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Vivian Mae Mann, who went to work as an operator with Indiana Bell Telephone in 1925 and later served as a CWA state director in Indiana for 23 years, died on Feb. 28 in Mishawaka, Ind. She was 90 years old at the time of her death.

Workers from US Airways, American Airlines, AT&T's newest cable and telecom operations, and Microsoft brought their energy and enthusiasm for a CWA voice to the convention, as delegates focused on organizing and ways to continue to build the labor movement.

Workers have a union voice for trade policy in Virginia K. Stevenson, recently appointed to the Missouri Governor's Task Force on Trade and Investment.

Built around a theme of "Operating With Attitude Beyond Y2K," CWA's National Operators Conference will take place Sept. 30 - Oct. 3 in Manhattan Beach, Calif.

CWA's annual political fundraising took another leap toward "$2 Million by 2000," Secretary-Treasurer Barbara Easterling reported to the convention, with conviction that, "Our goal is in reach."