Model 'Cities' Director Brigham is Resigning

Gordon L. Brigham, director of Cambridge's Model Cities program, is resigning his post, effective October 31.

Brigham become head of local model cities in September 1968, and helped develop its $7.7 million program which was approved by the Federal government last month. The program aims at concentrating money from different Federal agencies into one neighborhood, in Cambridge, an area just east of Central Square.

In a letter to the board of neighborhood residents which supervises model cities, Brigham said that "That program is now moving into a different phase--from planning to action--and the program's leadership should hit accordingly." The new director should have more executive and administrative experience, he said. Brigham's specialty is city planning.

He recommended that the neighborhood board name a special five man committee to select his successor.