David McCord

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 where he graduated from Lincoln High School, and earned three degrees from Harvard University. His work appeared in Harper's.

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

Awards

 * Golden Rose Award
 * 1954 Guggenheim Fellow
 * 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.