David McCord
{{short description|American poet and college fundraiser (1897-1997)}}
{{about|the Harvard University official|the Canadian lawyer and philanthropist|David Ross McCord}}
{{Infobox officeholder|office=Executive Director of the Harvard College Fund|term_start=1925|term_end=1963|birth_date=November 15, 1897|birth_place=New York City, US|death_date=April 13, 1997|alma_mater=Harvard University|occupation=poet|awards={{ubl|Golden Rose Award|1954 Guggenheim Fellow|finalist for the National Book Award, Children's Literature}}}}
David Thompson Watson McCord (November 15, 1897 in New York City{{snd}}April 13, 1997) was an American poet and college fundraiser.
Life
He grew up in Portland, Oregon where he graduated from Lincoln High School, and earned three degrees from Harvard University.wikisource:en:Oregon Historical Quarterly/Volume 60/Oregon His work appeared in Harper's.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VWQQAAAAIAAJ|title=Harper's Magazine|last1=Hartman|first1=Lee Foster|last2=Allen|first2=Frederick Lewis|date=1953-01-01|publisher=Harper & Brothers|language=en}}
He raised millions of dollars as executive director of the Harvard College Fund.{{Cite web|url=http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1997/04.17/DavidMcCordFund.html|title=David McCord, Fundraiser, Poet, Dies at 99|author=Harvard Office of News and Public Affairs|website=www.news.harvard.edu|accessdate=2016-04-13|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160418155439/http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1997/04.17/DavidMcCordFund.html|archivedate=2016-04-18}}
Awards
- Golden Rose Award
- 1954 Guggenheim Fellow{{Cite web |url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/all?index=m&page=11 |title=All Fellows - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |access-date=2009-06-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110603235813/http://www.gf.org/fellows/all?index=m&page=11 |archive-date=2011-06-03 |url-status=dead }}
- 1961 National Institute of Arts and Letters grant
- 1977, the first national award for Excellence in Poetry for Children from the National Council of Teachers of English
- Rudyard Kipling Fellow at Marlboro College in Vermont
- Benjamin Franklin Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts in London
Two collections of poems, The Star in the Pail and One at a Time were 1976 and 1978 finalists for the National Book Award, Children's Literature.
[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1970 "National Book Awards – 1970"]. NBF. Retrieved 2012-02-08. (Select 1976 and 1978 from the top left menu.)
Works
=Poetry=
- {{cite book| title=Oddly Enough| url=https://archive.org/details/oddlyenough0000mcco| url-access=registration| publisher=Washburn & Thomas| year=1926 }}
- {{cite book| title=Far and few: rhymes of the never was and always is| url=https://archive.org/details/farfewrhymesofth00mcco| url-access=registration| others=Illustrator Henry B. Kane| publisher=Little, Brown| year=1952| isbn=978-0-316-55502-9 }}
- {{cite book| title=About Boston: sight, sound, flavor & inflection| publisher=Doubleday| year=1948}}
- {{cite book| title=An Acre for Education| publisher=Crimson Printing Co.| year=1954 }}
- {{cite book| title=Odds Without Ends| url=https://archive.org/details/oddswithoutendsp0000mcco| url-access=registration| publisher=Little, Brown & Co.| year=1954 }}
- {{cite book| title=Take Sky| publisher=Little Brown & Company| year=1962| isbn=978-0-316-55509-8| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780316555098}}
- {{cite book| title=Every Time I Climb A Tree| publisher=Little, Brown & Co.| year=1967}}
- {{cite book| title=All Day Long| publisher=Bantam Books| year=1971| isbn=978-0-440-40376-0 }}
- {{cite book| title=The Star in the Pail | publisher=Little, Brown and Company| year=1975 | isbn=0-316-55515-0}}
- {{cite book| title=One At A Time | url=https://archive.org/details/oneattimepoems00mcco | url-access=registration | publisher=Little, Brown and Company| year=1977 | isbn=9780316555166 }}
- {{cite book| title=Dinosaurs| publisher=Educational Development Corporation| year=1977| isbn=978-0-88110-119-5 }}
=Essays=
- {{cite book| title=The Camp at Lockjaw| publisher= Doubleday| year=1952}}
- {{cite book| title=In Sight of Sever: Essays from Harvard| url=https://archive.org/details/insightofseveres00mcco| url-access=registration| publisher=Harvard University Press| year=1963| isbn=978-0-674-44701-1 }}
=Editor=
- {{cite book| title=What Cheer: An anthology of American and British humorous and witty verse, gathered, sifted, and salted, with an introduction| editor=David McCord| location=New York | publisher=Coward-McCann| year=1945 }}
=Appearances in others' anthologies=
- {{cite book| title=Modern American poetry: a critical anthology| editor=Louis Untermeyer| publisher=Harcourt, Brace and company| year=1936 }}
- {{cite book| title=The Oxford book of American poetry|editor1=David Lehman |editor2=John Brehm| publisher=Oxford University Press| year=2006| isbn=978-0-19-516251-6| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordbookofamer0000unse}}
References
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External links
{{Wikiquote}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20150501001702/http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/About/Awards/McCord.pdf "PERSPECTIVES: David McCord", Boston, Massachusetts, David A. Dillon]
- [http://harvardmagazine.com/1997/07a/alumni.html http://harvardmagazine.com/1997/07a/alumni.html]
- [http://harvardmagazine.com/1997/07/mccordiana http://harvardmagazine.com/1997/07/mccordiana]
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