Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...general meeting was called, at which John Butler '63, and Aryee Quah (George) Armah '63 were the leaders. Others involved were Epps (then 1G), Claude Weaver '65, and Thomas Atkins (1G). A new concept was being formulated, of which Armah was the most articulate spokesman. It was Armah who originated both the name of the organization, AAAAS, and the membership clause -- "open to African and Afro-American students currently enrolled at Harvard and Radcliffe...
...context of that revolution, experts have proposed decentralization as more than a defense against over-centralization. Decentralization asserts a positive concept of education. It aims specifically at grounding education in the life of the community--giving parents and their communities a larger role in the education of their children...
Community participation is not itself a revolutionary concept in American education. In pre-urban times, according to Sizer, the extended family had primary responsibility for educating its offspring. Later the community and the school-teacher divided that responsibility, but with the coming of urbanization and industrialization, parents and community increasingly surrendered their children's education to professionals. This development contributed to the hazards of bureaucracy, but also encouraged the separation of education from life outside the school's walls...
Died. Air Marshal Lord Tedder, 76, Eisenhower's Deputy Supreme Allied Commander from 1943 to 1945, a brilliant R.A.F. tactician who as Middle East air commander in 1941 devised the concept of "carpet bombing," using hundreds of planes literally to blow a path for ground troops through Nazi minefields and fortifications, later played a major role in planning and carrying out the immensely complex invasion of Europe, with primary responsibility for making certain that land and sea forces had the fullest possible air cover; of Parkinson's disease; in Banstead, England...
...Administration and not Afro, defined the nature of the organization. The idea was too new, Negro student too perplexed, 'too hung up on integration," as Williams puts it, for the concept to be really understood. Williams savs that over now, four years later and after the Black Power controversy, does he really understand the new formulation...