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Talented Lady Takes on Job . . .(Continued from page 1)travels 011 behult of the state andthe Native people will be good background for her work with the borough.She serves on the governor's reapportionnient board, the University of Alaska village craftsmen's upgrade program, the I.SO. Council, the Alaska Pipeline education Committee, the Alaska Native Foods advisoryboard, the Tundra Times board , , , ,, . , ... „ x . the lone woman in the group liasand as secretary ol the Eskimo, ,c 1Indian. Aleut Printing Co.Also on the Task Force forMany times the business ol these groups leaves her the lone woman member in committee a situation that hardly shakes her. Being a woman in politics or other areas of government is no hinderance, she said. To the contrary, Bergt feels women should take a more active iole intheir community.*Sometimes, of course, beingthe Hard of Hearing and Fair-strange consequences, however.When lour male athletes from the 1^73 World Eskimo-lndianbanks North Star Borough Olympics went to Los Angeles School District special education for an appearance on the Johnnycommittee. Recently she was named to the Alaska Plan policy board, a group whose chief concern is jobs for Alaskans first in their own state.Carson show. Bergt went along as the spokeswoman and given the job of presenting Carson with a special gift from the group a walrus oosik!
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Fairbanks Tundra Times
Fairbanks, Alaska, US
Wed, Oct 17, 1973
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