First-generation Harvard Red Book helps bind a community
It was a day of firsts. Harvard alumni, students, and faculty gathered last Friday to mark the University’s inaugural observance of the National First-Generation College Celebration, which highlights this community’s contributions on campus. It also marked the unveiling of the First Generation Harvard Alumni Red Book, published by the Harvard Alumni Association. The publication gives first-gen graduates a way to keep up with each other in the same way the traditional Red Books have allowed the wider College and Radcliffe alumni community to share their life updates since the mid-1800s. “Stories change minds, change lives, even change history,” said Dan Lobo ’14, who was instrumental in the project. As a student, Lobo founded the Harvard College First Generation Student Union (FGSU) — now known as Harvard Primus — in 2013. Lobo, who is currently an undergraduate adviser in the Office of Career Services, is president of the First Generation Harvard Alumni...