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Monday, J uty 14, 1969
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Mrs. .June Cofer, chairman of
the Model Cities education subcommittee, has announced she
is a candidate fur the First
Ward seat on the Atlanta Board
af E ducation.
Mrs. Cofer launched her campai;gn Saturday at a barbecue
given in the front yard of her
home at 443 Oakland Ave. SE.
· What she described as a
..grass roots" affair attracted
several dozen supporters, both
Negro and white, from the several neighborhoods composing
Atlanta's 1\1odel Cities Area.
Mrs. Cofer, who is white, will
b ve Robert Waymer, a Negro
and a funner official of ;11:conomic~pportunity !UJanta, Inc.,
the antip,nerty agency, a$ her
campaign m anager_
seat now occ':1pied by Ed S.
Cook Sr. She is not "running
against" Cook, she said, but is
running for the school board
post because "I feel it truly necessary that we have some representation of ordinary citizens on
the school board."
What I have been saying,"
she said, "is that my friends
asked me to run, my enemies
dared me to r un, and the condition of the school system today
forced me to run."
Mrs. Cofer also is chairman of
another Model Cities committee, ,
that advising on deveiopment of
the headquarters comple~ b.eing
developed at the intersection of
Washington Street and Georgia
SHE SEEKS the school board Avenue .
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