Fund-raiser, poet, friend of Harvard men, fisherman, painter, and collector of Harvardiana, David McCord '21 will retire this June after 37 years of service to his alma mater.

McCord has become well known for his revolutionary approach to alumni fund raising. As a man of letters, McCord introduced to the inevitable pleas for money a pleasant style and a literary touch. Brooks Atkinson '17 once said in a New York Times column about McCord's informal essays, "on't is wonderful that brochures written on such a high level of style, thought, and erudition, also delight the givers?"

In 1960, the American Alumni Coun gave McCord a special award for his writings over the years for the Harvard Fund, of which he has been Executive Director since 1925.

From 1940 to 1946, he also served as editor of the Alumni Bulletin. There, under the pen name of "Primus," he originated the column. "The College Pump," still a Bulletin feature.

Through the Harvard Fund, McCord has dealt with agents of classes from 1855 through 1961. His printed Open Letters are regarded as classics in alumni fund-raising circles.

In his other career. David McCord is the author of 21 books of poetry, essays, and history. His prose and poetry have appeared in about 125 anthologies here and in England. Some of his short verses have travelled by word-of-mouth so fast and far that they often turn up credited to "Anonymous." One of the epigrams credited to his name is his "Epitaph for a Walter": Bye and bye   God caught his eye.

His books of verse include "The Cr "Bay Window Ballads," and "Odd Without End." A new volume of poems for children. "Take Sky," will published next fall. His anthology British and American humerous called "What Cheer" has been called best such collection over printed.

In prose, McCord has written "Ab Boston," "Notes on the Harvard Ttary," and an official history of Radcliffe College, "An Acre for Education." He the winner of numerous poetry awards, former Guggeeim Fellow, a Fellow the American Academy of Arts and nces, a one-time Lowell Lecturer, honorary curator of the Poetry Room Lamont Library.

As a former commuter to Harvard lege, McCord has maintained an est in the commuter situation and ser as an associate of Dudley House, the dominately non-resident House. In McCord received the first Honorary tor of Humanse Letters granted by the University. That same day John F. Kennedy received an honorary.

A boyhood spent in Oregon led McCord into painting because "painting water-colors somehow goes with the tude of fly-flshing." Since then, he been an avid painter and an enthusi fisherman.

McCord's literary contribution to the task of soliciting alumni money recognized in December with the publication by the American Alumni Council of "The Language of Request," a collection of his Fund pieces distributed to leagues at other colleges and universities in the country.

McCord plans now to devote full time to serious poetry, two projected books Harvard, and a study of sense and sense in Edward Lear