Alumni Against 3027 Regent Street Berkeley, CA 94705 (415) 845 3835

Partial List of Endorsers: September, 1985

Dear Fellow Harvard Graduate: Robert E. Treuhaft '34, Law '37 Saul Friedberg, Law '37 If you believe that Harvard should not invest in companies doing business in Morris E. Hurley '41, MBA '43 , I hope you will join me in nominating Kenneth Simmons '54, Roger Wilcox '41 John Plotz '69, and Gay Seidman '78 for the Board of Staughton Lynd '51 Overseers. These candidates are pledged to full divestment. Short bio­ J. Max Bond '55, GSD '58 graphies are on the other side of this letter. . Michael Rogin '58 The candidates will need more than 250 signatures each (on official nomi­ Judith Abrams Plotz '60, Ph.D. '65 nation forms only) to be placed on the 1986 ballot. Holders of any Harvard Steven Jonas, MD '62 degree may vote, except current Harvard staff. Adam Hochschild '63 Todd Gitlin '63 Please fill in and return the form below. In November, when they are made available to us, we will send you an official nomination form. Kathryn Kish Sklar '65 Barbara Epstein '66 In order to reach the tens of thousands of alumni whose votes we will need Martin Jay, Ph.D. 71 to win, we plan to place several ads in Harvard Magazine. These are very Paul Thomas, Ph.D. '73 expensive. Please help by contributing. Hamilton Fish m 73 Peter Salzman 79 Thank you for your support. Andrea Kantowitz '81 Marina Hsieh '82 Siroerely yours,

. To: Alumni Against Apartheid 3027 Regent Street Berkeley, CA 94705

I support the Alumni Against Apartheid and wish to nominate Kenneth Simmons '54, John Plotz '69, and Gay Seidman '78 for the Harvard University Board of Overseers.

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Labor Donated The Candidates: Kenneth Simmons '54 did graduate work at Harvard, Howard, and Berkeley, where he took a degree in architecture. He has been on the facuity of Berkeley since 1968. He is now Associate Professor of Architecture and practises' architecture and urban planning at Community Design Collaborative in San Francisco. He has been a long­ time civil rights activist in the Bay Area. He has four children.

John Plotz '69, a member of the Advocate and the Lampoon, earned a law degree at Berkeley in 1975. He has taught law at Berkeley, Peking University, and Sun Yatsen University in Canton, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He has also practised law in the Bay Area, chiefly representing trade unions. He is now a Deputy Public Defender in San Francisco. He has two children.

Gay Seidman '78 grew up in Africa. She was the first woman president of the Crimson. After graduating, she returned to southern Africa, where she tuaght school in Botswana and elsewhere, and wrote several high school textbooks. She has been very active in tha American anti-apartheid movement. She is now a doctrinal candidate in at Berkeley. She was recently married.

The Process:

The ultimate legal power at Harvard is with the President and Fellows, otherwise known as the Corporation, which is a self-perpetuating group of six men. The Board of Overseers advises the Corporation and has a (rarely used) veto power over Corporate decisions. The thirty Overseers are elected by the 190,000 alumni of Harvard University. Holders of any Harvard degree are eligible to vote, except staff members. Elections are held by mail ballot every May. Five Overseers are elected each year for six-year terms.

The Alumni Association nominates ten candidates. These are the "official" candidates. However, any 250 alumni may nominate a candidate directly. The University requires the 250 signatures to be on official nomination forms only. These forms are supplied to the would-be candidates in early November and must be returned three months later. Alumni Against Apartheid is now assembling a list of nominators to whom we can send the official forms when they are received.

We estimate it will take about 35,000 votes for "unofficial" candidates to win. That means we must somehow reach many alumni who usually do not vote. We have to convince them to take the trouble to cast their ballots for candidates who represent their views, and not exclusively the views of investment bankers, corporate lawyers, and cabinet members, the type of person who typically have dominated the Board of Overseers until now.

As a practical matter, the only way to reach the tens of thousands of alumni whose votes we need is through Harvard Magazine. Advertising space, however, is extremely expensive--about $4000 per page. In order to make this campaign work, it is vital that Alumni Against Apartheid receive contributions trom those alumni who support divestment. Without an active campaign by us, Harvard graduates who believe our university should not draw a profit from apartheid, the University policy of investment in South Africa will Continue.