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Jerome D. Greene Dead at 84

Jerome D. Greene '96, a key administrator under three Harvard presidents and director of the 1936 Harvard Tercentenary, died at his Cambridge home on March 31, at the age of 84. The service for Mr. Greene, read by The Rev. Gardiner M. Day, was held last Tuesday at Memorial Church.

During a distinguished career, he served as secretary to President Eliot from 1901 to 1905, Secretary to the Corporation under President Eliot and Lowell from 1905 to 1910 and under President Conant from 1934 to 1943. He was elected three times to the Board of Overseers. Greene, who founded the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and the University Gazette, was also prominent in national public service, and took part in the founding of several important social and philanthropic institutions.

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