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David Thompson Watson McCord (November 15, 1897 in New York City – April 13, 1997) was an American poet and college fundraiser.

Life

He grew up in Portland, Oregon and graduated from Harvard University. His work appeared in Harper's.^[2]

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

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

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.^[4]

Oddly Enough. Washburn & Thomas. 1926.
Far and few: rhymes of the never was and always is. Illustrator Henry B. Kane. Little, Brown. 1952. ISBN 978-0-316-55502-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
About Boston: sight, sound, flavor & inflection. Doubleday. 1948.
An Acre for Education. Crimson Printing Co. 1954.
Odds Without Ends. Little, Brown & Co. 1954.
Take Sky. 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.^[4]
One At A Time. Little, Brown and Company. 1977. ISBN 9780316555166.^[4]
Dinosaurs. Educational Development Corporation. 1977. ISBN 978-0-88110-119-5.

The Camp at Lockjaw. Doubleday. 1952.
In Sight of Sever: Essays from Harvard. Harvard University Press. 1963. ISBN 978-0-674-44701-1.

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.

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. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-516251-6.

^ ^a ^b Harvard Office of News and Public Affairs. "David McCord, Fundraiser, Poet, Dies at 99". www.news.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-04-18. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
^ Hartman, Lee Foster; Allen, Frederick Lewis (1953-01-01). Harper's Magazine. Harper & Brothers.
^ "All Fellows - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on 2011-06-03. Retrieved 2009-06-28.
^ ^a ^b ^c "National Book Awards – 1970". NBF. Retrieved 2012-02-08. (Select 1976 and 1978 from the top left menu.)

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