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• THE SOMERVILLE NEWS WEEKLY’S SPECIAL PERSON OF THE WEEK DOROTHY KELLY GAY
• DOROTHY KELLY GAY ELECTED MAYOR OF {GRID-ROW-START:2;GRID-LUMN-START:2;GRID-LUMN-END:3;}@MEDIA (MAX-WIDTH:950PX){{GRID-LUMN-START:1;GRID-LUMN-END:2;}}{BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;MAX-WIDTH:600PX;PADDG:0PX 20PX;MARG:0PX TO;FONT-FAY:'COLABORATE LIGHT','LUCIDA SANS UNI',SANS-SERIF;MARG-BOTTOM:5PX;} A{LOR:#7B1B18;} IMG{PADDG-RIGHT:7PX;}BY {LOR:#BA0600;}JOSEPH P. 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CAPUANO.AT A JUBILANT VICTORY PARTY LAST NIGHT, GAY CREDED HER VICTORY LARGE PART TO HER SUPPORT OM FEMALE VOTERS AND PLEDGED TO BRG A NEW PERSPECTIVE TO CY HALL.GAY AND BUONOMO HAVE BEEN MPAIGNG SCE CAPUANO, NOW A NGRSPERSON, LEFT THE MAYORAL POSN OPEN JANUARY. GAY WILL HOLD THE POSN UNTIL THE REGULAR MAYORAL ELECTN NOVEMBER.ACRDG TO THE SOMERVILLE ELECTN MISSN, THE FAL VOTE TALLY WAS 6878 VOT FOR GAY AND 6473 FOR BUONOMO.THE CLOSE MARG KEPT THE NDIDAT' SPIRED SUPPORTERS ON EDGE AT VICTORY PARTI LAST NIGHT.GAY WAS VERY HAPPY WH HER VICTORY, SAYG SHE FELT "EXCED AND OVERWHELMED."{DISPLAY:BLOCK;MARG:0PX TO;WIDTH:100%;MAX-WIDTH:100%;BACKGROUND:TRANSPARENT;PADDG:10PX 0PX;} {FONT-FAY:'COLABORATE LIGHT','LUCIDA SANS UNI',SANS-SERIF;LOR:#333333;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;FONT-SIZE:0.7EM;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;DISPLAY:BLOCK;} {WIDTH:-WEBK-F-NTENT;WIDTH:-MOZ-F-NTENT;WIDTH:F-NTENT;MARG:0PX TO;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;}ADVERTISEMENTSHE SPOKE PROUDLY OF BEG THE CY'S FIRST FEMALE MAYOR."WE'VE CHARTED NEW WATERS. WE'VE CHARTED A NEW URSE. THE WOMEN OF SOMERVILLE ME OUT FORCE," SHE SAID.FORMER SOMERVILLE MAYOR GENE C. BNE SAID GAY'S HARD WORK HAD PAID OFF."I FEEL GREAT. IT'S A WELL-SERVED W. SHE WAS THE UNRDOG UP UNTIL ABOUT THREE WEEKS AGO, BUT YOU ULD FEEL THE MOMENTUM BUILDG," HE SAID.BNE CREDED FEMALE VOTERS FOR A GREAT AL OF THIS MOMENTUM.ADVERTISEMENT"I THK 'S THE WOMEN WHO GAVE HER THE VICTORY," HE SAID.TERA CARDOSO, A SCHOOL MTEE MEMBER FOR SOMERVILLE'S WARD TWO SAID SHE UNTED HERSELF AMONG THE FEMALE SUPPORTERS."IT WILL BE GREAT TO HAVE A QUALIFIED FEMALE MAYOR FOR THE FIRST TIME THE CY'S HISTORY, " SHE SAID.VENTURE PALIST AND FORMER EIGHTH DISTRICT NGRSNAL NDIDATE JOHN O'CONNOR SAID GAY'S STAT AS A POLIL OUTSIR ALLOWED HER A H PERSPECTIVE."SHE'S NEVER BEEN PART OF THE GOOD OLD BOYS' WORK. I THK YOU'LL SEE MUCH MORE EFFECTIVE EXPERIMENTATN ON MANY ISSU," O'CONNOR SAID.ADVERTISEMENTDPE HER SUPPORTERS' NFINCE, GAY'S VICTORY WAS FAR OM ASSURED AT THE BEGNG OF THE EVENG.BEFORE RULTS ROLLED , BUONOMO'S SUPPORTERS, WHO GATHERED AT THE HOLIDAY INN ON WASHGTON STREET, WERE CERTA THAT THE LONG-TIME CY OFFICIAL WOULD E OUT AHEAD.ONE OF THE NFINT SUPPORTERS WAS BUONOMO'S NT, ROSE M. EARLE."HE'S BEEN AT THIS FOR MORE THAN 18 YEARS. MY NEPHEW KNOWS EVERY NOOK AND CRANNY OF THIS KNOWS HOW TO LOOK FORWARD. TONIGHT IS GOG TO BE A BIG VICTORY," EARLE SAID.THERE E. STILE, A LIFELONG SOMERVILLE RINT, ALSO SAID THAT BUONOMO'S EXPERIENCE WOULD HELP HIM W.ADVERTISEMENT"I'VE KNOWN JOHN FOR MANY YEARS. HE GREW UP WH MY CHILDREN," STILE SAID. "IT WAS HIS TIME TO N FOR MAYOR. HE'S THE MOST QUALIFIED TO DO SO, MY TIMATN."BUT AS RULTS FOR THE FIRST TWO REPORTG PRECCTS ME , AN DIBLE SIGH AROSE OM THE SEVERAL HUNDRED PEOPLE ATTENDG BUONOMO'S PLANNED VICTORY CELEBRATN. GAY HAD WON WARD TWO, PRECCT ONE BY 39 VOT AND WARD TWO, PRECCT TWO BY 35.THE MOOD LIFTED AND DIENCE MEMBERS CHEERED WHEN THEY HEARD THEIR NDIDATE HAD WON THE SEND PRECCT OF WARD ONE BY 56 VOT, BUT THIS WAS AMONG THE LAST BURSTS OF OPTIMISM.AT ABOUT 9 P.M., BUONOMO NCED FEAT. HE THANKED HIS SUPPORTERS AND THE CY AS A WHOLE."IN THE LAST SEVEN MONTHS I HAVE MET SOME VERY BETIFUL PEOPLE, SOME VERY RG PEOPLE," HE SAID.ADVERTISEMENT"I HAVE ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT YOU MT BE READY TO BOTH W AND TO LOSE," HE ADD.BUT HIS SUPPORTERS AREN'T GIVG UP YET.THERE WAS IMMEDIATE SPECULATN THAT BUONOMO WOULD N AGAST GAY AGA THIS FALL THE REGULAR MAYORAL ELECTNS.GEE S. HUG WAS ONE HOPEFUL SUPPORTER."I GET THIS GUT FEELG THAT HE'LL N AGA SEPTEMBER," HE SAID.ADVERTISEMENTBUT BUONOMO WAS NON-MTAL."I'M HONORED BY THE THOUGHT, BUT I HAVE NO IA WHAT I'M GOG TO DO," HE SAID.MEANWHILE, ANOTHER FORMER CHALLENGER OF GAY SAYS HE WILL NOT N AGAST HER AGA.JOE CURTATONE, THE THIRD-PLACE NDIDATE MARCH'S PRIMARY, AFFIRMED HIS SUPPORT FOR GAY."I AM NOT A NDIDATE FOR MAYOR. I'M HERE WORKG WH [GAY]. THIS IS A VICTORY FOR ALL OF . ALL OF MY PEOPLE ME HERE TONIGHT AND HAVE WORKED HARD [FOR GAY], " HE {FONT-SIZE:16.5PX;LE-HEIGHT:26PX;BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;MAX-WIDTH:600PX;PADDG:0PX 20PX;MARG:0PX TO;MARG:1EM TO;} A{LOR:#7B1B18;}WANT TO KEEP UP WH BREAKG NEWS? 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• MAYOR DOROTHY KELLY GAY: SOMERVILLE'S LUCKY {GRID-ROW-START:2;GRID-LUMN-START:2;GRID-LUMN-END:3;}@MEDIA (MAX-WIDTH:950PX){{GRID-LUMN-START:1;GRID-LUMN-END:2;}}{BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;MAX-WIDTH:600PX;PADDG:0PX 20PX;MARG:0PX TO;FONT-FAY:'COLABORATE LIGHT','LUCIDA SANS UNI',SANS-SERIF;MARG-BOTTOM:5PX;} A{LOR:#7B1B18;} IMG{PADDG-RIGHT:7PX;}BY {LOR:#BA0600;}JOSEPH P. 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NOW THE MAYOR OF SOMERVILLE, GAY WAS ELECTED ON MAY 11 A SPECIAL ELECTN TO FILL THE SEAT VATED BY REP. MICHAEL A. CAPUANO (D--SOMERVILLE) WHEN HE LEFT FOR WASHGTON.SHE WILL BE NNG UNOPPOSED NEXT MONTH FOR A FULL TERM.IN A RECENT TERVIEW WH THE CRIMSON, GAY OUTLED HER PRRI AS MAYOR, HER SIRE TO SEE SOMERVILLE FORM CLOSER BONDS WH HARVARD, AND HER PATH OM THE BRISH ISL TO SOMERVILLE CY {DISPLAY:BLOCK;MARG:0PX TO;WIDTH:100%;MAX-WIDTH:100%;BACKGROUND:TRANSPARENT;PADDG:10PX 0PX;} {FONT-FAY:'COLABORATE LIGHT','LUCIDA SANS UNI',SANS-SERIF;LOR:#333333;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;FONT-SIZE:0.7EM;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;DISPLAY:BLOCK;} {WIDTH:-WEBK-F-NTENT;WIDTH:-MOZ-F-NTENT;WIDTH:F-NTENT;MARG:0PX TO;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;}ADVERTISEMENTACTIVISM HER BLOOD GAY WAS BORN IRELAND 1943. HER FATHER, A GRASS-ROOTS POLICIAN, NURSE AND UNN ACTIVIST, IMBUED HER WH A CIVIC SENSE AND A SIRE TO BE A NURSE.THIS SIRE LED GAY TO LEAVE IRELAND 1961; SHE MOVED TO ENGLAND TO PURSUE A NURSG REER.GAY MET HER HBAND, BERTRAM GAY, WHILE ENGLAND. THE UPLE MOVED TO SOMERVILLE 1968 BEE THEIR CHILD NEED SURGERY THAT WAS ONLY OFFERED AT BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPAL.WHEN THEY FOUND THAT EVERYBODY SOMERVILLE "SORT OF WANTED TO HELP," GAY SAID THEY CID TO STAY.ADVERTISEMENT"WE'D NEVER EXPERIENCED THAT KD OF IENDLS," SHE SAYS.GAY WAS ALSO DRAWN BY WHAT SEEMED THE HIGH LEVEL OF OPPORTUNY AVAILABLE THE US."WE SAW THE OPPORTUNI HERE THAT OUR CHILDREN ULD HAVE AND THAT WE ULD HAVE," GAY SAID.THOSE OPPORTUNI ME QUICKLY, WHEN GAY AND HER HBAND FOUND WORK. SHE BEME A NURSE AT SOMERVILLE'S HERAGE HOSPAL AND HE A MACHIST AT A CAMBRIDGE PANY.POLICS ON THE SI GAY WORKED FULL TIME AS A NURSE UNTIL THIS YEAR, WHEN SHE RETIRED OM HER NIGHT SHIFT AS A NURSE ADMISTRATOR AT THE HEBREW CENTER, HER WORKPLACE FOR THE LAST 17 YEARS.ADVERTISEMENTBUT SHE DIDN'T JT FOLLOW HER FATHER'S PATH TOWARD NURSG. SHE ALSO FOLLOWED HIS EXAMPLE THE CIVIC ARENA, BEG ACTIVE SOMERVILLE LIFE. SHE JOED THE PTA AND VOLUNTEERED FOR VAR POLIL MPAIGNS AND MUNY ASSOCIATNS.HER EFFORTS DID NOT GO UNNOTICED. WHEN THOMAS TAYLOR WAS ELECTED TO THE SOMERVILLE BOARD OF ALRMEN THE FALL OF 1986, HE APPOTED GAY TO FILL THE SCHOOL COMMTEE SEAT HE HAD LEFT OPEN. THE BOARD OF ALRMEN UNANIMOLY APPROVED THIS APPOTMENT.TEN MONTHS LATER, WHEN THE SEAT WAS UP FOR ELECTN, GAY RAN UNOPPOSED.GAY WAS THE FIRST NURSE AND THE FIRST IMMIGRANT TO SERVE ON THE SCHOOL MTEE. BUT HER ENTRY TO ELECTED OFFICE WAS HARDLY EXPECTED.ADVERTISEMENT"I WAS WORKG FULL TIME AS A NURSE, AND MY SON HAD JT GRADUATED OM HIGH SCHOOL," GAY SAID. "I NEVER TEND TO N; WAS LIKE I HAD MY ARM TWISTED."BUT GAY SOON TOOK TO HER NEW POSN, AND CHOSE TO SERVE THREE FULL TERMS."I FOUND THAT I HAD A VOICE," SHE SAID.IN 1992, GAY CID THAT SHE WANTED TO MOVE ON OM THE SCHOOL COMMTEE, AND SOUGHT ELECTN TO THE GOVERNOR'S COUNCIL.GAY'S MPAIGN PLATFORM WAS RAISG AWARENS OF DOMTIC VLENCE AND VIGORATG THE UNCIL'S ROLE JUDICIAL NOMATNS.ADVERTISEMENTHER MPAIGN WASN'T EASY, THOUGH. GAY SAID THE OTHER NDIDAT HAD "EPER POCKETS" THAN SHE DID, AND THEY HAD LARGER SUPPORT WORKS THE DISTRICT. GAY WAS ALSO THE ONLY WOMAN OUT OF SEVEN NDIDAT.DPE THE CHALLENG, GAY WON, AND TOOK OFFICE JANUARY OF 1993.SHE WAS ONLY THE THIRD FEMALE MEMBER OF THE MTEE S THREE-CENTURY HISTORY.ONE OF HER HIGHT-PROFILE ISSU WHILE ON THE UNCIL WAS MUTG THE LIFE SENTENC OF TWO MEMBERS OF THE FRAMGHAM EIGHT, A GROUP OF WOMEN WHO HAD BEEN FOUND GUILTY OF MURRG THEIR ABIVE HBANDS."I TED MY LLEAGU ABOUT BATTERED WOMEN'S SYNDROME," GAY SAID.ADVERTISEMENTGAY ALSO OPENED GOVERNOR'S COUNCIL MEETGS TO THE PUBLIC--THE UNCIL IS THE ONLY ERNMENTAL BODY EXEMPTED OM MASSACHETTS'S OPEN PUBLIC MEETG LAW."[I] WOULDN'T LET THE MEETGS BE CLOSED," GAY SAID.HER FLUENCE WAS SEEN THE CREASE FEMALE JUDG, TOO--BY THE TIME SHE LEFT THE UNCIL 1999, ALMOST HALF THE JUDG THE SUPERR URT WERE WOMEN, ACRDG TO GAY.BY THE TIME SHE LEFT, THE UNCIL SELF HAD ALSO ACHIEVED GENR PARY, WH FOUR MALE AND FOUR FEMALE MEMBERS.AN EYE TO THE FUTURE AFTER AN UNSUCCSFUL N FOR LITENANT GOVERNOR LAST YEAR, GAY CID THAT HER POLIL FUTURE SHOULD BE WHERE HER POLIL PAST WAS-- SOMERVILLE.ADVERTISEMENTSO SHE CID TO SEEK CAPUANO'S VATED SEAT LAST MAY'S SPECIAL ELECTN.MANY PUNDS THOUGHT THAT GAY'S LACK OF RECENT POLIL ACTIVY WH SOMERVILLE WOULD PUT HER AT A DISADVANTAGE TO ALRMAN JOHN BUONOMO, BUT GAY BELIEVED HER CHANC."I WOULDN'T HAVE SACRIFICED WHAT I DID IF ...I ULDN'T W," GAY SAID.GAY SAID SHE KNEW HER CHANC WERE STRONG BEE HER MPAIGN "HAD DONE THE POLLS." SHE ALSO GAVE HER MPAIGN TEAM CRED FOR THE VICTORY, LLG A "WELL-OILED MACHE."ADVERTISEMENT"OUR TEAM WAS SMARTER. WE HAD THE KNOW-HOW," GAY SAID. "NONE OF [THE OTHER NDIDAT] OUTWORKED ME."GAY EDGED BY BUONOMO, WH 6878 VOT TO BUONOMO'S 6473.MAYOR GAY NOW SETTLED TO OFFICE, GAY IS UNTG MUNY VELOPMENT AND IMPROVED PUBLIC SAFETY AMONG THE GOALS OF HER ADMISTRATN.REVELOPMENT OF SOMERVILLE HAS BEEN PROCEEDG AT A RAPID PACE FOR THE LAST FEW YEARS, AND THOUGH IS BRGG A NEW VALY TO THE CY, GAY WORRI SOMERVILLE WILL LOSE S WORKG-CLASS FEEL.ADVERTISEMENTGAY ALSO SAID THAT A RECENT GRANT OM GROUNDWORK USA WOULD HELP REVIGORATE THE CY.BUT GAY ALSO ACKNOWLEDGED THE CY MT KEEP AN EYE ON GENTRIFITN AND IRRPONSIBLE VELOPMENT."IT IS THE CHALLENGE OF MY ADMISTRATN TO KEEP THE HEART AND SOUL OF THIS CY TOGETHER," GAY SAID.BUT GAY SAID GENTRIFITN POS UNIQUE PROBLEMS SOMERVILLE, WHICH IS AMONG THE MOST NSELY POPULATED CI NEW ENGLAND.AFFORDABLE HOG IS NEED TO RETA LONG-TERM RINTS, BUT SPACE ISSU ARE MAKG THIS A DIFFICULT TASK, SHE SAID.ADVERTISEMENT"[WE] TRY TO CREATE AFFORDABLE HOG WHEREVER WE N," GAY SAID. "LACK OF SPACE ALWAYS GIV PROBLEMS."GAY ALSO SAID THAT MANAGG GROWTH EAST SOMERVILLE IS A CHALLENGE. SHE POTED TO THE RECENT BATE OVER WHETHER IKEA, A FURNURE STORE CHA, SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO NSTCT A 'BIG BOX' TYPE STORE NEAR THE MYSTIC RIVERONT AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE PROBLEM THE CY FAC. THE MYSTIC TASK FORCE, A GROUP ADVOTG PESTRIAN-MD REVELOPMENT, DISAPPROV OF THE NEW NSTCTN."PEOPLE WANTED THAT WATER PROTECTED, PRERVED, ACCSIBLE," GAY SAID.GAY SAID THAT ALTHOUGH SHE UNRSTANDS THE NEED TO PRERVE SOMERVILLE'S URBAN ENVIRONMENT, SHE IS ALSO FACED WH THE CY'S NEED FOR MORE TAX REVENUE.SHE ADD THAT NEGOTIATNS AMONG THE TASK FORCE, THE CY AND VELOPERS MIGHT LEAD TO AN ACCEPTABLE SOLUTN.ADVERTISEMENT"WE NEED TO PROMISE A LTLE HERE. WE N'T HAVE EVERYTHG, ALL OF ," GAY SAID.SOMERVILLE'S LONG HISTORY N BE VEXG, TOO, AS THE SE OF S AGG SEWER SYSTEM, WHICH HASN'T BEEN REBUILT FOR 100 YEARS."PARTS OF WARD 2 STILL HAVE WOON SEWERS," GAY SAID.BUT ANY IMPROVEMENTS WOULD REQUIRE FERAL FUNDG, BEE THE CY DO NOT HAVE A STABILIZATN FUND FOR ALG WH SUCH NEEDS, GAY SAID.IN THE AREA OF PUBLIC SAFETY, GAY SAID THAT MUNY POLICG HAS BEEN A SUCCS AND UNTS AS A FACTOR FALLG CRIME RAT.ADVERTISEMENT"I STAND BEHD AND NTUE TO FUND ," GAY SAID. "IF WE HAD SPARE DOLLARS THAT'S WHERE I'D PUT ."AS FOR HARVARD, GAY SAID THAT SHE HOP THE UNIVERSY AND SOMERVILLE N FE A CLOSER RELATNSHIP DURG HER TERM THAN THEY HAVE HAD THE PAST."WE'RE TRYG TO FORMULATE A RELATNSHIP WH HARVARD," GAY SAID. 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• DOROTHY KELLY GAY
• BERTRAM GAY, HBAND TO FORMER SOMERVILLE MAYOR, DI

THE SOMERVILLE NEWS WEEKLY’S SPECIAL PERSON OF THE WEEK DOROTHY KELLY GAY

Dorothy Kelly Gay was elected Mayor of Somerville on May 11, 1999.

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CAPUANO.AT A JUBILANT VICTORY PARTY LAST NIGHT, GAY CREDED HER VICTORY LARGE PART TO HER SUPPORT OM FEMALE VOTERS AND PLEDGED TO BRG A NEW PERSPECTIVE TO CY HALL.GAY AND BUONOMO HAVE BEEN MPAIGNG SCE CAPUANO, NOW A NGRSPERSON, LEFT THE MAYORAL POSN OPEN JANUARY. GAY WILL HOLD THE POSN UNTIL THE REGULAR MAYORAL ELECTN NOVEMBER.ACRDG TO THE SOMERVILLE ELECTN MISSN, THE FAL VOTE TALLY WAS 6878 VOT FOR GAY AND 6473 FOR BUONOMO.THE CLOSE MARG KEPT THE NDIDAT' SPIRED SUPPORTERS ON EDGE AT VICTORY PARTI LAST NIGHT.GAY WAS VERY HAPPY WH HER VICTORY, SAYG SHE FELT "EXCED AND OVERWHELMED."{DISPLAY:BLOCK;MARG:0PX TO;WIDTH:100%;MAX-WIDTH:100%;BACKGROUND:TRANSPARENT;PADDG:10PX 0PX;} {FONT-FAY:'COLABORATE LIGHT','LUCIDA SANS UNI',SANS-SERIF;LOR:#333333;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;FONT-SIZE:0.7EM;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;DISPLAY:BLOCK;} {WIDTH:-WEBK-F-NTENT;WIDTH:-MOZ-F-NTENT;WIDTH:F-NTENT;MARG:0PX TO;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;}ADVERTISEMENTSHE SPOKE PROUDLY OF BEG THE CY'S FIRST FEMALE MAYOR."WE'VE CHARTED NEW WATERS. WE'VE CHARTED A NEW URSE. THE WOMEN OF SOMERVILLE ME OUT FORCE," SHE SAID.FORMER SOMERVILLE MAYOR GENE C. BNE SAID GAY'S HARD WORK HAD PAID OFF."I FEEL GREAT. IT'S A WELL-SERVED W. SHE WAS THE UNRDOG UP UNTIL ABOUT THREE WEEKS AGO, BUT YOU ULD FEEL THE MOMENTUM BUILDG," HE SAID.BNE CREDED FEMALE VOTERS FOR A GREAT AL OF THIS MOMENTUM.ADVERTISEMENT"I THK 'S THE WOMEN WHO GAVE HER THE VICTORY," HE SAID.TERA CARDOSO, A SCHOOL MTEE MEMBER FOR SOMERVILLE'S WARD TWO SAID SHE UNTED HERSELF AMONG THE FEMALE SUPPORTERS."IT WILL BE GREAT TO HAVE A QUALIFIED FEMALE MAYOR FOR THE FIRST TIME THE CY'S HISTORY, " SHE SAID.VENTURE PALIST AND FORMER EIGHTH DISTRICT NGRSNAL NDIDATE JOHN O'CONNOR SAID GAY'S STAT AS A POLIL OUTSIR ALLOWED HER A H PERSPECTIVE."SHE'S NEVER BEEN PART OF THE GOOD OLD BOYS' WORK. I THK YOU'LL SEE MUCH MORE EFFECTIVE EXPERIMENTATN ON MANY ISSU," O'CONNOR SAID.ADVERTISEMENTDPE HER SUPPORTERS' NFINCE, GAY'S VICTORY WAS FAR OM ASSURED AT THE BEGNG OF THE EVENG.BEFORE RULTS ROLLED , BUONOMO'S SUPPORTERS, WHO GATHERED AT THE HOLIDAY INN ON WASHGTON STREET, WERE CERTA THAT THE LONG-TIME CY OFFICIAL WOULD E OUT AHEAD.ONE OF THE NFINT SUPPORTERS WAS BUONOMO'S NT, ROSE M. EARLE."HE'S BEEN AT THIS FOR MORE THAN 18 YEARS. MY NEPHEW KNOWS EVERY NOOK AND CRANNY OF THIS KNOWS HOW TO LOOK FORWARD. TONIGHT IS GOG TO BE A BIG VICTORY," EARLE SAID.THERE E. STILE, A LIFELONG SOMERVILLE RINT, ALSO SAID THAT BUONOMO'S EXPERIENCE WOULD HELP HIM W.ADVERTISEMENT"I'VE KNOWN JOHN FOR MANY YEARS. HE GREW UP WH MY CHILDREN," STILE SAID. "IT WAS HIS TIME TO N FOR MAYOR. HE'S THE MOST QUALIFIED TO DO SO, MY TIMATN."BUT AS RULTS FOR THE FIRST TWO REPORTG PRECCTS ME , AN DIBLE SIGH AROSE OM THE SEVERAL HUNDRED PEOPLE ATTENDG BUONOMO'S PLANNED VICTORY CELEBRATN. GAY HAD WON WARD TWO, PRECCT ONE BY 39 VOT AND WARD TWO, PRECCT TWO BY 35.THE MOOD LIFTED AND DIENCE MEMBERS CHEERED WHEN THEY HEARD THEIR NDIDATE HAD WON THE SEND PRECCT OF WARD ONE BY 56 VOT, BUT THIS WAS AMONG THE LAST BURSTS OF OPTIMISM.AT ABOUT 9 P.M., BUONOMO NCED FEAT. HE THANKED HIS SUPPORTERS AND THE CY AS A WHOLE."IN THE LAST SEVEN MONTHS I HAVE MET SOME VERY BETIFUL PEOPLE, SOME VERY RG PEOPLE," HE SAID.ADVERTISEMENT"I HAVE ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT YOU MT BE READY TO BOTH W AND TO LOSE," HE ADD.BUT HIS SUPPORTERS AREN'T GIVG UP YET.THERE WAS IMMEDIATE SPECULATN THAT BUONOMO WOULD N AGAST GAY AGA THIS FALL THE REGULAR MAYORAL ELECTNS.GEE S. 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In addn to her reer as a public servant, Dorothy Kelly Gay. Meet this week’s “Special Person of the Week:Former Somerville Mayor, Dorothy Kelly Gay. Dorothy Kelly Gay, a wonrful person wh a heart of gold who is always there to lend a helpg hand to a fellow Somervillian!

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NOW THE MAYOR OF SOMERVILLE, GAY WAS ELECTED ON MAY 11 A SPECIAL ELECTN TO FILL THE SEAT VATED BY REP. MICHAEL A. CAPUANO (D--SOMERVILLE) WHEN HE LEFT FOR WASHGTON.SHE WILL BE NNG UNOPPOSED NEXT MONTH FOR A FULL TERM.IN A RECENT TERVIEW WH THE CRIMSON, GAY OUTLED HER PRRI AS MAYOR, HER SIRE TO SEE SOMERVILLE FORM CLOSER BONDS WH HARVARD, AND HER PATH OM THE BRISH ISL TO SOMERVILLE CY {DISPLAY:BLOCK;MARG:0PX TO;WIDTH:100%;MAX-WIDTH:100%;BACKGROUND:TRANSPARENT;PADDG:10PX 0PX;} {FONT-FAY:'COLABORATE LIGHT','LUCIDA SANS UNI',SANS-SERIF;LOR:#333333;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;FONT-SIZE:0.7EM;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;DISPLAY:BLOCK;} {WIDTH:-WEBK-F-NTENT;WIDTH:-MOZ-F-NTENT;WIDTH:F-NTENT;MARG:0PX TO;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;}ADVERTISEMENTACTIVISM HER BLOOD GAY WAS BORN IRELAND 1943. HER FATHER, A GRASS-ROOTS POLICIAN, NURSE AND UNN ACTIVIST, IMBUED HER WH A CIVIC SENSE AND A SIRE TO BE A NURSE.THIS SIRE LED GAY TO LEAVE IRELAND 1961; SHE MOVED TO ENGLAND TO PURSUE A NURSG REER.GAY MET HER HBAND, BERTRAM GAY, WHILE ENGLAND. THE UPLE MOVED TO SOMERVILLE 1968 BEE THEIR CHILD NEED SURGERY THAT WAS ONLY OFFERED AT BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPAL.WHEN THEY FOUND THAT EVERYBODY SOMERVILLE "SORT OF WANTED TO HELP," GAY SAID THEY CID TO STAY.ADVERTISEMENT"WE'D NEVER EXPERIENCED THAT KD OF IENDLS," SHE SAYS.GAY WAS ALSO DRAWN BY WHAT SEEMED THE HIGH LEVEL OF OPPORTUNY AVAILABLE THE US."WE SAW THE OPPORTUNI HERE THAT OUR CHILDREN ULD HAVE AND THAT WE ULD HAVE," GAY SAID.THOSE OPPORTUNI ME QUICKLY, WHEN GAY AND HER HBAND FOUND WORK. SHE BEME A NURSE AT SOMERVILLE'S HERAGE HOSPAL AND HE A MACHIST AT A CAMBRIDGE PANY.POLICS ON THE SI GAY WORKED FULL TIME AS A NURSE UNTIL THIS YEAR, WHEN SHE RETIRED OM HER NIGHT SHIFT AS A NURSE ADMISTRATOR AT THE HEBREW CENTER, HER WORKPLACE FOR THE LAST 17 YEARS.ADVERTISEMENTBUT SHE DIDN'T JT FOLLOW HER FATHER'S PATH TOWARD NURSG. SHE ALSO FOLLOWED HIS EXAMPLE THE CIVIC ARENA, BEG ACTIVE SOMERVILLE LIFE. SHE JOED THE PTA AND VOLUNTEERED FOR VAR POLIL MPAIGNS AND MUNY ASSOCIATNS.HER EFFORTS DID NOT GO UNNOTICED. WHEN THOMAS TAYLOR WAS ELECTED TO THE SOMERVILLE BOARD OF ALRMEN THE FALL OF 1986, HE APPOTED GAY TO FILL THE SCHOOL COMMTEE SEAT HE HAD LEFT OPEN. THE BOARD OF ALRMEN UNANIMOLY APPROVED THIS APPOTMENT.TEN MONTHS LATER, WHEN THE SEAT WAS UP FOR ELECTN, GAY RAN UNOPPOSED.GAY WAS THE FIRST NURSE AND THE FIRST IMMIGRANT TO SERVE ON THE SCHOOL MTEE. BUT HER ENTRY TO ELECTED OFFICE WAS HARDLY EXPECTED.ADVERTISEMENT"I WAS WORKG FULL TIME AS A NURSE, AND MY SON HAD JT GRADUATED OM HIGH SCHOOL," GAY SAID. "I NEVER TEND TO N; WAS LIKE I HAD MY ARM TWISTED."BUT GAY SOON TOOK TO HER NEW POSN, AND CHOSE TO SERVE THREE FULL TERMS."I FOUND THAT I HAD A VOICE," SHE SAID.IN 1992, GAY CID THAT SHE WANTED TO MOVE ON OM THE SCHOOL COMMTEE, AND SOUGHT ELECTN TO THE GOVERNOR'S COUNCIL.GAY'S MPAIGN PLATFORM WAS RAISG AWARENS OF DOMTIC VLENCE AND VIGORATG THE UNCIL'S ROLE JUDICIAL NOMATNS.ADVERTISEMENTHER MPAIGN WASN'T EASY, THOUGH. GAY SAID THE OTHER NDIDAT HAD "EPER POCKETS" THAN SHE DID, AND THEY HAD LARGER SUPPORT WORKS THE DISTRICT. GAY WAS ALSO THE ONLY WOMAN OUT OF SEVEN NDIDAT.DPE THE CHALLENG, GAY WON, AND TOOK OFFICE JANUARY OF 1993.SHE WAS ONLY THE THIRD FEMALE MEMBER OF THE MTEE S THREE-CENTURY HISTORY.ONE OF HER HIGHT-PROFILE ISSU WHILE ON THE UNCIL WAS MUTG THE LIFE SENTENC OF TWO MEMBERS OF THE FRAMGHAM EIGHT, A GROUP OF WOMEN WHO HAD BEEN FOUND GUILTY OF MURRG THEIR ABIVE HBANDS."I TED MY LLEAGU ABOUT BATTERED WOMEN'S SYNDROME," GAY SAID.ADVERTISEMENTGAY ALSO OPENED GOVERNOR'S COUNCIL MEETGS TO THE PUBLIC--THE UNCIL IS THE ONLY ERNMENTAL BODY EXEMPTED OM MASSACHETTS'S OPEN PUBLIC MEETG LAW."[I] WOULDN'T LET THE MEETGS BE CLOSED," GAY SAID.HER FLUENCE WAS SEEN THE CREASE FEMALE JUDG, TOO--BY THE TIME SHE LEFT THE UNCIL 1999, ALMOST HALF THE JUDG THE SUPERR URT WERE WOMEN, ACRDG TO GAY.BY THE TIME SHE LEFT, THE UNCIL SELF HAD ALSO ACHIEVED GENR PARY, WH FOUR MALE AND FOUR FEMALE MEMBERS.AN EYE TO THE FUTURE AFTER AN UNSUCCSFUL N FOR LITENANT GOVERNOR LAST YEAR, GAY CID THAT HER POLIL FUTURE SHOULD BE WHERE HER POLIL PAST WAS-- SOMERVILLE.ADVERTISEMENTSO SHE CID TO SEEK CAPUANO'S VATED SEAT LAST MAY'S SPECIAL ELECTN.MANY PUNDS THOUGHT THAT GAY'S LACK OF RECENT POLIL ACTIVY WH SOMERVILLE WOULD PUT HER AT A DISADVANTAGE TO ALRMAN JOHN BUONOMO, BUT GAY BELIEVED HER CHANC."I WOULDN'T HAVE SACRIFICED WHAT I DID IF ...I ULDN'T W," GAY SAID.GAY SAID SHE KNEW HER CHANC WERE STRONG BEE HER MPAIGN "HAD DONE THE POLLS." SHE ALSO GAVE HER MPAIGN TEAM CRED FOR THE VICTORY, LLG A "WELL-OILED MACHE."ADVERTISEMENT"OUR TEAM WAS SMARTER. WE HAD THE KNOW-HOW," GAY SAID. "NONE OF [THE OTHER NDIDAT] OUTWORKED ME."GAY EDGED BY BUONOMO, WH 6878 VOT TO BUONOMO'S 6473.MAYOR GAY NOW SETTLED TO OFFICE, GAY IS UNTG MUNY VELOPMENT AND IMPROVED PUBLIC SAFETY AMONG THE GOALS OF HER ADMISTRATN.REVELOPMENT OF SOMERVILLE HAS BEEN PROCEEDG AT A RAPID PACE FOR THE LAST FEW YEARS, AND THOUGH IS BRGG A NEW VALY TO THE CY, GAY WORRI SOMERVILLE WILL LOSE S WORKG-CLASS FEEL.ADVERTISEMENTGAY ALSO SAID THAT A RECENT GRANT OM GROUNDWORK USA WOULD HELP REVIGORATE THE CY.BUT GAY ALSO ACKNOWLEDGED THE CY MT KEEP AN EYE ON GENTRIFITN AND IRRPONSIBLE VELOPMENT."IT IS THE CHALLENGE OF MY ADMISTRATN TO KEEP THE HEART AND SOUL OF THIS CY TOGETHER," GAY SAID.BUT GAY SAID GENTRIFITN POS UNIQUE PROBLEMS SOMERVILLE, WHICH IS AMONG THE MOST NSELY POPULATED CI NEW ENGLAND.AFFORDABLE HOG IS NEED TO RETA LONG-TERM RINTS, BUT SPACE ISSU ARE MAKG THIS A DIFFICULT TASK, SHE SAID.ADVERTISEMENT"[WE] TRY TO CREATE AFFORDABLE HOG WHEREVER WE N," GAY SAID. "LACK OF SPACE ALWAYS GIV PROBLEMS."GAY ALSO SAID THAT MANAGG GROWTH EAST SOMERVILLE IS A CHALLENGE. SHE POTED TO THE RECENT BATE OVER WHETHER IKEA, A FURNURE STORE CHA, SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO NSTCT A 'BIG BOX' TYPE STORE NEAR THE MYSTIC RIVERONT AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE PROBLEM THE CY FAC. THE MYSTIC TASK FORCE, A GROUP ADVOTG PESTRIAN-MD REVELOPMENT, DISAPPROV OF THE NEW NSTCTN."PEOPLE WANTED THAT WATER PROTECTED, PRERVED, ACCSIBLE," GAY SAID.GAY SAID THAT ALTHOUGH SHE UNRSTANDS THE NEED TO PRERVE SOMERVILLE'S URBAN ENVIRONMENT, SHE IS ALSO FACED WH THE CY'S NEED FOR MORE TAX REVENUE.SHE ADD THAT NEGOTIATNS AMONG THE TASK FORCE, THE CY AND VELOPERS MIGHT LEAD TO AN ACCEPTABLE SOLUTN.ADVERTISEMENT"WE NEED TO PROMISE A LTLE HERE. WE N'T HAVE EVERYTHG, ALL OF ," GAY SAID.SOMERVILLE'S LONG HISTORY N BE VEXG, TOO, AS THE SE OF S AGG SEWER SYSTEM, WHICH HASN'T BEEN REBUILT FOR 100 YEARS."PARTS OF WARD 2 STILL HAVE WOON SEWERS," GAY SAID.BUT ANY IMPROVEMENTS WOULD REQUIRE FERAL FUNDG, BEE THE CY DO NOT HAVE A STABILIZATN FUND FOR ALG WH SUCH NEEDS, GAY SAID.IN THE AREA OF PUBLIC SAFETY, GAY SAID THAT MUNY POLICG HAS BEEN A SUCCS AND UNTS AS A FACTOR FALLG CRIME RAT.ADVERTISEMENT"I STAND BEHD AND NTUE TO FUND ," GAY SAID. "IF WE HAD SPARE DOLLARS THAT'S WHERE I'D PUT ."AS FOR HARVARD, GAY SAID THAT SHE HOP THE UNIVERSY AND SOMERVILLE N FE A CLOSER RELATNSHIP DURG HER TERM THAN THEY HAVE HAD THE PAST."WE'RE TRYG TO FORMULATE A RELATNSHIP WH HARVARD," GAY SAID. "THE FACULTY LIVE THIS CY AND [THEIR CHILDREN] GO TO SCHOOL THIS CY."FOR HARVARD'S PART, GAY IS LOOKG TO THE UNIVERSY TO NTRIBUTE MORE ROURC TO SOMERVILLE."THEY UTILIZE , BUT THEY DON'T ALWAYS REMEMBER , " GAY SAID.ADVERTISEMENTBUT SHE STOPPED SHORT OF PUTTG ALL THE BLAME ON HARVARD FOR THE LACK OF A CLOSER RELATNSHIP. "WE HAVEN'T ALWAYS ASKED," GAY SAID.GAY SAID THAT ALTHOUGH HARVARD PRINT NEIL L. RUNSTE FAILED TO VE HER TO A RECENT FOM NCERNG THE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN HARVARD AND THE BOSTON MUNY, SHE KNOWS RUNSTE AND HOP TO WORK WH HIM DURG HER TIME AS MAYOR."WE HAVE A HEALTHY RPECT FOR EACH OTHER," SHE SAID. 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They settled Somerville and the uple soon found employment, wh Gay gettg hired at Somerville’s Herage Hospal.

In 1986, Kelly Gay was appoted to the Somerville School Commtee. In 1992 Gay was elected to the Massachetts Governor’s Council the 6th District.

DOROTHY KELLY GAY

Gay lost the Democratic primary to State Senator Warren Tolman 270, 791 (54%) vot to 232, 250 (46%). In 1999, Gay was elected Mayor of Somerville a special electn to succeed Michael Capuano, who was elected to the Uned Stat Hoe of Reprentativ.

SOMERVILLE--Dorothy Kelly Gay was elected the first female mayor of Somerville yterday, featg alrman John Buonomo a special electn to fill the post formerly held by Michael A.

A jubilant victory party last night, Gay creded her victory large part to her support om female voters and pledged to brg a new perspective to cy and Buonomo have been mpaigng sce Capuano, now a ngrsperson, left the mayoral posn open January. Gay will hold the posn until the regular mayoral electn November. Acrdg to the Somerville electn missn, the fal vote tally was 6878 vot for Gay and 6473 for close marg kept the ndidat' spired supporters on edge at victory parti last was very happy wh her victory, sayg she felt "exced and overwhelmed.

BERTRAM GAY, HBAND TO FORMER SOMERVILLE MAYOR, DI

Venture palist and former Eighth District ngrsnal ndidate John O'Connor said Gay's stat as a polil outsir allowed her a h perspective. Dpe her supporters' nfince, Gay's victory was far om assured at the begng of the rults rolled , Buonomo's supporters, who gathered at the Holiday Inn on Washgton Street, were certa that the long-time cy official would e out of the nfint supporters was Buonomo's nt, Rose M.

Gay had won ward two, precct one by 39 vot and ward two, precct two by mood lifted and dience members cheered when they heard their ndidate had won the send precct of ward one by 56 vot, but this was among the last bursts of about 9 p. "I have always believed that you mt be ready to both w and to lose, " he his supporters aren't givg up was immediate speculatn that Buonomo would n agast Gay aga this fall the regular mayoral S.

Meanwhile, another former challenger of Gay says he will not n agast her Curtatone, the third-place ndidate March's primary, affirmed his support for Gay.

All of my people me here tonight and have worked hard [for Gay], " he said.

Growg up Ireland, Dorothy Kelly Gay watched her father ntribute to his town through his reer of nursg and his love of a chance move to Somerville thirty years ago, Gay started bg the two terts an effort to ntribute to her new eventually led to a life public office. Now the mayor of Somerville, Gay was elected on May 11 a special electn to fill the seat vated by Rep.

Capuano (D--Somerville) when he left for will be nng unopposed next month for a full a recent terview wh The Crimson, Gay outled her prri as mayor, her sire to see Somerville form closer bonds wh Harvard, and her path om the Brish Isl to Somerville Cy Hall. Her father, a grass-roots polician, nurse and unn activist, imbued her wh a civic sense and a sire to be a sire led Gay to leave Ireland 1961; she moved to England to pursue a nursg met her hband, Bertram Gay, while England. The uple moved to Somerville 1968 bee their child need surgery that was only offered at Boston Children's they found that everybody Somerville "sort of wanted to help, " Gay said they cid to stay.

"We saw the opportuni here that our children uld have and that we uld have, " Gay opportuni me quickly, when Gay and her hband found work. Polics on the Si Gay worked full time as a nurse until this year, when she retired om her night shift as a nurse admistrator at the Hebrew Center, her workplace for the last 17 she didn't jt follow her father's path toward nursg.