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DATE: Friday, July 8, 1994                   TAG: 9407080633
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B4   EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA 
SOURCE: STAFF REPORT 
DATELINE: RALEIGH                            LENGTH: Short :   24 lines

GARNER MAN WILL JOIN LEADER SEMINARS

Osborne ``Ozzie'' Gray III of Garner was one of 20 fellows chosen for the N.C. Institute of Political Leadership's Fall 1994 Leadership Program.

Gray said Thursday that he was nominated by a friend and interviewed in early June by 10 members of the institute's board of directors.

Gray, a 45-year-old Democrat and former member of the Dare County Board of Commissioners, is the assistant director for adjudication in the N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles.

The fellows - 11 men and nine women - will meet on 10 alternate weekends from Aug. 26 to Jan. 7 for 50 seminars on public policy and campaign techniques.

The leadership program began in January 1988. by CNB