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Population gain, of course, is no longer entirely a source of the civic booster's pride. It offends the ecological sensibility. Yet it remains crucial to underdeveloped regions such as Appalachia and urban centers that watch their affluent whites desert to suburbs, eroding the tax base and more simply the fund of human beings on whom congressional representation and the apportionment of federal funds depend. More people to get more money to care for more people. The Malthusian Catch...
Helen Gilbert '36, chairman of the Board of Trustees, Barbara Wertheim Tuchman '33, Pulitzer prize-winning author, and Mary Caperton Bingham '28, newspaperwoman and civic leader, also attended the meeting. The three residences were named after these women...
Brock soon took up other civic causes, including aid for the mentally retarded and physically handicapped children, and his city now has two of the nation's best treatment centers in those fields. He worked effectively to ease the integration of public facilities in his city. Later, as a member of the House of Representatives, he voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. "We exceeded our constitutional authority," he says...
Brock is a true and practicing conservative, and there is total consistency between his own action toward integration and his rejection of legislative compulsion toward the same end. "I got very big on the civic-service thing," he says. "It's basic to my philosophy. I really believe in individual service to the community. My gripe with the liberal today is that he has an empathy for the disadvantaged that will not translate itself into action. He won't get his hands dirty. He wants to impose a solution." Politically, too, Brock has not shrunk from hard work...
...pervasiveness of the human potentials movement is demonstrated by the inroads it has made even in relatively conservative cities like Cincinnati, where T groups and encounter groups have become an integral part of business and civic activities. Procter & Gamble and Federated Stores, for example, both use human potentials groups to increase the effectiveness and morale of their staffs. After hours, some of the employees, inspired by their office training, conduct private encounter groups of their own. Methodist and. Episcopal church leaders regularly schedule group training sessions for their laity, and the University of Cincinnati sponsors sensitivity groups both to improve...