| Type | Undergraduate |
| End Date | 1947-00-00 |
| Notes | Alan Jay Pifer was born in Boston. He won a Bronze Star in the Battle of the Bulge serving as an Army captain in World War II before graduating with honors from Harvard in 1947. After a year on a fellowship at Oxford, he spent five years in Britain managing the American commission that administered the Fulbright program in that country. |