Dear old HGSE and Phi Delta Kappa, the Education community’s honorary fraternity, saw fit to grant to me its 1971 Book Award for the year’s best thesis.
When we get to Commencement, a few pages further on, I’ll describe the presentation of this very flattering award. It was button-busting time for some ancestors; yes, I was tickled (and surprised), too. As our Mary Beth likes to say, nobody puts on an “occasion” as well as Harvard does.
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The bookplate resides on the flyleaf of the Award’s eponymous Book, Alan Westin’s Information Technology in a Democracy. It’s a series of essays mingling futurism and politics, with the usual wide variation in degree of prophetic accuracy. However prescient, Westin’s authors never ventured within hand-wringing distance of Twitter, Facebook, and ubiquitexting.
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