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Show Industry Council gains new member FARM1NGTON -- A Utah County man with extensive experience experi-ence in job placement for the handicapped hand-icapped in Davis County and elsewhere else-where has joined the Private Industry Indus-try Council, here. Van Potter of the Wasatch Foundation's Project with Industry Indus-try has accepted the voluntary, unpaid un-paid position with the PIC, a group of lay officials from private industry indus-try and government involved in coordinating programs to assist in iob placement and training. The Highland, Northern Utah County resident says the private, non-profit Warshaw' Foundation works to develop "private employment employ-ment opportunities for the handicapped" hand-icapped" and said "a great deal of success" has been noted in placement. place-ment. In Davis County, 205 handicapped handicap-ped have obtained jobs instead of the 100 that would be anticipated, and at one-half the cost of other, similar programs, he explained. Mr. Potter obtained a bachelor's degree in communications from Southern Utah State College in Cedar City and a master's in cduca-tional cduca-tional administration from Brigham Young University. He has held a variety of jobs including in-cluding an instructor in speech and public relations at SUSC and personnel per-sonnel manager for a Michigan power-company subsidiary. Married to the former Jeanie Turner, they are the parents of four children, including one afflicted VAN POTTER with cerebral palsy. That condition motivated an interest in working with the handicapped. Mr. Potter praised the efforts of Richard Nelson, PIC Council coordinator coor-dinator and Davis County employment employ-ment and training director, with helping initiate the Warshaw program prog-ram in assisting 1 50 disabled to find work. Jack Bailey, Clearfield Job Service manager and a PIC member, mem-ber, was also credited with providing provid-ing space for Jerry Glade to conduct con-duct the Foundation's efforts at assisting the handicapped in Davis County. |