Students Use Mobile CVIS to Guide Post-High School Plans
Kennedy high school hosts a CVIS computer van offering guidance on college, trade schools, apprenticeships, occupations and military options. Joint County Schools and Kirkwood Community College collaborate on the program begun in 1969 in Illinois and now expanding in Iowa to assist student training paths.
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CVIS
Joint County School System
Kirkwood Community College
Richard Baumer
Crandall Drive
Joint County
Willowbrook
Villa Park
Ill
Gazette
Sandy Glaser
Redbud Road
Carol Jennings
Regal Avenue
Kennedy High School
Linn-Mar
Carded CVIS System Guides Students Toward Posthigh Plans
The program uses three configurations connected to the Kirkwood IBM computer to aid counseled choices. A mobile bus and local terminals provide access to data on 1300 colleges, vocational programs, and apprenticeships. It covers teaching finance, college options, job descriptions, apprenticeship, and military paths to help seniors decide after graduation.
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Kirkwood
CVIS
Activists gather at San Diego GOP convention site
Activists drift into San Diego beach communities for protests at the Republican convention Aug 21 24. Community leaders clash over plans for crash pads housing up to 40 itinerants nightly while police and officials estimate crowd sizes from 10 000 to 200 000.
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San Diego
Ocean Front
Lonnie Powell
Community Congress
Jerry Rubin
John Lockwood
Santa Clara Point Recreation Center
Mission Bay
Mission Beach Town
Lockwood
Seashore
Pacific Beach
Ocean Beach
Santa Clara Point
San Diego County
Rubin
Youth International Party
Berkeley’s 18 Alternative Schools Transform City Education
Berkeley public schools broaden choices with 18 alternative schools run by parents, students, or teachers. Programs range from multi cultural and individualized models to traditional and all black or Chicano options. Federal funding supports expansion toward 24 schools while civil rights investigations loom over segregated programs.
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Berkeley
Calif
UPI
Ymcas
Jefferson School
Mary Giorgi Ahrens
Black House
la Casa de la Raza
Michael Cohen
Kilimanjaro School
Underwriters To Hear Mischke In Cedar Rapids
An official of the world’s largest life insurance group will address the Cedar Rapids Association of Life Underwriters at noon Friday at the Roosevelt hotel. Herbert F. Mischke of St. Paul, immediate past president of the National Association of Life Underwriters, will review developments in life insurance and discuss its role in the economy and current legislative climate. Hal Trosky, association president, invites the public to attend. The national group operates from Washington, D.C., with 921 local chapters and over 112,000 members.
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Cedar Rapids
Herbert F. Mischke
St. Paul
National Assn. of Life Underwriters
Hal Trosky
Mischke
Leading coal nations list top producers worldwide
The United States, Soviet Union, Germany, United Kingdom, Poland and China are the leading coal producing nations. This ranking highlights major energy players across continents and their roles in global mining output.
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Nations
World
United States
Soviet Union
Germany
United Kingdom
Poland
China
Coe Student Testified on NSF Funding
Rhodes scholar Darryl Banks spoke before a house subcommittee on science and research development in Washington about NSF funding for undergraduate science education. He described personal NSF program participation at Coe and Argonne, urging increased funding for equipment and services to support growing costs.
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Coe College
Rhodes
Darryl Banks
National Science Foundation
NSF
House
Darryl
Washington
Foundation
Lewis Salter
Knox College
Thomas Winslow
Ohio Wesleyan University
Anna Harrison
Mt. Holyoke College
Coe
Argonne National Laboratory
Chicago
Associated Colleges of
Midwest
Argonne
Oxford University
Service Club Olympics Finals at Central YM Tuesday
More than 500 men from 14 organizations compete in 20 events at the Central branch YMCA. Al McDonald lists preliminaries today starting 2 p.m. with checkers cribbage and more, finals include Liars contest and barbershop quartet. Defending champ is Thursday Noon Optimists. participants span multiple Optimist, Lions, Kiwanis, Sertoma, Ys Men, Civitan, Ex change groups.
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Service Club
Central
Central Branch Ymca
al McDonald
Y’s
Mott
Chet Casali
Central Branch
Optimists Club
Cedmar Sertoma
Lions
Kiwanis
Metro Kiwanis
Sertoma
Y’s Men
Civitan
Canopus
Exchange
Muddy Waters to Perform at Coe in Welcome to Spring Concert
Muddy Waters, famed as a Delta blues legend and Time magazine’s “King of the Delta Blues,” appears at Coe College Sinclair Auditorium Friday at 8 p.m. The concert, sponsored by the student activities committee, costs $1 and tickets are in Gage Memorial Union main office. call 364-1511 extensions 382 or 383.
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Muddy Waters
Time Magazine
Coe College
Sinclair Auditorium
B. B. King
Howlin’ Wolf
Eddie
House
Robert
Johnson
Clarksdale
Miss
Chicago
Bob Dylan
Rolling Stone
Student Activities Committee
Gage Memorial Union
What Nobel Hoped For His Dynamite
Washington AP recounts Alfred Nobel’s wish to produce a weapon so horrific that wars would become impossible. He shared such thoughts with Bertha von Suttner, a peace advocate and longtime confidante during the era before World War I.
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Washington
Alfred Nobel
Bertha von Suttner
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WATS
North Linn
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Tipton High School
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G.O.P. Convention
Everett R. Holles
New York Times
Ray Hoebler
By Robert Strand
Kilimanjaro
Odyssey
Agora
Lincoln
Dramatic Arts
On Target
Allblack
Herbert
Nobel
Smulekoff
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