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2016 Annual Report

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The harvard Lampoon 2016 annuaL reporT

TabLe of conTenTs

1. Letter from Ibis

7. Letter from the Prexy

9. Inaugural Parody, 2017

11. Making of the Anthology

13. Castle Renovation

17. Capital Campaign

19. In Memoriam

21. Hail and Farewell

23. Financial Report

25. Treasurer’s Report

26. Annual Appeal Donor

and Committee Lists

The great two-year-long

effort to digitize Lampoon

back issues concluded

this winter. This Report is

richer for it; we’ve included

archival scans throughout,

like this image of the 1895

Lampoon editors.

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Trustees of THE HARVARD LAMPOON

LETTER FROM IBIS February 2017Dear Late Lamenteds,

Determined as ever in our countercultural ways, the Lampoon enjoyed a year of political prosperity and optimistic transfer of power. Indeed, we would like to dedicate this Annual Report to your education in all the ways Lampy is becoming accountable, profitable, and downright respectable these days (in funds only). The undergraduates kept busy and popular in 2016. For more on celebrity goss, [published] issues, and the new regime, see the Letter from the Prexy. We are lucky to have this report from immensely well-liked and literary outgoing president Mark V. Steinbach ’17. Mark is too humble to mention that their cohort adopted 8 new members this fall: 6 for Literature and 2 for Business. All were male, but I’m sure they have their redeeming qualities. Should any LL wish to contribute art, incidentally, the Lampoon is soliciting.

Past staff efforts were available for admiration in this summer’s exhibit at Pusey Library: “Remorseless Irony and Sarcastic Pens: The Story of the Harvard Lampoon.” This excellent summer display of Lampy’s history in our 140th continuous

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TRUSTEES OF THEHARVARD LAMPOON

Robert K. Hoffman ’69AD INFINITUM (1947-2006)

Kurt B. Andersen ’76Allison L. Averill ’12John F. Bowman ’80Robert M. Carlock ’95Margaret H. Child ’78 ChairLisa M. Henson ’82David H. Mandel ’92Robert M. Neer, Jr. ’86 TreasurerJohn D. Spooner ’59Edward L. Widmer ’84

GRADUATEREVIEW BOARD

Thomas W. Beale ’71Henry N. Beard ’67Tyler E. Chapman ’90Michael K. Frith ’63William R. Hearst III ’72Jessica Marshall ’85George Meyer ’78James R. Murdoch ’96S. Eric Rayman ’73George Rohr ’76

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year somehow featured “original and digitally-reproduced manuscripts, sketches, scrapbooks, clippings, minute books, magazines, posters, parodies, and other materials that comprise a small selection of the archives.” Many of us were frankly shocked at the creative content generated by staffers prior to our own time. Who knew?

The exhibit concluded with a star-studded “Hooey for Hollywood” panel in the Harvard Science Center, featuring such studded stars as Robert Carlock ’95, Josh Lieb ’94, Mike Reiss ’81, Greg Daniels ’85, John Aboud ’95, and Michael Colton ’97, and their thoughts on joining the biz out of Harvard. They were moderated as usual by Ted Widmer ’84 and heckled constructively from the audience by Maiya Williams ’84, Lawrence O’Donnell ’74, and Michael Frith ’63. More luminaries reappeared in October at the book launch of The Best of the Harvard Lampoon: 140 Years of American Humor at the Symphony Space in New York City. Contributors Kurt Andersen ’76, Paul Simms ’87, Patty Marx ’75 and, Jonathan Adler ’12 read from their works, and four professional actors/comedians (best known of them Wyatt Cenac; or perhaps it was Alysia Reiner, Natalie “Fig” Figueroa in Orange Is the New Black) read or enacted pieces from the book. We will have the recording of the event for our Oral History, but in the meantime, read the damn book.

We commend outgoing Ibis Rachel J. Stromberg ’17 for assembling the anthology (published by Simon & Schuster), especially

3.< Alice Ju ‘18, incoming President Ava Violich ‘18, incoming Narthex

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as the undergraduates’ engrossment in Lampoon back issues in the Bizzy allowed a team of skilled contractors to infiltrate and demolish the basement. Kurt Andersen reports here on the exciting developments currently rechristening the Lower Starr.All these ventures were enabled and sped along by your generous donations to the Capital Campaign and the Annual Appeal, so, Thank You. We’ve taken excruciating care in counting each penny toward those efforts and showing you just where they’re heading. We urge you to continue your support; if not for new members, then at least for the old (um, former). Surely the new Ted Phillips memorial bar in Hearst Hall is a gift to all.

Change continues within our ranks even as Trustees. It occurred to the honorable S. Eric Rayman ’73 five years ago that the Board of Trustees should have term limits; and having implemented them, professionalized the Board, and diversified its membership in the interim, he now moves off the Board and on to life. We welcome Bob Neer ’86 as a Trustee and incoming Treasurer of the Board.

Got more news to report? Write your mother sometime. We’ll be waiting by the mailbox.

In Lampy We Trust, and straight into the Trust may it go,

Ibis

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Mark V. Steinbach, ‘17, PresidentRachel J. Stromberg, ‘17, IbisTom B. Waddick, ‘17, NarthexAlex R. Cohen, ‘18, Blot

Camille K. Jacobson, ‘18, TreasurerWesley R. Rivera, ‘16, Business ManagerBetty Y. Lema, ‘17, Advertising ManagerLyle B. Dershowitz, ‘17, Circulation Manager

THE HARVARD LAMPOON44 BOW STREET

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FAX (617) 495-1668

LETTER FROM THE PREXY

Mark V. Steinbach ’17

Although 2016 might have been a stressful year for the world, spirits remained high at 44 Bow Street.

This was a wildly productive year for staff. We told over 1000 jokes, published three parodies (of the Harvard Crimson, The Harvard Course Catalog, and the Harvard-Yale Game program), and published five issues this year, only one of which we were asked to destroy.

It was also a busy summer for Ma Lampy. Several staff members took part in a sketch comedy project with a fancy studio in LA. We also completed the anthology project, which hit store shelves in November. Then, not satisfied, we completed the new Red Book, which will hopefully never hit store shelves. Still not satisfied, we wrapped up the digitization project. We are still not satisfied but have run out of viable projects.

As a reward for our summer productivity, an incredibly friendly LL Cool J stopped by the Castle. Keeping with the musician theme, the fall saw visits from Mike Love of the Beach Boys, Mitski, and Frankie Cosmos — carefully scheduled in descending order of name recognition.

They say the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Due to our tenuous relationship with President Donald Trump, it therefore made sense to invite Jeb Bush to the Castle — so we did, and he actually came. He was calm, boring, and ultimately fine.

Things are constantly evolving at the Lampoon. Over the past year, we have welcomed 16 new members to

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staff and like 15 of them. And, much like the United States of America, the Lampoon is currently shifting power, though with much less controversy. Alice Ju will be assuming the role of Prexy, with Alex Cohen, Ava Violich, and Camille Jacobson (all ’18) rounding out the stellar new executive board. We also elected a new Nave!

On behalf of all of us in Cambridge, we wish you good humor.

MVS ’17

Prexy [email protected]

The 2016-17 staff projects struck Lampy’s sacred balance of au courant and hopelessly self-absorbed. Next, outgoing Ibis Rachel Stromberg ’17 recaps the making of the fall’s anthology, while incoming Prexy

Alice Ju ’18 here describes the inaugural January adventures of the new board:

AN INAUGURAL PARODY FOR 2017

Over the winter break, staff put together a parody of the Presidential Inauguration Program. We drove down to Washington, D.C., and sold the programs during the Inauguration, which resulted in vocal displeasure and delight alike from its recipients. We also posted the program on the parody website www.trumpinauguration2017.org, which thus far has seen about 20,000 views. The cost of the project was fully covered through a small fundraising effort, and due to a combination of negotiating distribution deals with bookstores and swindling gentle attendees out of their hard-earned cash, we managed to make the parody profitable.

AJ ’18

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Here is an exclusive interview that I conducted with myself on the making of our latest anthology, available now in a bookstore near you! -Rachel J. Stromberg ’17, Ibis

RJS: This anthology has been in the making for several years. What did the process of creating it entail? RJS: Several months alone in the Narthex, waist-deep in disintegrating bound volumes! (Frantic laughter.) So, first we sent several batches of pieces from each decade to our editor at Touchstone. Then, eventually, we culled those down to the 200 or so that are in the anthology. Once the pieces were selected, I went back through the bound volumes of issues and found each one, then took each volume to the Fine Arts Library to scan the piece, along with any art. Then, I sent those files--

RJS: Huh, sounds long. RJS: Sure was!

RJS: (Frantic laughter.)RJS: (Frantic laughter.)

RJS: Having looked through all those old issues, how would you say the Lampoon’s humor has changed over the years?RJS: Well, I’d say that generally, it got funnier, then less funny, then funnier again, then way less funny, then slightly funnier. But really, I’ll know once I read the pieces.

RJS: I hear the Lampoon recently finished digitizing its entire archive into a searchable database. Was this process finished in time to help with the anthology?RJS: No.

RJS: Is there a Pulitzer in humor? RJS: There will be now.

RJS ’17

11.For immediate purchase, https://www.amazon.com/Best-Harvard-Lampoon-Years-American

For further convincing by the book critics of The New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/books/review/best-of-harvard-lampoon.html

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BUILDING COMMITTEE

Kurt B. Andersen ‘76, Chair

Thomas W. Beale ’71

Tyler E. Chapman ’90

Jonathan P. Finn-Gamino ’12

Robert M. Neer, Jr. ‘86

Paul Simms ’87

Edward L. Widmer ’84

John B. Tittman, Architect

A BULLETIN FROM THE BUILDING COMMITTEE

Kurt B. Andersen ’76, Chair of the Building

Committee

The renovation of the basement — the

most substantial new construction inside the

Castle since the Narthex was built, half a

century ago — is underway and due to finish

by May. The new central area is specifically

designed for work of all Lampoon kinds to take

place, with space and comfortable built-in

seating for brainstorming and planning by a few

or a whole lot of members at once. We will have

four large desks for writing and drawing and

editing (and, presumably, number-crunching);

new chairs; new lighting; new Wi-Fi via (no

joke) our own newly dug private conduit; the

whole shebang.

And all with a whimsical-but-elegant new

classical-arched-crypt-like effect and a pair

of extraordinary new Castle-tower-shaped lamps

that should make it all seem as if it has been

there since 1909. The room, built thanks to the

unending generosity of William Randolph Hearst

III ‘72, needs a name. Suggestions welcome.

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The Plympton Street end of the basement,

directly under the Starr Chamber (formerly the

Starr Bookshop), is being transformed as well.

On the Mt. Auburn Street side, new storage

rooms (one for an air conditioning system

that will make the otherwise stifling basement

habitable in the warmer months for wussified

21st-century undergrads); and a lovely new

tiled corridor. The fire and smoke alarm system,

its guts in the basement, will see a radical

upgrade.

The Elmer Room has become the Elmer Green

Memorial Screening Room, with a large flat

screen that lowers and rises impressively by

means of a modern electrical motor, served (for

the first time ever in the Castle) by cable TV.

New comfortable seating is envisioned.

The Blot Room, its design and construction

overseen 41 years ago by George Rohr ’76

and Kurt Andersen ’76 but now rendered

moot by the giant new work room, has been

cruelly demolished. Plans are afoot to

install it with a subterranean miniature

Narthex-cum-Wunderkammer.

KBA ’76

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Ted Phillips ‘81 (standing left), Patric Verrone ‘81 (standing right), Al Jean ‘81 (seated right), and Mike Reiss ‘81 (seated left) in the Narthex, 1981

--Courtesy of Mike Reiss

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CAPITAL CAMPAIGN

Margaret H. Child ’78 and Lisa M. Henson ’82, Co-Chairs of the Lampoon Capital Campaign.

Since 2000, Lampoon alumni have contributed over $6 million to the Capital Campaign. This influx of capital has enabled us to renovate and restore the Castle, significantly grow our endowment, and invest in alumni outreach and engagement—all critical to our future.

This year marked the beginning of a new tradition in giving to Ma Lampy. Mike Reiss ’81 came up with the idea to honor his friend and classmate, Ted Phillips, by raising $100,000 to dedicate the 17th-century Flemish-style white oak bar in Hearst Hall in Ted’s honor. The idea for a Ted Phillips memorial fund received an enthusiastic response from 37 alumni, friends, and family members of Ted’s, who together raised the intended goal.

As we write, the bar in Hearst Hall is being refinished and the bottles of alcohol within (briefly) removed so that we may carve and gild an inscription in Ted’s honor:

TED PHILLIPS’ CABINET OF WONDERS

When asked about Ted Phillips, Mike Reiss said this:

Ted was a Falstaffian Lampoon member who put his genius into his life instead of his art. Accordingly, the Lampoon’s liquor cabinet will be named for him, with the promise that it will always be filled with booze, as Mr. Phillips was.

Reaching the goal took less than three months, with contributions coming from Phillips’s family and friends, including many non-Lampooners. Reiss encourages other staff members to memorialize their friends with weirdly appropriate gifts.

MHC ’78 and LMH ’82

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DONORS TO THE TED PHILLIPS MEMORIAL CAMPAIGN

Steven D. Bleiberg ’81John F. Bowman ’80John D. Brancato ’80Jennifer L. Brancato ’81Jason H. Brown ’81Jonathan K. Collier ’83Gregory M. Daniels ’85Susannah DenistonDaniel J. Greaney ’86Ted L. Greenberg ’82Selina H. HathawayBrook HerseyJanet HopkinsAlfred E. Jean, Jr. ’81George F. Johannessen ’77Howard B. Johnson ’81Rick KreshtoolRobert S. LaZebnik ’84Sarah MarshallJeff S. Martin ’82George A. Meyer ’78William F. Murphy II ’75Conan C. O’Brien ’85Carl A. Pforzheimer ’83Alice PhillipsKaren PhillipsKatherine PhillipsMichael L. Reiss ’81Paul E. Sax ’82Robert Stern, Jr.Susan C. Stevenson Borowitz ’81William R. Tisherman ’82John TuckerPatric M. Verrone ’81Jonathan M. Vitti ’81Jeffrey R. Westbrook ’83Edward L. Widmer ’84

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MANY CLEVER WRITERS and draughtsmen have since served in the Jester’s Sanctum. He still lives, and so confident is he of a long career that he is to build himself a house on “The Gold Coast,” where he can gather about him his Penates, and provide suitable quarters for the Ibis. The old Lampooners hope that those who are to follow them may have as happy memories as theirs of the days and nights spent in Lampy’s services, and they rest content with the thought that a columbarium may be provided in the Jester’s House. --Founder and Architect of the Castle Edmund March Wheelwright 1876. From Lampy’s Early Days, 1909

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IN MEMORIAM

Ma Lampy announces with further regret the passing of two more dear

sons, Michael Madden ’76 and Kevin Curran ’79.

We thank Mike, who contributed beyond Lampoon to the

good of the whole state we’re in. A Massachusetts native, he headed

up the addiction treatment center NUVA in Gloucester, helped form

the North Shore Health Project, and pushed for equitable treatment of

AIDS patients in his own health insurance firm. He provided years of

amusement and delight to patrons of Harvard Square’s Casablanca as

the club’s owner.

John Bowman ’80 had the following to say of distinguished LL

Kevin Curran:

All Lampy tributes can and rightly ought to be submitted to

[email protected] for future publication.19.

We’re sorry to announce the passing of late and lamented

Kevin Patrick Curran ’79 on October 25, 2016. Kevin wrote

for the National Lampoon right after college. He next wrote

for Late Night with David Letterman, for which he won three

Emmys. He wrote Letterman’s first “Top Ten List,”

“The Top 10 Things That Almost Rhyme With Peas.” In 1989,

he joined “Married…with Children,” and, in 2000, he joined

The Simpsons, where he was a Co-Executive Producer. At The

Simpsons, Curran won three additional Emmys and was

nominated in 2010 for a Humanitas Prize for his episode

“The Greatest Story Ever D’ohed”.

Tom Gammill ’79, John Brancato ’80, Dan Greaney ’86, and

John Bowman ’80 all spoke at his funeral in Los Angeles

on Sunday, November 6, 2016. Kevin was buried at the

Hollywood Forever cemetery, in a plot between Mr. Blackwell

and Dee Dee Ramone. He will be sorely missed.

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HAIL AND FAREWELL

Margaret H. Child ’78 and Edward L. Widmer ’84

It is with regret, gratitude, and dawning desperation that we

announce the retirement of S. Eric Rayman ’73 from the Harvard

Lampoon Board of Trustees. Eric has supported the Lampoon tirelessly

since his days as undergraduate President, serving as a Trustee for over

40 years, as Chair of the Board, Treasurer of the Harvard Lampoon

Trust, Chair of the Legal Committee, and member of the Capital

Campaign and Annual Appeal Committees. From the Cosmo parody

and its iconic centerfold of Henry Kissinger to the just-published Best

of the Harvard Lampoon: 140 Years of American Humor, Eric has been

at the center of every Lampoon enterprise. Indeed, he defined Lampoon

enterprise. Eric wrote every Letter from Ibis and the Annual Report. He

also spearheaded term limits for Lampoon Trustees (including his own)

and ushered in a new generation to lead the organization.

On January 1, 2017, Eric became the tenth member of the

Harvard Lampoon Graduate Review Board, where he will remain

available for legal and creative consultation at a competitive rate.

Concurrently, we welcomed Bob Neer ’86 as a Trustee and

Treasurer of the Lampoon Trust. Bob joined the Board of Trustees

this past fall, and his background and experience in business, law,

history, politics, and education are already proving transformational to

the daily operations of the Lampoon. As a resident of Cambridge within

a ten-minute walk from the Castle, Bob has ascended rapidly to the top

of the call list for Castle fire emergencies. Please join us in extending a

five-alarm welcome to Bob!

MHC ’78 and ELW ’84

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FINANCIAL REPORT

Flux and change have only disciplined and directed Lampy’s management of funds.

In the interest of transparency, we herein leak the private inklings of Tom Beale ’71,

Chair of the Investment Committee, and Bob Neer ’86, Treasurer of The Harvard Lampoon Trust.

We close with a boast or two on everyone’s behalf about the Annual Appeal.

Verily, the rumors are true: Lampy may be entering something of a “golden age.”

THE ENDOWMENT

Thomas W. Beale ’71

At the end of 2015, the unrestricted endowment stood at $3.27

million. In 2016, net total distributions for the Trust and undergraduate

operations reduced the endowment by $114,500, but a healthy 7.7%

annual return from our investments brought the year-end value back up

to $3.4 million. Over the course of the year, the net asset value of the

endowment was also affected by its annual distribution to cover Trust

and Inc. operating expenses (approximately 5% of the endowment) and

by net inflows of new Capital Campaign gifts. In addition, continuing

restricted contributions to the Castle Preservation Fund — created in

2014 for the repair and maintenance of the Castle and long-term capital

improvements — increased its asset level to $49,038 at the start of 2017.

Oversight of the Endowment and its investments continues in the

hands of our experienced Investment Committee: Tom Beale ’71 (Chair),

Chuck Chai ’95, James Murdoch ’96, Bob Neer ’86 (Treasurer), George

Rohr ’76, John Spooner ’59, and David Tobey ’58. Chuck Chai joined

the Committee in 2016 as our newest recruit. Chuck runs the investments

for the family office of Google’s Eric Schmidt. Based on their outside

professional lives, Committee members bring to the Lampoon in

aggregate more than 150 years of experience managing pools of

investment assets, longer than the Lampoon has been in existence.

Should there be another Panic of 1907, then Committee will know what to do.

TWB ’71

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TREASURER’S REPORT

Robert M. Neer, Jr. ‘86, Treasurer of The Harvard Lampoon Trust

Effective business administration has long been a hallmark of the

Lampoon.

In December 2016, we completed a comprehensive financial review

of The Harvard Lampoon Trust (the non-profit Trust run by the Trustees

that owns the Castle, the endowment, and our intellectual property) and

The Harvard Lampoon Inc. (the non-profit corporation and Harvard College

student organization, run by the undergraduates, that uses the Castle and

publishes the magazine). In January 2017, we adopted detailed annual budgets

for both entities. A new accounting firm, John Schacter & Associates (based in

the Back Bay), which has special expertise in creative businesses, has unified

financial reporting for both organizations. A new bookkeeper provides weekly

accounting support and maintains our accounts online, where they can be

reviewed by the Trustees at any time.

Subsidizing the operations of The Harvard Lampoon Inc. accounts for

about half of the Trust’s annual operating budget, exclusive of our investments

in the Castle and special expenses related to the Capital Campaign.

Disbursement of these funds has been restructured and regularized. Rather

than getting periodic lump-sum contributions, the Inc. now receives budgeted

subsidies for three purposes: publications, Castle expenses, and its bi-annual

Phools Week educational retreats.

Publication subsidies support production of the magazine and,

if possible, special projects like Crimson parodies. Subsidies for Castle

operations are remitted in arrears. Operating revenues from the magazine, and

individual member initiation fees and dues—billed and collected for the Inc.

by our accountants—fund all other costs. Our support allows the Treasurer to

waive or reduce initiation fees and dues for every student who needs financial

support. The bookkeeper reviews accounts receivable, accounts payable, and

the organization’s performance against budget weekly with the Treasurer,

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and updates changes online. An outside firm audits the books of the Trust and

Inc. at the end of each year.

A strong performance by the Annual Appeal and Capital Campaign

remain essential for the long-term health of the Harvard Lampoon. Our

endowment, at its current size, is a slender base on which to balance our

mock Flemish Castle, with its voracious need for mock Flemish repairs, and

continue our substantial support for magazine operations and undergraduate

use of the Castle. As we make progress on capital improvements to the

building, we will direct a progressively larger fraction of Capital Campaign

receipts toward strengthening the endowment.

RMN ’86

A dramatic reading of this year’s Treasurer’s Report, submitted by the

esteemed Robert C. Benchley ’13, can be accessed here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edlpn3CnqaQ

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THE ANNUAL APPEAL

The 2016 Annual Appeal returns, while no less annual

than the prior year’s, were just slightly less appealing. We

blame ourselves for getting a late start; elaborate WordArt

appeals did not reach many of you until late fall or early

winter. The 2017 Annual Appeal begins tomorrow. Check your

inboxes.

Donations were, nonetheless, nothing to sneeze at:

$134,757 in total. We invited the parents of graduating

seniors to donate to the Appeal for the first time this year,

and they rose to the occasion. Alumni alone contributed a

sum of $122,857. The total raised is fantastic, and we want

to commend everyone who gave, no matter what the level. We

also want to thank those of you who have become comfortable

with giving every year. Remember, you can’t have an “annual

appeal” without the word “annual.”

The trend of donation remains one of astronomical

increase over time. Parent contributors alone contributed a

sum just shy of the original 2010 Annual Appeal’s yield of

$13,955. The average donation hit a record high of $469.92

this year, due no doubt to the persuasive teamwork of this

year’s co-chairs, David Mandel ’92 and David Mandel ’92.

We also want to let all the $125-and-above donors know

that they will be getting their one-year subscription to the

magazine — but please remember that one year does NOT always

mean 5 issues.

We thank you all for your generous support. To

those who abstained this year, we urge you to reconsider

next year, if only to ensure key access to the Castle’s

forthcoming 2017 Annual Appeal Donor Basement.

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2016 ANNUAL APPEAL CHAIR

David Mandel ’92

2016 ANNUAL APPEAL

COMMITTEE

Reginald E. Greene ’56

Peter H.C. Williams ’56

Michael K. Frith ’63

Michael J. Goodkin ’63

S. Eric Rayman ’73

Stratford P. Sherman ’74

William F. Murphy II ’75

Margaret H. Child ’78

John F. Bowman ’80

Lisa M. Henson ’82

Jonathan K. Collier ’83

Jessica Marshall ’85

Jocelyn C. Stamat ’92

John Aboud III ’95

Robert M. Carlock ’95

Chuckra Chai ’95

Christopher R. Schleicher ’09

Jonathan D. Adler ’12

Allison L. Averill ’12

Ben H. Blatt ’13

Kathryn C. Ryan ’13

Eric S. Arzoian ’14

Eric R. Brewster ’14

Michael Zochowski ’14

Eleanor H. Parker ’15

David P. Taitz ’15

Calvin W. Willett ’16

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DAVID MANDEL ’92, CHAIRGIFTS RECEIVED: $134,757AS OF 2/3/2017

1943 - 33% participation

Oliver E. Allen

1947 - 17% participation Henry N. Cobb

1949 - 9% participation

C. Oliver Iselin III

1951 - 50% participation

Francis E. BakerFrederick A. Parker, Jr.

1952 - 20% participation

Philip W. Smith, Jr.

1955 - 33% participation

James E. Barrett, Jr.Randolph HarrisonDavid H. WardHenry S. Ziegler

1956 - 38% participation

David C. FoggReginald E. GreeneJohn L. VogelsteinRobert P. VolpePeter H.C. Williams

1957 - 11% participation

David S. PattersonHerbert M. Wyman

1958 - 30% participation

Lawrence K. AltmanEdwin A. T. NewtonDavid M. Tobey

1959 - 10% participation

John D. Spooner

1960 - 17% participation

Thomas P. Curtis IIMichael S. MoehlmanJohn C. Wilmerding

1961 - 7% participation

J. Warren Young

1963 - 60% participation

Jeffrey A. ColeMichael K. FrithMichael J. GoodkinAlfred C. Harrison, Jr.Winfield P. JonesStevenson McIlvainePhilip A. MonteleoniMichael F. O’Connell IIGiovanni (John) A. PirovanoJeffrey PostmanKenneth J. Stuart, Jr.Bradford H. Walker

1964 - 18% participation

Joseph C. BrightJeffrey L. Steingarten

1965 - 12% participation

John W. AldrichIn memory of George W.S. Trow ’65Raymond W. Vickers

1966 - 5% participation

Samuel T. Wyrick

1967 - 14% participation

James J. LallyWilliam. L. Thornton

1968 - 12% participation

Eliot R. CutlerDavid M. IronsScott H. Lang

1970 - 5% participation

Wayne C. Olson

1971 - 11% participation

Thomas W. BealeWilliam B. Beekman

1972 - 27% participation

David H. GaylinGregory H. MacPhersonWilliam R. Yoder

1973 - 45% participation

Jake ArbesJohn M. GilpinSallie T. GouverneurJohn P. LuneauBruce G. A. McDougallS. Eric RaymanFrederick D. WeilChristopher H. WhiteDavid F. White

1974 - 28% participation

Lawrence F. O’Donnell, Jr.Steven R. SearsStratford P. ShermanSuzanne E. SiskelLawrence J. Siskind

1975 - 41% participation

Alexander W. ChessmanJohn W. Gillespie, Jr.William F. Murphy IIHarron A. SnyderCharles P. SteinbrueggeIn memory of Mark P. O’Donnell ’76Joseph E. ToplynCharles C. Wyman

M A L A M P Y ’Sannual appeal

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1976 - 35% participation

Kurt B. AndersenJay A. JensenCaroline A. JonesMark E. MagowanLouis G. Shenk IIIRichard P. TierneyEdward L. Trimble

1977 - 35% participation

Jean T. BarrettCarter B. Burwell IVTa-Kuang ChangSanford R. ClimanJonathan E. FinegoldRoger H. ParloffHomer B. Pettey

1978 - 27% participation

AnonymousMargaret H. ChildSteven G. CristChristopher F. Dowd

1979 - 23% participation

Shawn A. HaydenMax L. ProssAlan F. Sussna

1980 - 15% participation

Kate DitzlerJon D. Hohenstein

1981 - 19% participation

Susan Stevenson BorowitzJames V. GracePatric M. Verrone

1982 - 30% participation

Mark J. DriscollLisa M. HensonJeff S. MartinGeorge B. MelrodSusan MorrisonRoger T. Ullman

1983 - 13% participation

Jonathan K. CollierThomas H. Hill

1984 - 30% participation

Bradford L. FarkasRodman FlenderMark A. SilberJonathan A. ShayneMargaret W. VerroneEdward L. Widmer

1985 - 14% participation

Jessica MarshallEdward T. Swaine

1986 - 23% participation

Jeffrey R. ChapmanDavid Y. HoweBrian L. KenetChristina A. LynchRobert M. Neer Jr.

1987 - 18% participation

Douglas MaoPaul R. Simms

1988 - 46% participation

Michael A. BorkowJohn W. Boynton IVDavid S. CohenRonald E. CorcilloDavid A. FrazeMatthew R. Leibowitz

1989 - 14% participation

Jonathan D. FernandezDaniel F. Sturman

1990 - 38% participation

Tyler E. ChapmanRobinson O. Everett, Jr.Shevanti M. JegasothyGregg R. KavetDaniel J. O’KeefeNicholas M. Spooner

1991 - 33% participation

Ravin R. AgrawalAlec BergSeth K. JacobsonLaurence C. O’KeefeJeffrey C. Schaffer

1992 - 52% participation

Elijah F. AronJonathan D. BairdJ. Stewart BurnsJustin V. GrahamDavid P. LorschAlexandra MaggioniDavid H. MandelDaniel T. PereiraKeith A. QuinnLinda M. RattnerGeoffrey W. RodkeyLawrence E. Tanz

1993 - 53% participation

Shapour T. AlamFrederick J. de la VegaMatthew R. GrenbyDavid JaverbaumDavid J. KennedyStephen G. LooknerMarkham C. O’KeefeMeredith M. Thomson

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1994 - 44% participation

Hyung Jung AhnWilliam Chun-Wei WuBrian H. KelleyJames G. MillardAndrew J. SanockiScott J. Silveri andShana C. Goldberg-Meehan Silveri

1995 - 29% participation

John Aboud IIIRobert M. CarlockChuckra P. ChaiDeborah J. Margaritov

1996 - 20% participation

James R. J. MurdochJonathan D. Nelms

1997 - 50% participation

Emily B. CohenEtan J. CohenMichael R. ColtonDavid EilenbergFrancette L. KelleyAmy OzolsSpencer M. RascoffAmina Runyan-Shefa

1998 - 20% participation

Kenton H. BeermanNicholas A. Stoller

1999 - 53% participation

Craig A. DiGregorioJames E. EaganKristin C. GoreErik J. KenwardScott R. LevyNick C. MalisEben K. RussellDaniel E. SchofieldNoam I. Weinstein

2000 - 27% participation

Kevin C. EttenAmanda J. LeahyJacob F. LentzMartin R. Thiry III

2002 - 33% participation

Jeremy D. BronsonDaniel ChunStephen C. HelyMatthew M. Wrenshall

2003 - 35% participation

Benjamin F. DouganRob KleinAndre MouraDavid ParkerHelen B. StevensVinicius Vacanti

2004 - 22% participation

Shawn BadlaniAbhishek Gupta

2005 - 14% participation

Shane Dinneen

2006 - 40% participation

Craig AlpertFarley T. KatzMonica PadrickPatrick D. SwieskowskiYalun TuElizabeth Widdicombe

2007 - 17% participation

Melinda S. DavilaClaire FriedmanSimon Rich

2008 - 17% participation

Maureen E. Boyle

2009 - 42% participation

McDonald C. BartelsJared GruszeckiRobert PadnickChristopher R. Schleicher

2010 - 16% participation

Kyle MackCaitlin MearesSarah E. Wick

2011 - 15% participation

Courtney G. BowmanDaniel Liss

2012 - 38% participation

Jonathan D. AdlerAllison L. AverillJonathan P. Finn-GaminoJames P. FitzpatrickKevin NeylanBenjamin W.K. Smith

2013 - 33% participation

Ben H. BlattAndrew P.F. KarnMeryl F. NatowRenee E. RoberKathryn C. RyanLily A. Sassoon

2014 - 47% participation

Eric S. ArzoianVictoria R. BlackEric R. BrewsterGeorgiana BrinkleyAndrei CiupanJonathan D. ReindollarTyler RichardMichael Zochowski

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2015 - 53% participation

Nicholas M. FolgerNicole J. LevinEleanor H. ParkerJonathan J. ShpallDavid P. TaitzDillon T. Van AukenKrithika VaragurAudrey M.D. VernickAlexis C. WilkinsonJames E. Yoder

2016 - 16% participation

Catherine C. ColeGideon W. NachmanEkaterina T. Tchebotareva

Friends of The Harvard LampoonMr. and Mrs. David CitronMr. and Mrs. Vincent KatowMr. David Nachman andMs. Amy SchulmanMr. and Mrs. Arthur PattersonMr. and Mrs. Vadim TchebotarevaMr. and Mrs. Anthony J. UnitasMr. Peter Willett

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HARVARD LAMPOON COMMITTEES

2016 ANNUAL APPEAL

John Aboud ’95Jonathan D. Adler ’12Eric S. Arzoian ’14Allison L. Averill ’12Ben H. Blatt ’13John F. Bowman ’80Eric Brewster ’14Robert M. Carlock ’95Chuckra Chai ’95Margaret H. Child ’78Jonathan Collier ’83Michael K. Frith ’63Michael J. Goodkin ’63Reginald E. Greene ’56Lisa M. Henson ’82David Mandel ’92 – ChairJessica Marshall ’85William Francis Murphy II ’75Eleanor H. Parker ’15S. Eric Rayman ’73Kathryn C. Ryan ’13Christopher Schleicher ’09Stratford Pressley Sherman ’74Jocelyn Carol Stamat ’92David P. Taitz ’15Calvin Willett ’16Peter Williams ’56Michael Zochowski ’14

BUILDING

Kurt B. Andersen ’76 – ChairThomas W. Beale ’71Tyler E. Chapman ’90Jonathan P. Finn-Gamiño ’12Robert M. Neer, Jr. ’86Paul Simms ’87Edward L. Widmer ’84John B. Tittman, Architect

INVESTMENT

Thomas W. Beale ’71 – ChairChuckra Chai ’95James R. Murdoch ’96Robert M. Neer, Jr. ‘86 George Rohr ’76John D. Spooner ’59David M. Tobey ’58

LEGAL

Tyler E. Chapman ’90Robert M. Neer, Jr. ’86S. Eric Rayman ’73 – Chair

ORAL AND WRITTEN HISTORY

Michael K. Frith ’63Michael J. Goodkin ’63 – ChairJosiah D. Henson ’72Jessica Marshall ’87Lawrence W. Newman ’57David L. Owen ’78William J. Rauch ’73Edward L. Widmer ’84J. Warren Young ’61

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