In his long letter to the Corporation of April 27, 1955, Bundy argued for an exception in my case on the basis of my character and qualifications. Since some have argued that Harvard’s behavior during the McCarthy period was motivated by a concern to uncover “security breaches,” I think it is worth pointing out that no such issue was involved in my case, or mentioned in Bundy’s or Pusey’s letters; nor was such the case with the several other persons I know of who received the same treatment that I did. In a September 23, 2019 interview with Scientific American, McCarthy, director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE) at Harvard T.H. He coupled humane wisdom with profound intellectual curiosity. Bundy felt I would under such circumstances acquit myself well enough to deflect such criticism. Although the director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, from which my fellowship came (the institute’s funds were not under the university’s control), assured me that my fellowship was not in danger, another influential member of the institute warned me to finish my dissertation during the 1954–1955 academic year as my fellowship would probably not be renewed. The Corporation was worried about what to do if Furry went to jail. If Bundy was using my case to challenge the Corporation’s blanket rule, he did not say so. I was told that it was Harvard’s policy not to disclose administrative records for fifty years from the time of the events in question. https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/people/timothy-patrick-mccarthy ", Alan I. Leshner, Interim Chief Executive Officer, American Association for the Advancement of Science, "James McCarthy, Professor of Biological Oceanography at Harvard University, was appointed to the United States Arctic Research Commission by President Obama in November 2012, and continued to serve until he passed away on December 11, 2019. He had Professor Sidney Verba, director of the Harvard Library and in charge of the archives, undertake a search, and Professor Verba, with whom I have had a friendly exchange, bent the fifty-year rule a bit and sent me, through Dean Kirby, the records concerning me from 1954 to 1958. He was a valuable member of the Commission who contributed to its work even when it wasn’t possible to attend meetings, by offering comments, ideas, and penetrating questions, which he did as recently as two months ago. Top Row: Sarika Mendu, Leonardo Leal, Alexxis Isaac, Rebecca Hansen, Andrew Baxter, Wendy Ying Harvard Business School Introduces 2020-2021 Blavatnik Fellows in Life Science Entrepreneurship Harvard Business School Listen to Professor McCarthy reflect on his career in a 5-part podcast series recorded in February and March of 2019: http://environment.harvard.edu/honoring-jim-mccarthy.