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Lucius Littauer

Harvard University Archives, HUM 3.10, Box 20, Folder 162

Lucius Littauer AB 1878

A few decades before President Kennedy made his famous call to service, Lucius Littauer AB 1878 asked what he could do—and the Harvard Graduate School of Public Administration was born. A collaborator and a team player by nature, Littauer was a varsity crew member, Harvard’s first football coach, a gifted business leader, a five-term US Representative, and adviser to Theodore Roosevelt. In 1936, he bestowed $2 million to found what is now Harvard Kennedy School. Through the years, alumni and friends like you have picked up Littauer’s mantle of giving, thus advancing our mission of public service and improving the lives of individuals around the world.

Edith M. Stokey

Edith M. Stokey

Edith M. Stokey is lecturer in public policy emerita. She taught the core course in microeconomics in the MPP program as well as public sector operations research. Stokey, who joined the school in 1971, served for many years as secretary of the school and associate academic dean. She worked with many deans, serving as a councilor on many subjects to each. Considered one of the “founding mothers” of Harvard Kennedy School, Stokey helped shape many aspects of today’s curriculum. She is coauthor (with Richard Zeckhauser) of A Primer for Policy Analysis, a book still widely influential in public administration.
Graham T. Allison

Graham T. Allison

Former HKS Dean Graham T. Allison (1977–1989) serves as director of the School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government. A leading analyst of US national security policy, Allison has a special interest in nuclear weapons proliferation, terrorism, and the decision-making process. While serving as assistant secretary of defense during President Clinton's first term, he received the Defense Department’s highest civilian award, the Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, for “reshaping relations with Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan to reduce the former Soviet nuclear arsenal.” His work resulted in the safe return of more than 12,000 tactical nuclear weapons from the former Soviet republics and the complete elimination of more than 4,000 strategic nuclear warheads previously targeting the United States. In 1971, he published Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis, which ranks among the bestsellers in 20th century political science with more than 400,000 copies in print.

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