Charles A. Coolidge '17, senior Fellow on the Corporation, will assume the duties of President when President Pusey travels to India and Japan next fall.
Although he probably will not take the title "Acting President," Coolidge will assume responsibility for all decisions now made by Pusey and will preside over the Corporation and the Board of Overseers. According to President Pusey, his substitute will serve on a part-time, stand-in" basis.
Coolidge, a Boston attorney, served in the Eisenhower Administration as assistant Secretary of Defense for manpower and personnel, and later as chairman of the Defense Department Committee on classified Information.
Before Pusey assumed office in 1953, Coolidge was a member of a four man committee exercising the functions of the President after James B. Conant '14 left the University to be U.S. High Commissioner in Germany. He has been a Fellow since 1935.
At Harvard, Coolidge played football and was president of the Student Council and of Phillips Brooks House. He received the LL.B. degree from the Law School in 1922 and since then has practiced law with the firm of Ropes, Gray, Best, Coolidge & Rugg in Boston.
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