Harvey Robbins
Harvey Robbins (CGS’60, COM’62, SED’63) of Westford, Mass., is founder and president of the Doo-Wopp Hall of Fame of America, which honors the recording artists of the 1950s and early 1960s. He also is president and curator of the Prowse Farm Museum in Canton, Mass. He writes that the volunteer organization Friends of Prowse Farm has raised more than $30 million for charities. Harvey received a Massachusetts Audubon Award “on behalf of the living environment,” he writes, and was a costar of the 2016 documentary Tempest Storm, about the last of the burlesque icons from “the golden age.” (He is Tempest Storm’s manager.) The documentary also features Garry Marshall, in his last film, and Danielle Cushman from TV’s American Pickers. A former journalist, Harvey covered the Boston Celtics and was named New England Sportswriter of the Year. He is the coauthor of two books, Betrayal: Michael Dukakis and the Battle to Save Historic Prowse Farm and If You Elect Me President: Behind the Scenes of a Presidential Election.
From the Summer 2017 issue.