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Show Utah County Youth Bureau Originates At Orem Jr. High A new public agency called the North County Youth Bureau will have its offices established estab-lished in the Orem City Center this coming week. The work of this bureau will cover the entire Alpine School District. Unlike other agencies that deal with juvenile delinquency and youth with problems, the North Utah County Youth Bureau Bur-eau will work exclusively with children between the ages of twelve and fourteen, and with both males and females. The program has the advantage of aiming to help a specific age group in a specific area. The Youth Bureau has been granted $33,477 to work with in the coming year, with in-kind matching funds added that will bring the expenses for the operation oper-ation of the new program close to $4G,000. "There has not previously been an effective stop-gap program pro-gram that has dealt exclusively with children of the junior high school agesaidGlenZimmer-man, agesaidGlenZimmer-man, the chief architect of the program. Previously, when junior high school kids got into trouble, they were referred to Juvenile Court. Often times that ordeal gave them a permanent perm-anent record. In certain cases, in the upcoming program, in addition to helping the kids get back on the right track, the program will also make it possible poss-ible for them to avoid a permanent perm-anent mark on their record. The new Youth Bureau comes after considerable experimentation experimen-tation and innovation. The program is not new, but rather is the refined product of much previous experience, experimentation, experi-mentation, and work. The program pro-gram is not new, but is now only better funded and more broadly based than previously. The antecedent actions that led to the creation of the new Youth Bureau beganabout seven years ago. At that time, Glenn Zimmerman, as principal of Orem Junior High School, was having troubles with a group of seventh, eighth, and ninth grade boys. These troubles concerned truancy, unrowdi-ness unrowdi-ness in class, shoplifting in the community, running away, even robbery and other types of problems. At that time, for those students, Mr. Zimmerman Zimmer-man initiated an experimental attempt to help change the kids general social attitudes from negative to positive. The actions taken were communicative com-municative and direct. The problem kids were brought as a group into Mr. Zimmerman's office. Together they sat down and talked about what was wrongs Opinions were shared, ideas were kicked back and forth, and everyone gradually got to know and understand one another. It became apparent at once that many of the kids came from broken homes. Few of them felt that anyone cared about them. They had poor images of themselves and their abilities, abil-ities, and they lacked self- Don't Get ii ii i I v ' 1 P EiaillllU AMVMn I M, l cat IIUIIUIV WWWWIMI ; Brands of Juicers respect. They likewise seemed to hang around with kids who also had negative attitudes about themselves and society. Zimmerman put the issue upon the line and let the kids recognize that they were headed down an undesirable course. He asked them what he could do to help them help themselves. Some of the boys complained of boredom and the fact that they couldn't get along with their parents at home, and that they had nothing to do in the evenings. even-ings. Such a hint was cue enough. An activity time was set up where the kids would go to Orem Junior High School at night, beginning at seven o' clock. As the program worked itself out, and as a format was established, a study period was set up from seven to eight. A gymnasium period, with an exhaustive work-out, took place from eight to nine. From nine to ten a talk session took place, where problems were aired and brought before the group for discussion. A program was worked out where the Police and Auxilary Police came to Orem Junior High every Wednesday evening to work out with the kids. The kids and the police officers got to know one another on a first-name first-name basis. This socializing process reversed the negative attitudes that many of the kids held against the police. As time went on, other kids-police activities were created. For example, arrangements were made and the kids were actually permitted to drive around on the patrol routes with the police, which gave the young boys an insight and understanding of police problems that even few citizens have. Other activities were created for the boys. They attended football, baseball, track, and hockey events. They attended a Utah Valley Symphony Concert, Con-cert, and at the end of that year were enthusiastic in urging urg-ing that this activity be repeated each year. One particular year, special arrangements were made, and a precedent set, when the problemgroup"gain-ed problemgroup"gain-ed permission to take a tour through the Utah State Penitentiary. Peni-tentiary. At first the tour had been rejected by the Warden, but Mr. Zimmerman was finally able to persuade him of the value that the tour could provide. pro-vide. The tour, and especially the private interviews theWar-den theWar-den arranged with four convicts at the end of the tour, strongly affected the kids and made them think about what kind of course they wanted to chart for themselves. them-selves. The benefits of the youth program pro-gram were numerous. Mr.Zim-merman Mr.Zim-merman never had any major problems with the kids in the groups. C onsistently it was found that truancy problems disappeared, disa-ppeared, and grades shot up from Dsto Bs and As. Each member of the program had made an Stuck - .. ti i I 365 SOUTH STATE, OREM 224-2889 agreement that he would do nothing no-thing to embarass either the group or its leaders, and they honored their agreement to their friends. Rather than doing something some-thing that would embarass the group, each member understood that he could go to Mr. Zimmerman Zimm-erman at any time and talk over any particular problem. At the end of each year, the kids and the directors of the program made it a point to sit down together and talk over the activities of the previous nine months. Frank criticisms were offerred, and what parts of the program should be retained, or emphasized, or changed, or revised, re-vised, or dropped, were discussed. dis-cussed. Thre years ago, a program request to the Law Enforcement Protection Agency requesting $128,000 for the program for the entire north side of the county was disapproved. Two years ago, the Alpine School District, under a program called Title One (which offers funding to 'new, innovative, and experimental experi-mental programs') was able to offer partial funding to the Orem Junior High program. Seven thousand dollars was furnished for wages and supplementary expenses. ex-penses. Mrs. Phylis Bestor, Mr., Tom Carlile, and Mr. Baum were the three teachers who were hired to conduct the program. pro-gram. Last year, under requirements from the state, the program was re-submitted for another year's approval on funding. But something some-thing irregular occured. The state lost the application, and by the time they finally found it, the money that would have ordinarily been available for the program had been used for other projects. So, as it had been originally, the youth program at Orem Junior High ran for another year without funding. The program, after all, had never been an official part of the school. The funds that had made it possible pos-sible had always come from the dedicated directors of the program, pro-gram, and from volunteers. Many parents were upset when they heard that last year's program pro-gram had not received funds. They were terribly frightened that the program would not continue con-tinue to help their problem children. child-ren. Undaunted, the directors and participating parties took on the cost of funding as personal per-sonal obligations. The program had proceeded too far, and too successfully, to just give it up. Another application for the next year was then being prepared for presentation to the Law Enforcement En-forcement Planning Agency. Ted Livingston (Utah County LEPA director, Police1 Chief James Simmons, and Glen Zimmerman were the draftsmen of the program pro-gram application. The objectives of last year's specific program for the kids was to provide more positive school, community, home and social experiences for the participating par-ticipating young people. Projects Pro-jects were set up that were meant tremendous Bread Mixer For Green Storage SPECIALISTS IN J - r i'U r-77 tv 1 -S St.. " tea u ,5 A SUCCESSFUL FLOWER SHOW was held recently at West-more West-more school. Over 550 ribbons were awarded. Kathleen Rowley and Jared Jones are shown with some of the entries. to give the students experiences that would prove to them self-worth, self-worth, self-confidence, and self-respect. self-respect. Functions were set up so that the students could experience leadership roles in peer groups, and vocational experiences ex-periences in local businesses. A non-academic approach to all activities was attempted. A minimum of 30 'potential drop-outs in need of behavior modification were carefully selected sel-ected for the group. Before the program began, attitute tests were given to the students. Their previous year's attendance records, rec-ords, along with their academic grades were examined closely. Last year's program, despite the lack of funds, was able to achieve outstanding results. The dedicated teachers approached the problem students with the idea that repport should first be established es-tablished with the students, and then the students' other responsibilities respon-sibilities could receive the focus of the teachers' attention. To help them approach school with a positive attitude, positive attitudes att-itudes in other areas and to other experiences were emphasized. In October, after the program got underway, all thirty of the students participating in the program pro-gram visited Clear Creek School Camp where, according to reports, re-ports, they enthusiastically coll- ected science plant specimens for a day and had a 'field day learning about nature. After they came back to Orem, six of the participating students arranged ar-ranged and demonstrated a ter-rarium ter-rarium project at the Cascade School Community Fair. They used the plant specimens that had been gathered at Clear Creek camp. In November, the whole group cooperated with June's Ceramics, Cer-amics, an Orem business, and built a float for the Orem Winter Win-ter Carnival. The float was called cal-led "Ye Olde Toy Shoppe and was designed, constructed and displayed by the students. Owen Nielson, a long time Orem resident, resi-dent, was asked by the students to be the old toy maker on the float, with ten students acting as his toy-making helpers. "This is the nicest thing that's ever happened to me, Mr. Nielson said at the time. The group participated in numerous other activities. A BYU graduate-student sponsored excursion was held, where the students were introduced to what DUE TO THE Of Our Sale We Are Extending Our Sale To Septemb3r 21, 1974 uy Any Brand ill 2nd Get A Comparable CAMQ $995 50 Lb.... WHEAT MILLS AND BREAD MIXERS .! HURRY SUPPLY 'V vf Ac1 goes on in a university. Visiting Visit-ing inter-Junior High School student stu-dent committees were formed, an assembly received enthusiastic enthu-siastic participation, and a Christmas Ch-ristmas caroling and gift-giving program was formed. Social events that involved involv-ed snow-mob iling, a pizza party, a bowling party, a musical, a plane trip, and a trip to an amusement park were also conducted. con-ducted. "A traveling show troupe made up of the students, a lab assistance training program, and local business field trips were also planned and held. In May, at the end of the school year, a Recognition Night was held for the kids at the Sun-Dance Sun-Dance Ski Resort. Many of the students had never been in a "fancy restraunt before. Special "fun awards were given, and a narration program tied the events of the school year together. Members of the Orem Junior High student body attended the Recognition Night and expressed wonder at the extent of the program. pro-gram. As important as the various activities were to the so-called "problem students, their progress in school and at home was equally as important, if not more so. Grades, attendance, attitudes and excellence went from negative to positive for well over ninty-five percent of the "potential dropouts. In May of this year, the Law Enforcement Protection Agency (LEPA), acting under the auspices of the Mountainlands Association, approved application appli-cation to establish an official program pro-gram which will be called the North Utah County YouthBureau, and will be modeled after the old program. This new bureau will cover the entire Alpine School District, and through its programs will seek to help young troubled students in Orem, Pleasant Plea-sant Grove, A merican F ork, Lehi, Alpine, and other places in north Utah County. Orem is the new bureau's sponsoring municipality, due in no small part to the fact that the program to help troubled youths of the junior high school age originated and had its testing test-ing ground at Orem Junior High School, under the supervision of Glen Zimmerman. 1 $ IS LIMITED S U 0 C OSS 0 f qq L MRS. TREWARTHAS. second grade class enjoys reading along with Mrs. Triwartha at Westmore Elementary. r" 1a Howard C. Maycock H. Maycock Elected To Kiwanis Post At a recent meeting held at the Four Seasons Convention Center Cen-ter in St. Georee. Utah. Howard How-ard C. Maycock was elected District Governor Elect of the Utah-Idaho District of Kiwanis International. Howard Maycock has been an active member of the Springville Spring-ville Kiwanis Club for over thirty years. He served as president of his club in 1960 and in 1967 was elected to the Utah-Idaho District Kiwanis Board of Trustees and served as Lieutenant Governor of Division Div-ision No. 1. He was the District Dis-trict Comittee Chairman of Finance Fin-ance in 1971-72 andCo-Chair-man of the Membership Development Dev-elopment Comittee for 1973-74. He is a member of the distinguished distin-guished group of Kiwanians cal- 1 1 We're the Centra! bank & trust. we've got what it takes 1"v , , , r., .ltd led the "Legion of Honor. Brigham Young University proudly lists Howard Maycock as an alumnus of the institution institu-tion where he majored in Finance, Fin-ance, Banking and Accounting. Five years have been served with the BYU Alumni Association, Associ-ation, including its president. He is a graduate of Northwestern Northwest-ern University, Chicago School of Bank Marketing and was a teacher at Utah Technical College Col-lege of Provo for two years. His interests in public service ser-vice are shown through many attributes and accomplishments. accomplishm-ents. HehasbeenaScoutmaster and Explorer Leader, and was Chairman of a Bantam Basketball Basket-ball League. He is a past president of both the Spring-ville Spring-ville andtheSpanishForkCham-ber andtheSpanishForkCham-ber of Commerce, and has served ser-ved as treasurer, director, and executive committee member of the Provo Chamber of Commerce. Comm-erce. Howard was president of the Utah County Child Guidance Guid-ance and Mental Health Clinic, and served for 17 years in the comprehensive Mental Health Program. Other interesting facts show that Howard's interest in public pub-lic life have not been limited and that he owned and operated opera-ted grocery stores over aneight year period; served as cashier of the Sprinville Banking Co. for 13 years; a chief deputy treasurer of Utah County;past President, UtahCounty Bankers Association and presently Howard How-ard is Senior Vice-President, Director of Central Bank and Trust Co.pringville, and Manager Man-ager of the Spanish Fork Branch Br-anch Office. Howard and Mary Verl May-cock May-cock live in Springville and have . three children, all married. To Keep those S 3 p j Q safe Sob the central bank s.trut Orem-Geneva Times September 19, 1974 Westmore Has School ReadingTime To help the students of West-more West-more develop a love of reading, the faculty of Westmore School has instituted a fifteen minute free reading time where everyone every-one in the school reads during that time. Teachers, students, custodians, custo-dians, librarian, counselors, and principal all read a book of their choice from 10:45 to 11:00 a.m. each morning. Teachers Tea-chers will not answer questions during that time since they too are enjoying reading. Students are encouraged to provide their own reading mat-eial mat-eial They may, of course, check books out from the library, lib-rary, read their basic textbooks, text-books, or bring books from home. The program began the second se-cond week in September, and thus far everyone is happy with the result. 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