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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1969
Page
2
Mrs. Arthur Jones, 22, joins Area Ten Community College as a part time teacher counselor and community worker. She will become full time in July and plans to build links with the Oak Hill Jackson neighborhood to aid Negro youth and address social problems through college programs and student affairs outreach.
Annual convention of the Iowa Association Of The Blind will be held Thursday through Saturday with activities in Vinton and Cedar Rapids. A convention banquet is set for Saturday at the Roosevelt Hotel. Kenneth Jergin an, president of the National Federation of the Blind and director of the Iowa Commission for the Blind, will speak. Several legislators are invited. Other activities take place at the Iowa Braille and Sight-Saving School in Vinton. Attendance is expected to be 150. A South Atlantic native, Mrs Jones, discusses Afro American student organizing amid Cedar Rapids area tensions and the need for continued efforts in Area Ten. She is a Spellman College graduate living in Town City while her husband pursues a doctorate at the University of Iowa in mathematical statistics.
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