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Show Page 42-T- HE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Thursday, April 9, 1981 Hawaii Plot Project Bank Program Offers 'Problem' Students 'Origami' - nu;uLULU ivri) 000 A major investment in a folding) and Hawiian One was Kengo Takata Uien It also pays for uniforms and equipsuperintendent of the Windward School intermediate school ment used in intramural sports. District of which King was a part, and has helped change its notorious reputaOne of the most successful projects the other was Bill Cook a relation by giving students something to do Sea Trek, which teaches students about tions executive with the public that besides cause trouble. company sea life and the ocean, has been picked represented Bank cf Hawaii. Bank of Hawaii the state's largest up by the State Department of EducaTakata said the privately funded banking institution provided the tion and is now part of the Windward program was Cook's idea. three-year stumoney to be used for a District curriculum. "All my kids went to King dent activities pilot project at King It was the first such privately funded Intermediate and had enthralled me Intermediate School in Kaneohe a program in Hawaii and state Departcommunity about 10 miles northeast of ment of Education officials hope to ob- with tales of misbehavior and the restrooms being unusable after the Honolulu. tain state funding for continuation and of school hijackings in the first A coordinator was hired to develop a of the program based on the schoolday expansion lunchline a lot of fights and a whole program of extracurricular acsuccess seen at King. of instances where the tivities. Money from the program is police acIn 1976, King Intermediate had a couple had to be called to break things used for funding the campus newtually notorious reputation. Not Cook said. exactly a hotspaper, monthly dances, concerts, bed of crime, it nonetheless had more up," seasonal and cultural programs and than its share of He said in an "over the fence" constudents problems special field trips. It helped pay to get a hijacking each versation with Takata, he proposed a other, fights and drugs. rocket club and Sierra Club chapter Two whose children atprivately funded student activities prostarted at the school, and classes on tended neighbors the school decided to do gram to help curb King's problems. origami (Japanese creative paper- - something about it. "For a full year we worked on the bank's $100 program before it was ever an" Cook said noting that at the nounced problem-ridde- n time, he realized his public relations xirm. Communications Pacific, could not underwrite a $100 000 program. "I can remember meeting with Mj. Takata, and the administration of King and eventually the PTA and faculty, without ever mentioning who the 'angel' was going to be." The angel turned out to be the late Wilson Cannon former chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Bank of Hawaii. King's principal Bill Tarn, said the program has helped polish the school's tarnished image in the eyes of both the public and the students. "Generally, we've noticed a turning in attitude primarily in students getting along with their peers." Tarn said. "The atmosphre has changed, the - i Report Says House Crimes Up 30 Percent - WASHINGTON (UPI) Thirty percent ot American households more than 24 million a families, were touched by crime during 1980 proportion that has remained stable for six years, a Justice Department survey reports. A report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, which operates the National Crime Survey, found crime has risen every year since its survey started in 1974, though the proportion of American households victimized by crime has remained about the same. "A large minority of American households experience crime each year, although most of them experience it in a nonviolent form," the bureau said in a report. "There is great stability in the patterns from year to year, while the trend for the period as a whole seems to be downward.'' The preliminary findings are based on a new Justice Department crime indicator that registers the number of burglarized homes and households with a member victimized by violent crime or , . Come in for big savings now during our mmas Choose Now for Mother's Day! We've cut prices on special Quoizel lamps and some of your old favorites. IHkiirtdErllraim Op (Mass IDtoms theft. National Crime Survey employees visit 132,000 people twice each year to find out if they have been crime victims. The survey showed that in 1980, 6 percent of all households were touched by a violent crime rape, robbery or assault. Some 14 percent experienced crimes of personal larceny purse snatching, pocket picking or theft with no contact, all occurring away from the home. It found that burglary occurred in 7 percent of all households, and 10 percent experienced a household theft. Stolen motor vehicles were reported in 2 percent of the households. The survey also found the proportion of households touched by crime varied by income and location, but not by race. Black and white households were victimized to an almost equal 32 percent and 30 percent degree respectively in communications are better. The wall great part in it," Tam said. He said some students who are curbetween teachers and students has come down and you can see the pride rently ninth graders and have gone the kids and teachers have begun to through three years of the bank's have in the school." funding program, have told him they think the school has improved. Takata agrees. "But still, it's nothing you can put "As a pilot project, it received quite a bit of positive publicity and to me that your finger on just a better atmakes a difference when kids read mosphere," Tam said. something good about their school inBank of Hawaii's funding program stead of continually reading something for King expires at the end of the cursaid. negative about their school," he school year. However, George rent Both Tarn and Takata, however, were careful to note that the improve- Yamamoto, the man who replaced ments seen at King may not be entirely Takata as Windward district superintendent, said the Department of due to he bank program. Education intends to ask the state Tarn said a number of things helped Legislature for about $185,000 to exthe school improve reduced enrollpand the program to at least one school ment, staff involvement and the bank's in each of the seven districts in the state. contribution. As for the bank, its officials seem "It's a combination of things, really, but the Bank of Hawaii program had a pleased with the results of the project. QUOIZEL Lighting in the finest tradition TsMsLair&Dip Square Base Wall Light Single Hanging Swag List $94.05 Oi lr Prirp List $214.50 Our Price $107.25 4239 Sale Your Choice my 9850 3 Sizes Table Lamps 1 Light Ceiling Light List $66.00 1980. However, the report said, "A rural residence does appear to afford some protection against both crimes of violence and crimes of theft, but it is clear that all Americans are at risk to an extent previously unknown." 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