David McCord

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

Life

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

He was executive director of the Harvard College Fund, raising millions of dollars.^[2]

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]

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 dedication in 1939:

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

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.
An Acre for Education. Crimson Printing Co. 1954.
Take Sky. Little Brown & Company. 1962. ISBN 978-0-316-55509-8.
About Boston: sight, sound, flavor & inflection, Doubleday, 1948
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.

In Sight of Sever: Essays from Harvard. Harvard University Press. 1963. ISBN 978-0-674-44701-1.

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.

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.

↑ Hartman, Lee Foster; Allen, Frederick Lewis (1953-01-01). Harper's Magazine. Harper & Brothers.
↑ Affairs, Harvard Office of News and Public. "David McCord, Fundraiser, Poet, Dies at 99". www.news.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
↑ http://www.gf.org/fellows/all?index=m&page=11
1 2 3 "National Book Awards – 1970". NBF. Retrieved 2012-02-08. (Select 1976 and 1978 from the top left menu.)
↑ "David McCord, poet". The Boston Globe. April 15, 1997.
↑ 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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