Word: mcdonoughs
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Joseph F. McDonough '81 lives in Matthews Hall. He is the son of Patrick F. McDonough, a member of the Boston City Council...
...claims the city has gone without any educational leaders since the era of Horace Mann. The present school committee won election in 1975 with 3 moderates taking control. They no longer publicly race-bait and plunder the system in the fashion of their predecessors, but David I. Finegan. John McDonough and Kathleen Sullivan have proven to be a disappointment. Unpaid school committee membership is usually regarded as a springboard for higher office; with visions of the mayoralty dancing in their heads, the committee members failed to rise above the soap box and job recommendation mentality...
Lost Freedom. In making his ruling last Tuesday, Garrity placed the federal court in charge of Southie. He assigned Joseph McDonough (whose brother John is chairman of the School Committee) to take over operations of the school. McDonough seemed to be an appropriate choice; a longtime Boston school administrator, he earned praise from both blacks and whites last year for his work in supervising the desegregation of Patrick F. Gavin Middle School. His selection did nothing to mollify antibusing forces. One of their leaders, City Council Member Louise Day Hicks, charged that the takeover "smacks of a totalitarian type...
School committee chairman John J. McDonough was elected to his sixth term, finishing second, but Ellison, facing charges of alleged misuse of school department funds and hampered by a broken leg, was unable to ward off the challenge of Palladino, an outspoken busing...
...council race, O'Leary dropped from a sixth-place showing in the primary to eleventh place last night. O'Leary seemed to have simply been out-campaigned in the last two months by incumbents James Michael Connolly and Patrick F. McDonough, both of whom had finished out of the top nine spots in the September primary...