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by BARBARA KNIGHT
CR5-6305
As ! promised here is question
No. 2 - What do you believe each
teacher should accomplish'? Is it
possible for teachers to "just
teach?" Can they present certain
material, explain process, give
tests and grade that child on work
completed, no matter what his
potential?
Some people do not adhere to
the idea that part of a teacher's
job is to delve into a child's
homelife to try and help parents
solve the problem. Others feel
teachers should not only be
counselors but an extension of
the parent's hand in deciding
what is best for the individual
child.
Another line of reasoning
believes a qualified teacher,
though realizing the child's
problem and the possibility of
this problem preventing him
learning to his fullest capacity,
still should not enter that child's
personal life or try to help him or
his parents make moral decisions.
Teachers usually become
aware of the early signs of failure
and probable drop out. Teachers
in first through third grades feel
him slipping and by the fourth,
when abstract concepts of
arithmetic and reading are
presented he fails even further.
By the eighth, he may be as
many as three grades behind, his
mind is now closed and his
behavior, rebellious.
Who's to blame - or better
still - what can be done to
prevent this?
Educators discuss the
possibilities of starting prevention
before the child is exposed to
school pressures. On this basis,
such programs as "Head Start"
began, and yet, we as parents
often resent that these same
"aides" are pushing our children
into situations which are taking so
much of our tax dollars.
The teaching profession has
changed to include what we as
parents seemed to ask for years
previous; individual training based
on what each child's potential
might be. Educators found a way
to accomplish this, but as with
everything, betterment costs
money.
It would be nice to dismiss
these "up grading" decisions on
the basis of not wanting
"fringes," of only wanting the
basics taught; but again, its a
personal decision on what we
expect from our teachers. The
very best new and better
methods, or settling for just
enough to "get them by"? Only
problem here is, every year these
decisions effect at least two
classes of children. The ones
starting school and the ones
leaving.
Teachers being human, with
human fallacies, can only give
what each is capable of giving.
Administrators can only advise
the school board of the Districts'
needs. The school board must
make its decision from the
pressure applied by the
community. So, as a community,
what type of education do we
wish our teachers to teach?
I hope you people don't think
I'm doing all this by myself; I
have another woman working
with me on this, but she doesn't
want me to put her name in.
The Ladies Auxiliary finished
painting the meeting room of the
Allyn Fire hall and it really looks
nice and clean. The Auxiliary
meets every 2nd and 4th Monday
of each month. Newcomers are
always welcome.
Mac and Alta MacKay,
formerly of Victor, now live in
Chico, California and send
everyone their holiday greeting.
Well, that's it for this week
folks, except Merry Christmas
from me to you.
Everyone tells me this is the
season to be jolly, but with a
bunch of sick kids around it's
kind of hard to be just that.
Almost everyone I've talked to
recently is complaining that they
have at least one child home from
school sick.
If this column seems kind of
short this week, it's because I
have a sick baby and wasn't able
to contact as many people as I
should.
i really goofed in last week's
column. This notice was supposed
to come out in the previous paper
but 1 didn't get it in. Anyway, the
Allyn Baptist Mission held their
Christmas program on December
19th in the basement of the Allyn
School at 7:30 p.m. Sorry about
that, people, you can get mad at
me,but please give me your news
STOVE AND DIESEL SALF-Jt
AUTOMATIC DELIVERY
BUDGET TERMS
XI1LJUmlC
P.O. Box 566, BELFAIR. WA. g8526
TEL. CR 5-6688
BOB MAESN ER
TOM HAN LEY
Greeting Drawn by.Duane McKnight
5th Grade
CADY REALTY
AND
and I'll try to do better next time.
The Allyn-Victor Ladies
Auxiliary is sponsoring a New
Year's Eve dance at the Victor
Hall from I0:00 p.m. till 2 a.m.
with live music. Dinner will be
served at midnight. They told me
that they promise the people that
the hall will be above freezing, in
fact it will be warm. For
reservations call Jackie Engman
CR5-2259 or Lois Burke
CR5-6602.
The Robert Maesners went to
Hawaii last week. In fact they left
on the plane which brought the
Robert Newmans home. Lois said
they had a ball. It's really
beautiful over there. She
commented that the thing which
impressed her the most was the
different shades of blue in the
water.
Emil and Mildred Gaetana are
feeding some little ones this
winter. They have a mother and
baby racoon who come begging
from them almost every day. Last
winter the mother would eat
peanut butter sandwiches but
she's more picky this year. They
tried fruit, bread, cake, cookies,
etc.
Debbie Knowles celebrated
her 7th birthday December 13,
with a party and dinner guests.
Mr. and Mrs. Pat Ruff, Alyson
and Brian were her guests. Happy
belated birthday, Debbie.
The Allyn Birthday Club met
at Vera lzett's home Dec. 15 for
their annual pot luck Christmas
party. Vera had her house all
decorated for the season. The
ladies welcomed Sigrid Allen as a
new member. They exchanged
gifts and drew names for the
Birthday gifts for next year.
Thelma Wyllys, formerly of
Victor, is leaving on a tour of
Japan, Hong Kong and the
PhiUipines. She will be gone about
6 weeks. I hope i can get her to
tell us some of her adventures.
Mr. and Mrs. Crow have
returned to Victor after a stay in
California.
Friends of Esther and Ronald
Shepherd will be happy to learn
they are enjoying the winter in
their mobile home at Fallbrook,
California. The Shepherd's lived
in Allyn many years and built the
Sherwood beach Motel.
If you or someone you know
has not registered to vote, you
better do it now. The books will
close again the 8th of January.
Mrs. Laura Knoell has been
recovering from a series of heart
attacks and can now have visitors.
She is staying at their home in
Tacoma.
MAILBOX DAMAGE
Anyone who might have seen
or heard vandals attacking
mailboxes and paper boxes at
various locations along Highway 3
and the Allyn-Victor highway,
both south and north of Allyn,
the night of December 15 are
asked to contact the Belfair
Sheriff's office. Residents at both
ends of town complained of
vandalism to their boxes.
GLASSES LOST
A pair of child's glasses, blue
in color, were reported lost in the
Belfair area sometime around
Thanksgiving according to a
complaint received by the local
Sheriff's office last week.
Page 12 - Huckleberry Herald section of Shelton-Mason County Journal - December 23, 1971
Next to PUD Building At Belfair
4 x 4 Parts and Accessories
9 to 9 Weekdays and Saturdays 9 to 2
CR5-3133
CR5-2174
Sunday Emergencies
Greeting Drawn by Ernest Beeson
5th Grade
BELFAIR TV
Greeting Drawn by Mark Nelson
5th Grade
" BELFAIR SERVICES
Frank DeMiero
Drawn by Dana Petrick~t
5th
BELFAIR DRUG
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With any luck at all I should have my Christmas cards ready for
mailing early next week and my shopping completed by the tenth.
We plan to spend Christmas Eve at home with the immediate
family, then drive to Seattle on Christmas Day for a big family
gathering at my sister Nan's home. We drew names among the adults at
Thanksgiving time, including our two Ethiopian friends who will join us
for the day, so that everyone will have one present to open.
So many readers have joined the Herald since the following column
was published my first Christmas as editor that I hope the "oldtimers"
won't mind my running it again. In the time saved 1 may be able to get
a few more cards addressed.
May I wish each and every one of you a very, very happy Christmas.
Reprinted from Huckleberry Herald December 17, 1969.
Adding or subtracting names from my Christmas card list always
reminds me of the last Christmas before 1 was married when adding a
name at the last minute caused me no end of trouble.
I had planned to spend a month with friends in Mexico: Christmas
in Mexico City and Acapulco for New Years. Just before 1 left, Bert,
my sister's fiancee, casually remarked that he had certainly found a nice
card to send to me, whereupon I realized that 1 didn't have his name on
my list. So I looked up his address and added it at the last minute.
After all, if he was nice enough to send me a card I should reciprocate.
One of the first things I did upon arrival was hunt out some cute
Mexican Christmas cards and got them in the mail, including one for
Bert.
A few days before Christmas, included in my mail, was a card that
simply said "Seasons Greetings" on the outside. On the inside, under a
very brief message, a printed line reading "Ben Bridge Jewelers" had
been scratched out and "Bert" was written under it.
A used Christmas card! This was the nice card 1 had been waiting
for! 1 couldn't let him get away with that.
I finally thought of a good way to get even. One of my dates had
talked me into biting into a green chili one night and it had taken about
an hour for my head to rejoin my body. I would smuggle two of these
HOT peppers in my coin purse when I returned home and somehow get
Bert to bite into them without knowing about them.
So one night shortly after I'd returned home, when Bert was at our
house, I casually asked him if he'd like a sandwich. Usually he didn't
wait to be asked, he just helped himself, so I knew he'd say "yes"
which he did.
I came out of the kitchen with a delicious looking cheese sandwich,
in which I had hidden one full pepper in each half. He took a bite and
then another and 1 waited. He took another and another and finally
both halves were gone; he smacked his lips and said "That was certainly
a delicious sandwich." How was I to know that the hotter the food, the
better he liked it?
I didn't give up, I had to think of some other way to get even.
I worked only two doors from Ben Bridge Jewelers. I knew Bert
had bought my sister's rings there because he had gone to high school
with Ben's son Herb, who worked there. So on my lunch hour I went
over and asked for Herb. 1 told him of Bert's trick and outlined a plan
of revenge I had worked out and he agreed to co-operate by giving me a
blank bill and envelope with their name on it.
It took them back to the office and typed a statement:
One used Christmas card .25
Unauthorized use of same 300.00
Total 300.25
and mailed it to Bert.
He was going to college on a very limited budget at the time; hewas
having a rough time just making the ring payments so 1 hoped that an
additional payment would scare him.
It worked. For a few panicky moments after opening the bill he
thought "What have 1 done?" Then he said it occured to him to wonder
how the jeweler would know what he had done with their Christmas
card and he figured out who had really sent the bill. But 1 had him
scared for a few minutes there.
GIFT IDEA
Copies of "Passing Fancies",
containing the prose and poetry
of Jan Danford of the Shelton
Journal staff, are available at the
Herald office in Belfair. Selling
for $1.95 a copy, the little books
make ideal Christmas gifts or
stocking stuffers.
ALUMNI BASKETBALL
An Alumni basketball game
has been scheduled at North
Mason High School for 8 p.m.
Monday, December 27. Any
Varsity alumnus interested in
playing may contact Perry
Hedstrom, TR6-5238 after 7 p.m.
Section of the Shelton-
Mason County Journal
Thursday, December 23, 1971
SANTA CLAUS visited the potluck dinner and Christmas party at the Allyn
firehall last Sunday to hand out presents to firemen from Allyn and Victor
and their families.
Gr. Port residents
object to budget item
About thirty people turned
up at last Friday afternoon's
meeting of the Grapeview Port
Commission but the one person,
for whom the meeting had been
scheduled in the afternoon
instead of evening because he had
said that was the only time he
could make it, did not show up.
That was the attorney for the
Commission, County Prosecutor
Byron McClanahan. Answers to
several questions asked the board
having to do with legal issues
could not be given by Board
members.
Approval of the 1972 budget,
purpose of the meeting, was
withheld by Commissioners until
after they meet with County
Auditor Ruth Boysen. Objections
were raised by members of the
audience to a $15,000 item in the
planned budget earmarked for
new construction.
The Board is not asking for
any millage for the Port District
next year.
GLASSES FOUND
A pair of bifocal glasses in a
case, found along the Old Belfair
Highway, has been turned into
the local Sheriff's office.
North Meson School levy to
appear on
Residents of North Mason
School district will be asked to
vote on a school levy on Feb. 8, a
date recommended by the
Citizen's Committee to co-incide
with school elections in
neighboring districts, but the
amount of the levy will not be
determined until the January 10
meeting of the school board.
A preliminary Mini-Budget
estimate presented to the Board
by Superintendent of Schools
Norm Sanders, if approved as the
final budget, would call for
$154,240 above estimated income
in the 1972-73 school year. His
proposal included no funds for
additional personnel or services
over this year's budget, nor any
money for a cash reserve which he
would like to see included.
Requests from the North
Mason Education Assoc., the two
principals and the superintendent
were received by the Board for
consideration to be included in
next year's budget.
Dick Burrell, speaking for the
NMEA, reaffirmed that group's
demand that an additional
elementary school principal be
hired, and suggested that it be
done whether the levy passes or
February 8
not.
He also called for adding a
district resource supervisor,
providing all teachers at all grade
levels with a planning period
during the school day, a district
athletic director, and an effort to
establish an elementary school
fine arts program.
Elementary school principal
Ken Anderson asked for added
library staff and one more teacher
at his level, music and arts and
expanded extra-curricular
activities at the Elementary level,
more aides in all school buildings,
and more resources for individual
instruction. He also called for an
end to elimination of kindergarten
when a levy fails.
High school principal Ralph
Lackey asked for two more
teachers, a full-time librarian, an
additional special education
teacher, purchase of an offset
press and added media for
individual instruction.
Sanders told the board an
additional custodian and another
secretary are needed, and said the
district transportation picture
suggests the need for an extra
$31,000 in the 1972-73 school
year.