Was very typical of what i have known him to be as a servant at city college. It was very difficult in his position, often being the one vote out of seven, often finding rubber stamping of a decision, fighting the way we were spending our money for ten years. Ten years he was in a position most of the time alone trying to speak up and say why are we doing this . Were running the college into the ground. This shouldnt be the way things should be, and when i got into the board and i concluded the same thing and i said milton god bless you. I couldnt have been here for ten years and put up with this stuff. And he just laughed and smiled and thank god he had been there for the people of San Francisco for city college and more importantly the students of that institutionifieding that fight when no one really cared about what was happening over there. It was very easy not to care. I think that tells you something about a man, a son of privilege, fighting quietly for a decade for children who
City college. It was very difficult in his position, often being the one vote out of seven, often finding rubber stamping of a decision, fighting the way we were spending our money for ten years. Ten years he was in a position most of the time alone trying to speak up and say why are we doing this . Were running the college into the ground. This shouldnt be the way things should be, and when i got into the board and i concluded the same thing and i said milton god bless you. I couldnt have been here for ten years and put up with this stuff. And he just laughed and smiled and thank god he had been there for the people of San Francisco for city college and more importantly the students of that institutionifieding that fight when no one really cared about what was happening over there. It was very easy not to care. I think that tells you something about a man, a son of privilege, fighting quietly for a decade for children who could never imagine such privilege. I think it tells you someth
Question the popular way, and he had many good points, and that was very typical of what i have known him to be as a servant at city college. It was very difficult in his position, often being the one vote out of seven, often finding rubber stamping of a decision, fighting the way we were spending our money for ten years. Ten years he was in a position most of the time alone trying to speak up and say why are we doing this . Were running the college into the ground. This shouldnt be the way things should be, and when i got into the board and i concluded the same thing and i said milton god bless you. I couldnt have been here for ten years and put up with this stuff. And he just laughed and smiled and thank god he had been there for the people of San Francisco for city college and more importantly the students of that institutionifieding that fight when no one really cared about what was happening over there. It was very easy not to care. I think that tells you something about a man, a
Campus, and i said its something that we should do and there was certainly overwhelming support for the campus, but characteristic of his style and his principles he was never afraid to question power, or to question the popular way, and he had many good points, and that was very typical of what i have known him to be as a servant at city college. It was very difficult in his position, often being the one vote out of seven, often finding rubber stamping of a decision, fighting the way we were spending our money for ten years. Ten years he was in a position most of the time alone trying to speak up and say why are we doing this . Were running the college into the ground. This shouldnt be the way things should be, and when i got into the board and i concluded the same thing and i said milton god bless you. I couldnt have been here for ten years and put up with this stuff. And he just laughed and smiled and thank god he had been there for the people of San Francisco for city college and m
Together on that and we passed it, and its really a great plan. Its an environmental model, i have to say. He brought a sunshine policy. We worked together in passing a sunshine policy. You have no idea how hard this was. Everyone was opposed to it. It took a year, but we finally got it through, and he was persistent. We would meet about it and after i would say i dont know milton. This doesnt look like its going anywhere and he would say no. Were going to do this. Were going to do this and he was right. He was a real reformer. He kept pushing and pushing in his quiet way. One of the things he would do is he would ask questions that he knew the answer to, so instead of him saying something at the board and trying to make an argument he would ask someone on the board, someone in the administration a question that he knew the answer to, and he would raise the issue that way. It was very effective. As president of the board he was a great president. He really reformed how the board worked