Word: nash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the past decade, while some sectors of the GSD have moved forward, the Planning Department has remained stagnant. Between 1955 and 1970, only three men--Reginald R. Isaacs, Norton Professor of City and Regional Planning; William W. Nash, Jr., '50, former professor of City and Regional Planning; and Francois C. Vigier, professor of City Planning and Urban Design--served as chairman of the Planning Department. Isaacs alone held the chairmanship for over ten years...
...naturally to a consolidation of power by a relatively small group of men within the department; they made the decisions on hiring and firing, on curriculum and on extracurricular work during an entire academic generation. It is not surprising that the Planning Department changed little during that generation: Nash, a former student of Isaacs, was brought into the department while Isaacs was chairman; Vigier was similarly recruited. All three upheld, and still prefer, a traditional course of study aimed at training planners for government, for large land developments, and to a lesser degree, for the private sector...
Hartman, who founded the Urban Field Service (UFS) in 1968, was eased out in 1970 by Isaacs, Nash and Vigier primarily because his staunch support of advocacy planning and his political militance against Harvard's housing policies in Cambridge ran counter to their view of what a planner's role in society should be. In recommending that Hartman's contract not be renewed, Nash, who was the department chairman at the time, wrote that "(Hartman's) method of teaching conveys a sense of political strategy (that goes past) the substance of city and regional planning. (His) loyalties to the School...
...must be recognized that the demise of the Planning Department within its field is largely attributable to Isaacs, Nash and Vigier. They were once tagged in a student petition as an "entrenched oligarchy," and many of their colleagues agree that their obstinance during the past 15 years has downgraded the department they controlled. But it is these same three professors who have brought formal grievance proceedings against Kilbridge. By studying their grievances, it becomes obvious that they have suffered considerable injustices themselves during the last two years, and that Kilbridge has done as much, or more, harm to the School...
Nonetheless, in a tedious attempt to fill their repetitive pages with news, the rock press every three or four months chooses some musician to elevate to the rank of "superstar." People such as the Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, James Taylor, the Cream, and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young have been accorded this dubious honor, but none has displayed much real staying power. Hendrix and Joplin shuffled off their mortal coil after three albums apiece, and none of the rest of them has been able to do anything exciting since each of their second records. A new Lennon Harrison, Dylan...