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Show The Davis County School District has developed a project called "Aging-in-the-Schools." The purpose of this project is to create a more favorable concepf of aging in our community. RESEARCH indicates that early attitudes developed in childhold and young adulthood eventually constitute consti-tute values and sterotypes that tend to persist throughout life. Since attitudes atti-tudes are formed with children are young, our best hope for achieving understanding unders-tanding and respect for the aged is through the educational educa-tional system. One way to change people's attitudes toward the aged is by making them more visible and this is the goal of our project. Utilization of the aged in our schools would function to reduce the generation gap and eliminate negative sterotypes which have created major hurdles with respect to meaningful living in later years. WE ARE presently looking for volunteers who would like to work in the schools as tutors, tu-tors, teacher aides, friendly companions to children, demonstrators of skills such as sewing, weaving, ceramics, etc., or speakers. You may spend any amount of time you wish, one day or 180 per year. Mr. Coy Hayward, Mrs. El-nora El-nora Riley, Mrs. Arietta Williams and Mrs. Bertha L. Muir volunteered for this program and each one has presented a program at the Meadowbrook Elementary School. Mrs. Muir was the final participant for this school year. She spent an hour and a half at the school on May 4. Whe told an original story which she had written recently, "Our Dog Brownie." IT WAS THE life of a dog who lived with the Muir family for fourteen years. She made sixty cup cakes which were frosted by another senior citizen, her brother, Glen Ledingham. The cup cakes were used to treat the students, fifty of them, three social workers and four teachers. Mrs. Muir gave the students an original poem, "Signs of Spring." She showed a red velvet ribbon which displayed pins of her many activities through the years and a picture of her when she was seventeen and just graduated from the Normal Nor-mal School at the University of Utah as a school teacher. THE DAY was a stormy one to begin with but the sun came out in time for her to have her picture taken with the children and adults who participated. These pictures were taken with Mrs. Muirs thirty-five year old Brownie Kodak and turned out to be very good. Copies have been sent to the school. THE MEADOWBR00I School which is located at ffi North 200 West is a beautifi one surrounded by ta threes. It has a patio built b the students. The main fei ture of the patio is a small lo cabin made by the students. The students invited Mr: Muir to come back agai j soon. She will send them f copy of the "Brownie" storyf JOYCE Kelen, school socia worker for Davis Count Schools, along with thre graduate students in socij work from the University d Utah have instituted this pile project involving senior ci tizens in activities at th 1 Meadowbrook school. Th 1 students involved were fror two fourth grades of th school. The teachers of thes grades are Mr. Sawyer an Ann Bushnell. The thre graduate students who assisi ed with this project were Jo Brusatto, Catherine Hughe and Elizabeth Mattani. Thes young people and Joyce Kele picked Mrs. Muir and the cu cakes up at her home to tak her to the school. The brought her home when th day was completed. THEY TOURED her garde and home, ate up the cur. cakes which were left on th kitchen table because the were slightly burned and rx suitable to take to th students. A Ann Bushnell says that orJj boy's comments reflect th general attitude of th, i students toward the program ! "Iwish my grandfather woui do some of these interests things," he said.blm |