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...shelter is temporary, designed to provide the homeless of Harvard Square with a place to sleep indoors until the cold weather ends. It is scheduled to close on April 17. Conveniently, the city of Cambridge has decided not to take action against the shelter for 60 days, Guernsey says. He calls it "a nice compromise...
...Guernsey says he saw the need for the shelter when he started working last fall as an intern for the Harvard Square Churches Meal Program--which serves needy patrons a hot meal at Christ church on Garden St. Required to do some supervised fieldwork for his ministerial program at the Divinity School, Guernsey elected to help people entering the program who needed other social services...
...experienced lawyer who graduated from the University of Mississippi Law School in 1977, Guernsey is not registered to practice in Massachusetts but has used his legal skills to help the street people. He helped one woman get a needed pair of glasses. Another project was helping a woman receive her Social Security benefits, which she had been denied because she had refused to sign a form. The woman had been active politically in the '60s and would not sign the appropriate papers because, Guernsey says, she felt it gave Social Security, "carte blanche" to investigate her personal history. Citing...
This was not the first time that Guernsey had dealt with the intricacies of state and government bureaucracy. He spent his first two years after law school working for the State of Mississippi in a program designed to extract child support from recalcitrant fathers. Guernsey says, however, that "it turned out to become a collection agency [for the state...
...Guernsey then joined the North Mississippi Rural Legal Services, a law firm which was 95 percent Black, he says. "I was one of five white people in the firm." Guernsey says. They sent him to Grenada, a small, politically unstable island in the West Indies, for three years--a tenure that ended when he came to Harvard last September...