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Struggle for equality in education. Without further ado, would you welcome Anne Gardiner perkins, the author. Can you get us started by telling us a little bit about your book, yale meets women. Absolutely. And the history of coeducation in this country. Coeducation in the ivy league in particular. Terrific. Thank you so much, mark. This is so exciting. Over the next hour we are all going to explore together that moment in americas history when yale and its peers, when americas most prestigious colleges, finally admitted women students. For those of you who havent read the book yet, that moment was just 50 years ago. Close enough that we can touch it, which is why we are so lucky tonight to be able to include elizabeth spawn and connie roster, two of yells first women undergraduates, in our program. But before i begin, two thanks are in order. First of all too mark schmidt and the museum whove been terrific sponsors. Its delightful ....
Relief measures congressre has passed there was 150 billion sent to the state and local governments, much of which have yet to be spent and frankly we dont know what the actual need is until we have a better sense of what the revenue loss is to the state and local governments. They are sounding the alarm and justifiably worried about what happens if the downturn in the economy continues and what that dght mean for their revenues. So, they are looking to washington, d. C. For assistance, and i think that as i said earlier, there was 150 billion that went out to state and local governments and thereve been concerns about how they could be used. They were stipulated that they had to be used for these expenses and many state and local leaders were concerned that that didnt give them the flexibility thatee they needed o meet other types of needs. The Treasury Department has come out with an interpretation that would t allow the 15 ....
We travel to bryanCollege Station texas. Coming up will feature the citys local authors including Nikki Van Hightower. Then 12 minutes would visit the museum of the american g. I. And about the role Elvis Presley played in the Cold War Army in the 1950s. Later in about 45 minutes the story of the the hello girls of world war i. We begin our special feature with the mayors of bryan and College Station. One of the wonderful thinks about bryanCollege Station come get to cities, one community. The universe you start in the 1870s, the city of brian start a couple years before. Really right after the civil war. There was a railroad from houston that was ma ....
Civilian career and making that transition into the government world can be jarring. What wanted you to take up the world of government quick. During my twenties i didnt have a chance to serve the way that you did. I spent my time in medical institutions building my medical training. That was one of the real regrets that i had with this amazing country that i was not able to give back. Later in my career i was the ceo of a hospital and i had the opportunity to get a call from the white house for cho this was right at the time in 2014 when it was very public crisis in the v. A. That veterans were dying waiting for care. I was sitting there as a citizen to say i feel terrible about this. If anybody deserves the best care possible it is our veterans i wish there is something i could do to help. As sometimes happens i get a call from the white house to say would you consider coming to help lead the v. A. Healthcare system because were looking for somebody how they understand how healthcare ....
Even exist. So all of the stuff theyre doing will be for naught. We as the city, including s. F. P. U. C. , but external of silos, like clean power s. F. , we need to be looking at what we want to get to. [buzzer] and how all of the cylinders of the city can work to get there. That will be the same whether it is clean power s. F. , whether it is public power. I think it is time to break out from letting one part of the City Government to sit on this issue, which has been happening for six, seven, eight years. We need to have this happen at the 30,000foot view. Im hoping that the [buzzer] chairwoman thank you very much. Any other Public Comment . Seeing none, the Public Comment is now closed. Mr. Clerk, can you please call item number seven. Item seven is Public Comment ....