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Mrs. Joseph Elected

Director At

Twin City Barge

Mrs. Geri M. Joseph, former

U.S. Ambassador to the Nether- lands, has been elected to the board of directors of Twin City

Barge, Inc., St. Paul, Minn., it was announced recently by John

W. Lambert, chairman of the board.

A life-long resident of the Twin

Cities, before becoming Ambas- sador in 1978, Mrs. Joseph had a distinguished journalistic ca- reer, specializing in health, edu- cation, and other social concerns.

As a contributing editor and col- umnist for the Minneapolis Trib- une, she won the Sigma Delta

Chi award for a series on hospi- tals, as well as five American

Newspaper Guild awards for oth- er writings.

Mr. Lambert said the addition of Mrs. Joseph creates an 11- person board for TCB, five of whom are outside directors.

Twin City Barge is a diversi- fied company engaged in river transportation, barge construc-

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