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Show Attends National Confab Gracia Cook of Bountiful has re-irned re-irned from a six-day seminar in tohington. D.C.. attending thi II (UOIJer Americans Program'" am; ':minar. THERE WERE a number o! j of . Itahns in the national group and met with Jake Gam and w iih rrin Hatch in special sessions, in f Disjunction with the American irj' ssociation of Retired Persons Na- oli-.-.onal Organization. n. Mrs. Cook said that "Close-up is te single best educational acti ity ei:l Bt I have ever attended and c- erienced." (iTj- jGROL'P leaders were national I X pliticians. members of congress. lministration officers, lobbyists, qr, ;Jumalists. political analysts and n I., krs of importance. .The purpose of the program for , je older Americans, is to teach le E'if create an informed and active ' lizenry in the adult population for active participation in the democratic demo-cratic process, essential to a responsive re-sponsive government and healthy community. THE CLOSE-I P Foundation, in cooperation with the American Association of Retired Persons institute in-stitute of lifetime learning, presents pre-sents the close-up program for all Older Americans. This program provides Americans Amer-icans 50 years and over, with an educational opportunity to examine ex-amine first hand, the issues, institutions insti-tutions and personalities of contemporary con-temporary American government. THROUGH a week of .-.equ-enced topical seminars, staff led discussion groups and study tours, the program transforms Washing- . ton. D.C. into a living classroom -for adults. Mrs. Cook will attempt to bring many new ideas to the community here in regard to the senior citizens, kj |