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Show I'' $1 i i .jit"-1111 -... W'" i i'im ' iiwiii .inn --.y --- ; 1 f$mik& i"n , . . , . . . ; ; 1 'ilj!1;1; ,, f rtZi'h. ''fvi sjf j , v MwMm ) tete."- ,,, w ma,Bnii m MuiHiuHmvuiii'i ' n i ' nm mHMuiuiiiw mmmmmmmmmmmmmm :iBaikBBBiiiiianiiiiuniiiitiiiiuHu.; HiUUUiuumhMi. m.i . SPECIAL PROGRAM AT SUSC. VIS- tion from Mrs. Geneva Singer. Pro-TA Pro-TA pre-school children receive instruc- gram was termed a great success. fe-sdiool children complete training program a -U S C 'Thirteen pre-school children representing a variety of ethnis groups have completed a year ctf special laboratory experience under the guidance guid-ance of the Southern Utah State College VISTA program. ; According to Mrs. Faye healthy children," Mrs. Price said. She added that plans are now underway for the preschool pre-school program to resume next fall, probably early in Qctdber. Christine Puetz, VIST volunteer vol-unteer from Chehalis, Wash., has assisted in organizing and directing the program. During spring quarter, Margaret Ar-rendondo, Ar-rendondo, Salt Lake City, and Doug Werner, Cedar City, filled fil-led (field placement assignments assign-ments in the laboratory to complete requijements for their bachelor's degrees in socilology. Mrs. Price said, also, that the StOSC family life staff, and department head Mrs. Ada Carpenter, has Contributed much time and effort to the program. Price, VISTA director at the college, the children have learned an excellent variety of skills and have strengthened strengthen-ed their communications proficiency pro-ficiency significantly as a result re-sult of the. training. Included in the group have been two Nigerian girls, Ek-aete Ek-aete and Iboro Ekanam, who with their mother arrived -in Cedar City, from their native country in January to join their father, Efifiong Johnny Ekanem, a student at SUSC. "When the Ekanem children arrived in this country they apoke very little English and were socially withdrawn in children's groups," Mrs. Price said. She now reports that the two youngsters, ages 4 and 2, have become quite fluent in English and have made a good social adjustment. "Both enthusiastically participate in the academic and play activities act-ivities such as coloring, drawing, draw-ing, and learning to recognize numbers and letters." she said. Others In the group are of Indian extraction, represent- ing the Piute and Navajo Tribes. They, too, have benefited bene-fited from the activities directed direct-ed at achieving better communications com-munications skills and comprehension com-prehension of educational concepts, con-cepts, Mrs. Price said. One of the assistants in the preschool pre-school lag is Mrs. Geneva Singer, a Navajo volunteer from Tuba City, Ariz., who came to Cedar City with her husband Stan, also a student at SUSC. Her own daughter, Rhonda, Is enrolled In the program, pro-gram, enabling Mrs. Singer to combine her professional work and child rearing re-sponsilbilities. re-sponsilbilities. Other children who have participated in the VISTA pre-school pre-school are Benny Begay, Kris Jake Jeanine Begay, Michelle Little, Guy Littlefield, Susan McKane, Robbie Burke, Robbie Sherman, Nina Zuniga, and Joyce Muir. Some of the children were referred to the school by Health Start, another SUSC administered program, designed design-ed bv the VS. Department of Health, Education and Welfare Wel-fare to assist children who might in some way be educationally educa-tionally disadvantaged, either physically or emotionally. Still other children were enrolled in the program by parentsf who sought the cultural cult-ural advantages of their children child-ren offered by the laboratory. "By the end of the year, we felt we were working with a group of exceptionally happy, |