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John Cort, 92
Professions: First director of the nation’s first state-sponsored service corps, the so-called “Baby Peace Corps”; director of the Model Cities program for neighborhood improvements in Lynn, Mass.; helped run a Peace Corps division in the Philippines in the 1960s; business agent for the Newspaper Guild of Greater Boston; editor of Commonweal, a Catholic journal; managing editor of the Labor Leader in 1938.
Degrees: A.B. from Harvard, 1935.
Quote: “He is a man of ripe experience and high idealism. As writer and editor, his point of view was always that of the underdog. As a labor leader, he has commanded the respect of all, including that of the employers with whom he negotiated." —from a 1964 Boston Globe editorial.
Death: August 3, 2006, at his home in Nahant, Mass.
From the Boston Globe.
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