Educational Project Supported by Frederick Leipoldt III
A Wakefield memo details a 1972 conference workshop at the Wakefield Motor Lodge focused on handicapped youth development. Attendees included Gogebic-Ontonagon officials and agency leaders from Michigan and Wisconsin. The project, named Human Ecology Association, aims to create local employment and a restaurant training program, hinging on broad organizational support.
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Frederick Leipoldt III
Leipoldt
Wakefield Motor Lodge
Gogebic - Ontonagon Intermediate
Gene Dahlin
Philip Pfannenstiel
Thomas J. Ferguson
Waino Korpela
Gogebic-Ontonagon Intermediate
Wakefield Meetor Lodge
Gen. L. Dahlin
Help Needed for Retarded Children in Gogebic County Area
Gogebic Association for Retarded Children has existed about 15 years. Voters supported a one mill tax for special education providing classes and specialized staff including diagnostician and speech therapist. An adult activity center opens for ages 16 and over to aid independent living. Applications via 932-1308 with Florence Kangas. center open five days a week. Membership $3. Jean Barbacovi president. Also obituary for Mrs. John Bruno detailing birth, marriage, children, and funeral at Immaculate Conception Church.
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Florence Kangas
Operation Mainstream
Jean Barbacovi
John Bruno
2Nd Ave
Wakefield
Divine Infant Hospital
Mary Catherine Bugni
Lucano
United States
Bruno
Hmmaculate Conception Catholic Church
Kenneth Graff
Oreste
Peter
Jess Parsons
Mrs Anna Salmi Celebrates 88th Birthday Party
Mrs Anna Salmi marked her 88th birthday with a party at Divine Infant Hospital where she is receiving care. Friends and relatives visited, cards and gifts were given, and flowers arrived from Copenhagen. Hostesses were Mrs Ward Zuidmulder Mrs Nels Seppa and Mrs Reino Salmi. A fall wedding for Karen and Roy Williams is planned amidst other notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Salmi
Divine Infant Hospital
Anker Mortenson
Copenhagen
Denmark
Ward Zuidmulder
Nels Seppa
Reino Salmi
Upper Great Lakes project briefing in Washington DC
The Upper Great Lakes Human and Economic Development Project was presented in Washington DC on April 1 and 12 by Mrs. E J Hawker wife of the late Frederick L Hawker and introduction to Congressman Alvin O Konski. The two day trip yielded contacts with Senator Griffin and Congressman Ruppe and funding leads arranged by Nate Semple. A report of the Washington trip was presented April 13 14 in Marquette Michigan to the Upper Peninsula regional inter agency coordinating committee for retardation and related disabilities with attendees from Northern Michigan University Alger and Marquette counties and leadership from Dr Edward L Ruman George Maniaci M D and Cory Jansen.
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John Fitzgerald
Gogebic County
James Tarsi
Upper Peninsula
Frederick Leipoldt
Ils
Wakefield Motor Ledge
Jacque Hawker
Washington, D.C
Hawker
Wakefield Motor Lodge
Washington
Robert Griffin
Michigan
Philip E. Ruppe
Alvin O’konski
Wisconsin
Human Ecology Association
Gogebic-Ontonagon
Wakefield
Upper Great Lakes
E. J. Hawker
Frederick L. Hawker
L. M. Berry Yellow Pages
Dayton
Ohio
Alvin O'Konski
Serafino Morichetti
Connie
Hurley
Morichetti
O’konskis
Cam
Paign
Senate
Philip Ruppe
Ruppe
Griffin
Nate Semple
Marquette
Inter-agency Coordinating Committee For
Edward L. Ruman
Northern Michigan University
Cory Jansen I
Citizens Petition Aids Sunday Lake Summer Camp Effort
College students volunteer to back the Sunday Lake Summer Camp for handicapped children in Gogebic Ontonagon area. Wakefield officials approve Human Ecology Project as part of Phase II, with Gogebic Ontonagon Intermediate School District organizing. Church groups plan door to door solicitations and citizen action events to support the camp this spring.
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Wakefield
Sunday Lake
Gogebic- Ontenagen
Gogebic- Ontenagen Intermediate
Gne Dahlin
Kathy Orlich
Gail Halberg
Judi Negi
Young America
Citizens In Action
James
Phil Cormier
Eva V. Nelson
E. Hawker
Cable 9
Hawker
Father Wantland
St. Sebastian’s Church
Bessemer
Mich
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Wayne V. Kuusisto
First Lutheran
Michigan
Martha Jueppert
Gogebic-Ontonagen
Sunday School Program Postponed to May 14 at 10 AM
The Sunday School program at First Lutheran Church was moved from April 30 to May 14 at 10:00 am. The event will take place at the church facilities with attendees informed of the new date and time.
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Immanuel Lutheran Church
First Lutheran Church
Upper Great Lakes development project aids disabled citizens
The Gogebic Range Jaycees fund a Sunday Lake Summer Camp for Handicapped Children and a broader plan to rehabilitate the Iron Range through vocational training centers, sheltered workshops, hotel motel management programs, and housing with a house mother. The program targets ages 6 to 25 and aims for a twelve week schedule with teachers in special and physical education. Presented by club president Douglas Olson and Rev. Tom Wandam, with coverage on WJMS radio.
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Upper Great Lakes
Iron Range
Sunday Lake
Gogebic Range Jaycees
Sunday Lake Summer Camp Trust Fund
Douglas Olson
Tom Wandam
E. J. Hawkins
WJMS
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Wayne Kuusisto
Jack Hill
Rev. Hill
Duluth News Tribune
Wakefield News
United Cooperation
Michael Bonello
Ashland Ave
Bonnie Jean
D. John Watson
R. A. Watson
Gladstone
Immaculate Conception Church
T’er
Karen
Roy Williams
Peter Valesano
IBM
Valesano
Rochester Minn
Grand Rapids
Mirin
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