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IN MEMORY: TONY SUAZO

Antonio "Tony" Suazo, longtime coordinator of the AFL-CIO Working for America Institute program to help disabled workers find good jobs, died Aug. 23 after a long illness. Tony Suazo joined the Institute in 1986 as coordinator of its Project with Industries (PWI) program that seeks to expand opportunities for the disabled. Before joining the Institute, he was in charge of state relations for the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities. He also served as co-executive director of the International Association of Rehabilitation Facilities, and director of the National Association of Sheltered Workshops. Tony is being posthumously honored as the Labor Representative of the Year at the 1999 annual conference of the National Business and Disability Conference. He authored many publications and articles on job redesign for disabled workers, sheltered employment, and mainstreaming disabled persons. He had also worked for the Joseph P. Kennedy Foundation. A native of Taos, New Mexico, Tony Suazo was a graduate of the University of New Mexico. He received a master's degree in rehabilitation counseling from the College of William and Mary. He was a veteran of World War II, serving in the Army Air Forces in Europe and North Africa. During his long career Tony Suazo was a member of The Newspaper Guild local 35 and local 12 of the American Federation of Government Employees. He is survived by his wife of 46 years, Mary, and four children, a sister, a brother, and three grandchildren.

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