Grant Wood AEA keeps Mary Jackson after suspension
The Grant Wood Area Education Agency board unanimously decided to retain Mary Jackson as a consultant despite suspending her for 14 days without pay from Jan 31 to Feb 17. She had claimed a workshop day as a sick day and repaid $125 from Mason City AEA, with $150 in GWAEA materials involved.
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Grant Wood
Jackson
GWAEA
Northern Trails Area Education Agency
Mason City
Sion
the Gazette
AEA
Board OKs 78 80 education association contract
The Grant Wood Area Education Agency board approved a two year 1978 80 contract for 183 bargaining unit members with an 8.06 percent overall increase. Base salary rises from 9675 to 10200 and top from 23018 to 24267, with a 5.4 percent raise for many. A second year reopener covers salary negotiations only. Family health insurance payments are added and term life insurance coverage increases. Also notes Luther Burbank birth on this date in 1849.
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Education Association
Grant Wood Area Education Agency Board of
Foreign students honored at dinner by Islamic Center
Students at Kirkwood Community and Coe colleges were honored Sunday at a dinner sponsored by the Islamic Center on First Ave SW. The Coe dean's list honorees included Moze Al Adawiya of Oman Hassan A Farhat and Jamal M Farhat, cousins from Palestine.
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Kirkwood Community
Coe Colleges
Islamic Center
First Ave
Coe
Moze Al-Adawiya
Oman
Hassan A. Farhat
Jamal M. Farhat
Palestine
Board hears report on aids for blind students
Grant Wood Area Education Agency board heard from Vision Conservation and Education team about aiding visually impaired students. Sara Crick described Braille translation parent coordination and helping students sharpen communication for integration into regular classrooms. Crick noted parental protectiveness can lower expectations, which itinerant teachers work to raise.
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Grant Wood Area Education Agency Board of Directors
Terry Mammer
Sara Crick
Crick
GWAEA board approves contracts and screening program details
The GWAEA reports 20 visually impaired students across seven counties with ten seen weekly and ten less often. Vision screener Becky Cordick notes 40,000 students tested yearly, most preschool to ninth grade, with early detection key. Actions include reimbursing Iowa City district 4,267.06 for a home economics consultant from March to June, leasing two classrooms from West Branch United Methodist Church for up to six emotionally disabled students, and electing Dr John Cordes as GWAEA representative on the Eastern Iowa Regional Computer Center Consortium board with Mount Vernon superintendent Dr Winston Addis as Area 10 superintendent delegate.
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GWAEA
Becky Cordick
Cordick
Iowa City
Phyllis Yager
United Methodist Church of
John Cordes
Eastern Iowa Regional Computer Center Consortium
Winston Addis
Mount Vernon
Woman fends off would be rapist at Fordham University
A 20 year old woman says she avoided an apparent rapist by claiming she was a lesbian and claiming the man was asexual. The suspect Stephen Sorge, 24, was indicted on charges including attempted sodomy and burglary for the December 3 incident at Fordham University. A separate notice details a 1978 graduate employment seminar at Mount Mercy College with eight local business personnel directors participating.
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New York
Ege
Stephen Sorge
Fordham University
Mount Mercy College
Little Theatre
Ron Wilkenson
Quaker Oats
Luvern Saurbry
Cedar Rapids Public Schools
Loren Jansa
Department of Social Services
Larry Bergrud
Department of Adult Corrections
William Riepe
Mercy Hospital
Mary Collins
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Ken Techau
Social Security Administration
Wil Hollis
FMC Corporation
Cedar Rapids school district appeals death benefit ruling
The Cedar Rapids Community School District appeals a Linn County District Court decision granting workmen's compensation death benefits of about 95 dollars weekly to the widow of custodian Redginald Cady who was murdered in a school parking lot on November 1 1974. Fellow custodian Graydon Caslavka awaits sentencing after pleading guilty to the murder. The district contends the death was not caused by employment and cites Caslavka as a paranoid schizophrenic with no school employment relevance.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn
Redginald Cady
Walker
Harding Junior High School
Graydon Caslavka
Caslavka
Alternatives for elderly at risk of institutionalization workshop
The Mental Health Association of Linn County hosts a Wednesday 7 p.m. session at the United Way Building 712 Third Ave SE. Doris Hamilton an outreach worker and advocate for the Council on Aging leads the discussion on community services to prevent or delay institutionalizing the aging. The free program is part of the association education series.
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Mental Health Association of
Linn County
United Way
Third Ave
Doris Hamilton
Council On Aging
Student Gunfire Kills 9 Year Old in Ankara Clash
A 9 year old girl was killed and her mother seriously wounded as leftist and rightist students exchanged gunfire while crossing a street in an Ankara suburb.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Ankara
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