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Lubbock Man Wins Ford Leadership Fellows Grant
Abel Acosta of 3301 Tiasea Street receives a $15,000 Ford Foundation Leadership Fellows Program grant to study migrant labor and Mexican American relations. He will begin Sept 1 and be on leave from the Lubbock Public Schools while traveling to California Imperial Valley Florida Michigan Mexico City Puerto Rico and the Office of Education in Washington. He is a Grandfalls Tex. native living in Lubbock 12 years with wife Viola and four sons Joel Abel Gene and Anthony.
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Abel Acosta
Tiasea St
Ford Foundation
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Lubbock Public Schools
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California
Imperial Valley
Florida
Michigan
Federal Department of Health, Education and Welfare
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Puerto Rico
Grandfalls
Tex
Grandfalls High School
Odessa College
Texas Teen
Viola Acosta
Joel
Abel Jr
Gene
Anthony