It was a busy time, Duehay said, especially because he spent his summers working at a New Hampshire summer camp, at which he had worked since college.
"I really wasn't getting much of a vacation," he says.
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But after five years in the Harvard administration, the Cambridge native decided he needed a change.
During his tenure at the GSE, Duehay was appointed to a Cambridge Civic "I thought, 'Maybe you really ought to do ityourself,'" Duehay says. "It was put up or shutup." So the former Adams House resident put up. Following the same methodical regularity thatwon him the Harvard class committee post, Duehayran an aggressive campaign. By his own estimate, he campaigned flat-outfrom January to November 1963 with the exceptionof two Saturday nights and a stint at his NewHampshire summer camp. And Duehay added that onone of the two Saturday nights he missed, hesimply fell asleep. Just like when he was running for classcommittee, the campaigning paid off, and Duehaywas elected to one of the six posts. In 1970, after four terms on the SchoolCommittee, he secured a position on the CityCouncil, where he has been ever since. Duehay served as mayor in 1980-81 and again in1985, when then-mayor Leonard J. Russell died inoffice. Duehay's Cambridge Duehay, who was born and raised in Cambridge,attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School beforeHarvard College. Over the years, he says, he hascome to know the city inside and out. Each fall Duehay introduces a group ofnewly-arrived Harvard first-years to the city viaa walking tour organized through the FreshmanDean's Office. "I take the 30 or so undergraduates, and I tryto show them contrasts, so that they don't thinkthat Harvard Square is all of Cambridge," Duehaysays. Read more in NewsRecommended Articles
