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Following graduation, Duehay pursued his passion for education, which would eventually lead him into a political career...
Stanley N. Katz ’55, now a professor at Princeton, also says that he knew little about Duehay until he began working with him in recent years to organize the fund-raising drive for PBHA. Yet after Harvard, Duehay would begin to make a name for himself as a public figure...
...Duehay says that he wanted to run for one of the nine spots on the City Council in 1971 because he was frustrated with the appointment of Cambridge’s school superintendent, and wanted to oust him from office. On the School Committee, he did not have the power to overturn the appointment, but he felt that if the CCA got a majority on the council, they could eventually replace the superintendent...
Still, the vote ended up being very close, and Duehay won the ninth and final spot by under 50 votes. The election was later contested by a recount and a court decision...
...This was an upheaval of unbelievable proportions at that time,” Duehay says...