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PRESENTATION TO THE PRESIDENT - James. HnbCo-Chalrprion of the National
Education Association's Bicentennial Committee, presents President Ford with a special plaque on
behalf of the 1.7 million-member organization. Harris, Immediate part president Of NEA, made the
presentation in the Oval Office in Washington recently, the prof essronal educators' group honored
President Ford for "hit commitment to the celebration of the Nation' 2(KA birmdBy.''
Durham's Parluvood School Featured
Id Japanoso Publication
Ms. Doris Watkins and John
Lennon of Durham particpated
in a round table discussion on
the improvement of reading. Ms.
Watkins is a high school teacher
at Hobbton High School and
Lennon is Dean of Men at N. C.
Central University.
The Feb. 18-19 round table
Quail Roost Conference Center
near Durham was coordinated
by Citizens United for the
Improvement of Reading, a
project of the Learning Institute
of North Carolina (LINC).
More than 300 teachers from
about 90 school systems in the
state were nominated for the
round table discussion, and 36
were selected to attend.
Sponsors of the meeting are
LINC, the N. C. Association of
Educators, the Association of
Classroom Teachers, the N. C.
School Boards Association, the
State Department of Public
Instruction, and the N. C.
Congress of Parents and
Teachers, Inc.
Purpose of the two-day
invitational meeting is to give a
representative group of
classroom teachers an
opportunity to meet and discuss
in depth ideas on how reading
can be improved in the state's
schools.
"Many individuals and
agencies have expressed concern
to us," said John R. B. Hawes,
Jr., LINC executive director,
"that amid the furor about
reading those least heard are the
teahcerj who have been given
major responsibility for teaching
our children to read.'
The Feb. 18-19 round table,
discussion was one in a series of
invitational meetings sponsored
by Citizens United and other
groups. Topics for three other
sessions are community
resources, educational policy
making, and dropouts, pushouts,
and fadeouts. Reports
summarizing each round table
will be prepared and distributed
to state and local policy makers,
school administrators, school
board members, college and
university education,
departments, and others. '
Parkwood Elementary School
has been described to Japanese,
eudcators at ' one of the finest! .
examples of parent
involvement and excellent
administrative leaderhsip" in
an article prepared for
Japanese magazine by a North!
Carolina . Central University
professor.
Dr. Elinor T. Massoglia
described Parkwood's programs
with parents in an August,
1975,. article in Kokusai .
Kyoiku (Education in World
Perspective.)
She 'told Japanese readers'
that parkwood involves more
than I SO of its parents in some
school activity.
Parents serve as tutors for
children who need help with
their studies. Twenty-five or 30
parents visit the school each
week, each working with one
child.
Parents with talent in the
arts are on call to assist the
tchoofs art teacher with
special activities and projects.
" Parents plan and 'conduct
field ' days, . book fairs,
mini-courses "to combat the
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effects of 'spring fever"', and
beautjfication projects, for .the
school grounds. They assist
wjtn this school's office work,
tfrvV' syrtftote ' teachers',
make Special ' instructional ;
materials, wo rk in the library,
serve as Wetyi&rfol advisors;
and participate on the school
advisory committee.
One-mother- -serves-as-,
.s.c.h.opl .j!LOlogLrtpher,p...
photographing special projecTs"
and events and preparing, a
' student of the week" bulletin
board feature for each clan.
Dr." Massoglie'f article -for
the Japanese magazine quote
Bruce . Benlon,- Parkwood V
principal, at crediting - the
Parent-Teacher Association for
the in tiative in. involving
parents in school activities.
"Parents have been so
helpful, we know that we
couldn't get along without
them.' Benton it, quoted as
saying in the magazine article.
Dr. Massoglia, .who; is
associate professor of home
economics and a specialist in
parent education, prepared the
Parkwood article and another
?!
ort parent education and parent
. involvement for the magazine
after discovering that the
concept of direct parent
Invojvement is almost
unknown in Japanese schools.
The invitation to prepare the
- article " was given - while Dr.
Massoglia visited Japan last
year on the . invitation of
several Japanese educational
and cultural organizations. ,
Her second article for the
.iriagazlne is g description of the
related concepts of parent
. education and parent
'involvement in 'school
activities; -Parent
e ducal ton is
' providing training for parents
to help them serve at effective
teachers of their own children.
Parent involvement, according
to Dr. Massoglia, requires that
parents share in the decision
made about their child's
VducatioiC ' '"
-Dr.. Massoglia Y textbook on
parent' skills and early.,
childhood education is
-scheduled for publication in
the fan of 1976.
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Tho Library Of Conjrcss To RoveisI
Contorts Of f.ly$t:ry Box
It might be a pair of shoes,
this package wrapped in brown
paper and tied with faded tape.
But it contains, the label says,
Je things taken from J we
pockets of Abraham Lincoln
the night he diedApri! 1415
l865.JVhich doctor or friend
keeping vigO in the little housje
on Tenth Street Temoved them
from: the dying President or
how they came to the Lincoln
family is not known. But the
box was for rnany. year in the
possession,, of Robert Todd
Lincoln and in 1937 Robert
Todd Lincoln's daughter gave
them to Herbert Putnam, then
Librarian of Congrest. Since
then the package has Iain in a
safe in the Library of Congress,
hidden from -the public gaze.
In a press conference on
February 12, Daniel J.
Boorsfih, a distinguished
historian as well as Putnam's
successor as librarian of
Congress, will open the
package and reveal its contents.
Tradition has it that they are
homely items that might have
been carried by anyone at that
time. Their association with the
martyred President has given
them special significance and
interest, however, ' and Dr.
Boorstin believes that in thi
bicentennial year the public
should see them.
Following the press
conference they will be placed
on view in the Library s Great
Hall, on the first floor of the
Main Building. Included in the
exhibit will be Lincoln
documents from the library s
collections, the Gettysburg
Address .and the , Second
Inaugural Address, and a
portrait of the 16th President
never before exhibited. On
loan from the National Portrait
Gallery, which obtained it in
1973, the miniature portrait by
John Henry Brown
019-1891) is the first
painting from life made of
Lincoln. . It was commissioned
by Judge John M. Read of
Philadelphia and executed in
Springfield, Illinois, in five
sittings from August 14 to
August 25, 1860, the summer
of Lincoln's first campaign for
the Presidency. Lincoin wrote
of it on August 27: "The
miniature likeness of myself,
taken by your friend, J. Henry
Brown, is an excellent one, so
far as I can judge. To my
unpracticed eye, it is without
fault." -
The Uncoln Exhibit will
remain on view until April 30.
The Library s exhibiton halls
are open from 8:30 a.m. to
9:30 pan, Monday through
Friday and from 8:30 a jn. to 6
pjn. Saturday, Sunday and
holidays.
Univ. of f.1o. Gets 61 Great
INSTRUCTORS FROM 18 PREDOMINANTLY MINORITY INSTITUTIONS in North Carolina and
Virginia participated in the recent Self-instructional Material Workshop at the University of North.
Carolina at Chapel Hill. The two-day session, sponsored by the N. C. Health Manpower Development
Program, trained at the instructors in the development of competency-based health sciences
enrichment materials. Seated from left to right era: George H. Williams, N. C Central University ; Dr.
B. P. C. Sekhara Rao, Bennett College; Dr. Augustine O Icon k wo, Norfolk State University; Dr. Albert
Samuel, St Pauls College; Virginia K. Newell, Winston-Salem State University; nd Br on Skinner,
Health Sciences Consortium.
BRIDGEPORT, CONN. -The
University of
. Missouri-Rolla, Mo., has received
$3,750 from - the General
Electric Foundation . for
minority engineering
scholarships aimed at increasing
the number of minority
enrollees and graudates from its
engineering school.
William A. Orme. Foundation
Secretary, said that the grant is
part of an estimated $1,071,000
program set up by the
Foundation in 1975 to aid
disadvantaged, minority youth
In gaining an engineering
education.
The General Electric
Foundation is an independent
trusi established by the General
Electric Company in 1952.
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