White Gives Scholarship To Aid Creative Talent

The David McCord Scholarship Fund for undergraduates with talent in the creative arts has been established as part of the Program for Harvard College.

The fund has been set up to provide financial aid for undergraduates "who have demonstrated unusual creative ability and stamina in writing, or in music, painting, drawing or sculpture."

James N. White '21, donor of the gift, has expressed the hope that "other things being equal" the scholarship might go, from time to time to "students from Mr. McCord's Lincoln High School in Portland, Ore., or from other Oregon high schools, or from Lawrenceville in New Jersey, from which his father was graduated."

David McCord '21 was a classmate and friend of White during their undergraduate years at Harvard College. Both men came from the West and shared an interest in writing--while White was elected to the CRIMSON, McCord became President of the Lampoon.

Maintaining his literary interest, McCord has written poetry for 35 years including "The College Pump," a column of anecdotes and reminiscences for the Harvard Alumni Bulletin of which he was editor for six years. Since 1925, he has served as Executive Secretary of the Harvard Fund Council.

White entered the field of investment counseling with a firm in Boston after completing his studies at the University. Presently, he is senior partner with Scudder, Stevens & Clark, a director of the Wall Street Journal, the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and a trustee of Norwich University in Vermont.