When did you become Berklees vice president and what did that job entail?
I was doing the financial work for a few years; and then in the early 1970s, I hired someone to do that and I oversaw that person’s activities. I was devoting my time to other matters. Until 1974 or 1975, the entire college was located in the 1140 Boylston St. building. Back in 1965 when we bought the building, we had about 350 or 400 students. The building had formerly been a hotel, so we split it in half vertically, keeping some of the hotel rooms as dormitory space and used the rest for classrooms and offices. We felt that we’d be set for decades since this building was so much bigger than the Newbury Street building we moved from. Nevertheless, the demand for the education we were offering was outstripping our resources. In 1975, I took on the project of acquiring the property at Massachusetts Avenue-the combined residence hall, educational facility, and Berklee Performance Center. A large part of my work at that period was involved with obtaining our first large, federal financing
