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THE Yancey Schools In Screening Program asset to our teachers and ad ministrators here in providing quality education for all our students. We are grateful to those recommending the Yan cey County Schools for the $25,000 grant to carry out the screening program, to Ms. Paula Mae Higgins, Principal at Burnsville Elementary School for allowing her school to be used as the centralized screening site, and to Edgar Hunter, Superintendent, prin cipals, Board of Education members, Trade and In dustries Department, Health Occupations Department, test administrators and K-1 teachers, for their support and cooperation in helping make the screening program a suc- BETTY ROBINSON and Brenda Fox, kin dergarten teachers at MicaviUe, screen a student with visual tests. The Public is Corid ally Invited to an OPEN HOUSE Date: Nov. 30,1980 Time: 3-5 P.M. Charles Aldridge, Jr., \ O.D. 3 Town Square Burnsville, NC 28714} Phone 682-2104 SHARON GEOUGE, teacher of exceptional children at South Toe, tests a student in the area of mathematics processes. ABOVE RIGHT: Mary Lou McCurry, elementary school media coor dinator for Yancey Schools, tests a student in tactile discrimination. The student is asked to identify objects she cannot see by using her sense of touch. ABOVE CENTER: Janet Banks, teacher of exceptional children at Burnsville School, screens student for motor coordination. ABOVE LEFT: Beth Lackey, school physical therapist and Marsha McKinney, kindergarten teacher at Burnsville School,'’check student for muscle strength. Bluegrass/ Country Music Event Tri County's own Barbara Belinda English returns with her two sons, who make up the second generation, to play in concert for the Newdale Fire Department at MicaviUe School on November 15, 7:30 p.m. The music wiU be Bluegrass, Country and Gospel, with AUen, 16, on the banjo and Greg, 11, on the guiter. Greg, who has been on the Hee Haw Show on TV, is 3 years winner on the guitar. Barbara says, “TeU aU my friends in Yancey, Mitchell and Avery counties to come and see me and say Howdy again, meet my sons and shake hands!” Also featured at the event is one of the best Bluegrass ban ds in McDoweU and Yancey County-Denver Norris on the banjo and guitar and one of the top female banjo pickers, Robin Crowder, another second generation of Edith Robinson now with her children. This is one of the best shows to come this way. Come on out and see two great bands for the price of one-Charter Oak Bluegrass and the English Family. Admission is $2.50 and remember the date, Saturday, November 15, 7:30 p.m. at MicaviUe school. In-Plant Training The Continuing Education Department of Mayland Technical CoUege is conduc ting an In-Plant Training Program for Robinson and Associates of Spruce Pine. This is the first program the Department has ever conduc ted. Robinson and Associates is a Mapping Company which contracts with counties and municipalities to place par cels of land on maps with sup portive data to satisfy tax structures and other requirements. Know-How Becoming Essential Computer Age Is Here Americans may find them selves branded as functionaUy iUiterate some time in the future, even though they can read and write, if they can’t operate a computer. Within a few years it wiU be necessary to be able to program and operate a small electronic computer in order to get and hold a job, a number of scientists and technicians warn. Arthur Luehrmann, com puter-research director of the University of California says computer iUiteracy coiUd become a national headache by the end of this decade. “We wUl need 40 million persons able to use computers by 1990 and I don’t know who is going to teach them,” he war ned. The world of the computer has changed so radicaUy that the electronic marvel now is affordable for aU institutions, businesses and individuals, but the thinking about it in many of the educational systems has not changed. Too many educators still think of the computer as a scarce resource whose use must be rationed. “The day will come when we will need to have a computer sciences department in every grade school,” said Edward W. W.4nnshuis, publisher of the magazine. Technical Horizons in Education. Wamshuis said Dr. Sylvia Charp proved in a program in Philadelphia schools that computer literacy can be achieved in grade school. But school administrators still are loathe to spend money on computer training and in any event Dr. Warmshuis wasn’t hopeful about solving the problem in schools because he said most persons capable of teaching computer skills already are employed in the business world. This means. Warmshuis said, that “for the foreseeable future, business is going to have to solve its computer literacy problem itself.” Luehrmann agreed with that and added that with the prospect of 10 million com puters of all sizes being in use as early as 1985, the task of training people to program, operate and service them looks staggering. Since business will do a large part of the training job it needs computers that are in effect self-teaching, says Chairman George Ryan of CADO Systems Corporation. Working with Phoenix Per formance Systems of St. Paul, CADO developed a system of interactive self-teaching programs for its little com puters in such functions as work processing, which means operating automatic typewriting and data storage and retrieval banks, and general, payroll, and inven tory accounting. These programs were tested on many persons, including two groups of high school students not previously ex posed to the computer. Ryan said the results were astoun ding. The kids mastered each course in an average of four hours. Although it will take a huge national effort, computer illiteracy can be averted and will have to be if young people hope to compete in the job market. “The person who can use a small computer can command a far better salary than per sons burdened by computer illiteracy,” Luehrmann said, “because their productivity is so much greater than o^er workers with similar background and education.” Recognizing some of these present and future needs, Mayland Technical College of fers courses in computer programming designed to in troduce people to this in teresting new field. In addition plans are being made which will enable students to take programming courses on an individual study basis so that they can take courses at a time convenient to them. Per sons interested in the com puter field' should contact Jerry Cox, Mayland Technical CoUege, 765-7351. RESERVE THE FEED ROOM For Your Holiday Party. Taking Reservations for Private Parties. 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