Word: hartman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...URBAN Field Service was founded in February, 1968, by Chester Hartman, assistant professor of City and Regional Planning. In the past two years the UFS has undertaken approximately 40 community planing and design projects. In addition to future architects, landscape architects and planners, students from the fields of law, business, education, and social work have joined UFS teams to provide professional assistance to low-income communities. Over 200 students from Harvard and other universities have participated in such projects as creating alternate urban renewal plans to oppose BRA plans for the South End; devising strategics to bring low and moderate...
...Staff of the UFS includes a director, an assistant director, and a parttime secretary. In December, Dean Kilbridge gave notice to Chester Hartman, the founder and director, that his contract as assistant professor of City and Regional Planning would not be renewed. Hartman left Cambridge for a trip to South America. While he was gone, Dean Kilbridge gave notice to the assistant director and secretary that they should look for other jobs, supposedly because of lack of UFS funds. He told them to close out all existing projects possible and to take no new projects...
...Chester Hartman has not been " fired " as Director of the URBAN FIELD SERVICE. [ original emphasis. ] So far as I know, he intends to remain at the GSD in that capacity, for which he has a " specific corporation appointment...
...until several days later did the Dean actually offer Hartman the opportunity to remain as UFS director. Additional funds apparently were found, for no more was said about firing the rest of the staff. This incident constitutes a flagrant example of the way that the UFS itself, as well as its projects, is "supported" for some public relations purposes and condemned for others...
Fifty-three students at M.I.T.'s Department of Urban Studies and Planning signed a petition requesting that Hartman be offered an appointment on the M.I.T. faculty...