Thursday, March 30, 2000
Margaret Thatcher to visit city Friday
BY MARK CURNUTTE
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher will visit Cincinnati on Friday to meet with students and officials from a bank and a neighborhood group.
Lady Thatcher will speak to some 50 middle- and high-school students at Working in Neighborhoods, 3726 Llewellyn Ave., South Cumminsville.
Her speech, which begins at 5 p.m., is not open to the public.
Fifth Third Bank has established a technology zone at Working in Neigh borhoods, and the bank will present $50,000 to the organization to buy the St. Pius School building to create its Economic Learning Campus. The bank had previously donated computers and internet service to the group.
“This is a chance for the youth of Cincinnati to catch a glimpse of the changing global environment from a prominent individual who has witnessed the changes first hand,” said George A. Schaefer Jr., president and CEO of Fifth Third.
In 1979, Lady Thatcher, the Conservative Party leader, was chosen to become Britain's first female prime minister.
She resigned in 1990 after failing to win re-election of the Conservative Party leadership.
Her visit is made possible by Fifth Third Bank and the John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University.
Working in Neighborhoods Inc. (WIN) was founded in 1978 to strengthen communities primarily in the Mill Creek Valley in these areas: leadership, training, community development and housing.
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