After graduating in 1966 with a degree in general education and spending some time working in the laboratories of Harvard Medical School's anatomy department, Daniel A. Goodenough '66 found himself lacking the credentials that graduate schools were looking for.

"I was an unattractive candidate," he says. "The only place I got in was here."

Exercising his only option, Goodenough--who is currently Takeda professor of anatomy and cellular biology at the Medical School--enrolled in a Ph.D. program in the anatomy department, and, except for a short sojourn as a post-doctoral candidate at University of California at San Francisco, he's been at Harvard ever since.

And Goodenough is not the only member of the Class of 1966 who has stuck around to work at Harvard.

Drawn Back

Martha A. Field '66, professor of law at Harvard Law School, attended the University of Chicago after graduation. She was then invited by Harvard Law to join the faculty.

"Harvard Law was the best in the country," Field says. "This was too good an opportunity to pass up."

Similarly, Benjamin M. Friedman '66, Maier professor of political economy, was drawn back by his election to Harvard's Society of Fellows to receive his Ph.D.

"It was an effective recruiting device for me," says Friedman.

When he left again, to work for the investment firm of Morgan Stanley, he knew that the employment would be only temporary.

"I wanted to be an academic economist," he says. "Harvard was the best place to do my work."

Others stayed at Harvard for more personal reasons.

"When I left here, I thought I'd never come back," says George W. Brandenburg '66, director of Harvard's high energy physics laboratory. But after a trip around the world, he came back.

And Penny H. Feldman '66, a lecturer on political science at the Harvard School of Public Health, says, "I stayed because I got married."

Feldman says that she then decided to become a graduate student, and after that it was only a matter of time before Cambridge and Boston became her home.