Rindge and Latin School To Reopen This Monday; Officials Increase Security

Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School will reopen Monday under heavier-than-usual security, a week to the day after the stabbing death of a student there.

Funeral services for the slain East Cambridge student, Anthony Colosimo, 17, will be held today at Sacred Heart Church.

Another student injured in the fight, William Graham, 18, also of East Cambridge, remained in fair condition yesterday at Cambridge City Hospital.

Racial Overtones

A black student is charged with murder in connection with the incident, and officials have said the stabbing and the community reaction to it have had "racial overtones."

But Cambridge police reported no serious incidents or confrontations again yesterday. "The city has been calm since the fight," city manager James L. Sullivan said yesterday.

Police chief Lee Devenport did report that windows in the home of one of the few black families in East Cambridge were broken Wednesday night "by one or two cuckoo-clocks." He added that neigh borhood "gentlemen of high school age," spent yesterday morning collecting money from East Cambridge residents to pay for the damaged windows.

"They have collected $60 already, and will continue to collect more," Davenport said. "It just shows what a cohesive neighborhood East Cambridge is. It is not a racially-motivated area," he added.

School committee chairman Alice Wolf said the decision to reopen school Monday was made after "all different components who will be here--students, faculty, security people and administrators--" agreed to the schedule.

Administrators originally had hoped to resume classes yesterday, but security concerns among students, parents and faculty delayed the opening.

Students will report to school at 8:15 a.m., attend an extended homeroom period and meet in regular classes until shortly before noon. They will discuss the stabbing and the community's reaction during a series of small meetings and seminars Monday afternoon, Les Kimbraugh, coordinator of the school's student government, said yesterday.

Security

Six or seven plainclothes policemen will patrol the school and its grounds and uniformed policemen will be stationed near the campus, which is one block east of the Yard on Broadway, Wolf said.

Wolf called student and parent demands for increased security "a kind of natural response to having had a violent action take place here." William Lannon, superintendent of schools, said he wanted to avoid a "bunker mentality in the school.

Authorities will have hand-held metal detectors available but there will be no airport-style metal detector at the door, largely because Boston school officials advised Rindge and Latin administrators that students waiting on line to pass through such devices might get into fights.

Wolf and school committee members Joseph Maynard, Sara Mae Berman and Donald Fantini met with about 50 East Cambridge students at the Kennedy Elementary School yesterday morning and agreed to transfer temporarily one teacher the students requested to the high school and add a "liason officer" from East Cambridge to the school staff.

Final plans were also laid for tomorrow's meeting between black and white students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where students will "be able to talk face to face about some of their fears and concerns." Wolf said.

The committee also agreed to set up scholarship fund in Colosimo's honor.

Wolf said offers of help had "poured in from all over the city" since the incident. Wolf asked people interested in volunteering in the schools to contact Harriet Hofheinz, director of Cambridge School Volunteers, at 498-9218