The Nation - News from July 4, 1989
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The National Education Assn. chose as its new president a Michigan labor leader who said he would steer the huge teacher union along the relatively progressive path set by outgoing president Mary Hatwood Futrell. NEA President-elect Keith Geiger, who has been NEA vice president for six years, got 4,870 votes at the union’s annual Representative Assembly in Washington to 3,600 for executive committee member John Wilson of Raleigh, N.C. Geiger is a former high school math and science teacher from Livonia, Mich., and former president of his state education association.
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