TRANSYLVANIA'S
MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM
By - Dr. Joanna Byers
Consulting Psychologist
Sammy Starts To Second Grade
Mary Jane waved goodbye as Sammy
went happily off to school. She remembered
her fears and anxiety about Sammy starting to
school last year. A different boy went down
the walk today. As she went about her work
Mary Jane found a little persistent thought
returning, “what had Sammy learned last
year?”
She went to the box where she kept all the
mementos of important happenings in Sammy’s
life. She found his report card under a summer
swim class schedule and some decals of places
they had visited while on vacation. Sammy Mc
Iver. First Grade, Teacher: Miss Conway. The
Marks were all S’s for satisfactory and all of the
conduct places were checked as all right. The
teacher had written on the back: “Sammy was a
joy to have in class; enthusiastic, willing to help
others and anxious to learn.” As she sat and
looked at the card Mary Jane felt again the pride
and warmth she had experienced when Sammy
had brought the card home at the end of his first
year.
But back at work, she again thought
“what had Sammy learned?” Of course he
had started to learn to read. She had heard
him brageing to Johnnv that he was in the
third reader. And he had brought home pa
pers which showed he was learning to write
and to do some simple arithmetic. But what
was it that made Sammy a different Boy? She
shook her head in exasperation to shove away
the quick answer “he’s a year older!” It was
something else!
When Polly came over for coffee at ten
Mary Jane asked her about Johnny — was he a
different boy from last year?
“He sure is! Why he’s matured so much!
I thought we had a nrettv good group at home
—but that Johnny has shown us what it real
ly means to share with others! Why, this
summer he was the one who kept Jane and
Harry from getting into my hair! And on va
cation he was telling me what to look at!
Something happened to him this year and I’m
sure didn’t happen to Jane when she started
to school! Why did you ask?”
Marv Jane explained her concern about
what Sammy had learned in the first grade. May
be you’ve hit on one thing — sharing! How
could they learn that at school? Sammv is so
much more alive now — curious and anxious to
go on his own. He won’t let me help him so
much. Oh. my. he has learned much more than
reading and writing — hasn’t he?”
Pollv laughed. “Do von think school just
teaches them reading and writing? Wait ’til
you get one in the 4th grade who comes home
telling you what foods you ought to eat! And
a third grader who knows about sets and
groups when you don’t even know what those
words mean when it comes to arithmetic! Or
until you have a polywog under observation
to see it grow into a frog. Oh, yes! school
teaches much more than reading and writing!”
They sat and talked awhile and when Pol
ly left she looked back over her shoulder and
said, “Why don’t you look at yourself? What
did you teach Sammy in this past year?”
Marv Jane wen* through her day hum
ming a little tune. She had taught Sammy
many things. How many of these things show
ed when he went to school? She smiled to
herself as she ruefully said “Thank goodness
I don’t have to send a report on Sammy to his
teacher!” And she made the decision to talk
with Sammy’s second grade teacher when she
went to P.T.A. meeting. “I’ll ask her what
kind of report she’d give me on what Sammy
learn at home! This might just start a whole
new trend. F
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September 13
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Monday, September I3th, at
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All parents and interested
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County Schools office, will be
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The Children's ^Bookshelf
-By
DR. JOSEPHINE J. CURTO,
From a recent interview with
an editor of children’s books
and from my own observations
at little theatre, summer stock,
and Broadway productions, it
is apparent that children and
young adults are becoming in
creasingly more interested in
drama and the theatre. And
publishers, well aware of the
growing interest, are making
available to young readers, as
piring to a career in theatre or
just interested in amateur pro
ductions, numerous collections
of plays, manuals on acting, and
guidebooks for producing all
kinds of shows from serious
drama to backyard circuses.
A book that will satisfy the
whim of any would-be student
of theatre — be it acting, read
ing for pleasure, or building
flats — is “Teen Theatre”, a
multi - purpose manual that
investigates every phase of the
theatrical world, by Edwin and
Nathalie Gross (McGraw-Hill).
The first half of this clearly
written and liberally - illustrat
ed guide is devoted to play
production: directing, acting,
building scenery, selecting
props, creating special lighting
and sound effects, and financing
the production. Such terms as
business, cue, blocking, tease,,
and many more are so clearly
and lucidly explained that they
will become a part of the young
drama student’s vocabulary.
The second half of this guide
anthology includes six royalty
free, one-act plays, each suit
able for adapting to the regu
lar stage or to a backyard plat
form stage. For each of these
plays, all of which are designed
to permit the young director
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