JNews: Jeffrey, Robert (1975)
http://www.projo.com/news/content/
ri_bulbs_04-01-07_8P50SLB.30da60e.html
Fighting global warming one light bulb at a time
01:00 AM EDT on Sunday, April 1, 2007
By Peter B. Lord
Journal Environment Writer
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As one of seven children growing up in a working-class family in Providence’s Armory District, Bob Jeffrey revered John F. Kennedy’s calls for public service and appreciated his mother, Gilda, a community activist who fought slumlords and apathetic politicians.
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Jeffrey has provided the support of his agency, the fourth-largest full-service network in the world, to a campaign to raise money to provide energy-efficient, compact fluorescent light bulbs to poor families in New York City.
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Jeffrey attended Manhattan College, majoring in English literature. He came back to Rhode Island for a year, hoping to get a job at The Providence Journal or some other local newspaper, he said.
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As long as they don’t use tax money, I say more power to them. I’d rather see a Jasper Engineer figure out how to make a LED bulb that was cheaper than a florescent or an incandescent. But till then, this is a good first step.
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