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David McCord

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David McCord
Executive Director of the Harvard College Fund
In office
1925–1963[1]
Personal details
BornNovember 15, 1897
New York City, US
DiedApril 13, 1997
Alma materHarvard University
Occupationpoet
Awards

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

Life

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He grew up in Portland, Oregon where he graduated from Lincoln High School, and earned three degrees from Harvard University.[2] His work appeared in Harper's.[3]

He raised millions of dollars as executive director of the Harvard College Fund.[1]

Awards

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  • Golden Rose Award
  • 1954 Guggenheim Fellow[4]
  • 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.[5]

Works

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Poetry

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  • 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.{{cite book}}: 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.[5]
  • One At A Time. Little, Brown and Company. 1977. ISBN 9780316555166.[5]
  • Dinosaurs. Educational Development Corporation. 1977. ISBN 978-0-88110-119-5.

Essays

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Editor

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  • David McCord, ed. (1945). What Cheer: An anthology of American and British humorous and witty verse, gathered, sifted, and salted, with an introduction. New York: Coward-McCann.

Appearances in others' anthologies

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References

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  1. ^ a b Harvard Office of News and Public Affairs. "David McCord, Fundraiser, Poet, Dies at 99". www.news.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-04-18. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
  2. ^ wikisource:en:Oregon Historical Quarterly/Volume 60/Oregon
  3. ^ Hartman, Lee Foster; Allen, Frederick Lewis (1953-01-01). Harper's Magazine. Harper & Brothers.
  4. ^ "All Fellows - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on 2011-06-03. Retrieved 2009-06-28.
  5. ^ a b c "National Book Awards – 1970". NBF. Retrieved 2012-02-08. (Select 1976 and 1978 from the top left menu.)
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