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Show Page 10 A HEADSTAR T FOR EVERYONE Turn Around And They're All Grown Up" by Joseph Blecha “TODAY IS THE BEGINNING of the rest of my life. . .help me to succeed’ was the banner under which thirty-two little people marched and sang as they graduated from classes at the Central City -Head Start Day Care Center September 24th. Special significance was attached to this graduation by the fact that parents of all the children attended as well as friends and relatives. The: plan was to get the parents involved in the lives and futures of their children. . .a goal which the proud smiles displayed by the adults may well prove to have been reached. Paul E. Owens, Director of the Head Start Day Care Center at CenttalCity and: parent co-ordinator Alberta Henry explained that along with giving the children a headstart, one of the primary goals is’ to get the parents motivated and involved and encouraged to keep their offspring in school. Mrs. Henry said, “the idea is to get the parents, the mother, the father or both, as well as the child into. the program to change their lives too. . . because we do nothing if we improve these children. . .give them a headstart with their new skills, then they go back home to the same environment. . .with no help at home the child slips back into the same old habits. That's why it’s so important to have the parents in the program.” A “help lot of people me did pitch to succeed’. in to . .students from. the University of Utah, women from the first Methodist Church. . .senior citizens at Wasatch Manor, a local the printer who radio station, made the children received. even the diplomas |
