Interview with Lawrence Abdalla
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41:11
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Lacey, Anne
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Description
Interview with retired engineer and boxing coach Lawrence Abdalla. Abdalla discusses working for General Motors in Warren, Michigan, and later the Kansas City, Kansas, Fairfax Plant, working as a page for Kansas State Senator George Haley and United States Senator Bob Dole, and becoming a boxing coach who was a member of the 1996 Team USA Olympics staff before returning to coach in Kansas City at the East Side Gym and Community Boxing and Fitness in Kansas and the Guadalupe Center in Missouri. He also discusses his volunteer work and prominent athletes he's worked with.
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KCKPL-GENERAL-Abdalla-Lawrence
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Acknowledgement
This project was funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the Missouri State Library.