Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last April, President Pusey told a very prominent alumni audience that the University needed at least $40 million for building purposes alone; additional money would be necessary for scholarships or for more professorships. He reiterated these needs at a meeting of Cambridge civic leaders...
Many U.S. companies have developed elaborate programs of civic aid. Chicago's Marshall Field department store has a special vice president in charge of civic affairs. In Philadelphia, N. W. Ayer Chairman Harry A. Batten organized the Greater Philadelphia Movement, which will open a $100 million Food Distribution Center in 1958 and eliminate crowded, unsanitary markets in the heart of the city. Each year in Houston, Humble Oil & Refining Co. lends a full-time staff of 100 Humble employees to help organize the United Fund drive, while Boeing Airplane Co. President William Allen, who is 1956 national chairman...
...companies with no formal program, the president often encourages his top men to do as much as they can on their own in civic affairs. Richard H. Rich, boss of Atlanta's big Rich's department store, keeps careful check on how active his supervisory workers are in civic affairs. Says Rich: "The minute a man or woman becomes a supervisor, we urge him to get into civic work. We believe it is part of good leadership to be a good citizen." Such giants as IBM, Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, American Telephone & Telegraph, National Cash Register, all encourage...
...companies increase their civic work, the heaviest load inevitably falls on the president himself. Just as he has the know-how, energy and contacts to make his business succeed, so is he invaluable to civic projects. Republic Steel's President Thomas F. Patton, Detroit Edison's President Walker L. Cisler, Chairman Laurence Whittemore of New England papermaker Brown Co., give anywhere from 10% to 30% of their time to civic projects. In Los Angeles, Hardwareman-Banker Vic Carter was so busy that he either had to cut down his civic activities or his business. His choice: to sell...
Many businessmen and civic leaders deplore the fact that too much of the work is still done by those who have always done it-for a willing worker is in high demand. They also point out that there are still too many "letter-headers," businessmen who merely lend their names to a civic campaign without also lending their time. Recently, however, more young men are sharing the load. Both they and their companies realize that it will give them invaluable experience; they will meet the top men in their fields, learn to talk and think on their feet. When Pacific...