| Show ' : : (I I - 8W The Salt Lake Tribune Sunday September 30 1990 Guadalupe ensures success by stopping illiteracy cycle dren of poverty financially and educationally are given the benefit of a specialized teaching program at Guadalupe that better ensures their success For children at risk of perpetuating a cycle of illiteracy and social dependency that plagues the impoverished education is an escape By Nancy Hobbs Tribune Lifestyle Writer Sixty-fivchildren identified as those least likely to have happy endings to public school educations are being given the opportunity to write better introductions for themselves at the Guadalupe Schools' Early Learning Center (ELC) Beginning with kindergarten and continuing through third grade chil e 4 The earlier the intervention the better according to the US Depart ' TT: (4 p— ir7-- I hatch !' 1 A t 41'" 1 opot 11' ft 'N ' 7 :: it f —': ' t: 447''01:'"' tft44 '77 :t p I Irr 4 ) t - it 1 ' 11 : 17 P kr171"4'''' " x4-- : k ) k 1 l' 4)' 4-- -- - N J- ' AeSr f A 1 t i ' :14:! 1 ' - ' 14 Itt''' ( 4 1 ' 440 0- - '" 1 4 1-f- I :0"— 4 — 4 i 4 -- '':-- f - I fp II 1 0 P m i i I 111811111111tillittitz': f ---- : aIn it r f :1 :xeo: : :I 1 1 :: Nk 's 1 1 - 4:- t : Guadalupe Schools announced plans to expand the ELC with the addition of an academic preschool program The first is preschool class for tentatively planned to begin next January provided the necessary funding is in place explained Fre- drica "Freddie" Nebeker the ' - Ir-11 top-quali- ty poverished families ! kooke4§iihi ( EM11"11-11-- " ment of Education (USDE) Dealing With Dropouts published by the USDE's Office of Educational Re search and Education reports that "Evaluations of preschool programs suggest early intereffects vention can have long-teron disadvantaged children by decreasing their need for special programs and lowering delinquency rates" pregnancy and drop-ou- t As a natural outgrowth of its commitment to educate children of im- ' Aiaig464itOi16 4 ' i' ' ' ' ' k ' '' ' - lf :isic't:L'tVb& ': ' —Tribune Staff Photo by Tim Kelly Narciso Sitz left Carlos Montero at Guadalupe Schools' Early Learning Center enjoy computer class first-grade- schools' director of development The following year a second preschool class for will be organized in addition to from the initial class The expansion requires relocating Guadalupe Schools to a larger site the old Bishop Glass School 340 Goshen St with exclusive use for the next 10 years donated by the Catholic Diocese The George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation awarded major funding for renovation Utah Power & Light Co with the PacifiCorp Foundation provided a grant for furniture and equipment and capital funds have been donated by the Union Pacific Foundation and member banks of the Financial Foundation The Wilford Brim ley Foundation founded by the Utah actor is staging the Second Annual Celebrity Dinner-Auctio- n & Social Oct 5 at the Red LionSalt Lake for the schools' benefit The preceding evening in lieu of last year's Celebrity Round-U- p the actor will be host at "Wilford Brim ley & Friends in Concert" at Symphony Hall The schools' financial goal with the two events is $170000 or enough to operate the preschool for two and one-hayears according to Mrs Nebeker The Guadalupe Center was founded in 1966 as a resource for adults In 1970 the center expanded its programs to in rs lower-grad- e education for disadvantaged children Gradually criteria for enrollment in the Early Learning Center has become more specific as a means to help those most in need Students accepted into the ELC come from households that fall within government poverty guidelines and whose parents have not graduated from high school "Those are the most common indicators for future high school dropouts It's an identifiable cycle that continues to repeat itself" Mrs Nebeker explained testing is another indicator for inclusion she added who recognizes his The name in print or who is familiar with five or more letters of the alphabet is more educationally advanced than the population the school strives to serve Parents who enroll their children in Guadalupe Schools are committed to reversing the cycle in which they've been trapped Their children are required to maintain a near-pe- r fed attendance record and parents agree to attend regular meetings and participate in the schooling process For those not willing to meet Guadalupe's strict guidelines there are hundreds of children to fill in de-spite the presence of other early intervention programs like Head Start said Mrs Nebeker "More than 6000 children in the Salt Lake District alone have been identified as meeting the same criteria of need that Guadalupe serves There is a need for all of us" Guadalupe is proud of its success Miriam stories Eighteen-year-ol- d Guzman is one Miriam graduated this spring from Judge Memorial High School and started classes last week at the University of Utah attending on scholarship Miriam attended Guadalupe kindergarten through third grade in the 1970s The eldest and at the time only child of immigrants — her mother from South America her father from Mexico where Miriam was born — she easily fit the school's enrollment criteria She benefited from the small classes and individualized help particularly in English dude nt After her C'1 via Darling And Cute But usually one or the other Rarely do they say both darling and cute to the same dress or jump suit The words have two different meanings If it's conservative it's "darling" If it's unusual or small — a silly frilly little thing — it's "cute" If a woman emerges from the changing room wearing a sequined burlap bag made into a string bikini the clerks all gather around tittering and giggling and shriek in unison two-wor- The more fervently they say "darling" or "cute" the more revolting the garment they are trying to unload They may have a lot of clothes in a clothing store but candor is in short supply It is a natural friendly impulse to mind-rottingl- 4'4' T 61' o rIPA i r 4A ' r ' '''"k4uk it ' " Tote :41 '' '' v ':e' '41444- 'N 'r''''1Z41I'ts:t1 - 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Of course they do something similar in men's stores Oh they don't tell a man the outfit he is trying on is darling Men around here tend to shun a store where the clerks all look at your outfit and exclaim "Dar- ling" And men's clothes don't come in two sizes — darling and cute Men's clothes come in one size — sharp! When I emerge from the changing room in the orange corduroy jump suit they are praying to unload the clerks all raise their eyes to heaven put their hands together in front of or 1 r NSM ''"'-- t vi ' -- 7 ' ' - 4t- - el Bill Hall say flattering things about another person's clothing And there is a place for the social flattery of white lies But some of these outfits stretch a white lie into the gray scale and beyond And when you add the profit motive to that impulse there is no such thing as an unattractive garment — especially if you are the store owner who will get stuck with the burlap bikini You never hear a store clerk greet someone emerging from the changing rooms with a frank assessment They don't say "Dreadful!" or They grit their teeth and say "Darling!" and NI I t The youngest of Miriam's siblings at Yanira is a Guadalupe the fifth Guzman child to attend the school "The school's even better now They have computers that the kids start working on in kindergarten" said Miriam of her sister's progress The highly acclaimed "Writing to Read" phonetics program donated to the school by IBM several years ago introduces children to the al first-grad- non-prof- it c ' 4 -- I 't ) b( t i1 i 4 tt ' Priemetg 4 - t I!i ' i'i' 20Kplalioitiat: Patricia Beamson MD and VEderie K Logsdon MD are pleased to announce the association of op i 444'1 1 SALE ? 4788 41t- - 4A - Post Impressions'Perm e 4 charge etlectro Sale once through Saturday October Oth w tt ' Open Sundays ft - I t Idl i ir :Iiifill4' tvti: I 272-843- 1 7' Bountiful Valley Fair Mall I Open Sundays 11:30 c I Inc 990 JCPenney Company ! 262-866- 6 11111011111EMErtM truth: "I don't care for the yellow of your coat or the red of your slacks but I love the green of your wallet" " a OFF 967-01- 03 AM-4:- PM k Iti''tr k le400roorabbarm 1 - ' CAINIA1)1ANPINEt3- GARLAND 8" X 9'' REG 0- 1- s- - i s‘—':1 4 77' --- - :1 : Pall - 994'14'--- ) p'- — - s:P- -z $3 x 9IREG 8899 SALE 101' ''I :zvt-0:- :: $299 8699 SALE 1: - - — ALL TULIP pAINT Includes A GlowIn-Dar- GREAT for k those Halloween Costumes i ( 00 ruLdp PRODUCTIONS - 7 - 0 2 ft I Our New Decorating Department! t PIN C1 r ' Come In And See 0eg- I 1111) I -- : k ULTRA STUFF 02 pi 12 ob - BAG REG $369 25')o OFF 4normiamenat: Cz I Christmas Decor ' -- -- - '''::" ato ? 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But I'm getting tired of hearing the same few words over and over It's boring Just once I would like to see my wife come out of the changing room and hear the clerks utter more than two words even if it's the same old line in a longer form Instead of "cute" or "darling" how about a comment with a little more substance: "A lot of women your age couldn't wear a miniskirt a leather halter and a seersucker sun bonnet all at the same time But you have the grace the audacity and the intricate understanding of stylistic blendings to achieve a triumph that would be - t or their faces in a gesture of awe and I VERTICALS 't Mir- year third-grad- e ic iam transferred to St Ann's School and continued a private education at High School particJudge Memorial program to ipating in a work-stud- y pay her tuition With a Chicano Minority Scholarship she plans to major in psychology and asocial behav-in ior combined with degree Spanish "I've discovered that when you're in an environment where you can learn people will help you" said Miriam of her education as well as of her aspirations for the future "I want to do something with which I can help other people By being Hispanic speaking both languages I think I can be effective and tell people how important education Two words describe women's clothes Women's clothing comes in two sizes — darling and cute I know that because I hang out a lot in women's clothing stores though not to try on anything myself The fact is I am married to a woman And she wears women's clothing even if I don't She accompanies me when I buy men's clothing and I accompany her when she buys women's clothing That's how I know there are only two kinds of women's clothing — darling and cute Either that or the clerks in clothd vocabuing stores have a lary — darling and cute Whatever the explanation those are the only two words you hear in one of those places Somebody should start a chain by that name — the Darling and Cute Shoppes It is an ancient ritual A woman takes something off the rack and disappears into the changing room She emerges a few moments later wearing the garment and all the clerks gather around and exclaim over it: "Darling!" they rave "Cute!" they exult y No matter how ugly the garment in question they always say the same thing: phabet an expanded vocabulary the computer keyboard and eventually through writing For envistudents from ronments the exposure is especially exciting and the results rewarding said teacher's aide Mary House Besides individual donations to Guadalupe Schools including the Voluntary Improvement Program (VIP) teaching English and survival skills to adult immigrants the programs are assisted by United Way Mr Brim ley who made his professional singing debut last month in Los Angeles has called upon his entertaining friends to join him on the Symphony Hall stage for Wilford Brim ley & Friends in Concert Oct 4 at 7 pm Although he's still accepting responses early accompanists include Baxter Black Bill Brim ley Gary Collins Joyce Collins David Huddleston Mary Ann Mobley Red Steagall and Joe Williams Concert tickets are 620 available in advance at the Salt Palace Symphony Hall and Smith's Tix or that evening at the door & The Celebrity Dinner-Auctio- n Social is in the Grand Ballroom Red LionSalt Lake beginning with the silent auction and social at 6 pm dinner at 7:15 and live auction at 8 Auction items include airline tickets resort vacations cruises and river trips sporting equipment a fur coat and memorabilia from films and participating actors Suggested attire affair is for the "black tie to blue jeans" As a second language at home English has always been her most difficult subject in school she said "Guadalupe taught me that you have to accept responsibility and do things for yourself I've learned discipline and good study habits Guadalupe helped me with that" We 111 HI With 8 Locations to Serve You ILT J 1 I |
