David McCord

David Thompson Watson McCord (December 15, 1897 New York City – April 13, 1997) was an American poet and college fundraiser.

This article is about the Harvard University official. For the Canadian lawyer and philanthropist, see David Ross McCord.

Life

He grew up in Portland, Oregon and graduated from Harvard University. His work appeared in Harper's.[1]

He raised millions of dollars as executive director of the Harvard College Fund.[2]

Awards
  • Golden Rose Award
  • 1954 Guggenheim Fellow[3]
  • 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.[4]

Poems

On Halloween, what bothers some
About these witches, is how come
In sailing, through the air, like bats
They never seem, to lose their hats?[5]

A review of Cram & Ferguson's design for the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company building in Boston's Back Bay upon its 1939 dedication:

Ralph Adams Cram
One morning said damn
And designed the Urn Burial
For a concern actuarial.[6]

Works

Poetry
  • Oddly Enough. Washburn & Thomas. 1926.
  • Far and few: rhymes of the never was and always is. Illustrator Henry B Kane. Little, Brown. 1952. ISBN 978-0-316-55502-9.CS1 maint: others (link)
  • About Boston: sight, sound, flavor & inflection. Doubleday. 1948.
  • An Acre for Education. Crimson Printing Co. 1954.
  • Odds Without Ends. Little, Brown & Co. 1954.
  • Take Sky. Little Brown & Company. 1962. ISBN 978-0-316-55509-8.
  • Every Time I Climb A Tree. Little, Brown & Co. 1967.
  • All Day Long. Bantam Books. 1971. ISBN 978-0-440-40376-0.
  • The Star in the Pail. Little, Brown and Company. 1975. ISBN 0-316-55515-0.[4]
  • One At A Time. Little, Brown and Company. 1977.[4]
  • Dinosaurs. Educational Development Corporation. 1977. ISBN 978-0-88110-119-5.

Essays

Editor
  • David Thompson Watson McCord, ed. (1955). What Cheer: an anthology of American and British humorous and witty verse, gathered, sifted, and salted, with an introduction. Modern Library.

Anthologies
  • Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1936). Modern American poetry: a critical anthology. Harcourt, Brace and company.
  • David Lehman; John Brehm, eds. (2006). The Oxford book of American poetry. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-516251-6.

References
  1. Hartman, Lee Foster; Allen, Frederick Lewis (1953-01-01). Harper's Magazine. Harper & Brothers.
  2. Affairs, Harvard Office of News and Public. "David McCord, Fundraiser, Poet, Dies at 99". www.news.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-04-18. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-03. Retrieved 2009-06-28.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "National Book Awards – 1970". NBF. Retrieved 2012-02-08. (Select 1976 and 1978 from the top left menu.)
  5. "David McCord, poet". The Boston Globe. April 15, 1997.
  6. Shand-Tucci, Douglass, Built in Boston: City and Suburb, 1880-2000, Revised and Expanded Edition (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000), p. 183.
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