Hunt, Richard M. 1926-

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Hunt, Richard M. 1926-

PERSONAL:

Born October 16, 1926, in Pittsburgh, PA; son of Roy A. and Rachel M. Hunt; married Priscilla Stevenson, October 25, 1955; children: Helen, Susan, William. Education: Attended Oxford University, 1948; Yale University, B.A., 1949; attended University of Vienna, 1950; Columbia University, M.A., 1951; Harvard University, Ph.D., 1960. Religion: Episcopalian.

ADDRESSES:

Home—10 Coolidge Hill Rd., Cambridge, MA 02138. E-mail—rickmhunt@comcast. net.

CAREER:

First Boston Corp., New York, NY, trainee in investment banking, 1951; Free Europe Committee, New York, NY, assistant director of Free Europe Press, 1952-56; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, faculty member, 1960-65, senior lecturer in social studies, 1965-2002, university marshal, 1982-2002, retiring in 2002. Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, fellow and moderator, 1968-75; Institute for Philosophical Research, director, 1977-79; Museum of Modern Art, member of international council; American Field Service International Scholarships, life trustee; vice chair, American Council on Germany and National Center for Family Philanthropy; director of Mind-Body Medical Institute, American Russian Young Artists Orchestra, WorldBoston, Boston Committee on Foreign Relations, Council on the United States and Italy, and Arnold Toynbee Global History; trustee of Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, Hunt Botanical Institute, Roy A. Hunt Foundation, and Masaryk Publications Trust. Scudder New Europe (investment fund), director.

WRITINGS:

Religion in the Science of Robert Boyle, University of Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, PA), 1955.

(With John Bethell and Robert Shenton) Harvard A to Z, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 2004.

Contributor to books, including Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto, 1982. Contributor to periodicals, including Harvard, American Heritage, New York Times, Virginia Quarterly, Antioch Review, and Yale Review.

SIDELIGHTS:

Richard M. Hunt told CA: "My primary motivation for writing is to understand for myself and to explain to myself the major events of the past—all with the purpose of knowing the present more profoundly. I am inspired to write on the subjects I have chosen by the belief that the events of recent German history reveal some of the worst and best sides of western civilization."