Asked if we should build 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 Franc
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 something about a man who when he finally got into power whrks he finally had a majority vote on the board of trustees and became president , which was really the last three years issue the first thing he. Was establish a protocol that reminded everyone why we were there. For every vote the board cast he said were going to hear from our st
Marks is someone that we should honor here and everywhere. Hes also a person we should admire and he is someone we should celebrate. Thank you. [applause] and before we hear from abbey i would like to welcome steve noe from the city College Board. Thank you abbey for giving me an opportunity to speak about milton today. Some of you may have heard that city college is facing some troubles; that we are at risk of losing our license to operate a college, and some of you may have heard that there is a as there should be a cause to Save City College, to keep it from going under. What some of you may not know is that milton marks for over a decade on the board was trying to Save City College before it became a popular cause, long before it was attention of Media Attention or the focus of some of the leaders in San Francisco. The model of city college of San Francisco is the truth may make you free, and for 20 years or so the college lost its way. It stopped abiding by its own motto. Fortunat
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 son of privilege, fighting qui
Mission. When i first met milton he just wanted to talk and i was running for office. We were in the same election, same ballot and it is easy as it is in San Francisco politics to characterize people on either side of the aisle, and milton said let me find out what this guy is about. Lets talk and that was very fitting because thats exactly how i knew him to operate as a Public Servant and a person. He wanted to talk about the china town campus and talk about my background. He asked if we should build 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