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This article is about the Harvard University official. For the Canadian lawyer and philanthropist, see [David Ross McCord](/source/David_Ross_McCord).

**David Thompson Watson McCord** (November 15, 1897 in [New York City](/source/New_York_City) – April 13, 1997) was an American [poet](/source/Poet) and college fundraiser.

## Life

He grew up in [Portland, Oregon](/source/Portland,_Oregon) where he graduated from [Lincoln High School](/source/Lincoln_High_School_(Portland,_Oregon)), and earned three degrees from [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University).[2] His work appeared in *Harper's*.[3]

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

## Awards

- [Golden Rose Award](/source/Golden_Rose_Award)
- 1954 Guggenheim Fellow[4]
- 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](/source/National_Book_Award_for_Young_People's_Literature).[5]

## Works

### Poetry

- [*Oddly Enough*](https://archive.org/details/oddlyenough0000mcco). Washburn & Thomas. 1926.
- [*Far and few: rhymes of the never was and always is*](https://archive.org/details/farfewrhymesofth00mcco). Little, Brown. 1952. ISBN 978-0-316-55502-9.
- *About Boston: sight, sound, flavor & inflection*. Doubleday. 1948.
- *An Acre for Education*. Crimson Printing Co. 1954.
- [*Odds Without Ends*](https://archive.org/details/oddswithoutendsp0000mcco). Little, Brown & Co. 1954.
- [*Take Sky*](https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780316555098). 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.[5]
- [*One At A Time*](https://archive.org/details/oneattimepoems00mcco). Little, Brown and Company. 1977. ISBN 9780316555166.[5]
- *Dinosaurs*. Educational Development Corporation. 1977. ISBN 978-0-88110-119-5.

### Essays

- *The Camp at Lockjaw*. Doubleday. 1952.
- [*In Sight of Sever: Essays from Harvard*](https://archive.org/details/insightofseveres00mcco). Harvard University Press. 1963. ISBN 978-0-674-44701-1.

### 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*](https://archive.org/details/oxfordbookofamer0000unse). 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"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160418155439/http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1997/04.17/DavidMcCordFund.html). *www.news.harvard.edu*. Archived from [the original](http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1997/04.17/DavidMcCordFund.html) on 2016-04-18. Retrieved 2016-04-13.

1. [en:Oregon Historical Quarterly/Volume 60/Oregon](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/en%3AOregon_Historical_Quarterly%2FVolume_60%2FOregon)

1. Hartman, Lee Foster & Allen, Frederick Lewis (1953-01-01). [*Harper's Magazine*](https://books.google.com/books?id=VWQQAAAAIAAJ). Harper & Brothers.

1. ["All Fellows - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110603235813/http://www.gf.org/fellows/all?index=m&page=11). Archived from [the original](http://www.gf.org/fellows/all?index=m&page=11) on 2011-06-03. Retrieved 2009-06-28.

1. ["National Book Awards – 1970"](https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1970). NBF. Retrieved 2012-02-08. (Select 1976 and 1978 from the top left menu.)

## External links

- ["PERSPECTIVES: David McCord", Boston, Massachusetts, David A. Dillon](https://web.archive.org/web/20150501001702/http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/About/Awards/McCord.pdf)
- [http://harvardmagazine.com/1997/07a/alumni.html](http://harvardmagazine.com/1997/07a/alumni.html)
- [http://harvardmagazine.com/1997/07/mccordiana](http://harvardmagazine.com/1997/07/mccordiana)

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