Sewickley Herald

              
Vol. 47 No. 24
SEWICKLEY, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1950
Price Ten Cents
Graduates At. Rutgers University
Miss Frances E. Kramer Miss Frances E. Kramer of Sewickley received a bachelor of arts degree at the 29th annual commencement exercises Wednesday at New Jersey College for Women, the woman’s college of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, at New Brunswick, N. J.
Miss Margaret T. Corwin, dean of New Jersey College for Women, presented the seniors to Dr. Robert C. Clothier, president of the State University, who conferred the degrees. Dr. Althea K, Hottel, national president of the Ameri-
can Association of University Women and dean of women at the University of Pennsylvania, gave the commencement address, “Education for What?”
Miss, Kramer is the daughter of Louis E. Kramer of 607 Blackburn Avenue, Sewickley, and the late Mrs. Kramer. A graduate of Sewickley High School, she served in the WAVES from 1944-’46, and attended Edinboro, Pa., State Teachers College the following year.
Entering New Jersey College for Women as a sophomore, she majored in library service. She has been a member of the Spanish Club, chairman of the library committee of Government Association, and belonged to HEPS, the history, economics, and political science club. For two weeks this year she received professional librarian training as an “intern” at the U. S. Book Exchange in Washington, D. C.
Seventh Grade Pupils To Graduate
Promotion Exercises Next Thursday
Tile promotion exercises of the seventh grade of the Sewickley Public School will be held at 8 o’clock on Thursday evening, June 15th, in the auditorium of the Broad Street school. An interesting program of prose and poetry will be given, with a student reading a poem or history of a writer’s life, while other students portray the event or occasion. The class will sing several songs and the presentation of the reports will be by Paul N. Critchlow, president of the Board of Education.
Photo by Dcllic Martin Studio St James pupils received Legion awards. Left to right, Mrs. P. G. Kaufman, JOnn HoJes> Richard Parrish and Charles Gordon.
manhood.
Mrs. P. G, Kaufman of the American Legion Auxiliary presented Joan Holes of the eighth grade of St. James School with the American Legion Auxiliary Award. This award is made to the girl of the graduating class of the eighth grade in the public, or its equivalent in the junior high, parochial, rural or private schools who shall receive the highest percentages of the ballots.
The students of the eighth grade decide who will bo the winners of these awards by casting bnlltos. They base tlicir choice on the following qualities i honor, scholarship, service, Americanism, leadership and courage.
Mrs, Paul Whitney Reports Results Of Her Work In Valley
Photo By McCandless Studio
Representatives of different organizations gathered at the Council Chamber of the Sewickley Borough Building Thursday night to hear Mrs. Paul Whitney’s report on her work in the schnols in the last two months. Front row, 1. to r. Mrs. F. E. Richardson, Jr., and Mrs. Paul Whitney. Rear row, in the usual order, George Moore, Mrs. Robert Nix, Mrs. Thomas Stevenson, Paul Critchlow, Mrs. William Bachman pnd Mrs. George Moore.
Community Calendar
Thursday, June 8
10 a. m. Osborne School Picnic, at Massachusetts Grove, North Park.
8:15 p. m. Graduation Exercises at Edge-worth School.
8:30 p. m. Child Health Association public meeting, Council Chamber, Sewickley Borough Building.
Friday, June 9
8 p. m. Class Night at Sewickley High School.
All Day, Field Day at Osborne School.
Saturday, June 10
8 p. m, Sewickley Academy Canasta-Bridge party. Academy Auditorium.
Sunday, June 11
8 p. m. Baccalaureate Service for Sewickley High School seniors at the Sewickley Methodist Church.
Monday, June 12
6:30 p. m. Annual meeting of Sewickley Business and Professional Women’s Club at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, With installation of officers.
Tuesday, June 13
9:30 a. m. Closing Exercises, Sewickley Academy. J. Conway Macon, speaker.
8 p. m. Commencement Exercises at Sewickley High School.
AH Day, Sewickley Borough Clean-Up, East of Broad Street.
„ Wednesday, Juno 14
All Day, Sewickley Borough Clean-Up, West of Broad Street.
Thursday, June 15
8 p. m. Sewickley Public School Graduation Exercises.
Friday, June 16
2:30 p. m. Women’s Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church will meet in the Church Hous.e,
Monday, June 19
The Vacation Church School for the yOung people of Sewickley Valley will begin Monday morning. Kindergarten at tire Lutheran Church; Primary in Methodist and Juniors in tho Presbyterian Church.
Public Meeting To Be Held Tonight
The Child Health Association sponsored a meeting last Thursday night in the Borough Building council chamber, at which Mrs. Paul Whitney made a report concerning her two months of work in the schools of Sewickley, Edge-worth and Glen Osborne. Representatives of most of the civic organizations of tire Valley were invited to hear the report and to discuss the feasibility of employing Mrs. Whitney for six months next school term to conduct a Counseling Service in the community.
Mr. Paul Critchlow, president of the Sewickley School Board, introduced Mrs. Whitney by commending her for her work which he felt to have been of "inestimable” value. Her days were spent in the five schools interviewing ihe pupils who needed help and most of her evenings were filled with counseling parents who came to her apartment for interviews. Mrs. Whitney thanked the people of the Valley for their friendliness and commented that she had never found finer community cooperation. This experience has meant the accomplishment of a dream which she has had and the “high point” of a career of thirty-five years in working with children. She has long felt that counseling in the high school begins too late — that problems begin in the home. Here she feels we have proved that problems can be spotted from pre-school age, up, through her three avenues of approach; interviewing teachers, suggestions to parents for aids in behavior problems, and counseling children. She feels that in these two months she has “barely scratched the surface.”
Usually the child who needed help was pointed Out by ihe teacher, who knew of the need but, with _her many other duties, did not have the time to spend on the solution. Her many lectures made parents conscious of problems, and interviews and marriage counseling was inevitable because so many problems originate in the home. Mrs. Whitney stated that she had never seen so many parents who were, without the privilege of help in bringing up their families. This education, Mrs. Whitney feels, is the bed rock of child development, and without it we do hot have the spirit and
education which will strengthen the home, which will in turn, strengthen our Democracy. The family works together, inspired by the churches, to build a strong community. In this working together the children who have needs and the parents who need help must find a realization.
Mrs. Whitney paid special tribute to the Child Health Association and to the committee, headed by Mrs. Robert Nix, which had worked so tirelessly with her.
Mrs. Nix thanked Mrs. Morton Burden, Jr., Mrs. F. E. Richardson, Jr., and Mrs. Thomas Stevenson for their help on the committee. In conference with Dr. Tyler, head of the Child Guidance Clinic in Pittsburgh, they spoke to him of the work which had been done and that which was still left to do. Dr. Tyler feels that this work, of community guidance will, in fifteen years, be felt to be an essential part of community service. Mrs. Nix stated that Mrs. Whitney had agreed to come back for a six months period each year for two years, to get the community started on a family counseling program. Mrs. Whitney explained drat die ideal plan would include work in the high school with seniors in a course on preparation for family living and marriage. A family counseling service would be set up where parents could come for interviews, where diere would be a series of lectures for engaged couples in preparation for marriage and courses for the expectant mother and the young mother. Also in the high school periods would be devoted fo problems of family living, home buying, etc., and in child development.
Mrs. Richardson outlined the financial problem of the venture which would cost approximately $7,000. She explained that the meeting had been called to discuss ways and means of raising the money. Mrs. Whitney has had offiers to work in other communities and feels that she cannot ask them to wait too long for her decision. The plan, as outlined, would have the counseling service in October, November and December. Mrs. Whitney would schedule her lecture tour in January, February and March, and would return to Sewickley for April, May and June. Several representatives of organizations spoke in favor of the plan but could not speak for the organization
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