Word: joycelyn
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...Senate confirmation hearing, Dr. Joycelyn Elders, Clinton's nominee for Surgeon General, reaffirmed her strong support for sex education and condom distribution. Elders, a former Arkansas health director, also acknowledged that she had been cited by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for mismanagement as a board member of the National Bank of Arkansas...
Under pressure from Republicans, the White House postponed confirmation hearings for Dr. Joycelyn Elders, Clinton's choice as Surgeon General, to allow time to examine questions about her finances. The main problem is a lawsuit against the National Bank of Arkansas in which the plaintiffs contend that former board members, including Elders, condoned shoddy and even illegal lending practices...
...Joycelyn Elders, the pediatrician nominated to be Surgeon General, was the first in her sharecropper family of eight children to go to college, working her way through Philander Smith, a black institution in Arkansas, as a cleaning woman. When she was home one weekend, her younger brother Chester, now a Methodist minister in Pine Bluff, realized that she had begun to change when she took her siblings to the drive-in to see a movie. "She went to a section not marked off for coloreds," says her brother. "The attendant told her to move, and they got in a heated...
...Joycelyn Elders, President Clinton's nominee for Surgeon General, is leading the fight for a more comprehensive approach from kindergarten through 12th grade. As head of the Arkansas health department, she was one of the country's most outspoken advocates of wide-ranging sex education. "We've spent all our time fighting each other about whose values we should be teaching our kids," she complains. "We've allowed the right to make decisions about our children for the last 100 years, and all it has bought us is the highest abortion rate, the highest nonmarital birth rate and the highest...
Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin L. Powell, Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna E. Shalala and U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders will also be making the trip north from Washington to Cambridge to speak at various events June...