Word: boardman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appeal was made by Richard M. Boardman, 26, of Acton, who was convicted of draft evasion last April and was sentenced to three years in prison...
...Boardman originally was classified as a conscientious objector, and was ordered to report to Massachusetts General Hospital for alternative duty...
...Boardman concluded, however, that his position there would free another person for military duty and that he therefore would be contributing to the war against his conscience...
Since 1964, with a foundation grant and an appointment as a research psychiatrist at the Health Services, Coles has been working with the group of parents who first started bussing their children from Roxbury to white schools -- the Boardman Parents Group. He has since extended the study to include other black and white families in Roxbury...
...Boardman, who first joined the Press in 1939, also tends to leave investigative reporting to the Plain Dealer. "You don't spend the resources of money, talent and readers' time going after every small wrongdoing," he says. "You don't use a fire hose to put out a match." Like Vail, however, he has put together a more youthful staff, hiring 19 reporters in their 20s. The Press still performs its customary services for Cleveland's powerful ethnic groups. A reporter annually tours Eastern Europe, relaying news of relatives back home. At the same time...