IN PROFILE:
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Nearly every city in America today the size Cloud, Minnesota is faced with a variety of co problems such as urban renewal, building code ref industrial and residential expansion, tax structuring name a few. To Saint Cloud's mayor, Dr. Edward Henry, '43, these problems and others have proved. challenge worthy of his greatest efforts.
"Being a so-called part-time mayor is a fulljob," guips "Ed" Henry, who spends most of his at his "real" occupation, that of heading the Depart of Government at Saint John's University. Lately; h ever, the city's taxpayers have received the lion's s of his time since he has taken a sabbatical leave fr the University last semester.
An avid student of Greek political philosoph
he adheres to the proverb that says-"Man really do
mature until he participates in civic affairs." He
elected mayor of St. Cloud in 1964.
Graduating from Saint John's in 1943, he ser three years in the U.5. Navy, spending a year of time at Harvard University's Graduate School of B ness. Returning to St. Cloud in 1946, he became e of the old Sentinel newspaper, before going on to University of Chicago for his M.A. degree the next y
In 1948, and the next five years, Ed Henry appointed the Assistant to the President and Assist Professor of the Government Department at Mount Scholastica College in Kansas.
1954 was the year that he returned to his mater, and where he has remained to the present professor and chairman of the Government Departm By 1955, he had earned his Doctorate from the Uni
sity of Chicago.
Abbot Baldwin Dworschak, 0.5.B., appointed Henry the University's Vice President for Developm in 1961, which was in addition to his teaching ch() He remained at this post until he assumed the res sibilities as St. Cloud's mayor three years later.
Dr. Henry's favorite topic is most always pol' of course, and his job at City Hall. He and the Council determine how a budget pie of about $3 mil will be sliced.
He often cites some of the contrasts in his job mayor. For instance, he likes the challenge it pravi the chance to meet a lot of people, and dealing interest groups. However, he balks at how slow wheels of government grind, and would like more fr dam to implement his program objectives.
St. Cloud indeed offers challenges. Among idiosyncrasies, the city is: split by three dif counties; surrounded by an incorporated town a urbanized township; and has some 13 governm bodies functioning individually within 40 blocks
City Hall.
