Manages Utopia

Lawrence H. Tucker '31 had a lusty Farm Security Administration youngster plumped onto his lap when he was appointed community manager of Greenhills, Ohio, in March. Greenhills, one of three such urban projects in the country, was begun during the depression to give jobs to unemployed workers, provide good housing at reasonable rents to an income group ranging from $1000 to $2200 per year, and demonstrate a new kind of community planning which combines many of the advantages of both city and country life. Just five miles out of Cincinnati and consisting of 5,930 acres that include 60 farm properties, 188 residential buildings and six institutional buildings, Greenhills has its own Mayor-Council type of government, incorporated in the fall of 1939. Greendale, near Milwaukee, and Greenbelt, near Washington, D. C., are similar communities.

Before joining the Farm Security Administration in 1938, Mr. Tucker was on the staff of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission.