[CharterSchools] Adult Education Center Alumni celebrate diversity in the NOLA work Sept. 14

[charterschools at LACharter.org]

17 Graduates and Faculty of the Adult Education Center gather 


to celebrate diversity in the New Orleans workplace

 

Luncheon will honor all graduates of the AEC program and celebrate the 431 Exchange Scholarship Program, a legacy initiative of AEC now entering its 7th year to promote continuing education 

 

WHEN:      Saturday Sept. 14, Noon to 3 p.m.

WHERE:    Mother of Pearl Restaurant, 8132 Hampson St., NOLA

CONTACT: Jeanne Geoffray (214) 850-4584   jeanne at 431exchange.org

Jeanne Geoffray is available for interviews from Sept. 11 to 14, and with AEC graduates at the luncheon.

 

MEDIA:      C. Brylski (504) 460-1468/cbrylski at brylskicompany.com

 

            As they prepare to announce their 7th year of awardees for the 431 Exchange Scholarship Program, 17 graduates and faculty of the groundbreaking Adult Education Center, founded in 1965 to integrate New Orleans corporate offices with trained Black women, will reunite to reinforce their determination to shape the future careers of Louisiana residents, announced Jeanne Geoffray, the daughter of AEC Founder Dr. Alice R. Geoffray. 

In December, 1965, a small vocational school known as the Adult Education Center welcomed an integrated class of mostly Black underemployed women to begin training to become the first secretaries to integrate the all-white corporate offices of New Orleans. The effort caused an uproar at the time. The first pilot program was shut down due to public outrage at the school’s integrated student population but one brave landlord, James J. Coleman, agreed to help reopen the school in a building on Exchange Place in the French Quarter. During its period of operation from 1965 to 1972, the school placed 94 percent of its 431 graduates in jobs with salaries above the national average, thus making it one of the most successful programs of its kind in the War on Poverty. 

         Today, this program and its founder Dr. Alice R. Geoffray is memorialized by the Orleans Parish School Board in the naming of its former McDonogh 35 school building at 1331 Kerlerec in honor of Dr. Geoffray and her groundbreaking program. The legacy of the school continues through the 431 Exchange, a foundation that annually awards continuing education scholarships.

 
For information about this program, visit https://431exchange.org

Cheron Brylski(504) 460-1468cbrylski at aol.comcbrylski@brylskicompany.com      
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