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Show ?7 m Hi! r HOME TO 108 orphaned Ethiopian students is these makeshift double-deck bunks along the length of the schoolroom walls. The only light is through the clerestory opening at slant roof joining. They eat meager meals of cereal donated by charitable sources and attend classes with more than 1000 students who could find no room in other schools and have turned lo Ato Asfaw for help, though not for room and board. These youngsters welcome wel-come the needed gifts sent with genuine friendship friend-ship from youthful Americans. A "new shirt, a gaily colored dress, a warm sweater will continue to cheer and encourage. With all that they have not, they surely have sincere-smiles sincere-smiles of delight at the surprise packages from Orem Junior High. Students of Ethiopia School Thank Mr, Lowell Baum And Students for Needed Clothing Articles by Val and Ray Wilcox Bright-eyed pupils of the Ato Asfaw school in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia send their delighted thanks to students of Mr. Lowell Baum's homeroom class atOrem Junior High School for generous shipments of clothing in a recent school-to-school project. Through various fund-raising efforts, such as Saturday car wash sessions, and through private donations, $87.00 was raised for postage to send many hundred of articles of used clothing. This movement grew from the spontaneous spon-taneous compassion of Orem young people. Mr. Baum guided his class toward this undertaking when he heard of the desperation of needy Ethiopians through Dr. and Mrs. Ray T. Wilcox. As educators, Mr. Baum and the' Wilcoxes admire the unusual ingenuity in-genuity of Ato (Mr.) Asfaw in his attempts to educate and care CARTER'S ARMSTRONG'S New HPG Wide Track Tread "The Quick Tire9 Designed To Harness Horsepower Of Your Car Safety Takes On New Dimensions In - - SIGNED BY SEE mm Wholesale and Retail Gasoline - Diesel Stove Oil - Batteries - Tractor Tires CARTER'S SERVICE 820 West 4th North - Orem 1990 No. State - Orem 685 West St. Rd Pleasant Grove CIMANGE-OF-LIFE? Read how 3 out of 4 women In doctors' tests got amazing relief from hot flashes, nervous tension. The clammy sweats -the suffocating suffo-cating "heat waves" of the "change" often strike terror to a woman's heart -yet needn't. ' Countless women have found they don't have to feel miserable, miser-able, old before their time, suffer suf-fer weakness, nervousness. In doctors' tests woman after woman reported wonderful relief re-lief with. Lydia E. Pinkham Compound. Hot flashes subsided, sub-sided, nervousness calmed all without expensive "shots!' Don't suffer unnecessarily from change of life. Enjoy fast, pleasant relief get gentle Pinkham Compound today. The gentle medicine with the gentle name LYDIA E. PINKHAM for orphans of all ages. Five years ago Ato Asfaw, then a university uni-versity student himself, began to gather the waifs of the street outside out-side the school where he taught to give them the only "schooling they might ever receive. They were so young and eager and helpless he found himself unable to turn away from their need. In a land where heartbreaking poverty and human tragedy are rampant and where people develof defensive shells of apparent unfeeling un-feeling disinterest, it is to Ato Asfaw's credit that he is trying to help. He had nothing to offer but hope and his own limited experience ex-perience as a teacher. His original handful of homeless students stu-dents relied on him for much more than instruction. With admirable ad-mirable determination, Ato Asfaw somehow managed to house and feed them (often from garbage of a nearby boarding school). More and more orphaned children came to swell his "family to its current cur-rent total of one hundred eight! In order to keep his orphan children occupied in cooperative, learning ventures, Ato Asfaw requires re-quires the older ones to help the younger. They do their own cooking and serving. Girls, who must be trained in domestic skills in Ethiopia the same as in any country, do their best to mend and repair the tatered clothing of their 'brothers and sisters" in the family which just happened to happen to an exceptional bachelor. Several boys presently attending atten-ding the twelfth grade in public high schools are still in Auto Asfaw's care. 'This is their ! home, he says simply, he is strongly encouraging these boys to seek state-subsidized University Univer-sity educations so they may be more fit to give service, also. Despite the regular struggle for physical necessities, Ato Asfaw has proven sensitive to individual emotional needs of those in his care. He brings young ones with special problems into his own small room so they might sleep with the added security of his presence. Sometimes five or six of these tots will spend the night in his bedroom. But he seems not to begrudge the loss of his last vestage of privacy when there are children who need him. The snowballing of his school from a streetcorner gathering to its present eight-grade operation has tested both determination and will. It might have folded, as was predicted by public school officials offi-cials who refused to provide help, except for Ato Asfaw's tenacious dedication to his small charges. Though grossly limited by lack of finances and space, Ato Asfaw has maintained a broad, stimulating stimu-lating approach to education experiences ex-periences of all kinds. Within the school compound, at the base of the flagpole, is a garden shaped like the map of Ethiopia. Border plants delineate provinces and special plantings from each province pro-vince grow in the place of each provincial capital city. Children quickly absorb this ingenious geography ge-ography lesson by their walking "tours of the country and can soon identify their native provinces. Ato Asfaw somehow manages on insufficient and sporatic donations dona-tions of all kinds. He and his youngsters send the enclosed note of thanks written in Amharic (Ethiopia's official language) for the kind help of young friends at Orem Junior High School. As something of a fringe bene- Fill Cracks And Holes Better Handles like putty. Hardens lite wood. PLASTIC WOOD The ggmyng-Accept NqSyJtttute. Orem-Geneva Times Thursday, June 29, 1967 v "7 . pi IN CLASSROOMS with half-walls of slender Eucalyptus poles and roofs of corrugated iron, two sessions are held daily. Eighth grade students are enlisted as elementary teachers during their own non-class periods. Academically, Ato Asfaw has insisted on high standards.1 With honest pride he informs visitors vis-itors that in the nationwide eighth grade examinations, his small school is the only one in the Empire to have 100 percent of its eighth graders pass (for the past four years.) Saturday tutoring sessions by Ato Asfaw have served to assure this exceptional success. '- e - - - - - -1 DURING a recent tour of his open-air classrooms, class-rooms, Ato Asfaw pointed out, in excellent English, that his school boasts the only kindergarten in any Ethiopian school. It is his belief that small ones are ready to learn. Students in any of his classed vary greatly in size and age depending upon when they began school. Fire Warden Warns Of Hay Pile Danger Fire Warden Daryl Stanley issued is-sued a plea today for hay, grass and weeds to be cleared away from buildings and especially fuel tanks. He said county ordinances ordin-ances require a twenty foot clearance clear-ance around and above ground tanks. Last year several fuel tanks were burned because of negligence, he said. The warden said th? fire hazard haz-ard is limited at present but becomes more vulnerable each day. He advises farmers to stack hay in more than one pile and to leave space between stacks for a fire truck to pass. He also reminds re-minds that burn permits are necessary in all unincorporated areas. KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKCT 86 PROOF. 0ISTIIUO AND BOTTLED BY 010 CROW DISIIUTRY CO . FRANKFORT, KY DR. .AND MRS. Ray T. Wilcox, presently living in Addis Ababa while Dr. Wilcox is a member of the faculty oftheHaileSellassie I University chat with Ato Asfaw, a small lean man with ears peirced in childhood according to African tribal tradition. Ato Asfaw has demonstrated an astonishing capacity ca-pacity for-humanitarianism in action. fit to their good cause, Mr.' Baum's class received recognition recog-nition for having the most worthy project in school this year. Having seen the shy but ready smiles of Ato Asfaw's students who will enjoy en-joy the dandy 'new clothes, we agree that the project was indeed very worthwhile and add our own thanks. Women's Club Entertain Husbands At Summer Fest Members of the Orem Women's Club entertained their husbands at a festive summer garden party last Wednesday evening at the home of Mr. and Mis. Ronald Adams. Ad-ams. Colorful flower arrangements and charming individual crystal candleholders and candles were used as table decorations and given as favors. . Mrs. Glen Andrew, president, welcomed the guests. Included on the program were acrobatic danc ing by Debbie Lange and instrumental instru-mental and vocal music by the Harding Sisters. Guests later enjoyed dancing to tape recordings record-ings of "the great bands." The entertaining evening was arranged by Mrs. Adams, chairman, chair-man, and Mrs. Evan Baugh,Mrs. Glen Johnson, Mrs. Ray Johnson, Rulon Mansfield, Mrs. Jack Cameron, Cam-eron, Mrs. Ivan Barrett and Mrs. Dale Johnson. Kofford Family Visits California Mrs. WestonKofford and children, child-ren, Karen, Susan, Dale and Miss Marcy Haque recently returned from Anaheim, California where they visited with Mrs. Ronald (Peggy) Elliott, formerly of Orem, and daughter, Kathy. While there the family celebrated cele-brated the birthdays of Kathy and her mother. They were later joined join-ed by Mr. Kofford who returned home with them. Enroute to Orem they visited in LasVagas with Mrs. Kofford's sister, Joan Delange, and her family. . for people going paces... iff rf 1 if exclusive, new OLD CROW TRAVELER The tuckaway fifth that packs as flat as your shirt! Popular round fifth available as usual. Pt I STUCKEY STORES DIVISION p First of Its Kind in Orem and Utah Interstate 15 and Lindon Interchange First Stuckey's Chain In Utah MR. JOHN KING - one of the franchised owners of Stuckey's p'ans to build several more of the Stuckey's Pecan Shoppes in Utah Our Grand Opening Is Set for Early Aug. a TEXACO Service Station Will Also Appear In Connection with Stuckey's Now, a famous Stuckey's Pecan Shoppe right here near your home! Drive out for our Grand Opening. Bring all the children. They will love the free candy! See why millions of motorists call Stuckey's Pecan Shoppes the "best-loved roadside refreshment refresh-ment centers in all America." Now coast to coast, on main highways nationwide. Enjoy fine pecan candies, new and wonderful wonder-ful nut confections. Refresh yourself at the sparkling Snack Bar. See an intriguing collection collec-tion of souvenirs, gifts for every occasion. You'll find tasty new-crop pecans, smoked country hams, rare tropical jellies and marmalades, marma-lades, zesty cheeses and pickles lots of good things to eat you've not seen before. Every trip's a pleasure trip when you stop at r 1 1" 1 Of Eastman, Georgia |
