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Delmar K. “Jim” Gordon, retired vice president of CWA District 7, died May 7 of pneumonia, at a nursing home near his family in Omaha. He was 92.

Luther Dale Magee, who rose from a Southwestern Bell repair technician to become vice president of then-CWA District 12, died May 15 of cancer at a hospice near his home in Arlington, Texas. He was 73.

Florine Koole, one of CWA’s early female staff representatives who rose to be assistant to the executive vice president, died at her Edina, Minn., home of cancer on May 8. She was 79.

One CWA family suffered a double tragety in the Sept. 11 terror attacks in New York City. Tina Grazioso, a former US Airways employee and member of CWA Local 1171 in Syracuse, N.Y., lost both her husband and brother-in-law at the World Trade Center, reported local President Rose Mary Nickerson.

CWA leaders in Oregon were key to an effort to reshape and revitalize the state’s labor movement at a May conference in Portland, where more than 200 delegates from 45 unions and labor councils approved an historic “New Alliance” for labor, the AFL-CIO reported.