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How ‘orphan train’ origins informed CMU’s trailblazer — and brought diversity to Fox Chapel

In 1964, two years after he became dean of CMU’s Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Richard Cyert was teaching in the school’s economics department. At that time, the only Black people residing inside Fox Chapel were domestic workers living in their employers’ homes and on the campus of Shadyside Academy.

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