MR. and MRS. CYRUS JOHNSON
The Johnsons Return
From Foreign Service
Individual initiative is a
pronounced trait among the
people of the barriadas of
Lima, Peru, according to one
American sociologist.
Cyrus Johnson, who will
teach sociology at Guilford
College, North Carolina, has
just returned from two years
working for the American
Friends Service Committee in
Pamplona Alta, one of the
barriadas.
"When we first arrived
there were only two or three
of the residents who had solid
houses," Cyrus Johnson said.
"Most of them lived in dwell
ings of estero mats. "When
we left, there were four or
five hundred brick and cin
derblock homes. The people
did this for themselves. Our
presence may have speeded
up the process a bit, but it
would have happened any
way.
Almost 50 percent of the
people are peddlers, accord- |
Ing to Johnson, and earned 1
money for their new homes
by door-to-door sales. Often
they bought a bit of building '
equipment, bricks or metal,
and let it sit in front of their
temporary houses while they
waited to accumulate more.
"Once these people have
their houses built they are
ready to go on to other
thingst" Johnson said. "In
Pamplona Alta, the people
built a six-room school house
with our help. I cut my finger 1
breaking a bottle of cham- '
pagne on the flag pole the
day we inaugurated the new
school."
"Sewage and water are the
tough problems." Johnson
said. "Right now the people
of Pamplona Alta are grap
pling with the water prob
lem."
Different barriadas are in
different stages of develops
ment. and organizations such
as the AFSC must tailor their
programs to meet the specific
needs of the people. Johnson
said. Some of the poorer bar
riadas are so overwhelmed
with their problems that
initiative of the sort described
here is not possible.
The AFSC has been in
Lima since 1963. Before the
building of the school, the
Quaker staff helped the
women establish a sewing
cooperative, which is still
operating, and the men a bed
frame business. They also
helped to supply teachers for
a makeshift school.
Before going to Lima,
Cyrus Johnson taught at the
Department of Sociology of
the University of Kentucky,
in Lexington. He is married
to the former Lynn Batton,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.
A. Batton of Route 4, Louis
burg, North Carolina. The
Johnsons have three children,
Cyrus Jr., 14, Beth, 15, and
Mary Ellen, sixteen months.
Thanks
We would like to express
our appreciation to Dr.
Thomas 0. Wheless, Dr. John j
Lloyd, Dr. Jimmie Wheless !
and to the nurses and staff of
second floor of Franklin
Memorial Hospital. Also to
the special nurses who render
ed their services so faithfully
during his illness. Also to
Joyce Wynn for the beautiful (
flowers. To our many friends,
relatives, for visits, flowers, i
food, and prayers. For any I
act of kindness during our I
sorrow. We will always cher
rish these memories and may
God bless you all.
The family of Jessie C. Fuller
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Suitor-Yes, sir; I've a plan
where you can save money.
Father -All right, son; take
her and be good to her.
Slanderous Silence
'That woman is a con
temptible gossip even when
she holds her tongue."
"How can that be?"
"She can say nothing in a
manner that leaves nothing
unsaid." '
Commission Finds Small High Schools
Cheat Many North Carolina Youngsters
An investigation by the
Governor's Study Commis
sion on Public Schools has
found the small high school
which abounds in the small
communities and rural sec
tions of the State -to be one
of the main deterrents to
progress in North Carolina.
The widespread existence
of small high schools, which
have little to offer any but a
few students, is one of the
most unsettling findings by a
special subcommittee which
looked into the State's high
schools.
The subcommittee has re
ported that the "comprehen
sive high school"-which pro
vides enough different type
courses to give every young
ster a fair chance to develop
his individual abilities--"!* not
now a reality in North Caro
lina."
The talents of many North
Carolina youngsters in small
communities are now being
neglected or discounted by
schools too small to pay at
tention to the student who
needs business or industrial
education, the subcommittee
found.
"Our study reveals only 76
of the 735 schools serving
high school age students have
a general comprehensive high
school program," the report
??ys. "By and large, North
Carolina has small, specialized
college preparatory high
schools."
Tragically, most of these
small high schools are in small
or rural communities where
students are least likely to go
to college, one member of the
subcommittee said.
Consequently, many stu
dents who are getting little
out of high school that will
help them in future life, be
come discouraged or disin
terested and drop out. The
subcommittee found a defi
nite link between those high
schools without comprehen
sive programs and high drop
out rates.
Some of these youngsters
find the education they
couldn't get in high school in
community colleges or tech
nical institutes. Other com
mittees of thp commission
found re^atec instance; of
community colleges and tech
nical institutes assuming the
responsibilities high schools
had failed to meet.
The failure of these high
schools to prepare none but
the college-bound for life
contributes to statistics which
rank North Carolina low in
terms of educational achieve
ment.
Forty-five per cent of this
State's students drop out be
fore graduation. According to
the latest census, the median
school years completed by
persons 25 or older in North
Carolina was 9.8 for whites
and 7.0 for non-whites. North
Carolina tied Arkansas and
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In 1966, 24.8 per cent of
North Carolina's draftees fail
ed the preinduction and in
duction mental tests. North
Carolina ranked in 46th posi
tion among the 50 states.
Research Indicates that
few. if any. schools with less
than 750 students in grades
10, 11 and 12 are large
enough to support a compre
hensive program.
Consolidation has solved
the problem of inadequate,
small high schools in many
North Carolina communities.
The Commission, which
will deliver its full report on
the changes needed in the
State's schools to Governor
Dan Moore sometime in No
vember, is considering the in
clusion of a strong recom
mendation to the State Board
of Education, asking the
Board's support and en
couragement of consolidation
of small high schools not now
providing comprehensive pro
grams.
The curriculum areas a
comprehensive high school
offers include business educa
tion, foreign languages, distri
butive education, English lan
guage arts, fine arts, home
economics, industrial arts,
mathematics, natural
sciences, physical education
health-safety, social sciences,
and trade, agricultural, and
technical education.
The subcommittee says
size and curriculum alone do
not make a comprehensive
high school.
A comprehensive high
school must also have special
ists and counselors to diag
nose the individual student's
potential abilities and guide
him into the proper program
of courses.
The subcommittee has sug
gested that where necessary
even county lines be disre
garded in gathering enough
students into a single school
district to provide for crea
tion of a comprehensive high
school.
Where distance or other
factors make it impossible to
consolidate a small, inade
quate high school, the sub
committee suggests the Com
mission recommend special
provisions-such as television,
radio, and telephone com
munication, programmed in
struction and boarding
schools-be made available to
help compensate f?r program
deficiencies.
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Notice
(FRK. B.W.) The Ladies
Willing Worker's Bank of the
Frankiinton Church of God
will sell barbeque chicken
plates Saturday, August 10
from 11:30 to 4 P.M. at the
Frankiinton Community
House.
The public is urged to re- i
member this sale.
Thanks
To Nurses on third floor, j
Franklin Memorial Hospital,
the doctors and friends who
remembered me with cards. (
flowers and visits during my .
recent illness.
1 shall always remember I
each of you.
Mrs. Olia Lambert j
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pillows, and painted cabinet.
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