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...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...

Author: By Leo FJ. Wilking, | Title: In Dubious Battle | 10/25/1973 | See Source »

...Adams-Morgan section of Washington (racially, economically mixed but predominately poor and black) the first step, taken out of desperate impatience with past 'civic association' type organizations, was to form a neighborhood assembly, based on the town meeting model but with an important innovation, open committees. In fact the committees came first...

Author: By Karl Hess, | Title: Beyond Decentralization | 10/24/1973 | See Source »

...model of efficient government and to meet the needs of all its people. We must first elect five solid reform candidates to the City Council on November 6. Dominic H. Christofaro, a community leader in the Cambridgeport area, is a candidate for the City Council on the Cambridge Civic Association slate...

Author: By Dominick Christofaro, | Title: Government for the People | 10/16/1973 | See Source »

This answer was immediately challenged by several members of the crowd, including Philip Burling, a lawyer and chairman of the Cambridge Civic Association's committee on the Kennedy Library. Burling said that his understanding of the Act was that a museum could be added to the archives, but was by no means essential...

Author: By Leo FJ. Wilking, | Title: Local Residents Criticize Kennedy Memorial Library | 10/4/1973 | See Source »

...both these issues he is opposed by the Cambridge Civic Association(CCA), a liberal, "good government" organization which Romagna considers a "well-intentioned group of hypocrites...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Harvard Students Enter Race For Seats on Cambridge School Board | 10/4/1973 | See Source »

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