In his career, he acted in several roles at once, developing programs such as voluntary desegregation, school choice, the sister city program and recycling iniatives and promoting them nationally.

"He's seen that Cambridge has the opportunity to be a model for other cities and towns across the country," Barber says.

He did not stop working at Harvard until 1974, when he became executive director of the Lincoln Filene Center for Citizenship and Public Affairs at Tufts University, where he organized local universities' efforts to install magnet schools and programs in the Boston school system following the 1974 court order to desegregate the schools.

At the end of his career, Duehay was still juggling as he served on the Board of Directors of the National League of Cities, as vice president of the Massachusetts Municipal Association and on the Board of Directors of the Phillips Brooks House Association at Harvard.

"You do the best you can at it," Duehay says.

Barber says that Duehay was involved in these organizations in addition to being on the council so he could work on local problems while tying in state and national involvement.

"I think that Frank constantly had his eye on government in the sense of what the limits of local government are and what state and federal governments can do," Barber says.