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...marching up the walk to his childhood home. "This," read the script, "should be done with reasonable reverence in such a manner as to give cameramen a dramatic shot of a historical figure returning to the place of his birth. Stevenson is met at the door by Miss Bertha Mott, current occupant of the house, who says, 'Since I was a little girl, it has been my ambition to fetch a glass of water for a President. May I have that honor...
Charles Stewart Mott, three-time (1912, 1913, 1918) mayor of Flint, Mich., is a bushy-browed, vigorous oldster of 77 who takes a mighty delight in bridge, dancing and thoroughbreds, and in managing his personal fortune, which is one of the biggest (an estimated $100 million) in the state. Over the past 17 years, he has also come to mean a lot more to the citizens of Flint (pop. 163,000). Through his Mott Foundation he has brought supervised recreation to thousands of schoolchildren. He has set their parents to studying hundreds of different courses in adult night classes...
Last week "Mr. Flint" was planning another million-dollar addition to the city's educational plant. Architects working with the Mott Foundation had just finished the blueprints for a new building for Flint Junior College, and Mott was working on plans to make the college itself a four-year campus. But first, he wanted to make sure that it would be a real community center-a place that every Flint citizen, young or old, would be proud of. "Then," said Mr. Flint, "I'll give 'em a million dollars. And then, we can talk about giving them...
Brothers & Stepping Stones. Encouraging the schools to serve the community has been the aim of the Mott Foundation since it first began its program in 1935. A onetime manufacturer of automobile axles who made a fortune in General Motors stock, Philanthropist Mott noted that Flint schoolchildren had little healthy recreation and almost no adult supervision once they got out of school each day. He decided to start a series of boys' clubs to provide after-school meeting places, andthe Mott Foundation was born...
...would otherwise never get out of the city, and its Youth Bureau has found jobs for as many as 1 ,000 youngsters in a year. It has poured money into softball, tennis and basketball programs-all supervised by school and community instructors. Once, when two small boys invaded Mott's office to complain that the Park Department could not afford to keep the city swimming pools open in August, Mott immediately decided to foot the bill. "We are," says he, "a last-resort organization...