Word: deguglielmo
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Cambridge's new city manager, Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, presented the 1966 budget to the City Council...
...court will have to decide on three major issues: whether DeGuglielmo is eligible to become manager; whether the Council removed Curry under the proper law; and whether DeGuglielmo can waive his state pension and thereby qualify to receive the city manager's salary
...each of the majority five foreseen the extent of the impending battle, it is doubtful that the coalition would have ever been formed. The five simply did not anticipate the preparednss or the persistence of the manager and his supporters. Nor, it seems, did the rival candidate, Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, who, before the whole thing became public, called Curry and asked him to resign with dignity. This was, to DeGuglielmo's way of thinking, the honorable way, as opposed to the more effective but nastier technique of confronting Curry with five votes in a public session. No doubt DeGuglielmo...
...former manager's philosophy, so strongly lauded by his supporters, may be supplanted when DeGuglielmo takes over. The most important questions of the entire dispute may arise from their contrasting views. For although no one would deny the desireability of improved services or more capital improvements--supported by DeGuglielmo--the nagging question remains: how much more are people willing to pay for them...
Curry's supporters raised other problems. How should a city manager be selected? Should the man seek the job (as DeGuglielmo had done), or should the job seek the man? But these issues, as well as most others, were lost in hours of debate over parliamentary procedure and the details of political dealing. Lost also, it seems, were some of the deeper structural causes of the controversy...