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Show 6 THE GREEN SHEET Thursday, August Goodbye Counseling Centers In School District To Be Computerized GRANITE PARK. By a one-vomargin the Granite Board of Education voted last week to spend a quarter of a million dollars to computerize counseling centers in the districts secondary schools. Dr. Ron Beckstrom, the districts director of computer systems, explained a proposal to spend $248,111 for the installation of computer terminals, control units, printers and other equipment in 23 Junior and senior high schools in the district. Originally proposed as a five-yeleasepurchase agreement at the boards July 16 meeting, the proposal last week would purchase the equipment outright over a period, leaving the question of maintenance of the system to be settled at a later date. "The current computer systems serves 23 secondary schools through one terminal located in each Beckstrom explained. school, This is like a bank having one cashier window for all customers, or a hospital with only one operating room, or a group of 50 people with only one car. The staff of each school works on a schedule controlled by the service capability of one terminal, resulting in considerable loss of staff productivity. Rather than wait, many staff te ar th members are preparing data manually, spending less time on the main work they were hired to do -counsel students - he noted. The purpose of this project proposal is to use available technology to permit professional staff to spend more time on their primary assignment. If approved this project should result in better performance for all staff and, therefore, greater service to students and parents, Beckstrom added. The modified proposal calls for removing the existing terminals from their present locations and installing a cluster of terminals and support equipment in each of the districts 14 junior highs (including Hunter junior high which will open this fall), nine high schools and Central high alternative school. Each school would have one terminal for administrative use, one for office support staff and between one and five terminals for counselors. A total of 23 office stations would be installed, including 66 counseling 35 in the junior highs and stations 31 in the high schools. One spare terminal was also proposed for maintenance purposes. A total of 112 new terminals, 23 control units and 23 printers would be required to complete the system, necessitating the purchase of 158 new machines. Do we really need a terminal on board every counselors desk? member Miriam Farnsworth asked. Wouldnt just one in the counselling office suffice? Beckstrom explained accessibility to terminals was one of the current problems in high schools, where the version of the system - ... In Myriad Ways 15, 1985 Such an ordinary word, spoken dozens of times a day. "Goodbye. We say it casually when we years. Patrons calling for information dont like to be put on hold while a counselor gets up from his desk, walks over to the terminal and finds the information, he said. Maybe if they knew of the dollar figure involved, theyd be more willMrs. Farnsworth ing to wait, noted. The more information available and the quicker we are able to retrieve it, the more patrons are satisfied, he asserted. Its nice to talk philosophy, but lets talk dollars, board member Lynn Davidson noted. Is this a Cadillac system when a Ford would do? board The bottom line is, member Gary Swensen said, in your opinion, will we be able to save enough kids that the costs will be worth it? We are very cognizant of the costs, but if we are able to work with students before a crisis occurs, we feel the costs are justified, Beckstrom explained. Moving to Utah was the single most courageous act I have performed in my lifetime. drive-i- the reduction and Swensen and board G. Sandstrom op- president Patricia posing it. The question was called on the original motion, which passed Swensen and with Christensen, Sandstrom favoring of the full plan. Davidson and Farnsworth each cast a nay vote. 3-- In my minds eye, I could see myself having to beat off the rattlers as I went from class to class. Dont ask me where I got that idea because I dont know. I wasnt always afraid of snakes. When I was a child and we lived on a ranch in Montana, I used to play with them (the garden variety). Mother used to tell the story of how I came into the house one afternoon trying to convince my grandmother Teachers In Workshop On Writing ladcon- with each school having sent one teacher, some as many as five. Superintendent John Reed Call noted that the purpose of the career ladder workshop is to demonstrate an improved writing process for teachers and offer better techniques for teaching students. Joyce Stonehocker, lauguage arts teacher-leade- r for the district, is the presentor. The workshop began Monday and will conclude tomorrow (Friday) at Cottonwood high. & tear-choke- TAYLORSVILLE. Ad- ministrators at Utah Technical College have approved the 15th season of popular travel lecture programs. The first progrtam of the season will be an exquisite color slide film presentation, primarily on the Holy Land, according to Bryan Gardner, coordinator for the series. We do no normally show slides on this public series, Gardner said, but the superb quality and information contained on these slides and the ac- live narration makes it a particularly wor- Michele Bartmess And yet . . . when one we lov reaches the Gate of Life and wjj soon pass through to that plat; sue where we cannot yet follow is the paucity of our language thfl when we want to convey the soulty love, hurt, loneliness, and faltlj fulness, what else do we say but tlg word we have used all our lives . . . ... Goodbye . . . such an ordinal word. We use it in love, happ relief, sorro hate, regret, ... and pain. Such bewilderment yet the gamtt word, commonplace of every emotion is held within IB sound. ! BYU campus legged variety. our neighbor Craig to remove it from the kitchen. We had to summon ed. to go fishing with me. And look at the pretty worm I found, I said, holding up a colorful water snake. Evidently Grandma was able to get through the experience better than Mom was. I experienced something of what they must have gone through not too many years ago when my cat brought a garden snake into the house. He would play with it and then let it go and pounce on it when it moved. He was having great fun. And thought hed done us such a favor by bringing his catch in to thwhile event. The Holy Land showing will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 19 in the auditorium of the Ramptom Technology Building. The date is prior to the start of classes so there will be plenty of free parking available close to the building, Gardner pointed out. Other speakers during the season are top people in the travel lecture field, including Franklyn Carney, Hal McClure, Ken Lawrence and Clint Denn. All have appeared in previous seasons at Utah Tech. Audiences have requested the popular lecturers to come back with other impressive color motion pictures of difference parts of the world, Gardner said. Those places include Egypt, Australia, San Diego, Tahiti and the Cook Islands. Somewhere between my childhood and my school days, I developed that very womanly fear of the creatures. When we studied gila monsters and snakes in school, I would wake up in the night afraid to get out of bed and go to the bathroom because I was afraid there was a serpent of some kind under my bed. The Walt Disney film The Living Desert was nearly my undoing. It was sometime after I outgrew that tendency, that I became certain that in Utah there must be snakes behind every bush. When natures call became too urgent, I would run into the bathroom and turn on the light. Upon completion of the task, Id let the light shine down the hall to ascertain that the coast was clear. the were two-- J g So I made the decision to com and for a time, I even overcame mB unreasonable fears. I spent the bej ter part of one day each year helpir to whitewash the Y on the mountal though I always had my ear tuned a possible rattle and I never straye more than four inches from group. When I travled to Elko with roommate and we went hiking in thp mountains, I was tense the entiifl time. My dad grew up there, and 4 knew there were rattlers in the ar My blood ran slightlv cold as present roommates father took on a walking tour of some old mil towns in Carbon County. Even today when I go into our ci nyons, Im half afraid. Ive nevef except at the zoo, seen or even heaqi a rattlesnake, but I know they ail out there somewhere. Unwilling be branded a spoilsport, I usually on canyon outings, but I cant s. that I enjoy myself as much as I when Im in a theater or somewhei else in the interior of the city whe I Im pretty sure that there are h snakes onesj Except those ol two-legge- "I CAME After listening to my friends and my parents, I became convinced that the only snakes on the d TO YOUR WEDDING " Live Comedy Ploying 8:00 P.M. 2 costs $10. The season pass may be requested by mailing a check for $10 to Travel Lectures, Utah Technical College, P.O. 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Children say it carelessly to playmates and happily to grandparents they love to visit. Ah yes, and the same word is used in a hurt, bewildered way when divorce comes. We say it to those who tear our hearts in two as they leave . . . and yet we use that word to Utech Travel Series Okayed companying I know for a fact that you are paying too much for your Life Insurance. Our company specializes in people over 50, and we're saving them up to 40 on their Insurance. Call us for a free quote, and start thinking what you will do with the money you save every month. It was all there in that simple word d voices as they each, in said . . . goodbye. I recognized the tone and knew the emotion very well, because, you see, I had once said goodbye to my parents when I left to make my own life elsewhere, and . . . like an open wound . . . had n. But those didnt take nearly as much courage as moving here did. You see, I have an unreasonable fear of rattlesnakes (actually any serpent). As I contemplated my choice of colleges, I really wanted to attend Brigham Young University, but I knew that Utah was a desert state. 2-- sup-porti- -- country. There was the time a car flew off the road and my roommate and I were first on the scene. Fortunately no one was injured. I entered the house with my neighbor (and a baseball bat) the time she left the door standing open while we went to the local - career der writing project is being ducted for 104 elementary teachers by Granite district personnel. The project addresses writing skills for students in kindergarten through stxth grade. the teachers come from 56 elementary schools We say it with smiling faces as good neighbors leave on vacation and we promise to keep an eye on their home. We say it with regret when those same neighbors follow a new job and go to the other end of the Of course, courage isnt one of my strong suits. I can count on one hand the number of times Ive done something that I was afraid to do. Board member J. Dale five-da- y ... guests who have stayed long past the time we planned, and were weary and ready for bed. Yet we say it to those whom we would cling to and keep forever a part of our lives. There's A Snake Out There Somewhere j Christensen moved that the board accept the proposal, with Swensen seconding the motion. Davidson,' however, moved the proposal be amended, reducing the a number of machines to 88 reduction of one terminal per school, he explained. When the vote was taken, however, the amendment failed with Davidson and Farnsworth An intensive ... I knew I knew yet even as my heart hurt for them, I was also considering how the very same word they used in their hour of pain, was the same one I just used in merriment and joy. part for just an hour, a day or a week. Yet its the very same word we use when we know the parting will be forever tnd it scars our soul to voice it. I tossed it off lightly to friends who had taken me to the airport recently, as I left for a short trip. Yet, just a few feet away, stood a father, mother and adult son. They were saying the very same word to each other, but I hurt inwardly as I watched them, for I knew how differently we were saying . . . and hearing . . . the identical word. The young man was leaving home and I know that not one of the three would have had it otherwise. Yet their lives were being torn apart and would never again be the same. Theyll no doubt meet hundreds of times in the future, but this goodby was the end of the childhood home and of the close-kn- it relationship of parents and child. 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