Word: rossi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rossi '71 was brought up in Cambridge housing projects. He was born into a family of five children, attended the local parochial schools, and then went on to Harvard. But he is not Harvard, he is Cambridge, and his understanding of the people and the city is both comprehensive and compassionate...
...Rossi has virtually no "political" experience, but, as he says, the political fever is ingrained deeply in him: "After all, my grandmother did address envelopes for Honey Fitz's mayoralty campaign; something must have been passed...
...Rossi's experience at Harvard has given him a perceptive view of the nature of the university's role in the community. "Taxing the university is in no way the answer to the problem of Harvard's isolation from the community; what is important is that ways are found to use and harness the energy that Harvard brings into the community each year," he said. "Harvard should be opened up to the community--the open space can be made far better use of for summer sports programs; extension courses can be expanded by publicizing them in the community; generally university...
...prime purpose next Friday is to get people registered so that they can elect representatives who will be responsible to the people," Rossi added...
Present at the meeting were: Barbara Ackerman, Michael J. Amato, Fred Arsenault, Jerry R. Cole, Donald F. Dailey, Francis H. Duehay, Saundra Graham, Jeanne Lafferty, Robert P. Moncreif, Steve Nelson, Henry F. Owens III, Edward P. Pacheco, Harry Photopoulos, Robert Anthony Romagna '74, Thomas P. Rossi, Leonard J. Russell, Toba L. Singer, Philip S. Shaw, Henry Smilowitz, C. Wendell Smith, and Sarah Jane Ullman...