Word: glenview
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been on so many retreats lately," said a Glenview, Ill. housewife last week, "that I'm beginning to feel like retreating myself." The kind of retreat she was talking about-a program full of organized "activities"-would not have been recognizable to most U.S. Christians of a generation ago. But her Glenview Community Church, and the faith it fosters, is symptomatic of a kind of Protestantism that is burgeoning in the suburban nondenominational churches all over the U.S. The International Council of Community Churches now has 217 members, estimates that there are at least more than 1,500 other...
Sallie Bingham '58, of Gilman House and Glenview, Ky., has won the Dana Reed Prize, given annually for the best undergraduate writing in a Harvard undergraduate publication...
...hundreds of parents in Glenview, Ill., a growing (pop. 10,000) suburb of Chicago, the letter from the new Citizens School Committee was not exactly a surprise, but it was alarming all the same. "There is a crisis in the Glenview schools," wrote the committee. "It is not something that is going to happen. It is here now." Unless the town took action, the schools would go on double shifts, and many children might not be able to get into a nearby school at all. "And this," said the committee, "is only the beginning...
...Glenview was not alone in its crisis last week. Every town around Chicago, like scores of expanding suburbs across the U.S., was suffering from the plague of too many new houses and too few schools. In the Northfield, Ill. township (which includes Glenview), the overcrowding had become so acute that the board of education put up signs as a warning to homebuyers: "School crisis. Our schools are filled. No money to build new schools. School taxes at maximum allowed." The fact is, says one superintendent, "that if something doesn't happen soon, we're going to have...
Last week Glenview found one bright spot in the gloomy picture. Of the 766 replies it received from its crisis letter, 92% of the writers favored a builders' assessment for each new home, and 68% said they approved the Citizens School Committee's plan to set up an "information" program to use sound trucks and signs to warn new home buyers away. All in all, the committee's argument for such drastic action was nothing if not logical: "People take schools for granted. You can't do that these days. The Chamber of Commerce says...