Buttenwieser - Reardon Honored
HAA Awards Paul Buttenwieser Harvard Medal
Paul Buttenwieser is unequaled in the breadth of his involvement across the University, and beyond Harvard he is deeply involved in causes that address issues in education, the arts, poverty, and social justice.
As an Overseer from 2001 to 2007 he served on visiting committees to the Graduate School of Education, where he participated in shaping the new Doctorate in Education Leadership program, as well as to the College, and the Departments of Music, English, Psychology, Visual and Environmental Studies, and Government.
He has been deeply involved in class reunion fundraising and is co-chair of the Reunion Gift Steering Committee for the Class of 1960's 50th reunion. He also co-chaired his 35th and 40th reunions and was a member of the 25th Reunion Gift Committee. He is a member of the Boston Major Gifts Committee, Harvard Art Museumıs Directorıs Advisory Council, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Science, Teaching, and Research Planning Committee, and he is a trustee of the American Repertory Theater. Additionally, he was a member of the Phillips Brooks House Association Committee, the FAS Financial Aid Council, and Harvard Medical Schoolıs Campaign Committee.
A practicing psychiatrist, novelist, arts advocate, and community volunteer, Buttenwieser and his wife, Catherine, founded the Family-to-Family Project in response to the crisis of family homelessness. They have three children, Stephen '89, M.D. '01, Susan, and Janet.
John P. "Jack" Reardon Honored by Classmates
John "Jack" Reardon, executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association since 1990 (and earlier, in a Harvard career that began in 1965, director of undergraduate admissions and director of athletics), is celebrating his fiftieth reunion. Classmates thought he deserved something special for his efforts on behalf of all Harvard alumni. The class committee decided to commission a formal portrait. When they sprang the surprise on Reardon at a formal class gathering on Monday afternoon, they of course had no painting to give him, but they did present him, to great applause, with its dedicatory plaque.
