From Soldier to CRI Leader A Life Shaped by Service
Ernie Faulkner Jr. rose from a 1948 high school graduate to head Community Rehabilitation Industries, guiding handicapped people toward private sector jobs. A 20 year Army career as personnel manager and psychologist influenced his belief in humane, community based mental health and welfare programs.
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Ernie Faulkner Jr
Community Rehabilitation Industries
CRI
Faulkner
Hic
New York
Fawkner
Munich
Germany
Family Services of
Long Beach
East Long Beach
Faulkner leads CRI training for the developmentally disabled
Ernie Faulkner, executive director of CRI since April 1978, oversees programs for the developmentally disabled in Long Beach. CRI trains in electronics, food services, janitorial work, and more, with interns from Long Beach State University and partnerships with LBUSD. About 60 percent of trainees enter private industry. 224 are currently in CRI programs, and since inception roughly 10,000 have gained employment skills.
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CRI
Department of Rehabilitation
Long Beach Unified School District
Long Beach State University
Faulkner
Ernie Faulkner
Survival of good manners at sports events
A diary on spectator behavior labels nine disruptive types Arriving Aggressor Scalper Beverage Spiller Restroom Wrecker Garbage Showerer Upwind Smoker Down in Front Caller. It laments manners slipping from baseball to football and beyond while noting the minority of well behaved fans remain.
McIntyres feted on golden year
Bernard and Anna Belle McIntyre celebrate their golden wedding anniversary with a buffet at James Davis home in Santa Ana. Married Sept 30, 1927 in Wayne City Kansas they have a Long Beach home since and a daughter Virginia Adams of Arizona one grandchild and four great grandchildren. He is retired from Southern California Edison and both attend Calvary Baptist Church North Long Beach.
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Bernard
Anna Belle McIntyre
Santa Ana
James Davis
McIntyres
Wayne City
Kan
Long Beach
Virginia Adams
Alreadily, Ariz
McIntyre
Southern California Edison Co
Calvary Baptist Church
North Long Beach
Open Letter to Dan Rather Over Wits End Book Rift
A reader writes to Dan Rather about her 2 year marriage strain sparked by his book. The letter riffs on a famous press conference and Nixon, quoting statistics and opinions. She mocks the author while noting domestic tensions and her husband’s reaction to the book. The piece ends with a contrast to Walter Cronkite.
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Dan Rather
Dan
Nixon
Homewrecker
Walter Cronkite
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CRT
State Department of Labor
Contemporary Living
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Attila the Hun
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Wit’s End
By Erma Bombeck
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