David McCord

David Thompson Watson McCord (December 15, 1897 New York - 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]

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

Poem

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?
^[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 9780316555029. 
• An Acre for Education. Crimson Printing Co.. 1954. 
• Take Sky. Little Brown & Company. 1962. ISBN 9780316555098. 
• About Boston.
• All Day Long. Bantam Books. 1971. ISBN 9780440403760. 
• One At A Time. Little, Brown and Company. 1974. 
• Dinosaurs. Educational Development Corporation. 1977. ISBN 9780881101195. 

Essays

• In Sight of Sever: Essays from Harvard. Harvard University Press. 1963. ISBN 9780674447011. 

Editor

• 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. 

Anthologies

• Louis Untermeyer, ed (1936). Modern American poetry: a critical anthology. Harcourt, Brace and company. 
• David Lehman, John Brehm, ed (2006). The Oxford book of American poetry. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195162516. 

References

1. ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=VWQQAAAAIAAJ&q=David+McCord&dq=David+McCord&lr=&pgis=1
2. ^ http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1997/04.17/DavidMcCordFund.html
3. ^ http://www.gf.org/fellows/all?index=m&page=11
4. ^ "David McCord, poet". The Boston Globe. April 15, 1997. http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-8426844.html. 

External links

• "PERSPECTIVES: David McCord", Boston, Massachusetts, David A. Dillon

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Date of birth	December 15, 1897
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Date of death	April 13, 1997
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