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...Richard D. Blumenthal '67 was offered, and then not offered, the post of director of Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), the Federal anti-poverty project which functions as a domestic peace corps, this summer...
...children whose parents Never Told Them grow up to be authorities on sex education. Well, Mary Breasted's mother tried. She said something in the kitchen once about a "rosy glow." The years passed, and Mary saw a bit of life. She spent two years as a VISTA volunteer in Spanish Harlem. She -wow!-even went to Radcliffe. By her 26th year she had become one of those bright reporters on the Village Voice, and she had reached a decision: Mother's little touch of poetry about the rosy glow was something less than enough. Sex education...
Moynihan's penchant for controversyspread to members of his staff, Richard D. Blumenthal '67, who went to Washington with Moynihan as an aide, was offered the job of director of Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), and OEO community organizing project. Ninety-one members of Congress-some of whom had criticized VISTA as a group of "troublemakers"-signed a petition to Nixon urging him to withdraw the offer...
Richard D. Blumenthal '67 will be named as the new director of Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), a sagging "War on Poverty" program. Blumenthal was Editorial Chairman of the CRIMSON, and lived in Leverett House...
Blumenthal's youth seems to be a positive factor in his selection. He was described by White House colleagues as bright and attuned to his generation. He'll need more than the support of the Administration; VISTA, a community organizing program modeled on the Peace Corps, has been poorly funded since its inception. It has also been attacked periodically for funding black and white radicals...