Word: schroder
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...Schroder was born in 1940 in East Prussia, but her family moved in the middle of the war to Berlin, where her father was a designer for the Luftwaffe. Growing up in a city under siege made an impression on her that is vague, because she was so young, but nonetheless indelible...
There was not a great deal of contact with the Nazis, no pervasive feeling of the evil of the society. Although Schroder's father worked for the Nazis he was never in the party himself, and Schroder remembers that once he hid an anti-Nazi in their attic, telling his children the man was a retarded uncle, unable to speak...
...Schroder looks back on the postwar period with pride, remembering the way people who had nothing worked together and pulled themselves back up. It was exactly the kind of inspirational sense of community that had been completely absent from her life and work at Harvard...
Last spring Schroder started to talk to other secretaries in the Physics lab, the Law School and elsewhere, people with the same kinds of complaints she had. The secretaries--there were only two or three at first, but more joined the group--started to meet once a week after work to talk and drink coffee. By late April, working in relative secrecy, they were talking to organizers of the Medical Area Employees Organizing Committee, a year-old group that was already affiliated with District 65. Towards the end of the school year the group, 20 strong by then, began...
...late August the group decided on District 65 because of its openness and its success in the Medical Area, and it started to hold open meetings at which Schroder and others would talk in glowing, Utopian terms about the need for a union and especially about the quality of District 65. The Harvard Employees Organizing Committee was out in the open...