Meyner Matters

PRE-SORTED First Class Mail U.S. Postage PAID Meyner Center Easton, PA Permit No. 108 002 Kirby Hall of Civil Rights Lafayette College Easton, Pennsylvania, 18042 Meyner Matters A Report from the Robert B. and Helen S. Meyner Center for the Study of State and Local Government Contents From the Direct or 1 From the Director The past year was another exciting one for the Meyner Center. The study of state and local 1 With Gratitude to Richard and Priscilla Hunt The year was highlighted by a visit from Nobel Laureate Elinor government cannot be Ostrom, a long-time friend; a keynote address by Philadelphia 2 Meyner Center Staff isolated from the Mayor Michael Nutter at the Center’s Annual Forum on Local 3 Archival Resources interdependence of the Government; sponsorship of an international conference on global village. 3 Contact Us Federalism and the Global Financial Crisis; continuation of the 4 Major Events Global Dialogue on Federalism; and assistance in creating the new Northampton County agency responsible for collecting 6 International Outreach earned income taxes for the county’s 38 municipalities and eight 6 Iraq Center for Federal Studies school districts. 7 Recent Publications by the Center Director The Meyner Center, opened in 1994, has a broad mandate spanning the Lafayette 7 The Federalist in Catalan campus, the Lehigh Valley, the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-New York region, the nation, and 13 Global Dialogue on Federalism Book Series the globe. From community-based learning for students to workshops for local officials, 8 Community Renewal debates among state legislative candidates, state-specific studies, annual contributions to the 9 Partnering with Easton Council of State Governments’ Book of the States, and collaboration in establishing an Iraq Center for Federal Studies, the Center engages vital issues. 10 Serving our Region The 50 states and 89,476 local governments that make up the United States provide 11 Additional Regional Impact nearly all the services and protections that affect our daily lives. The recession has put many 12 Campus Service of them in dire straits. State and local governments are deeply affected by what happens 13 Student Honors Theses globally, nationally, and in Washington, D.C. The study of state and local government cannot be isolated from the interdependence of the global village. Worldwide, regional and local governments are vital vehicles for economic development, social well-being, and civic participation. The Center also focuses on federalism and intergovernmental relations. These crucial constitutional, legal, institutional, and fiscal contexts shape the parameters of regional and local governance. One example is the Center’s participation in a study of the 5,168 mandates placed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on its local governments. The Center, therefore, educates students about the importance of state and local Mission of the Meyner Center governments and encourages them to participate in state and local affairs and become future leaders. The Center also works with state and local officials and civic groups and With Gratitude to provides such specific services as administrative and financial reviews, comparative salary Richard and Priscilla Hunt studies, executive-search assistance, visioning exercises, and educational workshops and In 1991, the family of Robert B. and Helen S. Meyner endowed both the forums. The Center works, too, with national associations of state and local officials. We gratefully acknowledge the steadfast Internationally, the Center engages in education and training on regional and local Robert B. and Helen S. Meyner Center for the Study of State and Local friendship and generous financial support governance, federalism and decentralization, and intergovernmental relations at the request Government and the Robert B. and Helen S. Meyner Professorship of provided over the years by Richard and Government and Public Service. The Meyner Professor is a member of the of foreign governments and universities, U.S. agencies, and international institutions. In Priscilla Hunt of Cambridge, Mass. College’s Department of Government and Law and teaches courses on 2010, the Center’s outreach included activities in Canada, Ethiopia, Germany, Mexico, Professor Richard McMasters Hunt, now American government, state and local government, and federalism. People’s Republic of China, and Spain. retired, taught history, including a core The Center is supported by an endowment contributed by the estates of Robert B. and curriculum course on Weimar and Nazi Helen S. Meyner, contributions from Richard and Priscilla Hunt of Cambridge, Mass., and Germany, for 42 years at Harvard The Center’s mission is to: Engage in local, regional, national, and other Meyner family and friends, and external awards and contracts for specific projects by University and served as University international public service, training, and outreach to state and local private foundations, nonprofit entities, and government agencies. Marshal for 20 years. He is a former governments and civic organizations president of the American Council on Germany and served as a volunteer Provide education, internships, and public service opportunities for ambulance driver for the American Field undergraduate students in state and local government at home and abroad Service in India and Burma during World War II. Priscilla Stevenson Hunt, sister of Helen S. Meyner and Helen Stevenson Meyner and cousin of Robert B. Meyner Promote scholarly and applied research and publication on state and local John Kincaid Adlai Stevenson, has long been active in government, especially in the context of federal democracy and Robert B. and Helen S. Meyner Professor of Government and Public Service civic and cultural affairs and a loyal intergovernmental relations. supporter of her alma mater, Oberlin College. 1 Meyner Center Staff Archival Resources John Kincaid David L. Woglom Terry A. Cooper Robert B. and Helen Stevenson James L. Martin Papers Clippings Archive John Kincaid is the Robert B. and David L. Woglom, Associate Terry A. Cooper, Meyner Papers James L. Martin was the assistant The Meyner Center has many Helen S. Meyner Professor of Director for Public Service, has administrative Robert Baumle Meyner (1908- director of federal relations at the newspaper clippings, magazine Government and Public Service and been the Center’s essential person assistant since 1990) was a state senator from National Association of Counties and journal articles, association Director of the Meyner Center for for local government services since 2000, is the Warren County, N.J., from 1948 to from 1963-67. In 1967, he joined the newsletters, historical records, the Study of State and Local 2007. A 1978 graduate of Lafayette Meyner Center’s 1952 and governor of New Jersey staff of the National Governors and other items pertaining to Government at College, he has 27 years experience friendly voice on from 1954 to 1962. His wife, Helen Association and embarked on a U.S. federalism and state and local Lafayette in municipal management, including the phone, Stevenson Meyner (1929-1997), career that spanned 31 years. Martin governments, mostly from the College. He also 20 years as man ager of the Borough welcoming person in the office, and served with the American Red served as NGA’s deputy director 1960s to the present, as well as is Senior Editor of Quakertown, Bucks County, Pa. organizer of daily activities. She Cross (1950-52) in Japan and Korea from 1967 to 1979, when he became most of the publications of the of the Global —a municipality that had seven graduated with honors from during the Korean War, worked for the legislative counsel and director, U.S. Advisory Commission on Dialogue on department heads and more than Northampton Community College in Trans-World Airlines (1953-55) as a a position he held until retiring in Intergovernmental Relations, Federalism, a 100 employees, and an annual 1996 with an A.A. in general studies. consumer advisor, and was a staff 1998. Martin was the chief point including Intergovernmental joint project of budget exceeding $20 million. He In 1999, she graduated from Lehigh member on the 1956 presidential person for coordinating the Perspective. Materials also are the Forum of has extensive University with a B.A. in history. She campaign of her distant cousin, legislative agenda of the nation’s available on comparative Federations and International experience in is a member of the Palmer Township Adlai Stevenson. Helen Meyner governors with the White House federalism, federalism in various Association of Centers for Federal finance and Environmental Steering Committee, also served two terms (1975-79) in and congressional leaders. Much of countries, and the formation of the Studies, and an elected fellow of the budgeting, labor- among other activities. the U.S. House of Representatives his work focused on gov ernment European Union, including many National Academy of Public contract representing New Jersey’s 13th financing, especially federal aid to issues of L’Europe en for mation dating Administration. He is the recipient negotiation, Charles F. Prutzman District. The papers document the state and local governments. The back to the late 1960s. of the Distinguished Scholar Award zoning and code Charles F. Prutzman, from Martins private and political lives of the over-arching theme of the Martin from the Section on Federalism and enforcement, Creek, Pa., is the Center’s student Meyners, and include Helen Papers is state-federal relations. Intergovernmental Relations of the and police, EXCEL Scholar. He is majoring in Meyner’s congressional papers, her American Political Science public works, government and law and psychology Red Cross letters from Japan and Association and of the Distinguished storm-water, water, wastewater, and and will attend Korea, and campaign materials Scholar Award from the Section on electricity management. He is a law school after from her congressional race and Intergovernmental Administration member of the Association for graduating from Robert Meyner’s gubernatorial and Management of the American Pennsylvania Municipal Management Lafayette in May races.

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