Word: galston
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began rather haphazardly. He came to Harvard from Springfield, Ohio, and graduated with an engineering degree in 1930. With the onslaught of the Depression, however, Cavileer had to settle for a job with the YMCA. At the same time, however, a classmate of his by the name of Bud Galston, who had played J.V. football as an undergraduate, came to him with a scheme to keep statistics for the Crimson coaches...
Cavileer recalls, "Galston couldn't draw worth a hoot but he knew I had taken engineering and could draw a bit. He said to me: 'I want to stay involved in football and if you work with me I can do it.'" Cavileer adds, "We got a couple of complimentary tickets and I think he was interested in that...
...develop 11,000 acres on Hilton Head Island, a coastal oasis for well-to-do retired executives, who hotly opposed the B.A.S.F. plan. Fred Hack, president of the Hilton Head Co., asked the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to draw up a suitable land plan. What Planner John Galston of S.O.M. suggested is a regional plan to develop indigenous industry (fishing, farming, wood products), a step that he feels will create the greatest economic growth. As Galston sees it, "an artificially created economy" like B.A.S.F. would actually remove 4,000 to 9,000 local jobs. "Though it would probably...