Rawlings Faces Iowa Outreach Push After Months as University President
Rawlings emphasizes statewide engagement with the University of Iowa. He plans July 30 meetings with the Black Student Association and an August 17 address to Cedar Rapids supporters backing the Iowa Endowment 2000. Faculty and student leaders anticipate closer involvement in decision making and fundraising. The president highlights $115.1 million in FY1988 grants and gifts as proof of faculty strength and state impact.
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Carla Cooper
U of I
Cooper
Iowa
U of I’s
Black Student Association
Cedar Rapids
U of I Foundation
Iowa Endowment
Freedman
Peter Shane
Freedman’s
Remington’s
Shane
University of Iowa
List of University of Iowa presidents and acting leaders
The sequence covers presidents and acting leaders from 1855 to 1988 including Amos Dean Silas Totten Oliver Spencer Nathan Leonard James Black George Thacher Christian Slagle Josiah Pickard Charles Schaeffer Amos Currier George MacLean John Bowman Thomas MacBride Walter Jessup Eugene Gilmore Chester Phillips Virgil Hancher Howard Bowen Willard Boyd Jr Duane Spriestersbach James Olson Freedman Richard Remington Hunter R. Rawlings III.
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Amos Dean
Silas Totten
Oliver Spencer
Nathan Leonard
James Black
George Thacher
Christian Slagle
Josiah Pickard
Charles Schaef
John Bowman
Thomas Macbride
Walter Jessup
Eugene Gilmore
Chester Phil
Iowa Faces Fiscal 1990 Budget Year Says State Beautiful
Rawlings described Iowa as a beautiful state as the 1990 fiscal year begins July 1, 1989, acknowledging a difficult year while noting the beauty and resilience of the state context. He emphasized the unusual challenges facing the budget and state operations.
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Rawlings
Iowa
Des Moines Bows in Money Magazine Ranking of Regions
Des Moines ranked 291 in Money magazine’s list with other top and bottom regions noted. The survey cited crime, housing, health, economy, arts, education, transit, weather, and leisure, with Danbury and Cincinnati among the top and several Midwest and small cities among the lower ranks.
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Barbara
New York
Danbury
New Jersey
Norwalk
Des Moines
Rockford, Ill
Flint
Mich
New Bedford
Mass
Janesville-Beloit
Wis
Battle Creek
Yuba City
Calif
Benton Harbor
Jackson
Atlantic City
Iowa Cities
Sioux City
Davenport
Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Omaha
Neb
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Landon Y. Jones
Greeley man hurt in car accident near Petersburg
John Hartman, 25, of Greeley, was hospitalized with wrist and pelvis fractures after a two car crash on County Road C-64 two miles west of Petersburg Delaware County. Gregor Deutmeyer, 84, of Dyersville, was uninjured and charged with failure to yield half the roadway. Hartman remained under care Saturday. In Independence, Charla Kinney, 39, Waterloo, pleaded guilty to drunken driving, received 48 hours jail time, a $500 fine, and one year of self probation.
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John Hartman
Greeley
Delaware County
Iowa State Patrol
Gregor Deutmeyer
Dyersville
Deutmeyer
Hartman
Colesburg
Delaware County Memorial Hospital
Manchester
St. Luke’s Hospital
Cedar Rapids
State Patrol
Independence
Buchanan County
Charla Jean Kinney
Waterloo
Kinney
Rebels massing near Kabul threaten Soviet backed Kabul regime
Diplomats report unconfirmed claims that 4,000 guerrillas gathered on Kabul’s western edge as fighting intensifies on all fronts. A Soviet analyst warned the Afghan army may not hold power after Soviet withdrawal, predicting Islamic fundamentalism could rise. Ogonyok interview signals Soviet public readiness for Kabul’s possible collapse.
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Kabul
Soviet Union
Kim Tsagolov
Communist Party
Afghanistan
Moscow
People’s Democratic Party of
Murder case ties employee to stalking and fatal shooting
The 2nd victim, Kathy Nesser, was stalked after rebuffing landin's advances. Landin, 31, already jailed on murder charges with a $1 million bail, had a prior guilty plea for killing his girlfriend Nancy Miller in 1980 and was released in 1984 after serving part of an eight year sentence. Police note a note threatening "One more day dead" and say Nesser had changed her number and feared further contact. Honeywell rehired Landin after his release and he had worked there 1977 to 1979, while Nesser and Landin were maintenance workers at a St. Louis Park facility. Police say a terroristic threats charge was planned before Nesser's murder.
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McFarlane
Landin
Nancy Miller
Honeywell
Miller
Nesser
St. Louis Park
Plymouth
Iowa Ambassadors of Music tour gives local teens European exposure
Heather Sheppard a West Delaware senior joined 19 day trip with the Iowa Ambassadors of Music. The group visited London Paris Switzerland Austria and West Germany performing twice at each of six concerts. Sheppard recalled Morgis Switzerland as a memorable mountain town and said she craved Mountain Dew on return.
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D.R. Miller Gazette
Iowa
Heather Sheppard
Iowa Ambassadors of Music
Europe
Morgis
Switzerland
Alps
Sheppard
West Delaware High School
London
Paris
Austria
West Germany
Italy
Gazette Wins Two APME Honors in Iowa Contest
The Cedar Rapids Gazette earned two awards in the APME Iowa contests. Todd McInturf took second in feature photography for papers over 15,000 in circulation. Bob Hilton placed third in sports writing for Gazette division papers. Awards were announced at a Des Moines banquet.
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Des Moines
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Associated Press Managing Editors of
Iowa
Todd McIinturf
Bob Hilton
Gazette
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