Rosovsky Omitted From Faculty Book

Power does not necessarily buy you fame, Acting President and Corporation Member Henry Rosovsky found out when he perused this year's Directory of the Faculty.

The University Professor's name was omitted from the first page of the directory which lists the "President and Fellows of Harvard College."

So all the copies of the directory of 12,000 faculty members and administrative personnel were corrected, reprinted and rebound--at a cost of nearly $800.

"Every year you have some booboos, but you try to keep them to a minimum," said Daniel D. Cantor, the University's personnel director. The omission of Rosovsky from the first-page listing of the president and fellows of Harvard College was serious enough to warrant a correction, he said.

"It is not a frequent occurrence," said Cantor. "It's been at least ten years since this has happened. This is the first time since I came here."

Rosovsky Reacts

Rosovsky, who was appointed to the Corporation last year and is currently filling in for the vacationing Derek C. Bok, said he did not think the mistake was a laughing matter.

"How can I be lighthearted about such a serious issue?" he said yesterday. "Someone in central administration must be trying to give me a message."

The error was not noticed until some 200 of the 13,000 directories had been distributed, Cantor said, and Rosovsky had nothing to do with the recall of the books.

The former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences refused comment. on the expenditure of time and money to correct the directories "prior to my investigation" of the matter, he said.