Marion division projects highlighted at chamber board meeting
The Marion Division of the Cedar Rapids Marion Area Chamber of Commerce will present progress on the Marion Central Business District Redevelopment project and other reports to the chamber’s board. Wayne Engle and Dr. John Chapman will also discuss education programs and the Cedar Rapids Airport Commission terminal financing.
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Marion
Cedar Rapids-Marion Area
Marion Chamber
Donald Hattery
Big Yellow House
Hattery
Lewis Helbig
Marion Central Business District
Wayne Engle
John Chapman
Cedar Rapids
Chamber of Commerce
Junior Achievement Scholarships Awarded to Five Seniors
Five high school seniors were named winners of Junior Achievement college scholarship awards. Teresa Koenig Kennedy Aaron Liesch Iowa City West Doug Martin Jefferson Beth Ann Miller Regis John Warner Jefferson Each $200 scholarship can be used at the winner’s chosen college and was announced Saturday by JA executive director Steve Gaylord. Selection was by the JA Greater Cedar Rapids scholarship committee based on written tests and JA participation.
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Teresa Koenig
Kennedy
Aaron Liesch
Iowa City West
Doug Martin
Jefferson
Beth Ann Miller
Regis
John Warner
Steve Gaylord
Board of Directors of
Junior Achievement of Greater
Cedar Rapids
Mount Mercy Wins $85,000 Faculty Development Grant
Mount Mercy College received an $85,000 three year grant from the Northwest Area Foundation of St. Paul for a faculty development program. It is the only Iowa college funded this year and the plan includes a four phase approach emphasizing teacher effectiveness academic skills professional advancement and future planning. A full time administrator will be hired to run the program.
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Mount Mercy College
Northwest Area Foundation of
St. Paul
Mount Mercy
Iowa
Northwest Area Foundation
Annual Oliven lecture on Russia at Kirkwood College
Elena Skryabina a University of Iowa professor of Russian will give the 1979 Mel Oliven memorial lecture at Kirkwood Community College Tuesday noon in the Iowa Room Iowa Hall. Her talk Russia Revolution Through World War II a Personal Experience follows her wartime survival and emigration to the United States in 1950.
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Elena Skryabina
University of Iowa
Mel Oliven
Kirkwood Community College
Iowa
Iowa Hall
Russia
Skrjabina
St. Petersburg
Leningrad
France
United States
Syracuse University
Oliven
Kirkwood
Diplomatese and Amtrak Musings by Barbs By Phil Pastoret
The writer critiques diplomatic rhetoric and describes a Amtrak trip as revealing adults who act like playful boys rather than seasoned travelers. He notes the line about flexibility as a plea for cooperation and mocks those who fail to grasp train workings.
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Chamber Board
South Vietnam
Dominion Harvest Orange
Shannon
Fabric & Labor
Ruth Kinzey
BY Levolor
Levolor
Riviera
By Phil Pastoret
Amtrak
Bill Malloy
Diamond Store
Malloy Jewelers
Second Ave. SE
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