It’s Your Business Meetings This Week in Cedar Rapids
Local government bodies convene across Cedar Rapids and surrounding cities with numerous sessions. Key gatherings include the Cedar Rapids City Council informal session, Linn County supervisors, Cedar Rapids water board, and various school district boards at Education Service Center and Prairie High School, plus health and emergency councils at Mercy and St Luke’s facilities.
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Lian Zoning Commission
Cedar Rapids Water Board of Trustees
Cedar Rapids Community School District
Educational Service Center
Second Avenue Sw
Cedar Rapids Community
Linn Conservation Board
Fairgrounds
Central City
Grant Wood Area Education Agency
Second Avenue
Coralville
College Community Schools Board of Education
Prairie High School
Linn Board of Supervisors
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Human Rights Commission
Council
City Hall
Legal Aid
Linn Courthouse
Linn Health Center
Health Center
MERG
EMS Council
Hoover Health Council
Mercy Hospital
Hiawatha City Council
Hiawatha City Hall
Mrs Knapp Named Mercy Coordinator
Mrs John Knapp of 2058 Fifth Avenue SE has been named coordinator of patient education at Mercy hospital. A 1959 graduate of Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing, she earned a BS in nursing from Hood College and taught at MGH Nursing School for five years. She later directed the nursing school at Aga Khan hospital in Nairobi while her husband worked as an advisor to Kenya's ministry of commerce and industry. Sister Mary Lawrence praised Knapp for her extensive nursing education experience and noted plans to shift patient education from one to one to nurse as educator programs.
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John Knapp
Fifth Avenue SE
Mercy Hospital
Knapp
Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing
Hood College
Frederick
Kenya
Mary Lawrence
Mercy
Barbara
Disaster Tree gives hope after fires and mining
Forest workers label the quaking aspen a “disaster tree” as the first tree to resprout after fires and mining. Hospital staff coordinate with the audio-visual education department to produce educational materials for diabetics and pre-surgical orientations.
Permanent Status to Coe’s Nursing Program
Coe college marks a permanent status for its BSN program as the largest class of 33 students starts the year long course. From eight states, 16 Iowa graduates hail from St Luke’s Cedar Rapids, with changes adding seven liberal arts electives and four required nursing courses to strengthen graduate school prospects. The program is Iowa Board of Nursing accredited and a renewed contract with St Luke’s hospital allows BSN students to use clinical facilities and the hospital health sciences library.
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Coe College
Joan Behrens
Iowa
St. Luke's Methodist Hospital School of Nursing
Cedar Rapids
Coe
Board of Trustees
Miss Behrens
BSN
Gram
Iowa Board of Nursing
National League of Nursing
St. Luke's Hospital
Schwengel to speak on The Bicentennial at Mt Mercy College
Former U S congressman Fred Schwengel will discuss The Bicentennial Why Celebrate at Mt Mercy College on September 21 at 8 p m in McAuley Auditorium. The free public lecture requires reservations through Student Affairs 363 8213. Schwengel, Iowa First District representative for 16 years, helped draft the one man one vote concept and founded the U S Capitol Historical Society. He will also present the Oscar nominated film City Out of Wilderness detailing Washington D C s founding as the capital.
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U.S
Fred Schwengel
Mt. Mercy College
McAuley
Schwengel
Iowa
U.S. Supreme Court
Washington
United States Capitol Historical Society
Franklin County
Chapin
Sheffield
Northeast Missouri Teachers College
Kirksville
Parsons College
Lincoln College
Lincoln
Ill
Davenport
Iowa House of Representatives
Scott County
Young Republicans
Washington, D.C
Spirit of the Savanna at Indian Creek Harvest Fest
Robert Dyas of Iowa State will present a slide-tape portrait of historic tall grass prairie as the main fall exhibit at Indian Creek Nature Center during Harvest Fest next Sunday September 21. Dyas conducted eight months Midwest field research and selected from hundreds of photographs for several picture panels on the lower exhibit level. The talk runs at 7 and 8 30 p.m. Tickets seven dollars fifty in advance cover the 6 30 and 8 p.m. dinners. For tickets call Mrs James Davis 365 2044 or the center 362 0664.
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Indian Creek Nature Center
Nature Center
Robert Dyas
Iowa State
Dyas
Midwest
Nature Center Guild
James Davis
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Civil Defense
St. Luke’s Hospital
Fred
F.B. Fire
Highway Patrol
Is Rapids
Medical Society
Loe
Loe Industries
Bartel
Center Point
Nevern
Williams Blvd
W .J
Wilier AG Service R.R
Toledo, Iowa
Smulekoff
California
Bandero
Gift Dept
Rachel
Stennis
Chante
Smulekoffs
Sonnet
Wamsutta Trucraft
Wamsutta
Union
Batiste
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