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though he had that disease, he just let his life
go on as if he was a normal person.”
The walk, organized by the Cystic Fibro
sis Foundation, hopes to raise $150,000 for
research on a disease that kills 365 Ameri
cans each year
Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease which
causes the exocrine glands to produce abnor
mally thick layers of mucus which then
block the bronchi. The disease is fatal with a
medium life expectancy of 30.5 years. One of
every 3,300 births are diagnosed with cystic
fibrosis.
When 10-year-old Rory Weitzel, diag
nosed with cystic fibrosis, thought about
what he would like to do in Heaven, he told
friends he wanted to be the person who made
the clouds.
In Saturday’s Walk to Cure Cystic Fibro
sis, a statewide fundraiser, walkers will walk
in memory of Rory, who died Aug. II o f last
year.
Walkers in Portland, Eugene, Pendleton,
Roseburg, Brandon and Wallowa will honor
Rory’s spirit and determination.
“He was the bravest person I’ve ever
known,” said his best friend, 11-year-old
Conway McDorald-O’Leat, who has orga
nized a team of walkers called Rory’s Row
dies.
In last year’s walk, the Rowdies raised
more than $4,000. The team is composed of
Rory’s family, his former hospital nurses
and his friends and former classmates at
Holy Redeemer Area School in north Port
land.
The fact that this year’s walk is dedicated
to Rory is largely he work of Conway who
wants to be sure no one forgets his friend and
who wants more people to become involved
in finding a cure for cystic fibrosis.
“ It’s kind of hard for me and so 1 wanted
for other people with the disease to not go
through what he did,” said Conway. “Even
Friends o f the late Rory
Weitzel prepare bulletin board
in his honor. The students at
Holy Redeemer Area School in
north Portland are Patrick
From her z (from left), Conway
McDonald-0’Lear, Kealani
Haines, Angela Richard, Jason
Norris and Brianne Holmbeck.
(Photo by Nell Heilpem)
Child center anything Oregon 8th graders lead on tests
but ordinary
As the child care debate rages, a team of
¡xperts has built its beliefs into a building:
he Husky Child Development Center.
The prototype child care center shows
hat the facility itself can provide the sense of
safety and positive stimuli children need in
irder to feel secure and grow optimally.
The new Center was built for Husky Injec-
:ion Molding Systems Inc. in Bolton, Ontario.
Headed by developmental psychologist
Anita Rui Olds, Ph D., world renowned for
tier pioneering work in designing environ
ments for children, the team includes archi
tect Barbara Winslow and interior design/
color specialist Carla Mathis.
The group capitalized on their diverse
backgrounds to create a day care setting
vastly different from today’s more institu
tional facilities.
Most day care centers rely entirely on the
staff to nurture a child’s development.
The Husky Center shows that the environ
ment can be another teacher, encouraging
individuality, creativity and the healthy
growth of children.
The team used human-scaled architec
tural elements, a home-like layout, furnish
ings, color and lighting, and ethnic and
hand-crafted details to design the unique
setting.
“Research shows that the sensory envi
ronment children confront in their early
years can promote or inhibit a child’s physi
cal, emotional, social and intellectual devel
opment,” said Dr. Olds, director of The
Child Care Design Institute at the Harvard
Graduate School of Design and Tufts Uni
versity. “As day care, not home, is today's
primary child-rearing habitat, our challenge
is to create day care facilities that provide a
nurturing context for children’s healthy
development.”
The Center is based on Olds’ unique
“residential core” model, which breaks a
large facility into small “houses.” Each
house consists o f age-specific rooms that
open onto a common living/dining/kitchen
area, which children, parents and staff share
as a family. Different “zones” in each room
define a variety of play areas important to the
curriculum. Designed by Winslow, partner
in Jacobson, Silverstein and Winslow and
co-author of The Good House, the layout
supports freedom of movement and the
development of community.
“Children suffer little or no separation
anxiety when they come to the Husky Cen
ter,” said Mathis. “Our use of residential
colors, furnishings and design helps chil
dren feel like they’re walking into a visual
hug, a work of art where they can explore,
discover, rest, and relate to others.”
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Oregon eighth graders outscored their
national counterparts on a 1996 science test
conducted by the National Assessment of
Educational Progress (NAEP).
Oregon students scored 155 on the test,
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