There were three more couples there, the original organizers of this venture, all well educated middle class people.
Mr. Guttmann, one of the group's original organizers, fell somewhere in the middle at 44.
In addition, she also served as an original organizer of the National Welfare Rights Organization.
"What I went to back then has nothing to do with what Michael Lang" - one of the original organizers - "is putting together now."
Few of its 10 original organizers claim prior formal political involvement.
Several of the original organizers are still involved with the festival, including Henry Wan, who now serves as the festival's chairman.
The original organizers of the living wage movement in Baltimore, for example, were church-sponsored poverty groups.
The vessels would meet again the following year and every year since in an annual series that would astonish its original organizers today.
The three original organizers look back bleakly at their effort.
Steuerle is considered a key player and the original organizer of the Treasury's tax reform effort.