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...there is a story about a fight for control of an important community school council in East Boston in which the ROAR faction was defeated by a more responsible group. The person who defeated ROAR's effort to take control of the council was Ms. DeFronzo, who was elected chairperson of the council over the ROAR candidate, and Congressman Udall is proud to have her on his slate. Barney Frank State Rep., 5th District
Mary E. Preusser, 1974-5 chairperson of the committee, said yesterday that Burns candidacy would not be hurt by allegations of voting fraud in the recent City Council election, and that few voters had even heard of the charges...
Kearns's commitment to Harvard has not been completely academic. She was actively involved in the Kennedy Institute of Politics as the co-chairperson of the fellow selection committee. During the 1970 strike she was active in Peace Action, an organization which placed students in the campaigns of liberal anti-war candidates. The fact that Kearns is essentially a political being enhances her qualities as a teacher of the current American political scene. Her popular American Presidency course, Government 154, is filled with pointed anecdotes about her life in Washington and her activities on the campaign trail with Sargent Shriver...
...great battle of the suffix person is still unresolved. Chairman briefly became chairperson, but many now settle simply for chair, as in "she was the chair of the committee." The problem with person-policeperson, committee-person, showperson-is that it sounds ridiculous. The Naval Academy wisely insists that its women students will be called midshipmen. Person is still acceptable when used independently to designate either a man or a woman. When White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen mentions future Government appointees, he is very careful these days to speak of person instead...
Ackermann, the sponsor of the act and chairperson of the task force which wrote it, said last night that she considers both points of the measure "of equal importance...