![]() The group also created an anthem, a newsletter, and a logo. Lifetime membership cost a quarter and included a card signed by one of the founders. The meeting was attended by 29 members-mostly friends of the four founders-and the group cited a total membership of 48 at the time. In June of 1970, CEPTIA held it’s first official meeting at the Dayton Public Library, although it started 15 minutes late because library officials were worried an adult was not present. And then there was CEPTIA’s main contention since the very beginning: "Pay toilets are an unethical infringement on basic human rights." For about a year, the four discussed an anti-pay toilet crusade, backed by a genuine desire to see them done away with but little knowledge about how to make that happen. Ira and Steve left for college in September of 1969-Harvard and the University of Chicago, respectively-and CEPTIA became an excuse to stay in touch. ![]() ![]() “We enjoy each other’s company, we got together a lot, and it was something we could toy with mentally.” At first, CEPTIA (although it had not been officially named yet) was a creative outlet for four intelligent teenagers. “For the most part, we were just having fun with it,” Precker says. Ira and Michael vented their frustration with two close friends, Steve Froikin and Natalie Precker, and the four of them formed the core of the Committee to End Pay Toilets in America. ![]()
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