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Citizens' Group Backs Two For School Board

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12
Month
April
Year
1972
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Citizens To Asj)íe Responsive Education (CARE), a liberal citizens' group, last night endorsed incumbent Henry Johnson and Nancy H. Brussolo as its candidates for the Ann Arbor Board of Education election in June. Neither Johnson nor Mrs. Brussole has officially announced as school board candidates, but it now appears extreriiely likely they will run. Both were seeking CARE's endorsement last night. A third candidate is expected to be endorsed by CARE at a public forum tentatively scheduled April 25. The CARE members attending last night's meeting at the First Unitarian Church voted to delay endorsing a third candidate for two weeks to allow other potential candidates to declare. Also seeking CARE endorsements last night were Dr. Ronald Bishop, a physician who was elected to the school board in 1969, and Charles Ream, a kindergarten teacher in the Monroe Public Schools. Bishop, Ream and Mrs. Brussolo gave speeches and answered questions at the forum. Johnson was unable to attend, but his speech was read to the audience. The endorsement votes were taken at the conclusión of the speeches and questions. Approximately 70 persons attended last night's public forum. Johnson, the school board's only black member, is assistant director of the U-M School of Education's Program far Educations Opportunity. Mrs. Brussolo, a member of the committee which formulated the school district's "Humaneness In Education" report, has been active in school affairs for many years. She placed fourth in last year's school board election. (There are three vacancies annually.) Missy Fritz, chairman of CARE, says her grSip will "endorse and support three outstanding candidates for school board, people who are committed to Humaneness in Education, to enforcement of Equal Educational Opportunity, and to responsiveness to the needs of Ann Arbor's school population."