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[...] it was a visiting professor Eduard Mondlane, exiled head of the Mozambique Liberation Movement and "kind of a Nelson Mandela of Mozambique" who helped translate MacCormack's incipient interest into a career that led him, eventually, to Save the Children in Westport as its president and chief executive officer. A group of ministers in New York City set up a board of directors and opened a Save the Children office in Harlan County, Ky., in the heart of Appalachia, then moved the offices to New York City in the late 1930s to raise money for refugee children in Europe.
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Hardly Child's Play
Charles MacCormack chose to attend Middlebury College in Vermont because it had a nice campus, of all things. "I basically went there because it was a beautiful place, and I wanted to attend a liberal arts school in a rural area," he said. He even got to pick apples at a nearby orchard, the region was so rural. Middlebury, he said, "fit the bill."
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