Speakers Series Honoree.
Garner Named Social Sciences Librarian in College Library
The College Library recently named Diane Garner as librarian for
the social sciences. She will be responsible for overseeing and managing
various College Library programs located in Lamont, Littauer, and Pusey
libraries, including government documents, maps, and environmental resources.
The new librarian will also represent the College Library in the planning
for the Knafel Center.
In addition, Garner will direct and develop much-awaited improvements
on resources, services, and access to numeric data.
Garner came to work at the College Library in 1991.
First National Child Democracy Conference Takes Place
The first national conference on the child and American democracy was
held last week.
The conference was the brainchild of Susan Linn, instructor in
psychiatry and associate director of the Media Center of the Harvard-affiliated
Judge Baker Children's Center in Boston. The conference will lay a course
for new studies that address what is an "alarming lack of awareness
by youngsters of basic elements of the very democracy they are growing up
in."
Funded by a Judge Baker Children's Center grant from the A.L. Mailman
Family Foundation, the Center plans to use media to foster the health and
well-being of children.
Alvin F. Poussaint, clinical professor of psychiatry at the Medical
School and director of the Judge Baker Media Center, adds that, "political
and social attitudes begin to form in childhood. . . . [This] is also the
time to begin . . . teaching our young people how to engage in a democracy."
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