Word: thomsen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mary Ellen Reineri Thomsen '56 said she is "especially interested in learning new ways to get alumni to part with their money...
...Thomsen, whose alumni experience includes a stint working for Harvard Magazine, also voiced interest in "bringing the alumni back to the college, so they could see what college life is like today...
Pacific Palisades was anything but pacific that night. Parents on the advisory council for the local public schools were angrily debating plans for a court-mandated busing program. When Dave Thomsen, 36, a management consultant, objected to shipping small children 20 miles away to school, someone shouted, "Thomsen, if you don't like the way Los Angeles schools are run, why don't you just leave?" Thomsen walked out, followed by half a dozen parents. "If this were 200 years ago," he said, "we'd be starting our own school." So they did, a mile away from...
Though Palisades Village School has 14 Orientals and six Hispanics, there are currently no black students. "The school has never refused anybody admittance," Dave Thomsen insists, defending the school's first-come, first-served policy of admission. The Internal Revenue Service seems to see things Thomsen's way. According to IRS standards in use at that time, any private school starting up or expanding in an area undergoing mandatory integration would normally have been denied tax-exempt status. Satisfied that the Palisades Village School was operating "in a bona fide racially nondiscriminatory manner," the IRS granted...
...superintendent of schools and a black, is gloomy about those figures. "If community schools expand very much, the public schools will become schools of paupers. I don't think these schools were meant to be an elitist thing, but it could develop into that." And, in fact, Dave Thomsen has already contacted the local school district, hoping to rent one of the nearly vacated public schools if it closes down. Chuckles School Board President Wein traub: "Now, is that Catch...