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...Thomas H. Mahoney, a member of the Cambridge PTA, said that "In 1952 we experienced what has become famous as family night. On that night the School Committee met in executive session and appointed eight people to positions in the school system without interviewing any of them. Three of those appointees were relatives of committee members. Since then, 'family night' has become synonymous with patronage politics in Cambridge. We are here tonight because we fear another family night...
...Harvard football game this year, accompanied by a transistor radio and a pretty girl). Hal played the violin in his high school orchestra, and was president of Scarsdale High's General Organization. He ran for that position partially because he faced so much opposition from the faculty and the PTA: they were afraid he would not be able to handle it. "I won," he reports, "and the school is still standing." Hal is also a talented performer: he writes songs, sings, and plays the guitar and piano. As an undergraduate he did some nightclub work, but had to give...
...over a year, the Houghton PTA fought to convince the School Committee to build portable classrooms for the pupils, rather than scattering them among other Cambridge Schools. The School Committee last month reversed its earlier position in favor of scatteration, and voted to construct the classrooms--if a suitable location could be found...
...Houghton neighborhood, to avoid the bussing of children to school, and yet should cause a minimum of inconvenience to persons living near the classrooms. Both the B- School field and a DeWolfe St. Site owned by Harvard and the Archdiocese of Boston appear to meet these criteria. The Houghton PTA has unofficially welcomed the proposed locations...
...Elizabeth Gill, vice-president of the Houghton PTA, which has been pushing for construction of the classrooms, said yesterday that a "sampling" of PTA opinion made her think that "either site would be gratefully accepted" by the parents. "We have a very deep desire to keep the children in the neighborhood and have the school kept as an entity," she said. "Both sites would appear to do this...