Going forward, a look back
June 2013 Legendary crew coach Harry Parker, who joined Harvard in 1960 and helmed the Crimson’s heavyweight program starting 50 years ago, dies June 25 at the age of 77 after mentoring generations of Harvard rowers and U.S. Olympians. Harry Parker, the Thomas Bolles Head Coach for Harvard Men’s Heavyweight Crew, passed away on June 25. “His legacy and impact on our program over the last five decades will remain,” said Robert L. Scalise, Nichols Family Director of Athletics. File photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer James E. Ryan, one of the nation’s leading scholars of education law and policy, is named the next dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Originally constructed in 1807, Harvard’s historic Fay House at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study becomes the oldest LEED-certified building in the U.S. when it receives a LEED-NC Gold certification. July 2013 Asa Gray Professor of Systematic Botany Donald Pfister is named interim dean of Harvard College. Pfister...