David McCord explained

Office:	Executive Director of the Harvard College Fund
Term Start:	1925
Term End:	1963
Birth Date:	November 15, 1897
Birth Place:	New York City, US
Death Date:	April 13, 1997
Alma Mater:	Harvard University
Occupation:	poet

David Thompson Watson McCord (November 15, 1897 in New York CityApril 13, 1997) was an American poet and college fundraiser.

Life

He grew up in Portland, Oregon where he graduated from Lincoln High School, and earned three degrees from Harvard University.^[1] His work appeared in Harper's.^[2]

He raised millions of dollars as executive director of the Harvard College Fund.^[3]

Awards

• Golden Rose Award
• 1954 Guggenheim Fellow^[4]
• 1961 National Institute of Arts and Letters grant
• 1977, the first national award for Excellence in Poetry for Children from the National Council of Teachers of English
• Rudyard Kipling Fellow at Marlboro College in Vermont
• Benjamin Franklin Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts in London

Two collections of poems, The Star in the Pail and One at a Time were 1976 and 1978 finalists for the National Book Award, Children's Literature.^[5]

Works

Poetry

• Book: Oddly Enough. registration. Washburn & Thomas. 1926 .
• Book: Far and few: rhymes of the never was and always is. registration. Illustrator Henry B. Kane. Little, Brown. 1952. 978-0-316-55502-9 .
• Book: About Boston: sight, sound, flavor & inflection. Doubleday. 1948.
• Book: An Acre for Education. Crimson Printing Co.. 1954 .
• Book: Odds Without Ends. registration. Little, Brown & Co.. 1954 .
• Book: Take Sky. Little Brown & Company. 1962. 978-0-316-55509-8. registration.
• Book: Every Time I Climb A Tree. Little, Brown & Co.. 1967.
• Book: All Day Long. Bantam Books. 1971. 978-0-440-40376-0 .
• Book: The Star in the Pail . Little, Brown and Company. 1975 . 0-316-55515-0. ^[5]
• Book: One At A Time . registration . Little, Brown and Company. 1977 . 9780316555166 . ^[5]
• Book: Dinosaurs. Educational Development Corporation. 1977. 978-0-88110-119-5 .

Essays

• Book: The Camp at Lockjaw. Doubleday. 1952.
• Book: In Sight of Sever: Essays from Harvard. registration. Harvard University Press. 1963. 978-0-674-44701-1 .

Editor

• Book: What Cheer: An anthology of American and British humorous and witty verse, gathered, sifted, and salted, with an introduction. David McCord. New York . Coward-McCann. 1945 .

Appearances in others' anthologies

• Book: Modern American poetry: a critical anthology. Louis Untermeyer. Harcourt, Brace and company. 1936 .
• Book: The Oxford book of American poetry. David Lehman . John Brehm. Oxford University Press. 2006. 978-0-19-516251-6. registration.

External links

• "PERSPECTIVES: David McCord", Boston, Massachusetts, David A. Dillon
• http://harvardmagazine.com/1997/07a/alumni.html
• http://harvardmagazine.com/1997/07/mccordiana

Notes and References

1. [wikisource:en:Oregon Historical Quarterly/Volume 60/Oregon]
2. Book: Harper's Magazine. Hartman. Lee Foster. Allen. Frederick Lewis. 1953-01-01. Harper & Brothers. en.
3. Web site: David McCord, Fundraiser, Poet, Dies at 99. Harvard Office of News and Public Affairs. www.news.harvard.edu. 2016-04-13. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160418155439/http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1997/04.17/DavidMcCordFund.html. 2016-04-18.
4. Web site: All Fellows - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . 2009-06-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110603235813/http://www.gf.org/fellows/all?index=m&page=11 . 2011-06-03 . dead .
5. https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1970 "National Book Awards – 1970"