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14th Annual Guidance Conference
Focuses On 'Student Activism'

"The Student Activist: Bane or
Boon?" will be the theme of the 14th
annual guidance conference to be held
tomorrow at the University.

Some 350 guidance personnel from junior
and senior high schools and community colleges
around the State are expected to attend the
conference in Newcomb Hall sponsored by the
University's School of Education department of
counselor education.

Delivering the 10:15 a.m. keynote address
on the conference theme will be Howard A.
Ozmon, professor of education at Virginia
Commonwealth University.

Following the keynote address, Annette
Gibbs, associate dean of students at the University,
will moderate a panel on student activism.
The panel will include two students from the
Arlington county school system; two from the
Warrenton public schools; Richard Pierce of
Charlottesville, second-year law student at the
University, and Larry Williams of Rome, Ga.,
fourth year student in the College of Arts and
Sciences.

At 11:30 a.m. Kathryn G. Cook, supervisor,
Arlington county school system, and Frederick
D. Essex, principal of William C. Taylor Junior
High School in Warrenton, will speak on the
conference theme.

After lunch the University admissions office
staff led by the Dean of Admissions Ernest H.
Ern will discuss "A View of the Active Student."
A short speech by Richard Beard,
chairman of the University counselor education
department will end the conference.