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Indian country honors housing pioneer.(Ron Froman)(Biography)
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Native American Report
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June 1, 2006
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Tim Foster remembers reminiscing during a trip to Disneyland with Ron Froman a few years ago. The two friends in their sixties talked about testifying before Congress three decades earlier urging the creation of a federal funding set-aside for Indian housing.
Decades after President Gerald Ford actually signed the bill creating an Indian Housing program, the two Indian housing pioneers were still talking about what needed to be done to improve Indian housing.
Foster is once again reminiscing: this time to honor the legacy of his friend Ron Froman, who passed away May 28 from a long illness with colon cancer. Born on June 29, 1940, Froman was 65 years old.
Froman, a ...