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Tuesday December 21st, 2010

East Cleveland: A City in Transition (audio only)

Anthony Houston, program manager, Neighborhood Stabilization Program, E. Cleveland, OH

Mansell Baker, assistant to the mayor’s chief of staff, City of E. Cleveland, OH

Gladys Haddad, host, Regionally Speaking

Fannie Hall, resident, East Cleveland, OH

Tuesday December 21, 2010

Regionally Speaking, Western Reserve Studies Symposium, Case Western Reserve University

This program brings together two people from the East Cleveland Mayor’s Office: Anthony Houston, Program Manager for the Neighborhood Stabilization Program, and Mansell Baker, Assistant to the Mayor’s Chief of Staff. An additional voice in the conversation is Fannie Hall, a resident of East Cleveland who has lived in the same East Cleveland home for 49 years. With these different perspectives, listen to how economic redevelopment measures are shaping a city in transition.

 Download MP3 Audio (length: 30:03)

Additional Information About Our Guests…

Anthony Houston is the Program Manager for the Neighborhood Stabilization Program for the City of East Cleveland, Ohio.

Mansell Baker, Assistant to the Mayor’s Chief of Staff, City of East Cleveland

Gladys Haddad is Professor of American Studies at Case Western Reserve University and the founder and director of the Western Reserve Studies Symposia, an annual event now in its twentieth year that offers a forum and WEB site for the study of the history and culture of a distinctive northeastern Ohio region. She earned a B.A., Allegheny College, B.F.A., Lake Erie College, M.A. and Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University. She is professor of American Studies emerita at Lake Erie College where she was academic dean and executive assistant to the President.

A historian and regionalist her scholarship is centered in Ohio’s Western Reserve. She has published on the history, literature, and art of the region. She is the author of Ohio’s Western Reserve: A Regional Reader, Anthology of Western Reserve Literature and Laukhuff’s Book Store: Cleveland’s Literary and Artistic Landmark: An Epilogue. She is the editor of Western Reserve Studies: A Journal of Regional History and Culture and Western Reserve Studies Symposia Papers.

She is the Project Archivist, Researcher and Author of the CASE website “Selected Philanthropic Families of Case Western Reserve University.”

Fannie Hall, a resident of East Cleveland