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...Tacony there is a desperate need for history to bolster the town’s confidence. It is no coincidence that the leaders of Tacony’s Historical Society are also the stewards of its Civic Association. History matters here; it’s not an entertaining diversion. The neighborhood’s 20-year vision calls for a return to the past. Tacony wants to lure back the types of craftsman and shopkeepers who once lived above the stores they operated. It plans to extirpate fast-food restaurants and interstate ramps, which have invaded the neighborhood. All along...
After his retirement, he began a second career as a civic leader, including a post as chair of the New York City Public Library system during a period of financial crisis in which it was “falling apart,” according to Caroline Oyama, the library’s manager of public relations...
Former University President Derek C. Bok said the school pursued Heiskell for its Board of Overseers because of his record as both a business leader and a civic leader...
...when Heiskell left the Overseers to join the Corporation—Harvard’s most powerful governing board—the CEO and civic leader played a key role in keeping the Corporation focused on the most important issues, Bok said...
...morality was built on a sincere belief in leading a virtuous life, serving the country he loved and hoping to achieve salvation through good works. That led him to make the link between private virtue and civic virtue and to suspect, based on the meager evidence he could muster about God's will, that these earthly virtues were linked to heavenly ones as well. As he put it in the motto for the library he founded, "To pour forth benefits for the common good is divine...