HSA 65th Anniversary Book

WHERE THEY ARE NOW...
Deval Patrick | ’78, JD ’82
JOBS AT HSA: Bartender, Catering, starting in FY75; Clerk, HSA Board of Directors, elected FY75.
JOBS SINCE HSA: Worked as an attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and as partner at the law firm Hill & Barlow;
appointed U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in 1994; worked as General Counsel for Texaco and the Coca-Cola
Company; served as Governor of Massachusetts 2007–2015, only the second African-American elected Governor of any state; ran for
President in 2020.
WHAT WAS YOUR ROLE AT HSA? “All the cool kids were working for Let’s Go or the Travel agency. I did the bartending. It was great
money to help pay for school and my incidentals, and it was really great training in dealing with lots of different people, different styles...
You add to that liquor, and it’s an interesting brew.”
CAN YOU TELL US SOME STORIES ABOUT WORKING AT HSA? “Bartenders will tell you this: people say things to bartenders that
they wouldn’t say normally. When you’re 18, 19, 20 years old and you’re hearing these stories — some of them very funny, some of them
very tragic, sometimes compelling, always intimate — you’re learning how to manage that, how to keep your professionalism but also be
empathetic.”
HOW HAVE THE SKILLS YOU LEARNED AT HSA HELPED YOU IN YOUR CAREER? “I can still mix a great gin and tonic! But I think
most importantly… the interaction with a wide variety of different kinds of people, with wildly varying states of mind and mood, and
keeping your composure was pretty useful later on in politics.”
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FEBRUARY 1, 1975–
JANUARY 31, 1976
OFFICES
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PRESIDENT
Kendall
Powell
4 Holyoke St.
8 Holyoke St.
The Unofficial Guide and Let’s Go:
Britain & Ireland herald a new era
Two years after assuming the position of General Manager, Brad Howe announced his pending resignation,
effective July 1. To replace him, HSA hired Robert Maxcy at the end of May. He promptly resigned after
seven days of work. After this underwhelming performance, HSA chose Daniel Del Vecchio as the next
General Manager. A former Director of Program Resources at Boston University with a strong accounting
and business background, Del Vecchio successfully weathered his first seven days in office without incident.
HSA gave birth to no new agencies, nor did it obliterate any. Instructional Services showed 60 students
swingin’ steps in its first ballroom-dancing course.
The first Unofficial Guide to Life at Harvard! No longer did Harvard students languish in ignorance.
Previously published by the Harvard Graduate Student Council exclusively for graduate students, HSA’s
144-page Unofficial Guide provided the entire campus with the unofficial word of truth about the strange,
wonderful, and frightening reality in which it was enmeshed. Although new to HSA, it was The Unofficial
Guide’s 24th edition. Meanwhile, another famished mob of students consumed Boston for the final time to
create the third edition of Cheap Eats.
Let’s Go: Europe remained much the same, although the cover turned blue again. Over dinner in the dining
hall one night, Publishing Manager William Slivka ’76, MBA ’78, and President Kendall Powell ’76 mused
about whether a guide to all of Europe was too unwieldy for travelers just going to one or two countries.
They tapped the previous year’s Editor, Paul K. Rowe ’76, JD ’79, to take on a new challenge: Let’s Go’s first
guide to a single destination, Let’s Go: Britain & Ireland. Permanent expansion of the series had commenced.
LET’S GO TITLES
• Europe • Britain & Ireland OTHER TITLES
AGENCIES
• The Unofficial Guide to Life
at Harvard
• Cheap Eats: Inexpensive
Dining in Greater Boston
• Linen
• Publishing
• Catering
• Travel
• Custodial
• Refrigerator Rental
• Rings
• Union News Stand
• Instructional Services
• Boston Office Flowers
• Leasing
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