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Show . A Green Sheet Publication fl Thursday, February 13, 1986 f Love To Be Passed Around COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS. It began with an outing in the park with Skip. Debbie Moss and Pam Gough, visiting from South Dakota, watched Skip struggle to play on the playground equipment with the other children around him, so much like them and so different. The awareness was there for both mother and friend that Skip was regarded as being "different" by the other children. They felt that perhaps they could combine their many talents and develop some type of educational program which would help to develop the awareness of students about the needs, and skills, of the handicapped students. Pass the Love Around, had begun, a musical play, performed by grade school students about the world of the handicapped students, Pam Gough went home to South Dakota and began writing the script, Richard Gough wrote lyrics for the songs, and Sherrie Weyland and make it possible. The performance has been scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 20, at 7 p.m. Pass the Love Around is the story of Jason, a break dancer, caught up met a blind, a deaf, and a handicapped child. They had a chance to visit with the students, answer questions, and share ideas. A deaf student, attending Bella Vista, spent a rehearin his own world. Knowing he is sal period with the cast members, "cool" he is insensitive and unaware talking about her days in school, and of the feelings of those around him, frustrations, as the only deaf child in particularly the handicapped the building. children in the neighborhood. One Not content to stop there, the day, while dancing, he hits his head students then entered the worlds and slips into a world which is par- they portrayed for a morning. The tially dream and partially reality. "blind" students were blindfolded, He meets a robot, from the compas- and had to rely upon classmates for sionate solar system; Zyblot, from assistance. The "deaf'.students had the Planet of Understanding. The pads placed over their ears, greatly robot gently guides Jason into four reducing their sense of hearing. different handicapped worlds, filled with song and dance. In these worlds Jason is the different one. The robot and the children teach Jason about the handicapped and how to understand them. Through the process Jason grows to love the children he meets and to understand them. He joins them in a circle of friendship. Debbie Moss composed the music. . Fourth, fifth, and sixth graders at last Pass the Love Around" was Bella Vista auditioned for the parts in . Pass the Love Around in ready to be presented. Students in South Dakota grade September. At last the cast and "schools presented it last. year in. chorus of 48 children was selected schools across the state to rave and the learning process began. Not reviews and requests for more. This content to simply have the young year Pass the Love Around is being performers learn the words and piloted in Utah, at Bella Vista lyrics, Debbie Moss, Carol Lasson, Elementary, where Debbie's Shari Lindsay, Eleene Thomas, and Kathryn Dixon, have gently guided daughters attend school. The school and district PTA are the students into the world of the helping with funding, the students handicapped. Last fall the cast was taken to the and a small core of parents are providing the heart and love which Jordan Valley school, where they At Other students spent the morning confined to wheelchairs. It was a revelation to both the cast, classmates, and teachers, requiring cooperation and empathy from all. I The cast is rapidly moving toward the day of performance, learning sign language, and other necessary components of their special worlds along the way. They have devoted months to early morning rehearsals before school, and making up work missed during the day, as they learn the specialized parts of their roles. For the other students, not directly involved, there is an air of expectation, waiting to see the completed production. From that day in the park, with Skip, Pass the Love Around has made giant leaps toward improving the understanding of the world of the handicapped among the children who share their world. I VAA InCIMA I By Bella Vista Cast for Super Buys for President's Week By Early Valentine Maker J - Headmistress Was Not Heeded backgrounds, passing them on to the next person for further SOUTH JORDAN. In 1848, a, decoration. Esther Howland was young woman in Worchester, using the methods of the Mass. started a venture that did a assembly line long before the great deal to keep Valentine Day time of Henry Ford. Orders swiftly mounted and alive. Esther Howland had recently Esther hired more assistants, received her diploma from a taking over the entire third floor select eastern college. There the of her family's house. When this headmistress had warned the became cramped, she moved her students against "those foolish factory to still larger quarters. notes called valentines." But The young women she employed Esther, along with many other considered themselves fortunate, for it was pleasant work and young people, liked them. Her father, a stationer, had just Esther paid them well. For several years, Esther imported some lacy English Howland was the main, if not the valentines. Struck by their beauty, Esther decided to make some only, American maker of lacy ! herself. Creating some lacy valentines. Collectors today shapes, she pasted the bits of lace sometimes spot Howland valen-- , and little colored pictures onto tines by the bright paper disks, known as wafers, that Esther lik- -' sheets of paper. Her father was so impressed ed to place under the lace. But : with the results that he sent to most collectors look for a small , iden-tif- y England for lace paper, colored red letter H on the back to cards made in her paper and paper flowers. Soon Esther had designed a dozen workshops. Sometime around i860, Esther more. Her brother, who was Howland went along to New York , packing his buggy with stationery for a selling trip, took City to buy supplies and to see some customers. AH over them along as samples. Pleasantly daydreaming of a Worcester, tongues began wagg- small profit, Esther was stunned tag. Women of the time were not when her brother returned with expected to take business trips, , orders worth (50G0. With supplies ana certainly not alone. One New York company bought from England and a group of worth of Howland valen to 125,000 to set she work hef , help girls in one large room of her parents' tines every year. And at least one house. Esther designed the cards, company tried to buy her out. But and the other copied them. One only many years later, when her cut out pictures to be pasted on aged father needed her, did she the valentines. Another made the sell the business. by Stefani Worthen 2 - i if? ' f 0 t a " IS J , W . ji y " I M! P '" i ' Si tV 1 i ' ! mm nn Tin ftirtii GET THE MESSAGE . . . Joion, a g than hit young man mora eoncarnad fallow mtfn, laarnt compattion from thraa young ladias using tha. language of tha doof. Jaion It ilf-entr- d braak-dancin- imiiMr'fimitiii- - m n irmfMMmiimiir thraa laachart by played by Grg Wks Dobbi Brammar, Julia Durrant and LynaHa larv ton. U and hi I |