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Workshop Head HiredA new director for the Livingston Workshop and Opportunity Center was hired last week by the Deep East Texas Mental Health Mental Retardation Services.He is Bill Greenville of Lufkin, who has had similar experience in social programs akin to the workshop. He will go on duty on Dec. 16, along with a female trainer, who as yet has not beenhired.The first director resigned his post last month and Jack Calhoun has been doing the work in a temporary capacity. For the past couple of weeks the old youth center building has been undergoing renovation with the help ofstudents of the Livingston ISD SpecialEducation department and by members of the Veterans of ForeignWars.Several clients have been lined up for the workshop already and the program is scheduled to open Monday. The workshop is an organization which, through the use of work contracts with local industry and business, will give mentally and physically disabled persons an opportunity to serve a useful place in society. The workshop is part of an area-wide project which has as its ultimate objective the return ofmany unnecessarily institutionalizedpeople back to their homes and an eventual decrease in expensive state institutionalization.
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Livingston Polk County Enterprise
Livingston, Texas, US
Thu, Dec 05, 1974
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