Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even before 10 p.m. when the door to the basement shelter opens, the dark figures who sit on their large bags or carry them with them pace the cold street outside the University Lutheran Church, anxious to get inside for the night. One wiry man repeatedly approaches passersby, sets down his two large sacks and says, "My name's Billy. Could you help me get home and get some dinner?" After gaining admittance to the shelter, Billy receives an offer for a subway token, but he chooses to spend the night...
...basement downstairs. His faded blue overalls drag on the ground as he pulls out mattresses from a stack in the corner, sorts through bedding and organizes a staff of volunteers. With his unassuming manner and style of dress, few would distinguish him from the frequenters of the shelter. Even fewer would guess that he is a first-year Harvard Divinity School student...
City officials Tuesday refused to grant the shelter a permit, arguing that it violates a variety of city ordinances. But Turner C. Graybill, a Boston attorney working at no pay for the church, argued yesterday that as a religious organization University Lutheran is exempt from these regulations...
Vellucci added that city officials had thought the shelter was a Divinity school project, not one directed by the churches...
...addition, they left a resolution from the Community Service Area Advisory Board, an official city panel, calling on the city "to make every effort in assist, approve, and coordinate the emergency shelter arrangements that have been improvised at the University Lutheran Church...