Other Corporation members reached last nightdeclined to comment on possible successors toHeiskell.
Special consideration is expected to be devotedto nominees with legal backgrounds, observerssaid. At the time of Calkins' resignation, Boksaid the Board would be left "short of legaltalent" and hinted that some extra scrutiny mightbe given to candidates with legal backgrounds.
Bok, a former dean of Harvard Law School and aspecialist in labor law, is the only remaininglawyer on the Corporation, which has traditionallyhad a large number of lawyers among its ranks.Currently, the Corporation also includes twoacademics, Rosovsky and University of Illinoisphysicist Charles P. Slichter '45; twobusinessmen, Gillette Co. Chairman Colman M.Mockler '52 and New York shipping executive RobertG. Stone Jr. '45; and a banker, MacDougall.
Hope I've Been Helpful
During his tenure on the Corporation, Heiskellhas been noted for his efforts to increase thesuccess of fundraising at the University. Heiskellwas named chairman of the Harvard Campaign'scorporate gifts committee which helped raise morethan $356 million in an effort that ended in 1985.
"I hope I have been helpful," said the nativeof Florence, Italy of his work on the Board.
A former president of the Board of Overseers,Heiskell replaced Yale history professor JohnMorton Blum '43 who resigned from the Corporationin October, 1979. Cited for his managementexpertise and for his familiarity with the NewYork business community, Heiskell was selected, inpart, to assist with fundraising in anticipationof Harvard's 350th Anniversary Celebration thisfall. Heiskell is currently chairman of the Boardof Trustees of the New York Public Library.
Characterizing Heiskell as "a very broad-gaugedkind of person," former Corporation member Calkinssaid Heiskell helped streamline the internalprocesses of the Board.
Heiskell never graduated from a Harvard schoolbut earned alumni status through his attendancefor one year at the Business School in 1935.
Heiskell worked his way to the top of Time Inc.after joining Life Magazine in May, 1937 as itsscience and medicine editor