Business Women Celebrate National Week Across Southern Illinois
Southern Illinois BPW week events honor working women with proclamations by Carbondale and Marion mayors. Twenty local clubs, including Benton and Murphysboro, will name a Business Woman of the Year and Woman of the Day across five days. BPW dates to 1919, now 165000 members in 13 Southern Illinois communities. The era aims for equal job equity, ERA ratification, and support for women in business and home life.
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Cathy A. Monroe
Southern Illinoisan
Carbondale
Marion
Benton
Herrin
Metropolis
Johnston City
Murphysboro
BPW
National Federation
Women’s World Work Council
U.S. War Department
Business Women’s Committee
Work Council
Illinois
Small Business Administration
Bonding Women in Carbondale Aims at Job Network
In Carbondale activities begin with church attendance led by Jacqueline Goepfert at Lakeland Baptist Church. The group will name the Woman of the Year at the Elks Club meeting. Trina Green performs while Cameron Brown urges backing a referendum to expand John A. Logan College. Murphysboro BPW honors five local women for service and career achievements, including Nancy Baker, Avis Carwell, and Ruby Herbert.
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Carbondale
Jacqueline Goepfert
Lakeland
Nancy Baker
Washington School
Avis Carwell
Ruby Herbert
First Bank
Murphysboro BPW schedules week of events and fall sale
Leader Leah Sims directs music for Murphysboro District 186 as Olga Todd runs Olga's Art and Gift Gallery. Week activities include a library display and annual peanut roll sale. Herrin BPW begins with Mass and members plan a health fair and evergreen plantings. Marion BPW hosts Career Awareness Day at junior high, salad luncheon, vespers, and Public Relations Day.
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BPW
Herrin Senior Citizens Center
St. Mary’s Gym
Marion Bpw
First Presbyterian Church
Olive Haynes
Marion
Edward R Murrow widow feted at Mount Holyoke College
Janet Brewster Murrow, widow of CBS broadcaster Edward R Murrow, was honored with a dinner at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley Mass for 30 years of service to the college art program. Notables present included Charles Collingwood Edith Halpern and Fred W. Friendly, with Murrow recounting her wartime evacuee work and decades as art director and trustee.
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New York Times
New York
Janet Brewster Murrow
Massachusetts
CBS
Edward R. Murrow
South Hadley
Mass
Mount Holyoke College
Charles Collingwood
Edith
Nathan Halpern
Collingwood
Halpern
Murrow
Catherine Gamble Curran
Elizabeth Lowe Gamble
Mount Holyoke
Curran
Holyoke
London
United States
English-Speaking Union
Massachusetts Council On Arts and Humanities
National Public Radio
Pawling
N.Y
Back-of-the-Church Militant Finds Hope in Humble Pews
Erma Bombeck-inspired observation celebrates back pew worshippers who endure cramped space and late arrivals. The author portrays these parishioners as faithful, patient, and practical, noting the need for room, quiet, and space for families, handicapped worshippers, and crying babies. God, they imply, sits there most of the time.
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Erma Bombeck
God
Ann Landers column letters on conversation, gifts, and love
A reader in Queens asks for friendly talk from Bell System operators. Ann directs her to volunteer opportunities in Queens, via William Ellinghaus. Other letters request mink for a silver anniversary. Ann advises generosity and patience as hot flashes fade.
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Ann Landers
Bell System
New York
411
Jersey City
Queens
William M. Ellinghaus
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Ann
Bill
Queens Telephone
Ben
Tamaroa Couple Announces Lorri Nehrkorn and Timothy Cockrum Engagement
Mr and Mrs Billy J Nehrkorn of Tamaroa announce the engagement of their daughter Lorri Lynn to Timothy B Cockrum son of Mr and Mrs James Cockrum of Du Quoin The bride to be is a 1981 Tamaroa High School graduate and the groom is a 1979 Du Quoin High School graduate A summer 1982 wedding planned
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Billy J. Nehrkorn
Tamaroa
Lorri Lynn
Timothy B. Cockrum
James Cockrum
du Quoin
Miss Nehrkorn
Tamaroa High School
Cockrum
du Quoin High School
Theology schools pool resources on shared campus in Rochester
In Rochester New York historicist Epal and Roman Catholic ethic schools plan a joint graduate theological program on one campus. St Bernard s Institute Bexley Hall Colgate Rochester and Crozer Theological Seminaries will maintain separate faculties and student bodies while sharing facilities and resources.
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Rochester
N.Y
St. Bernard’s Institute
Bexley Hall
Colgate Rochester
Crozer Theological Seminaries
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Southern
Hayoke College
Wit’s End
Husand
Rogers Park
Mink
and Timothy Cockrum
Dinkins
Lorri Nehrkorn
Timothy Cockrum
Theology
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