Records of the Citizens for 65 1953-2003

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Records of the Citizens for 65 1953-2003

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The records detail many of the issues and events associated with Gregory Coffin’s superintendency of Evanston’s Community Consolidated School District 65 and the contentious 1970 School Board election that determined his tenure.

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Evanston School District 65

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Creative drama was introduced into the Evanston/Skokie, Illinois school system in the late 1920s through the efforts of Winifred Ward, a Northwestern University children's theatre and creative drama professor. For thirty years, theatre specialists trained by Ward and her successors taught drama district-wide to Evanston students in grades four through eight. During this time there were also other special drama education projects that were created for primary and elementa...

Citizens for 65

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Originally known as Citizens for Coffin and District 65, Citizens for 65 was an Evanston and Skokie, Illinois, community organization which formed to support Gregory C. Coffin, superintendent of Community Consolidated Schools District 65, and particularly his policies related to the integration of Evanston elementary schools. (District 65 is contiguous with Evanston but also overlaps a portion of the political boundaries of Skokie, Illinois.) Coffin, appointed superintendent of Dist...