Word: shaker
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...elected five student directors, a treasurer, and a clerk last night. The new directors are John F. Drewry '71 of Winthrop House and Shaker Heights, Ohio; Stanley S. Jones Jr. '71 of Quincy House and Atlanta, Ga.; Ronald T. Luke '70 of Kirkland House and Dallas, Tex.; Gary L. Rosenthal '71 of Leverett House and Tulsa, Okla.; and Charles E. Talmadge '71 of Eliot House and Houston, Tex.; the clerk is Thomas G. Stembert '71 of Quincy House and Vienna, Austria; and the treasurer is Scott A. Abell '72 of Matthews Hall Chagrin Falls, Ohio...
...night's concert had high points and some performances are particularly worthy of note. Such was Richie Havens' performance Thursday night and it served to salvage what began as a complete disaster. Havens is an artist of great power and he brought the audience to its feet with "Run, Shaker Life," a spiritual which rocked the tired and irritated thousands. Havens was also to introduce Jerry Merrick, the author of "Follow," a song which he had made known; and Jerry played with rare simplicity and delicacy...
Such affluent school districts as Shaker Heights in Ohio, and garden City and Cold Springs Harbor in New York found themselves eligible for Title I funds, and after a little hesitation, applied for and received the money. Once the districts had the dollars, they discovered they could not find the economically disadvantaged children supposedly living in their districts and through a loophole in the wording of the law, began using the funds to finance programs for Educationally disadvantaged students. "You mean that if a kid's father is making $15,000 a year, but he is divorced...
EDWARD S. BABCOX JR Shaker Heights, Ohio...
...from a combination of civic complacency, the steady flight of middle-class whites to the suburbs, and the limiting effects of a debt-free, pay-as-you-go school budget policy. By 1964, the city was spending only $450 per student annually on education, compared with $850 in nearby Shaker Heights. As a result, half of Cleveland's students were in schools more than 50 years old. Only two high schools offered vocational training-and less than a third of all graduates were able to find jobs. None of the city's 135 elementary schools even...