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James Tice
Wyandotte High School - Class of 1950
Member since August 3, 2012.
Currently living in Kansas City, MO.
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Several of our classmates of 1950 have asked about my career.After finishing my BS in Journalism at KU,I was employed as a Reporter-Photographer by The Kansas City
Star KCK Bureau on The KC Times staff, evenings, while I was a full-time student in the day school of the School of Law at UMKC for three years. While in the UMKC Grad School I also completed an MA in English Lit. From The Star, I returned to the KU staff as Managing Editor of Alumni Publications for 3 years; back to KC as Editor of Publications-Director of Public Affairs for People-To-People International HQ, working closely with Bill Dawson, nephew of J. C. Hall, and Mr. Hall, Hallmark Cards foun-
der. I was encouraged by friends at Midwest Research Institute to take the position at MRI of Editor of Publications of the NASA-funded ASTRA* (Applied Space Technology =Regional Advancement) program for which I was given top secret clearance by the FBI to visit NASA Space Centers in order to study space technology which could be
spun off to non-space industries in 4 midwestern states. My MRI editorial job also entailed writing-editing State of Missouri Commerce and Industrial Development Dept. promotional publications, which acquainted me with Missouri
Governor John M. Dalton,who invited me to serve as his
Executive Assistant in the State Capitol in 1963. While
in that position, Governor Dalton appointed me to serve as
the CEO of the Missouri Office of Economic Opportunity
(OEO, LBJ’s Great Society program to lift low-income persons out of poverty through something-for-something (not
welfare) programs such as Community Action, Head Start,
Neighborhood Youth Corps, Job Corps, VISTA (Volunteers In
Service To America),Foster Grandparents (of which I was co-
author in 1965, working closely with with R. Sargent Shriver, former Peace Corps Director, appointed by LBJ as
OEO Director in 1964). In 1965 I worked as a program Executive in OEO programs in Washington, D.C. and in the
K.C Regional Office for a total of 20 years. My State and
Federal service totaled 40 years, including my Army service
in the Korean War in the 48th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
(MASH). My early jobs in KCK included selling shoes at J.
C. Penney’s; gathering grain samples for the State of Kansas Grain Inspection Board; Switchman for the Union Pacific Railway; serving as a Surgical Tech in the OR at
Bethany Hospital for 2 years while completing my Associate
degree in Pre-medical Sciences at KCK JuCo, and cab driver
for Victory Cab Company in KCK for 6 years, off and on, while in college.
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