"I'm not sure Marc stopped writing during the entire search," one committee member laughed.
Goodheart or a member of his staff also accompanied committee members to many of their interviews across the nation, although eventually, as the process progressed, committee members conducted the interviews entirely in private. At the beginning, Goodheart was left to interview some of Harvard's top administrators on his own, including Vice President for Administration Sally H. Zeckhauser.
"He's very discreet, so you know when you're working on something confidential, it's going to be kept confidential," Zeckhauser has said.
Phase 3:
By the beginning of October, after more than 200 interviews, 1,000 letters, and untold hours of research and reading, the committee had assembled a list of over 400 names. In the first cut, only four were removed from consideration: two because they were over age 90, and another two because committee members discovered the suggested candidates had died.
"It seemed appropriate to withhold them from consideration," one committee member deadpanned.
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