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Herald Gift Shop Open Til 9 p.m Thursday, Friday And Saturday 1-6 p.m. Sunday Tuesday 20^ VOLUME 93, NUMBER 79 TUESDAY. DECEMBER 9, 1980 KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA LD Program Doesn’t Let Children Fall Through By ELIZABETH STEWART Co-Editor Jane Shields, co-ordinator of the Exceptional Children’s Pro gram in the Schools which reach 8S0 students, credits the success of the program to “a real team effort which doesn’t let the kids fall through". Ms. Shields directs a team of 30 teachers and aides and modestly gives a lot of credit to her associates who are just as dedicated as their leader in help ing both the gifted, talented and the learning-disabled in targeting their needs. Not only are the teachers im portant to the success of the pro gram, but the parents and counselors discuss what the students make on tests and a diagnostic-prescriptive approach is used to identify the student’s strengths and ne^ and an in dividual program is written for the child. More positive proof of the success, of the Learning- Disabilities Program is that IS of her KMHS students took the competency test and nine of them passed. First Of Two Parts High marks on the whole pro ject were given by an inspection team recently from the State Department of Instruction who suggested that the Kings Moun tain program may be considered as a demonstration site. The evaluation team gave high marks for high degree of involvement from top administrative levels to the classroom, noting that the program was well organized the staff well informed, the ad ministration supportive, and the students receptive. A visitation procedure was suggested for other school districts to observe the program in action. Ms. Shields loves her job and never does it half-way, according to her staff. Regular monthly staff meetings are scheduled and the team attends conferences to learn newer approaches and ideas for implementation. A native of Franklin, Ms. Shields taught in the classroom for nine years and worked with the State Regional Center, 4?-' m ■m I ’■> Photo by Lib Stowort LD CO-ORDINATOR—Ion* Shiolds is coordinator of tbs Ex- coptional Childrsn's Program in Kings Mountain, which got high marks rscsntly from a stats inspsction and evaluation team. The program tcagets the needs of gifted, talented, and learning-disabled. Depanment of Instruction, in Albemarle for 18 months before returning to Kings Mountain to direct the Exceptional Children’s Program two years ago. It was while she was working at the Albemarle office that Jane took a harder look at the overall pro gram and helped write a Title 4-C project which received state funding and is underway and was initiated in the system here this year. The program, which is underway at Central School, KM Junior High and KMSHS, is an adaptation of Oklahoma Secondaiy LD which is a na tionally validated project of the National Diffusion Network. The subtitle of the project “Alternate Paths of Learning” emphasizes the possibility for success of secondary students with learning disabilities. The Components of the pro gram include; A resource room professional ly staffed by a learning disabilities instructor. A diagnostic-prescriptive ap proach to identifying the students strengths and needs. A multi-media library with a variety of materials specifically selected for secondary teaming disabled adolescents. An individualized affective development program designed to ameliorate social-emotional blocks to learning, typical for secondary learning disabled students. Jane says the component parts and objectives of the project should provide great assistance in raising the grade equivalencies of students in the program. Counseling for individual students is provided, in-service workshops in learning disabilities have been held for classroom teachers and special teachers, and materials appropriate for LD students are being utilized in the regular classroom as well as the resource class. The resource teacher acts as a consultant to the classroom teacher in pro viding appropriate techniques and materials to create a suc cessful program. During a training session con ducted by the Secondary Learn ing Disabilities staff of Cushing, Oklahoma, the teachers and ad ministrators involved learned methods to enhance self-image skills; learned remedial, compen satory, and adaptive techniques to enhance the learning proces; (Turn To Pag* 9) ':S\k I ~ ; m LEAN YOUR EAR - Shan* AlUn. l*ft. and Colvin Stll*B mov* in clo** to whiap*r into Santa's *ar and toll him som* of th* things Photo by Gary Stowart th*y want for Christmas this y*ar. Th* two Kings Mountoin yo\mgst*rs com*r*d th* lolly Old Mon at CottUtown U.SJL Starts At 3:30 Grover Parade Friday The Town of Grover and Grover Lions Club is sponsoring what may be one of its biggest Christmas parades ever, on next Friday, Dec. 12, at 3:30 p.m. More than 84 units are ex pected to participate in the parade, including seven bands, a dozen floats, and numerous beauty queens culminated with the appearance of Santa Claus. Clyde (Cloudy) McClain, WBTV Weatherman, will serve as grand marshal of the festivities. Units will line up at Linden and Maple Avenue, near Grover Industries. The parade route will commence at Laurel and Linden Avenue, proceed to Main Street, turn left and proceed down 226 around Cleveland Avenue to First Baptist Church and dis band. Grover Commissioner Quay Moss is general chairman and other members of the committee are Town Clerk Gloria Horton, Commissioner Martha Byers, Sue Keeter, Ethel Crocker, Nor ma Cissel and Judy White. Entries are still invited to par ticipate and persons should call Mrs. Horton at the Town Office, 937-9986. The American Legion’s Drum and Bugle Corps, Rambling Rebels of Gastonia, Crest High School Band, Clover High School Band, Kings Mountain High School Band, Blacksburg, S.C. High School Band, Salisbury High School Band and Chesnee High School Band are among parade entries, in addi tion to Carowinds Charaaers from Radio Station WFGN, Gaffney, a Duke’s of Hazzard car, a Gyrocopter, antique cars, including a 1923 T-model Ford, beauty queens from a wide area, and Kings Mountain, Grover and town county officials, among a long list of dignitaries. Larry McDaniel Named Fireman Of The Year Story And Photo By Gary Stewart Larry McDaniel was honored as Bethlehem Volunteer Fire Department’s Fireman of the Year at the department’s annual Christmas dinner Saturday night The eight-year veteran was voted the honor by his fellow firemen. Chief Don Graham, last year’s winner, presented the award. “The only thing I can say is that this award could have gone to any of 30 people,” McDaniel said. ‘That’s how many firemen we have and all of them do a super job.” McDaniel, who is employed by Foote Mineral, serves as a training officer and helps main tain the vehicles in addtion to the regular duties of fighting fires. He was a volunteer with the Grover and Kings Mountain fire departments and the Grover Rescue Squad prior to joining Bethlehem. “Larry is a great asset to the department,” commented Chief Graham. “He has done a tremen dous job and the department would be at a great loss without him. I’ve never known him to refuse to do anything.” McDaniel is a mason and assistant Sunday School teacher at Patterson Grove Baptist Church. He is m^ied to the former Ann Putnam and they have three children, Lee, Cale and Kimberly. Rev. Russell Fitts, former pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church and a former member of the Bethlehem Fire Department, was guest speaker for the ban quet, which was well-attended by firemen, members of the BVFD Ladies Auxiliary and other guests. Chief Graham recognized several new members, including Elaine Hullender Dixon, John Barber and Bill Hannah, and junior firemen Trent Hullender, Chris Brown, Scott Waters, Nor man Hope and Kevin Roberts. The department, he reported, has made 101 calls thus far dur ing 1980, with 1,092 men responding. With a membership of 30, Graham said the depart ment averaged having over one- third of its members at every fire. Officers for 1981 include Graham, Chief; McDaniel, Assistant Chief; Joe Speight, Se cond Assistant Chief; Rev. Sam Murphy, Chaplain; Don Sellers, Secretary; and Harold Farris, Treasurer. Francis Lail was re-elected president of the Ladies Auxiliary for the third straight year. She recognized two new members, Ann Bumgardner and Helen Roberts. FIREMAN OF YEAR-Larry McDonl*!, l*it. *lght-y*ar v*t*ran with B*thl*h*m Volunt**r Fir* D*partm*nt, Is pr*s*nt*d th* BVFD Flr*man of th* Y*ar Awcad from Chl*f Don Photo by Gary Stowort Graham at Saturday night's onnual Christmas dlnnor at th* Hr* d*portm*nt McDanl*! was Tot*d th* honor by Us follow flromon.
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