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...April 8, 1999: Longtime Cambridge political fixture and current Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 announced he would retire in January 2000 following a 36-year career on the School Committee and then the City Council. "Term limits have finally reached me," Duehay joked. In his career, Duehay dealt with many of the major problems the city has confronted in the past four decades--including racial unrest and student protest in the 1960s and the housing tumult following the loss of rent control in a statewide referendum in 1994. Duehay said he believes there has been a substantial improvement in town...
During the last year, Cambridge Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 and City Councillor Sheila T. Russell announced their impending retirement from Cambridge politics...
Robert Winters, a Harvard math preceptor with an interest in local politics, says that these two long-serving politicians--Duehay has been on the council for 28 years, Russell for 14, and both have served as mayor at one time or another--form the spiritual backbone of city government...
...Those guys have basically been the heart and soul of that place. Sometimes city councillors play to the camera and get full of themselves. [Duehay and Russell] have always brought things back to earth and put things in perspective," he says...
Winters says he believes that without Duehay and Russell on the council, members will need to find a new stabilizing force...