Word: cottrelle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The petitioner, Mrs. George William Cottrell, appeared before the City Council yesterday to seek support for her scheme, which includes a provision that no road should cross the 36-acre area without a special act of Legislature.
The majority of the councilors, however, were unwilling to endorse her plan for a nature reservation to be named after the late author and naturalist, Bernard A. DeVoto '18, who studied the area. The motion to endorse Mrs. Cottrell's bill was sidetracked to the Committee on Roads and Bridges...
Vellucci suggested that Hell's Half Acre should be turned into badly needed cemetery space, instead of a wildlife sanctuary, and asked Mrs. Cottrell, at one point, whether she favored cremation.
Working together with the University Housing Registry, the committee, under the supervision of Mrs. Annette Cottrell, saw to it that suitable rooms were found for every foreign student.
To aid the student in the selection of a room, a volunteer, usually a Cambridge housewife, would escort the student to various houses. Mrs. Cottrell felt this "third man" immeasurably helped the student find a room.