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Edward V. Peil, longtime Wisconsin state director who helped build CWA's predecessor, the National Federation of Telephone Workers, died April 4 of natural causes in Holiday, Fla. He was 96.

Frederick J. Fischer Sr., a one-time national director of the AT&T Long Lines unit and CWA Executive Board member, died March 25 of cancer. He was 75.

Empire State College, State University of New York, has announced the 2003 competition for the Bahr Scholars program.

For CWA Local 7026 member Andy Benavidez, it was important to try to save a life and repay the kindness of strangers. And all the more so because he is Hispanic. Only 20 percent of marrow and blood stem cell donors registered with the National Marrow Donor Program are minorities.

Dorothee Benz knew the horrifying and tragic facts before her trip: That nearly 4,000 union activists have been killed in Colombia since 1986, that four of every five union members murdered around the world are Colombians, that hundreds of union leaders have "disappeared" and countless others are re