HSA 65th Anniversary Book

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FEBRUARY 1, 1997 –
JANUARY 31, 1998
The Unofficial Guide
becomes its own agency
The old Manter Hall School is renovated in 1996.
Why “Burke-McCoy”?
In the summer of 1995, Robert
McCoy pledged a substantial lead
gift to HSA’s capital campaign
and requested that the renovated
building be named Burke-McCoy
Hall. The name honors Dusty
Burke, the first General Manager
of HSA; Hester Bell McCoy, who
joined HSA in 1961 as Corporation
Secretary; and Robert McCoy
himself, who served HSA as
manager of Europe by Car for two
years, Assistant General Manager
under Burke, and Let’s Go Business
Manager upon his graduation from
business school. HSA is proud to
honor these three individuals whose
past and continuing contributions
have helped make HSA the
dynamic and thriving organization
it is today.
PRESIDENT
Amit
Tiwari
OFFICES
67 Mt. Auburn St.
17 Holyoke St.
HARVARD
STUDENT
AGENCIES
The flag of HSA waved gallantly above the entrance to Burke-
McCoy Hall. The Unofficial Guide, Let’s Go Ad Sales, Out-House
Testing, and Distribution inhabited the basement; the second
floor housed most of the professional staff, the President, the Vice
President, Harvard Graphic Design, HSR, and Catering. Let’s Go
resided on the top two floors.
The Unofficial Guide departed from Let’s Go to become its own
agency, replete with sales force and manager. After the 571st toilet
The FY98 management team.
joke, Out-House Testing flushed its old name and became Computer Services. The Harvard Bartending
Course cost $130, Karen Lau ’98 served ably as Vice President, the 40th-anniversary history book was written,
and the HSA softball team achieved a record number of wins.
Let’s Go: Australia and Let’s Go: New Zealand put another continent in the bag. Two new Map Guides, to
Amsterdam and Florence, joined the party. It was also the 1998 versions that officially dropped “The Budget
Guide to” from all their titles.
WHERE THEY ARE NOW...
Amit Tiwari | ’98, MBA ’04
JOBS AT HSA: Manager, Let’s Go Ad Sales, FY97; President, FY98.
JOBS SINCE HSA: Began his career in investing at Morgan Stanley, KKR, and Ziff Brothers
Investments; launched a proprietary trading business for Morgan Stanley, then served as Head
of Equities at the Lakshmi Mittal Family Office and Head of International Developed Equities at
Harvard Management Company; now Managing Director at Vitruvian Partners, considered the
leading European growth equity investment fund.
The interior of Burke-McCoy Hall today.
HOW HAS HSA INFLUENCED YOUR CAREER? “It gave me exposure to lots of businesses. As
President, you got to see lots. That was, at that age, certainly enlightening. … I spent a lot of my time
on the road with Michael Cronin, raising our $6.5 million campaign haul to pay for Burke-McCoy
Hall. … The real catalyst for [my career] was seeing Michael and his career and my experience with
him; that really shaped my thinking.”
WHAT ARE SOME OF YOUR MOST FUN MEMORIES FROM HSA? “I loved the softball team,
loved our softball T-shirts, loved our barbecues. … The Let’s Go parties were famous. [Our offices]
had this open plan; they were kind of grungy; there was Weezer and Radiohead playing in the
background. It was fantastic.”
LET’S GO TITLES
• Europe
• Britain & Ireland
• France
• Italy
• USA
AGENCIES
• Greece & Turkey
• Israel & Egypt
• California
• Alaska & the
Pacific Northwest
• Spain & Portugal
• Mexico
• New York City
• London
• Washington, D.C.
• Germany
• Austria &
Switzerland
• Paris
• Rome
• Ireland
• Southeast Asia
• Eastern Europe
• Central America
• India & Nepal
• Ecuador & the
Galapagos Islands
• Australia
• New Zealand
OTHER TITLES
• The Unofficial
Guide to Life
at Harvard
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• Linen
• Let’s Go Publications
• Catering
• Travel
• The Campus Store
• Harvard Student Resources
• Harvard Distribution Services
• Let’s Go Ad Sales
• Harvard Graphic Design
• Computer Services
• The Unofficial Guide
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