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Butterflies of Israel and the emblem of Tel Aviv are depicted
on new postage stamps announced by the Israeli Ministry of Posts,
Jerusalem. The butterfly stamps are multicolored. The green emblem
stamp is the fourth in a series of emblems of Israel's cities and towns.
`Teaching Retarded Child' Explains
How 'Teacher-Mom' Volunteer Force
Solves Problem of Retarded Youths
Major on the agenda of Amer-
ican educational problems is the
one involving the retarded, the
emotionally affected, the unfor-
tunate who have been afflicted by
birth injuries.
While many approaches have
been made to the problem, the
most interesting one is in Elmont,
N.Y., in whose school system a
"teacher-mom" plan has evolved
where mothers serve as volunteers
and the emotionally ill children
are provided necessary guidance.
It has been indicated that a
one-for-one teaching plan often
is needed to prOvide a single
teacher for a single child suffer-
ing an affliction. Since that is
prohibitive, the teacher-mom plan
in Elmont provided the extra care
that contributes towards aiding in
this educational problem.
This second career for moth-
ers in the "teacher-mom" classi-
fication has won recognition
from the American Psychiatric
Association whose Silver Award
recently went to the Elmont
school systemfor the new
mother volunteer help.
The manner in which the El-
mont plan works is described in
an impressive book, "Teaching the
Troubled Child," by Drs. George
T. Donahue and Sol Nichten, the
assistant supervising principal of
the Elmont schools and a child
psychiatrist, respectively, published
by the Free Press, a division of
the Macmillan Co.
The "teacher-mom" plan in El;
mont is now in its eighth year,
having begun in 1959 when that
community's educators began to
cope with the problem of how to
teach the seriously troubled child.
It is pointed out in the Donahue-
Nichtern volume that half a mil-
lion American children of school
age are emotionally unable to
adjust to the public school class-
room.
Dr. Donahue states that the
practice hitherto resorted to of
establishing separate school sys-
tems for such children has been
unworkable. The part-time care
for such children provided by
various agencies also is considered
unworkable.
Because of high costs and lim-
ited professional staffs, Dr. Nich-
tern said residential care can help
but a few.
The two authors call the El-
mont solution "simple and rev-
olutionary. The school system
would recruit a corps of women
successful in their own child
rearing prattices, • as evidenced
by their own healthy children.
These mothers would be added
as -a fourth member to the team
of educator, psychologist,
psychiatrist. Thus the non-pro-
fessional would become a part
of the professionally trained
team. Her responsibility as
leacher-mom' would be to con-
duct the educational and emo•
tional program as prescribed
by the professional members."
The two authors of this valuable
work maintain that the troubled
child can be taught within - the
school system if existing corn-
munity resources are mobilized.
In their review of the over-all
problem, Drs. Donahue and Nich-
tern; - refer to efforts 03 other coun-
47• a a
Aliyah program in Israel and the
work that was pursued by Hen-
rietta Szold with "motherliness
and abiding love." This means of
youth, "combining the
resources and talents of the com-
munity, plus the professional," is
highly praised for the efficient
manner in which 90,000 children
had been rescued from 72 coun-
tries, starting with the inaugura-
tion of Youth Aliyah by the Ger-
man Zionist leader, Recha Freiter,
in 1932.
In Elmont, six children of
6 to 8 comprised the original
group in the introduced new
program of school aid. Up to 11
children were accommodated at
any one time. Now 31 children
are included in the project,
and 21 have successfully re-
turned to their regular class-
rooms. In their tributes to the
volunteer women, the authors
state: "In religious background
there are Protestants, Catholics
and Jews among the teacher-
moms. Perhaps in religious
belief lies a part of their motiva-
tion. Surely a common de-
nominator among the three is
belief in the integrity of the
individual and charity for
neighbor. The authors claim no
extraordinary influence with the
Good Lord but they can't help
feeling that, if there is a Here-
after, the contribution of these
women will not go unnoticed,
or unrewarded."
Dr. Donahue said that 10 more
Elmont-like programs are now be-
ginning their second or first years
in the United States and Canada.
Aided by a grant from the Na-
tional Institute of Mental Health,
he worked directly with the pro-
grams in Superior, Wis., New
Rochelle, N.Y., and Grasslands
Hospital at Valhalla, N.Y. He has
been in touch with four other
New York State programs in the
Bronx, Mineola, Mamaroneck and
Valhalla, and those in Stamford,
Conn., Carmel, Calif., and -Toronto,
Canada.
Dr. Nichtern attributed the
growing use of the Elmont formula
to its reliance on each commu-
nity's own initiative • in mobilizing
its human resources, rather than
drawing heavily on its financial
resources or turning to outside
agencies.
He said, "The only way to
mobilize human resources in this
way is on a community level. In
Elmont the initiative came from
the elementary school s, with
strong support from the Elmont
Jewish Center and Elmont Ki-
wanis Club. In at least one other
community the local mental health
association has taken the lead.
That is why we wrote 'Teaching
The Troubled Child' for all
whose counterparts have been
active in Elmont's program, in-
cluding prospective teacher-moms,
perhaps teacher-pops, all profes-
sionals who work with children,
civic groups and service organ-
izations."
UN Correspondent
Max Beer Dead
UNITED NATIONS — The dean
of UN correspondents, Max Beer,
died Oct. 27 at age 79. A veteran
reporter of the League of Nations
before the formation of the UN, he
was well known in Europe between
the wars because of his knowledge
of international affairs.
Mr. Beer was a member of the
World Jewish Congress and the
representative at the UN of the
International League of Human
Rights, of which he was vice presi-
dent.
A correspondent for the Neue
Zurcher Zeitung of Switzerland,
Mr. Beer was an author, lecturer
and radio commentator as well.
He served for three years in the
Secretariat in the League of
Nations, and many years later
for the same length of time in
the Secretariat of the UN.
Educated in Germany, he be-
c a m e ,correspondent for the
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of
Berlin after serving at the League
of Nations. When the Nazis took
over in 1934, he left that post and
wrote an indictment of Nazi Ger-
many's foreign policy. Other books
followed, and he held newspaper
jobs in Geneva, Paris and Spain.
He came to the United States with
his family in 1940.
Before joining the UN Secre-
tariat, he taught at the New School
for Social Research and wrote for
the Free French wartime news-
paper in New York.
Upon retirement from the UN
post, he was named correspondent
for the Neue Zurcher Zeitung and,
one of its most popular writers,
was elected president of the UN
Correspondents Association.
He held many foreign decora-
tions and once was sent "as a
keepsake" the late Dag Hamarsk-
jold's own UN Service Medal. Mr.
Hammarskjold, the late UN gen-
eral secretary, had thanked the
correspondent for entertaining so
well at a luncheon and sent along
the medal "which you so richly
deserve but which I cannot un-
fortunately award you." The medal
is restricted to UN personnel.
Dr. Beer had been ailing since
the death of his wife Marthe in
July. He leaves a son, Dr. Ferdin-
and Beer, head of the department
of mechanics at Lehigh University;
a sister and two grandchildren.
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Monument Unveilings
Mrs. Beatrice Kape, wife of the
late Jack Kape, announces the un-
veiling of a monument in his
memory 11:30 a.m. Sunday, Nov.
7, at Beth Yehudah Cemetery.
Rabbi Gruskin will officiate. Rela-
tives and friends are asked to
The family of the late Alex attend.
Damraur announces the unveiling
of a monument in his memory 1:30
p.m. Sunday, Nov. 14, at Chesed
The Family of the Late
shel Emes Cemetery. Rabbi L. Gold-
LEO JOSEPH
man will officiate. Relatives and
friends are asked to attend.
(JERRY)
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GLADSTONE
The family of the late Gabriel
Announces the unveiling
Seffinger announces the unveiling
of a monument in his
of a monument in his memory 11
memory 11 a.m. Sunday,
a.m. Sunday, Nov. 7, at Hebrew
Nov. 14 at Hebrew Memo-
Memorial Park. Rabbi Goldschlag
rial Park. Rabbi Gruskin
w i 11 officiate. Relatives and
will officiate. Relatives
friends are asked to attend.
and friends are asked to
attend.
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Cincinnati Leader
Dies at Testimonial
Dinner for Him
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
CINCINNATI — Samuel M.
Schmidt, a prominent editor, com-
munal worker, veteran Zionist and
a leader of Cincinnati Jewry, died
here Monday. He collapsed while
addressing a Jewish National Fund
dinner at which he was honored
for his extensive efforts on behalf
of Israel. He was 82. Mr. Schmidt
was editor for 38 years of Every
Friday, Cincinnati English-Jewish
weekly which he founded.
Born in Kovno, Schmidt came to
this country in 1896 and after
earning an engineering degree at
the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, he served as an indus-
trial health inspector.
Turning his efforts to com-
munal work, he headed the set-
tlement house in Cincinnati in
1916 and 1917. He then combin-
ed these two fields of endeavor
to serve as a sanitarian with the
Zionist medical unit in Palestine
and later as a member of Joint
Distribuntion Committee health
relief units in Poland. He carried
out these activities despite the
handicap of having lost an arm
in an industrial accident.
After settling in Cincinnati in
the 1920's Schmidt founded in
1927 Every Friday, which he
edited until the paper ceased pub-
lication two months ago. He was
active in the Bnai Brith and on
behalf of the JNF, Zionist Organ-
ization of America, the Cincinnati
Bureau of Jewish Educatioh, the
American Jewish Congress and
the Labor Zionist Organization of
America.
In the late 1930's, he was again
called upon for his experience in
overseas relief when he was sent
by the Vaad Hatzalah of the Union
of Orthodox Rabbis of the United
States and Canada to various parts
of Europe on the eve of the out-
break of the Second World War.
The Family of the Late
REVA SNIDER
The Puritans may not have been
as puritanical as is sometimes
thought. They feasted for three
days on the first Thanksgiving Day
in 1621 . . . although they included
prayers in the celebration.
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Preminger Mystery Film
Otto Preminger, whose spectacular
navy drama "In Harm's Way" has
opened in New York and Holly-
wood, now is preparing for early
production in London, "Bunny
Lake Is Missing," a murder mys-
tery in which Sir Laurence Olivier
portrays a police inspector oppo-
site Carol Lynley and Keir Dulles.
Screenplay to "Bunny Lake Is
Missing," from the novel by Eve-
. 1,000 Jews in Surinam
lyn Piper, was written by John and
The Jewish Community of Suri- Penelope Mortimer.
nam, the oldest permanent Jewish
settlement in the Western Hempi-
The Michigan Department of
sphere which dates back to the Agriculture estimates the value of
early part of the 17th century, Michigan's annual' agricultural ex-
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I LI Lko .
Announces the unveiling
of a monument in her
memory 11 a.m. Sunday,
Nov. 14, at Machpelah
Cemetery. Rabbi Panitz
and Cantor BermaniS will
officiate. Relatives and
friends are asked to at-
tend.
The Family of the Late
IRENE SHUMAN
Announces the unveiling
of a monument in her
memory 2 p.m. Sunday,
Nov. 14, at Clover Hill
Park. Rabbi Groner will
officiate. Relatives and
friends are asked to at-
tend.
The Family of the Late
BLIMA BEATRICE
NAGEL RADER
Announces the unveiling
of a monument in her
memory 2 p.m. Sunday,
Nov. '7, at Beth Yehudah
Cemetery. Rabbi Prero
will officiate. Relatives
and friends are asked to
attend.
The Family of the Late
LOUIS YOLLES
Announces the unveiling
of a monument in his
memory 11:30 a.m. Sun-
day, Nov. 7, at Beth Ab-
raham Cemetery. Rabbi
Halpern will officiate. Re-
latives and friends are
asked to attend.
The Family of the Late
MORRIS
ROSENBERG
Announces the unveiling
of a monument in his
memory 2 p.m. Sunday,
Nov. 7, at Beth Abraham
Cemetery. Rabbi I. Hal-
pern will officiate. Rela-
tives and friends are
asked to attend.
The Family of the Late
IDA LIEBERMAN
The Family of the Late
REGINA
WAULDRON
Announces the unveiling
of a monument in her
memory noon Sunday,
Nov. 7, at Beth Abraham
Cemetery. Rabbi I. Hal-
pern and Cantor Acker-
man will officiate. Rela-
tives and friends are asked
to attend.
Mother of
Arthur and Paul Schultz
and Mrs. Nat Benton
Announces the unveiling
of a monument in her
memory 10 a.m. Sunday,
Nov. 7, at Northwest
Hebrew Memorial Park.
Rabbi Segal and Cantor
F e n a k e l will officiate.
Relatives and friends are
asked to attend.
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