RICHARD A. SMITH '46
Smith is one of Boston's leading businessmen. Chairman and CEO of Harcourt General, Inc. and the Neiman Marcus Group, Smith has spent much of his life working in the non-profit sector, serving as chair of the board of both the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Facing History and Ourselves Foundation.
Smith is also a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, trustee emeritus of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and honorary trustee of Combined Jewish Philanthropies.
He has remained highly active with the University since his days as an undergraduate at the College. A member of the Board of Overseers from 1988 to 1991, Smith served on the Harvard Corporation from 1991 to 2000. He is also director emeritus of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.
Today Smith is receiving an honorary Doctorate of Laws.
CHARLES H. TOWNES
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