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Bottoms Named
Gene Bottoms, director of the Divi-
sion of Program and Staff Develop-
ment with the Georgia State Depart-
ment of Education in Atlanta, has
been named executive director of the
American Vocational Association.
Bottoms will take up residence in
Washington, D.C. on October 1, suc-
ceeding Lowell A. Burkett, who is
retiring as the chief executive officer
of the 55,000 member organization.
The appointment was announced
on June 13 by the AVA Board of
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tion as "a humanistic view of educa-
tion which focuses on the learner and
the development of those skills which
are believed to be central and impor-
tant to functioning in the reality of
present and future decades."
Single copies of the monograph
are available free from: Larry J.
Bailey, Occupational Education Pro-
gram, School of Technology, Southern
Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
62901.
New AVA Exe
Directors. Burkett will serve as a con-
sultant to Bottoms for an indefinite
period.
Bottoms, who completed a term as
AVA president on July 1, began his
career in the Georgia public school
system in 1957 as an elementary
school principal and teacher.
In 1961, he joined the staff of the
South Georgia Technical and Voca-
tional School. Since then he has
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Gene Bottoms
succeeding Lowell Burkett
cutive Director
worked with the Georgia Department
of Education as state supervisor of
vocational guidance and associate state
director of vocational education.
In his present role of director of the
Division of Program and Staff Devel-
opment in Georgia, Bottoms has
worked with vocational education in
staff development, teacher education
and certification, student assessment,
and program development and im-
provement activities. He serves as state
coordinator of career education.
Will Reece, editor: ACTVE
NEWS is published monthly by
the Advisory Council for Tech-
nical Vocational Education in
Texas. It is the purpose of this
newsletter to promote technical,
vocational, adult, and manpower
education, and to establish bet-
ter lines of communications be-
tween business, industry, and
education. Reader's comments
are invited.
The Advisory Council for Technical-
Vocational Education in Texas
P.O. Box 1886
Austin, Texas 78767
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