Word: electives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confidence is that many new leaders, previously well known only locally, emerged at Houston. Among those who rose to the occasion were California Assemblywoman Maxine Waters, 39, a black delegate from Los Angeles who led the minority women on their common resolution, and New York City Council President-elect Carol Bellamy, 35, and Seattle Lawyer Judith Lonnquist, 39, both of whom acted as floor leaders during the conference. Another was Ann Saunier, 31, human resources director of the papermaking Mead Corp. in Dayton, who won applause from all sides for her cool, impartial chairing of the conference's fourth session...
...could almost be the College of Cardinals, sitting in secrecy to elect a new Pope. There are closed-door sessions around a huge octagonal table, beneath the gaze of portraits of past presidents. The participants-members of the Yale Corporation, Yale University's august board of directors-breathe not a word about their deliberations. There is even an executive secretary who vigilantly collects every scrap of paper after each meeting, carries them home and carefully burns them in his fireplace...
...This conference made me realize that I am a mayor and will be going back to my city to be a mayor," Arnold I. Rue, mayor-elect of Stockton, Calif. said at the press conference held yesterday at the Institute of Politics...
Charles Royer, mayor-elect of Seattle, Wash. said yesterday the seminar provided an opportunity to evaluate decision-making tools and to meet Washington contacts who could aid city governments in the future...
Mark Meyer, captain-elect for next season, agrees: The Big Three meet with Princeton and Yale was the Last Hurrah. Even Tim Fitzsimmons, out since last fall with severe tendonitis of the knees, ran, both as a personal test of strength and as a psychological boost for the rest of the team. "We ran to beat Princeton, ran very close, and in the process beat Yale," Meyer says...