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Former Cambridge mayor Al Vellucci passed away two weeks ago, after a long life of public service. And while he was one of the most colorful local politicians to sit on the Cambridge City Council, Harvard administrators are ulikely to miss his stunts and criticisms of the University. Had Vellucci gotten his way we would be going to school in a drastically different place...
...plans for the Yard: in 1964 he declared his intention to raze Straus, Lehman and Massachusetts Halls to ease traffic in the Square. Four years later, he proposed digging up the Yard to make way for an underground parking garage and bus depot. And as recently as 1988, Vellucci was still issuing public threats to former University President Derek C. Bok in The Crimson: “We will cut all their trees and all their landscape after confiscating their land by police force if necessary...
Despite his gimmicks—or maybe because of them—Vellucci became the spokesperson for a popular political perspective in Cambridge, and his antics reflect an anger on the part of residents towards Harvard. We are, admittedly, the most intolerable neighbors...
...Good,” Vellucci said with an assuring smile. “Just make sure that she votes...
...mother died as an American citizen on Dec. 17, 1996, in Bridgeton, Missouri. Prior to her death, she asked me to contact Vellucci for help just in case her nursing-home money ran out before she died...