SEPTEMBER 5 -11,1984
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BE 0 HARBOR - The
fir meeting of p rents of
udent receiving compen tory
rvice in the Benton H rbor
Area Schools ill b held on
Thur d y, September 6, 1984,
4:00 p.m. at Hull Elementary
School, according to Director of
St ff and Federal Program
Glady Peep e Burks.
St ff member, teachers and
drninistrators ill b present
to explain the $1.6 million in
rograrns that will be in opera-
ninth 1984-85 school
ye .
Federal funds will be u d
to expand an Extended-Day
Kindergarten program. This will
enab e the Benton H rbor Area
Schoo to provide, a pre-
tive me ure, additional
for b . c skill acqui ition
to indergarten tudent ho
are iden tified lagging in
langua development, deficient
vocabularie , undeveloped gro
and fin motor skill and who,
in many in nces, are generally
im ture five-ye r-olds, Bur s
explained. '
The district i initiating a
Pre-First program in continued
effort to ddres the need of
tudents ho failed the dis-
trict' minimal skill. Accord­
ing to r. Bur , the program
ill include tho kindergarten
udent ho failed to rna ter
kindergarten minimal kills in
1983-84. Three ites h ve been
e tablished: Henry C. orton,
Fairplain East and Hull elemen­
tary hools, Students will
be taught un mastered kindergar­
ten minimal ills for the fir t
10 weeks of the program.
After that period, the first
grade curriculum will be in­
troduced. Federal funds will
be u d to provide a parapro­
fe ional in each classroom sup­
plemental materials and equip­
ment and taff training.
A sizable amount of federal
funds will be allocated to train
the current Chapter I Pre­
School staff in Monte ori
method . There are two Chapter
I onte ri Pre-School sites at
this time, s. Burks said.
It is anticipated that at the
beginning of the 1985-86 school
year, all of the Chapter I Pre­
School ites ill have onte ori
training personnel. During the
1984-85 school year, a volun­
teer program, parent training
in parenting ills, computer
literacy for program offered to
udent . Community members
and parents are encouraged to
attend the September 6th meet­
ing to receiv information about
the programs.
Que ions may Iso be direct­
ed to th Office of State and
Federal Progr at 926-8253.
Whitaker, iss.. Louisiana;
Lauren Green, M' Minnesota,
or Renee' Bagley, . Ore
Here' a 100 at tn
contestants:
On September 15, 1984
Blac American can watch with
pride the greatest number of
Black candidates vying for the
Mi America title in the history
of th pageant. The show will
be telecast on BC at 10 p.m.,
EDT.
Suzette Charles th reigning
i America, may bring her
crown to aryline Blackburn
Miss Alas a; Desiree' Keating
Miss District of Columbia; Ruth
Booker, is Illinois; Anita
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Her fath r
elil'ed
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Hall pisn] Bernhard
ei r. Lauren currently 0
for th Human Re ore De­
--pjl"rNt.·nt t T . n Ci Federal.
of fi e children Lawen
. dieat h r family h
number of eli inte
- includes m 'cia , arti
pohtici . She hopes to pu
d theatre traini at th
Royal Academy of Dramatic
Art in London.
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BENTO HARBOR - Re '­
dent of the Benton Harbor
Are Schoo Di riet are en­
cour g d to particip te in the
lection of a new uperinten­
dent for the district.
The Board of Education
recently ppro d a procedure
to be fo110 ed, which inc ude
a pecific time table for the
recruiting d interviewing re­
commended by Dr. Carl Brauti-
gam of th ichigan ociat-
. n of School Bo rds. Dr.
Brautigam is serving con-
ltant to the Board in its
arch for uperintendent.
Dr. Brautigam wiD be
available to hear resident ' opin­
ions about the type of per on
they ouId like to e head
the hool district.
Citizen are invited to talk
with Dr. Brautigam on Thurs­
day, Septernb r 6 from 7:30
p.m. to 9:00 p.m. in the Stu­
dent Commons of Benton Har­
bor High School.
For tho who are unable,
to attend the meeting, a letter
or card listing ide and view­
points about characteri tic and
competencies they would li e
to ee in the ne uperinten­
dent may be nt either to Dr.
Brautigam, Michigan As ociation
of School Boards, 421 W.
Kalamazoo, Lansing, MI 48933,
or to Rev. Lawrence Crockett,
President of the Benton Har­
bor Area Schoo Board of
Education, 583 Kublick Drive,
Benton Harbor, MI 49022.
Corre pondence should be
receive no later than Friday,
September 14.
RUTH BOO ER, MISS ILU- rrA
OIS,' 0 of 1 S children and -WUIS
a If-taught . ere Ruth· a old
junior at DeP Unne'ty in ready
Otic , majoring in account" .' bum.
ned an accountin ected
intern for Time-Life, Inc., standin
b n in olved with 1010
internship orpnization fo bi
minority dents in b .
and engineerina. Ruth
rved bon ry co ainn
of the Sickl C Anemia
B' e-A-Thon.
A re elution to name Houston's main
po t office for the former Congres­
woman Barbara C. Jordan w unani­
mously approved by the U.s. Ho of
Repre ntativ .
P ge of this re olution make
Houston' po t office the first to be
named fter Blac woman. The re-
lution came before the full Ho
after having received unanimous approv I
when it w considered by the Committee
on Post office nd Civil Service.
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The po office named for the Te
Stat oman i located at 401 Fr lin
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