David McCord

David Thompson Watson McCord (November 15, 1897 in 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.
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

Life

He grew up in Portland, Oregon and graduated from Harvard University. His work appeared in Harper's.[2]

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

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]

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.{{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.[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 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
  • 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. 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. Hartman, Lee Foster; Allen, Frederick Lewis (1953-01-01). Harper's Magazine. Harper & Brothers.
  3. "All Fellows - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on 2011-06-03. Retrieved 2009-06-28.
  4. "National Book Awards – 1970". NBF. Retrieved 2012-02-08. (Select 1976 and 1978 from the top left menu.)
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