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This alliance will hopefully strengthen these much-needed community institutions. Although autonomy is usually desirable, today’s political and financial realities may require the RNH and RCC to cooperate and combine some functions.

I was a student at then-JHS 141 in 1972 when the RCC began its after-school and evening centers. It was quite thrilling, as a teenager, to “graduate” from a volunteer to a paid position there. Likewise, it was inspiring to see the center grow, and to work with visionary founders like Ferne LaDue, Norman Kaufman, and numerous Parents Association members – even if only in a minor role.

The RCC & RNH alliance is interesting in another way: The RNH’s dates to 1872, when the far-seeing Dodge family founded a free lending library for workers in the neighborhood. The RCC arrived 100 years later, in a much-changed north Bronx – but one with needs like those of the Gilded Age.

Here’s hoping that this association will strengthen each organization, and allow both to serve even more residents in an era of uncertain donations and government aid.

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