When Sharon Stone Visited Harvard

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From: David Evans [mailto:...vans@fas.harvard.edu]
Sent: Wed 7/4/2007 10:58 AM
To: Gregg, Perry
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Subject: When Sharon Stone Visited Harvard


Perry,

The actress, Sharon Stone, is chair of the American Foundation for AIDS Research Campaign and has been active in the fight against HIV/AIDS for at least a decade. Accordingly, she was invited to Harvard on March 14, 2005 to give the Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Lecture and to receive the Harvard Foundation's Humanitarian Award for 2005.

The Foundation's Director, Dr. Allen Counter, asked me (as a member of its Advisory Board) to give some closing remarks at the Lowell House luncheon held in her honor. In conversation following the luncheon I recited some appreciative, but thrown-together "words of rhyme" of gratitude for her efforts in this monumental battle. She seemed impressed and urged me to send her a copy.

Well, I did, and now share them with you. Please don't hold me to any lofty poetic standard (smile).


Best regards,



David



When Will We Stop Caring?


When sunshine makes darkness and rain falls up;
And the vast Atlantic Ocean can't fill a cup.

When we think Aladdin, but not his lamp;
And the Sahara Desert is forever damp.

When Shaq O'Neal can fit in a thimble;
And Alvin Alley dancers cease to be nimble.

When endearing magic forsakes your eyes;
And this planet earth is reduced to marble size.

When angels of mercy are coarse and crude;
And our prayers and daydreams do not you include.

When we reject calm and embrace the storm;
And wear a strait jacket like it's a uniform.

When all shades of green have abandoned grass;
And these things unthinkable will have come to pass.

Maybe then we won't appreciate you,
But until such time we will be grateful and true.

D.L. Evans @ 2005