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5 Responses to “Imo”

1. mandafowler, on April 25th, 2008 at 6:44 am Said:

   I liked her picture a lot when I saw it the other day.

   There’s something about her in those big sunglasses that just hit me and made me smile. She looks like she’s feisty

2. heineken160, on April 25th, 2008 at 8:34 am Said:

   She is and she just turned 90.

3. heineken160, on April 25th, 2008 at 8:57 am Said:

   Imo was on the board of the Learning Connection back in the 80s and encouraged looking into starting what became the Emporia Literacy Program. The program operated as a joint venture of the Learning Connection and USD 253 and functioned for years as a low-cost volunteer program which was a real help to citizens who needed to help increasing reading proficiency at all levels.

   It became a political football which contributed to the demise of the Learning Connection and has become a major line-item for tax payers as professional educators took it over. Per capita delivery of service has soared as it was folded into other federally mandated programs. Numbers served have remained relatively constant for the niche the service was designed to help.

   What started as altruism has become institutionalized and exploited for statistic purposes.

   My perspective.

4. mandafowler, on April 25th, 2008 at 9:00 am Said:

   I would not have guessed that she was 90…I was thinking 70’s maybe 80…but definitely not 90.

   She looks like someone that would be real fun to hang out with. I bet she’s got some stories to tell.

5. Dave, on April 25th, 2008 at 9:32 am Said:

   We did get a great mix of people participating. FYI: There are hidden links in the self-portraits gallery. If you hold the mouse cursor over a portrait and it turns into a little hand, then it’s linked to a web site (usually one of Cheryl’s entries on the daily news).

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