Word: koontz
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...North Carolinian Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan Koontz, 49, accepted the relatively minor post of director of the women's bureau in the Department of Labor. She is now president of the National Education Association, the world's largest professional organization. Obviously alluding to other Negroes who have turned down posts in the Nixon Administration, Mrs. Koontz said: "I've taken this job because I'm an American citizen who wants to improve our society, and that's a job for all American citizens...
After ten years of teaching "the supposedly mentally retarded" in Salisbury schools, Mrs. Koontz concludes that "they are not mentally retarded. They have all the basic needs and urgings of other kids, but lack the perception and skills of others because they've been ne- glected. They need understanding and patience." She employed patience of her own in climbing to the top of N.E.A. She headed North Carolina's all-Negro N.E.A. affiliate and N.E.A.'s biggest division, the Association of Classroom Teachers (820,000 members), before her election last year as N.E.A. president. She took office...
Teachers must organize, agitate and, when all else fails, strike, argues Libby Koontz, because "communities recognize power and we must recognize the facts of life." Last year the N.E.A. staged strikes in Florida, Michigan and Albuquerque. She insists that the demand for higher pay does not mean that a teacher is more concerned about himself than his students. "We can be concerned about our kids-and well-paid at the same time. And we're not going to get able young people into teaching unless we improve conditions. All we're saying is that if the schools belong...
...price right? One company that seemed made to measure was well-managed and profitable Diebold, Inc., the nation's largest manufacturer of banking equipment, with 1965 sales of $77 million from safes, depositories, pneumatic tubes, etc. Last week, after Litton Chairman Charles B. Thornton and Diebold President Raymond Koontz agreed on a swap of stock worth about $93 million, Litton announced a "preliminary" deal to absorb Diebold...