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...there I was, like a thousand other graduates from 26 states on a summer weekend, hurrying toward my tiny (pop. 2,074) hometown of Greenfield, Iowa, to say farewell to the two weary high school buildings so long the heart and soul of that small patch of prairie. All living graduates out of the 3,819 given diplomas over the past 85 years had been summoned...
...town's adversities may actually have strengthened the student bonds. The farm economic crisis of the 1920s, followed by the Great Depression in the 1930s, pushed the people inward. World War II froze town development. Even after the war, Greenfield was ignored by superhighways and shopping malls. The kids manufactured their activities among themselves, mostly at high school. "We truly got to love each other," said Darlene Don Carlos Marshall...
...Greenfield High -- one small seedbed of America -- was still feeling good about itself this summer. And as a huge prairie sun went down, the grads jammed into the gym for the last dance. When the music ended after midnight, the floor was still crowded, the alums savoring every heartbeat...
Labor expert Patricia A. Greenfield, a laborrelations scholar at the University ofMassachusetts-Amherst, sides with Nigro, addingthat the union's posture should depend in part onthe University's stance...
...administration is committed to that,then the negotiations can certainly have apositive outcome," Greenfield says. "On the otherhand, if you have an administration that doesn'tlike unions ... [the negotiations] will not be apositive and constructive experience...