Ulam at Harvard
Nov. 18th, 2014 11:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ayudugThe chairman of the society was L.J. Henderson, a famous biologist, author of the book, The Fitness of Environment,...
Good French Burgundies or Alsatian wines accompanied the meals. These were the pride and joy of Henderson, who once told me that if he ever deserved a statue in Cambridge, he would like to put it in Harvard Square with a bottle of wine in his hands, in commemoration of his having been the first person to obtain University funds for a wine cellar. George Homans, one of the Junior Fellows, a descendant of President John Adams, was one of the young men entrusted with the selection and sampling of wines. I considered it a great distinction when I, too, was put on the wine-tasting committee of the Society. This was my first administrative job in America!
Good French Burgundies or Alsatian wines accompanied the meals. These were the pride and joy of Henderson, who once told me that if he ever deserved a statue in Cambridge, he would like to put it in Harvard Square with a bottle of wine in his hands, in commemoration of his having been the first person to obtain University funds for a wine cellar. George Homans, one of the Junior Fellows, a descendant of President John Adams, was one of the young men entrusted with the selection and sampling of wines. I considered it a great distinction when I, too, was put on the wine-tasting committee of the Society. This was my first administrative job in America!
