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HEARD TO LEAVE SCHOOL BOARD AT END OF YEAR
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Feb 04, 2005 05:46pm |
| Category | General |
| News Date | Feb 04, 2005 12:00am |
| Description | Toward end of 24-year career, she often voted against majority
Published: Wednesday, February 2, 2005
NEWS 01B
By Bill Bush
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
After serving on the Columbus Board of Education for almost a quarter-century, Loretta Heard will call it quits when her term expires at the end of this year, she said yesterday.
"This is the end of the line,'' Heard, 70, said, laughing as she revealed her plan to retire from politics in January.
Board member Andrew Ginther said that the district will be losing a strong advocate for parents and students.
"She started serving on the board when I was in kindergarten,'' said Ginther, 29.
"Part of the great experience I had in Columbus Public Schools was due to people like her way back then.''
Heard's tenure on the board hasn't been without controversy.
In 1997 the Ohio Industrial Commission stripped her of disability payments she had received since 1958, when she was injured as a cafeteria worker at Akron City Hospital.
The commission had declared her permanently and totally disabled in 1973, entitling her to weekly payments for life. The original award of $25 a week rose to more than $200.
But the commission later found that her claimed depressive anxiety and inability to be comfortable around people could not be supported med |
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