Word: membership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reform the membership structure without the by-laws, and we can't reform the by-laws without a meeting of two-thirds of the membership," Goodwin said...
Since last spring when several members of the board resigned, it has been difficult to determine the board's active membership, Goodwin added...
...After months of resisting the demands of students and faculty, Frank L. Hereford Jr., president of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, yielded last week. He resigned his membership in the nearby Farmington Country Club, an institution that denies admission to blacks. Hereford stated that he had hoped to change the club's restrictive practices by retaining his membership and working from within. Even when Farmington members voted overwhelmingly to uphold the club's racial rules (TIME, Feb. 9), Hereford hung on, hoping that the Farmington board of directors would reject the vote. But after the board failed...
Blacks were particularly bitter, arguing that Hereford's membership in the club has already hurt the university's black recruitment program. Says Vivian Gordon, assistant professor of sociology and one of the 20 blacks among Virginia's faculty of 1,500: "Blacks know about the Farmington thing; they don't want to teach here." White liberals were also upset. Ruth Angress, head of the German department, resigned from the university. Said she: "Hereford didn't even say he regretted the way the vote turned...
...that the key social issue in America was not race but class. Said he: "We have programs for combatting racial discrimination, but not for combatting economic class distinctions." The rise in student militancy brought accusations of "Uncle Tomism" from those who saw Henderson's numerous board positions, including membership on the Ford Foundation's board of trustees, as a dilution of his commitment to the black cause. Henderson's reply was to continue to fight for a full-employment strategy that would give a job to every American willing and able to work...