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Show Citizen, Press, Review, Wed., Nov. 21, 1984 - Page 14 Don Selin receives Golden Key Award 4 ' v H. Don Selin, a clinical social worker at the Utah State Training School, was presented with the Golden Key Service Award by the Governor's Committee on Em-ployment of the Handicapped held recently. Mr. Selin says he was nominated for the award by a Cerebral Palsy group called "Wheelpower" because the help he gave them. The group, he says, no longer exists, but members felt lie "understood them better than anyone else they knew. They felt I cared, that I would listen." Mr. Selin says he has always tried to go the extra mile in dealing with individuals with handicaps. "Caring is so important in dealing with people with handicapped," he said, adding, "Understanding is not necessasarily agreeing with them, but the important thing is you listen." Mr. Selin started his employment as a psychiatric and medical social worker at a Veterans Ad-ministration Hospital in San Francisco, California, working with paraplegics. After serving part time as a family counselor with the Family Services Agency in San Jose, Calif., he was employed as senior psychiatric social worker at the State Hospital in Agnew, Calif. That was a 4,700 bed mental hospital and about half of the patients were "warehoused," he recalled, saying "it got to be very frustrating very quickly." From California, Mr. Selin moved to Idaho where he was chief clinical social worker and later director of the training services department at the Idaho State Hospital and Training School. "This was an in-stitution like this one (the training school) and they didn't have any program for clinical socialworkers. I saw it as a challenge and got the program going." Five years later, he moved to Wyoming where he was mental health counselor part time at the Rock Springs Clinic and director of the psychiatric social services department at the Wyoming State Hospital. "I was the first social worker there" and again he assumed statewide responsibility and got the program going. Leaving Wyoming, he took a position as assistant professor of social work at the University of Utah, training students in clinical social work. He says he brought many of his students to the training school to train - so it was only natural that he join the staff at the training school on his next move. He has served as medical social work consultant at the school, and as planner for the Utah Council for the Handicapped and Developmentally Disabled Persons. Presently he is a member of a interdisciplinary clinical team at the school. "I have always wanted to work with people and to help them, even when I was a kid in school," Mr. Selin recalls, saying his career has been "very satisfying, but frustrating. There are so many needs out there (in helping in-dividuals with handicaps) and we keep finding more. We are iden-tifying more people who aren't in the system and who need help. We need to work and find what those needs are and focus on what needs to be done to implement services." Mr. Selin said for years he traveled on his own time - a lot of it at night - to try to find out the needs of the handicapped in the state. Born in Benjamin, he went to the Southern States on a mission for the LDS Church where, he says, he lived with share croppers and first came to know what poverity really is. He spent three years in the service during World War II where he smiles he was a "PFC by act of Congress." Although he studied sociology and speech and secondary education at college, he opted into the field of Social Work. "It didn't pay very much but it promised to be ex-citing." He said working with people with handicapped has made it all wor-thwhile. "The handicapped are so appreciative of so little when they haven't had even that. It is a very satisfying thing." Mr. Selin says all of his personal and professional interests relate back a firm conviction as to the potential if not present worth of every man, and tha( , spintual progress achievement th'S. 3 caring, love, of a kin&. interfere with self JS wherever and however "V Primary interest," Candy contest recipes Rich Caramels By BEA W. ADAMS " 2 cups sugar 18 tsp. salt 2 cups It. Karo syrup 1 sq. butter or margarine 1 can (13 oz) evap. milk 1 tsp. vanilla 1 cup coarsely chopped nuts mixture does not stop boiling and stirring all the time. Cook to a medium to firm ball stage (230-23- 2 to 234-236- ). Add vanilla and nuts and pour into a large buttered pan to cool. Remove from pan when firm, cut in desired pieces, and wrap in plastic wrap (Handiwrap). Note: For caramel corn or carameled apples, cook only to soft Boil sugar, salt and syrup, ball stage! stirring occasionally, until it begins to change color (10 to 15 minutes). Add butter and stir until melted. Add milk gradually, making sure Melt-In-Your-Mou- th Toffee Crunch By PATRICIA GOFF 1 cup sugar 2 sticks margarine (1 cup) xk tsp. vanilla A tsp. almond 3 cup water Topping: about 2 cup grated baking chocolate about Mi cup chopped nuts Put above ingredients in heavy saucepan. Butter a cookie sheet with sides. Stir on medium heat to dissolve ingredients and melt margarine. Turn heat to high till it boils, wash down sides of pan, then turn heat to medium high. Stir constantly, about 10 minutes, until it starts to turn dark. Pour im-mediately on buttered pan. Spread evenly. Sprinkle grated chocolate on top of hot candy, spread when it melts, sprinkle with nuts. Cool thoroughly and break into pieces. Freezes well. Hadfield Hay (made just for grandkids) 1 18 oz. pk. corn flakes 1 13 oz. pk. Rice Krispies 1 14 oz. pk. shredded coconut l'2 cups salted Spanish peanuts Mix the above together in a large pan, breaking up corn flakes with hands. Set aside. 2 cups dark Karo syrup 2 cups sugar 1 cup evaporated milk 1 Tb. butter or margarine Combine Karo, sugar and milk in large heavy saucepan. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly and cook until soft ball stage - 20-3- 0 minutes. Remove from heat, stir in butter. Pour onto dry ingredients and mix well. Press firmly into 3 or 4 buttered dripper pans (9x13). Cut into squares and cool. Black Walnut Divinity By BEA W. ADAMS 2 23 cups sugar 2 egg whites f.g. salt 23 cup It. corn syrup Vz cup hot water 1 tsp. black walnut flavoring Vz cup black walnut pieces Stir sugar, salt, corn syrup and hot water over medium heat until dissolved. Cook without stirring until 250 F. or hard ball stage. Meanwhile beat the egg whites (have them room temperature) until stiff but not dry. Pour cooked syrup slowly over' the beaten egg whites mixing in with a rubber scraper and beating (medium to high speed) until mixture begins to stiffen. Add flavoring and beat in. Fold in nuts. Spoon out onto greased pan. Best Ever Fudge By BEA W. ADAMS 1:,4 cups cream 4 cups sugar dash of salt Vz Tb. It. Karo syrup Vz Tb. butter 4 sqs. unsweetened chocolate 12 Tb. vanilla 1"2 cups coarsely chopped nuts . Pour cream into large heavy pan and add sugar, salt, syrup and butter. Stir over medium-hig- h heat until butter dissolves. Then cover with lid and cook over medium heat, not stirring, until mixture comes to a good boil. Turn heat to low and cook until soft ball stage 227 to 229 F. Pour out on marble slab or a cooled countertop (don't scrape pan) and cool. Beat with wooden paddle. When it starts to thicken add vanilla and continue to beat. Add walnuts and mix in well. Knead and shape into rolls. 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