Schools clash as Hyde Park-Kenwood backs Junior Great Books
Hyde Park-Kenwood engages in a clash between school authorities and the community over a Junior Great Books program. Murray School PTA, led by Principal Yale Williams and Superintendent Curtis Melnick, organized 60 fifth and sixth graders with 9 volunteer leaders. Classes ran after school hours with funding efforts reducing costs per child. A spectrum of officials questioned volunteers on school time use, while the PTA pressed for continuation.
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Hyde Park-Kenwood
Chicago Public School Administration
Murray School Pta
Yale Williams
Curtis Melnick
PTA
Melnick
Great Books Foundation
Williams
Murray Pta
The
Herald
United Church of
David Heffernan
Illinois
Community school program praised amid fault lines in Chicago district
The piece reviews a joint Murray School Junior Great Books effort with PTA and local authorities, praising cooperation while raising questions about School Superintendent Benjamin C. Willis and his so called four walls policy in Chicago. It notes publication details for Hyde Park Herald Inc. and lists staff and deadlines.
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Fred Fuller Bennett
Carence P. Dresser
Hyde Park Herald Inc
S. Harper
Chicago
Telephone Midway
Ill
PTA
Melnick
Williams
Benjamin C. Willis
Mandel Hall concert stirs, fatigues in modern music
Robert Pollak reviews a Chicago Symphony program at Mandel Hall tied to the University of Chicago and the Orchestral Association. He praises Perle and Blackwood but finds the serial works exhausting. Varese’s Arcana, conducted by Jean Martinon, dominates with virile, boundary pushing sound and a memorable ovation.
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Mandel Hall
Chicago Symphony
Department of Music
University of Chicago
Orchestral Association
Schoenberg
Alban Berg
George Perle
Easley Blackwood
Jean Martinon
Perle
Mandel
Berg
Bartok
Blackwood
Albee
Alice
Edgar Varese
New York
Varese
d’Indy
Rousse
Vidor
Paris
Stockhausen
M. Martinon
Chicago
Martinon
Alderman decries half cent Chicago sales tax hike
A Chicago alderman denounces a proposed 1/2 cent sales tax increase to fund city government, arguing it harms the poor and suggests reform of personnel practices as a better solution. He warns the change will burden low income families, cites milk and milk purchases as examples, and predicts the tax's political goals.
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Chicago
Keane
Illinois
Finance Committee
John Buchanan
Senate
House
Editor questions ad space for seminary site decision
A reader chides the Herald for lack of advertising and calls editor's stance on the Lutheran School of Theology site a grievous judgment. The letter notes Hyde Park rents and the seminary's holdings, asserting community implications and urging correction on future editorials.
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Herald
Troversy
Lutheran School of Theology
Hyde Park
54Th Place
55Th Street
University
Greenwood
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Bruce Sagan
Florence Goold
Mary Louise Stauffer
Jean Garner Jacobs
Vena Skonick
Ralph Weston
Murray School
Critic’s Circle
By Robert Pollak
Pollak
Ald. Despres
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