$100K Students

The Kennedy School memos obtained this week also revealed plans to implement a program that would allow alumni to attend classes at Harvard in exchange for a $100,000 gift.

According to special projects assistant Geralyn White '84, the Kennedy School would accord the status of "special student" to any alumnus who paid the requisite amount. "It's a program we might want to develop as a way of fundraising for the school," White said.

In a memo to K-School Dean Graham T. Allison '62, White said that Charles C. Dickinson III and Joanne W. Eaton Dickinson are "examples of why we should have a special student tuition for 100K. They are both perpetual students."

If the program is implemented, "alumni will come back to the school, make a major contribution and get to go to class," White said. "Essentially they will be guests of the President and go to classes."