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George Bayliss's article on my insulting remarks towards Lesley college, which resulted in that institution's withdrawal of Summer Compass Program from the Cambridge Public School locus, failed to include some important background detail as to why the honor of that institution, and Dean Wiley, were impugned at the recent meeting of the Cambridge School Committee...
...Summer, 1979, we permitted the Compass program to locate in the Peabody School on Linnaean Street. Without the knowledge of the School Committee, Lesley College put on its Compass Program payroll the principal of that school. The reason became obvious when, during that summer, the principal, Leland Miller, evicted a successful summer program operated by the public Community Schools Department from its Peabody School quarters. At the same time, the Compass Program was allowed free run of the facility. Miller claimed it was necessary to do so to facilitate cleaning of the building. He also stated that, although not required...
Lesley College notified the Cambridge School Committee last week that it was withdrawing its "Compass" summer program for Cambridge school students with special needs because a member of the committee insulted a Lesley official and "impugned the honor" of the school...
...Compass" program is a summer-school program for special-needs children run in a local elementary school by Lesley College. Wiley said last week the program is used as a "training ground" for Lesley students and as a service to the city of Cambridge. "The kids will lose because of the attitude of some public officials," he added...
...congressional banking aide last week: "The chances of these proposals passing are remote. The small bank vs. big bank issue is still controversial." Nonetheless, modern financial and credit needs in the 1980s appear to be an irresistible force for changing banking's old ways. Citibank's blue, compass-like trademark may yet become as familiar a symbol around the U.S. as McDonald's golden arches...