Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Poetic Obituaries: Sitting on his living room couch

in Lexington, Mass. in early 1975, Robert A. Dentler pondered a reporter's question about why US District Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. had tapped him as an expert to help draft Boston's school desegregation plan.

"I don't put much weight on the idea that anyone is expert enough to solve social problems," he said with a smile. "The solutions come out of developing the collective will of the community."

from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Robert A. Dentler, 79, helped draft school desegration plan

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