Word: cca
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...subcommittee of the School Committee. Now a student at UMass, he is a member of the advisory board of the Cambridge Civic Association. He seems headed for a career as a genuinely radical reformer in Cambridge. He ran for State Representative last year, and has the backing of the CCA, Cambridge People's Party. The Common Slate, and the Cambridge Women's Political Caucus...
Eric ran a strong but unsuccessful race in the 1971 election with The Common Slate, which was instrumental in bringing in a new reformist superintendent of schools, Cheatham. He now has the added backing of Cambridge People's Party, the CCA, Cambridge Women's Political Caucus and CPPAX. His long term interest is in education, not political maneuvering, made explicit by his work at Centerpeace...
...young lawyer became active in local politics, mainly through the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA). Moncreiff participated in the CCA's School Affairs Committee and various campaign activities, and in 1963 he managed a successful campaign for Francis H. Duehay '55 for the School Committee. Duehay, dean of admissions and studies at the Graduate School of Education, is now one of Moncreiff's colleagues on the Council running for re-election...
When Connie B. Wheeler, a veteran CCA councillor, announced that she would retire at the end of 1969, Moncreiff decided that he would attempt to take her place. "I'd like to say I was urged," Moncreiff says laughingly, "but I can't recall anyone asking me to run." He won with surprising ease and assumed his seat on the Council in January...
HOWEVER, CRANE CHOSE to end his career in 1971 and in that year's race five CCA candidates were elected on a joint platform of firing Corcoran and finding a more energetic and innovative city manager. Moncreiff won along with Duehay, Barbara Ackermann, Saundra Graham and Henry F. Owens III. But hopes of replacing Corcoran faded as the CCA majority failed to agree on his successor, and the bitter struggle culminated last September in a statement of support for Corcoran...