Word: petitioners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Other petition signers included celebrity chef Julia Child, WGBH-TV Vice President David O. Ives and Cambridge architect Graham S. Gund. Also appearing on the list is the signature of City Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55, the longest- serving council member endorsed by the progressive Cambridge Civic Association (CCA).
And although marchers stood and chanted outside the homes of several prominent petition signers, Duehay's house was conspicuously absent from their tour.
In August, 1988, the city granted the school a certificate of occupancy, allowing students to attend classes there. But in September, next-door-neighbor Jean Brooks filed an appeal to the city to block further expansion and submitted the neighbors' petition. The city's Zoning Board of Appeal approved an...
"For many of us that was the end of the matter," said Fisher Professor of Natural History A.W. Crompton, a petition signer. "I was at that point ready to accept the decision."
During debate over an order sponsored by William H. Walsh and dealing with the petition signers, Duehay took an almost unheard-of step. He asked Walsh to remove his name from the measure, saying that the councillor was not qualified to address an issue of racial inequality.