Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the AVC became a part of the University in August, 1946, Provost Buck, calling it the first such organization in the school's history, asked it to work with the Veteran's Counselling Bureau to handle veteran's problems...
...more and more serious until in 1947 the chapter was forced to send urgent letters to all students who lived outside of the University, and those who were leaving or graduating, asking them to put their rooms on the AVC file. The room would then be given to a veteran. The idea was repeated in March, 1949 to help those forced out of the Jarvis and Devens units, both of which were slated to close...
...urgent problem developed in March, 1950 when the University began closing down most of the subsidized veteran's housing units Led by chairman Roy F. Gootenberg '49, now a teaching fellow in Government, an aroused AVC charged that Harvard might not fully understand the factors involved, and immediately conducted a survey to determine whether the administration's decision was based on a complete comprehension of the current situation...
Perhaps the whole purpose of the organization was defined by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. '37, at one of its first meetings, when he urged veterans to take an active part in pushing through bills for veteran benefit on housing and price control. Roosevelt warned the group that "veterans don't get rich...
Gootenberg felt that Harvard men would have a lot to gain by joining the city group, since it 'would be a strong united chapter and could keep up the fight for veteran participation in politics and voting and at the same time fight for civil liberties...