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...Carnegie, brother of Andrew, was snubbed as too nouveau riche by the ultra-snobby club on nearby Jekyll Island. So he bought the southern end of Cumberland and built several mansions. One of them, Greyfield, was turned into an inn by some of Carnegie's descendants. Oliver and Mary Jo Ferguson, the husband and wife who operate Greyfield, are old friends of the Kennedys', and John and Carolyn had visited them several times. The rehearsal dinner and reception were held at the inn, a great rectangular frame house surrounded by oaks, and several in the wedding party stayed there. Janet...
Clearly, the Fergusons were the key agents on the ground for this covert operation. On July 17, Mary Jo Ferguson wrote a note to the National Park Service requesting a permit to hold a "wedding ceremony" on Cumberland Island. The wedding would be held at the First African Baptist Church, near the northernmost point of the island. In the weeks leading up to that date, the Fergusons discreetly arranged all the supplies and staff for the dinner and the reception. Charlie Taylor, who owns a company on the mainland that provided some of the food, says...
...Mary Jo Bane has been one of the nation's most reasoned voices in the tumultuous rhetorical battles over the future of welfare policy. Her book, Poor Support: Poverty and the American Family, written with David T. Ellwood '75, the current academic dean of the Kennedy School, is a staple in almost any class about poverty and social programs. This book soundly refutes the claims of many conservative ideologues who seek to scapegoat the poor and blame welfare for a national decline in morality. Her decision to resign along with Peter B. Edelman, another assistant secretary who is leaving...
...Mary Jo Bane's principled resignation represents the best spirit of public service, and it reflects very well on the Kennedy School that it was her home. We hope it will be her home again...
...Mary Jo Bane may be a great scholar on welfare reform. But in scolding President Clinton for signing the recent welfare bill, both Bane and the staff misdirect their hostility...