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Instruction materials center at Sutheriin was
proven highly-successful last year under the direction of
Mrs. Ruby Holloway, shown here with her back to The
News-Review camera. Mrs. Holloway is pictured handing a
film strip to junior high school teacher Mrs. Genevive Mur
phy. The moterials center, located in the Sutheriin Junior
High library, was o pace-setter for the area. .
New State Law Changes
Title Of County Office
The office of the Douglas County
Supt. of Schools has officially been
changed in title, but will remain
basically the same in operation,
effective Sept. 2.
A new state law, brought into ef
fect by Senate Bill 409 of the last
legislature, changed the title of
the district from the Douglas Coun
ty Rural School District . to the
Douglas County Intermediate Edu
cation District.
County Supt. of Schools Kenneth
Barneburg said there will be no
changes required in the staff of
the county office. He said the
change made by the legislature
provides specifically for the coun
ty office to be . more of a service
unit to the local school districts.
The law points out the county of
fice may provide services and fa
cilities including, but not limited
to (1) central purchasing) (2) li
brary facilities; (3) curriculum
materials; and (4) special teach-
School Census
Figures Viewed
Figures available from the Doug
las County School office show the
average daily membership in all
school districts in the county last
year was 17,076 students per day.
Heading the list was Roseburg,
with an average daily membership
of 6,205, Next came Myrtle Creek,
1,637, Winston-Dillard at 1,508, and
Sutheriin at 1,253.
Smallest average in the county
was at Ash Valley (Loon Lake)
with a daily membership of 6 in
the one-room school.
Other average membership figures:
Oakland
L'anyonville
Gardiner
Glide
Days Creek
Camas Valley
Drain
Yoncalla
Elklon
Umpqua
Kiddle
Glcndale
Reedsport Elementary
520
373
177
945
326
164
778
477
236
43
628
523
883
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ers and special types of education.
This may be done through a
county-wide levy upon resolution
by two-thirds of the local school
boards which have at least a ma
jority of the pupils included in the
average daily membership 'of the
district; or by a contract agree'
ment with individual school dis
tricts. The method to be used here
will be determined later, and the
office will operate this year as it
has in the past.
The law provides that present
members of the Rural School Board
will finish out their unexpired
terms. Those members are Chair
man George A. Wilcox of Oak
land; Eugene H. Fisher, Elkton
Frank White, Gardiner; Harold
Glover, Roseburg; Marion Krebs,
Winston; Guy McGee, Days Creek
and Harry Young, Glide.
The law also provides that all
members of the budget board shall
be members of a local school
board when appointed to the coun
ty committee. The board will also
Tsoard and committee for reorgani
zation of school districts.
Barneburg explained the new law
removes most of the statutory du
ties of the county superintendent
of schools when he served as an
elective oflicer and gives these du
ties to the board as elective offi
cers. The superintendent remains
executive officer and secretary of
the board, thereby continuing in
the same basic capacity.
Legislature Boosts
State School Funds
Property taxpayers from all over
the county get a break of sorts this
year with announced increases in
the Basic School Support Fund and
the Common School Fund.
The increased amounts were add
ed to the anticipated revenue sec
tions of all district school budgets
and equal amounts were subtract
ed from tax levies needed to bal
ance the budgets.
The county's 19 school districts
will receive a total 82,952,109.58
from the Basic School Fund and
$205,849.84 from the Common
school fund. Ash Valley, the small
est district, receives $1,936.95 and
$90.40.
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'Creative
Program
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One of the newest developments
in the ever-increasing attempt to
adapt modern education to meet
the needs of today's student is the
creative student program develop
ed last year by Sutheriin Junior
High School principal Richard
Scott.
The informal experimental pro
gram dealing with creative stu
dents in the Sutheriin district at
tracted interest throughout the Pa
cific Northwest last year and is
expected to increase this year
as the program is expanded and
materials and controls added.
Scott, who originated the pro
gram with the encouragement and
help of Dr. Paul Torrance of the
University of Minnesota, reports
that plans call for establishment
of similar grouping at the fifth
grade level in both elementary
schools in Sutheriin this fall and
establishment of a control group at
the eighth grade level. The latter
will include 12 students of high
creative ability and 12 of lesser
creative ratings but with matching
intelligence and achievement
scores.
This is the only program of its
kind in the nation.
The students are tested in the
spring to discover creative factors'.
The test is one devised by Scott
with initial help and approval from
Dr. Torrance. Test scores are
compared with teacher ratings on
observance of some of the creative
factors and the top ranked stu
dents are grouped for the creative
classes.
Among the tested and observance
factors identifying the creative stu
dents are unusual art and writing
abilities, a distrubing effect when
in a group of peers, ability to en
tertain contradictory facts and
come to' a logical conclusion, ex
treme highs and lows in interests,
occupational goals, desire for in
dependence in activity, and
thoughts on unusual uses for com
mon objects.
Interest Shown
Since the article on the program
in the December 1962 issue of Ore
gon Education and a talk given by
Scott at the fourth annual Oregon
Education Association Research
Conference in Portland, inquiries
about the program have come in
with an ever-increasing crescendo.
Dr. Henry Osibov, director of re
search for the OEA, reported 1,000
abbreviated brochures on the pro
gram have been dispatched from
his office. In Sutheriin requests for
visitations, speeches and additional
information contained in a tnree
times revised compilation on the
program have been coming from
all parts of the state.
Educators and groups expressing
interest in and seeking further in
formation about the program have
been from Seaside, Oregon City,
Glide, Hood River, Roseburg, Port
land, Medford, Myrtle Creek, Winston-Dillard,
the Douglas County
Elementary Principals Association,
the California Testing Bureau, Min
nesota, and others.
A recent May visitation brought
five elementary principals from
the Medford school system. The
principals visited the creative class
then discussed aspects of the pro
gram and its future with Suther
iin Superintendent Raymond Mul
len and Principal Scott. The Med
ford group included Robert Phil
lips, Ronald Weatherford, Harold
Pre-Registration Needed
Eighth graders who are new res
idents in the Myrtle Creek school
district must pre-register at the
upper elementary school. The of
fice will be open Aug. 19 from 9
a.m.
p.m.
Boner, Francis Guidry, and Bruce
Metzger.
In the latest revision of informa
tion on the project, Scott has in
cluded present and future aspects
of the program, comments from
Dr. Torrance, identification factors
for teachers, the test devised and
used to identify students at the 4th
and 6th grade levels and results
of the 1963 testing with observa
tions and notes on correlations be
tween teacher ratings and test
scores.
Identification Important
Scott expressed hope that inter
est in this program will bring to
smo
other districts the need for identifi
cation and understanding of the
creative student whether he is plac-
ea in a Heterogeneous or a homo
gencous setting.
"These students often whistle a
different tune and are often mis
understood at home, among their
peers and in the classroom, he
said. "They desperately need un
derstanding of what they are try
ing to communicate. Without this
understanding, they often become
discipline problems and even po
tential dropouts. With it, they have
the path lighted for many signifi
cant contributions to society."
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SUTHERLIN JUNIOR HIGH students remain classed together 'in the special groupings for -creative
students. Here the same group as pctured below in a science class receives in-.'
structions in Mrs. Alice West's language arts class. Principal Richard Scott, who became "
the first in the nation to try such a program when installed at Sutheriin last year, re-
ports it is drawing a great deal of attention throughout the Northwest. (News-Review"'
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the first
ast year become
such
CREATIVE STUDENTS at Sutheriin Junior High School
children in the nation to receive instruction in SDecial classes involvina the nrouninn of
students with -high creative factors. Shown here are a group of the students in the science
class of instructor Anton Brown. The program is being expanded this year to include 5th,
6th and 7th grades.
Tues., Aug. 20, 1963 The News-Review, Roseburg. Or. 3
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cent of the graduating classes
from all schools in the county but
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