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...CCA, in truth, did organize the anti-appointments campaign--though not for political motives. It saw in the action of the majority members of the school committee a serious threat to the already weak Cambridge school system, and spurred on the other civic groups that were seeking to stop the appointments. The CCA itself was moved to act by the two school committeemen whom it had endorsed, Mrs. Catherine Ogden and Judson T. Shaplin, associate dean of the School of Education. These two fought against the majority of the committee in a valiant attempt to repeal the appointments...
...this then, the CCA also had a good issue with which to spark the speeches of the eighteen people it is endorsing for school committee and city council. Further, with its policy of making its candidates pledge to uphold a definite platform approved by CCA members, the association is a constructive force in electing good candidates to city offices...
Cambridge School Committeeman Judson T. Shaplin '42, associate dean of the School of Education, angrily urged the city council last night to "bury the hatchet and do something for the city." Shaplin spoke at the Cambridge Civic Association's annual meeting, along with other CCA-sponsored members of the school committee and the city council...
...dean's angry attack on the committee's action was countered by the calm justification of it by Anthony Galluccio, CCA-sponsored committeeman who favored the 17 appointments. Facing an antagonistic audience, Galluccio said, "I call my shots as I see them," and admitted that the CCA has "a good campaign issue" in the referendum against the appointments...
City Councillors and School Committee members endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association will review problems of local government at the CCA's annual meeting tonight at 8:15 at the Hotel Commander...