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AAedford School Staff Members Attend Various Summer Events
Sixty-one teachers and prin
cipals from the Medford
school district will participate
in institutes, workshops, and
other advanced educational
courses throughout the coun
try before school starts in
September.
Some staff members already
are attending various sessions,
others are scheduled to attend
events later in the summer,
and two staff members will
study in 'ireign countries this
summer.
The total of 61 represents
15 per cent of the certified
personnel of the district, and
is believed by school adminis
trators to be the largest num
ber of staff members ever to
participate in summer educa
tional activities.
All or part of the expenses
. - tuition, book fees, and other
expenses - are paid by various
organizations, foundations or
through scholarships.
Others At School
- In addition to the 61 staff
members whose expenses are
partially or fully paid, other
staff members are attending
summer, schools at their own
expense.
Some of the participation in
summer activities is because
of Medford's part in the Ore
gon Program. Twelve staff
members are now attending
two team teaching workshops,
one for secondary level teach
ers at Portland, and one for
elementary school teachers at
Salem.
Attending the Portland
workshop, which ends Aug. 2,
are James Backen, Mrs.
Joanne Smith, Ray Graves,
Mrs. Dorothy Sutter", Gordon
Morris, John McCormack and
Mrs. Clara Wendt.
Program Sponsored
The workshop is sponsored
by the Oregon Program
through the division of in
struction, stale department of
education, and more than 140
secondary school teachers
from throughout the state
registered for the workshop.
Attending the Salem work
shop, also part of the Oregon
Program, are Robert Baccus,
Vernal Goodrich, Roy Gilbert
son, Jerold Martin and Miss
Gladys Durrand. They are
among about 60 elementary
school teachers enrolled in
the workshop.
At both workshops, partici
pants are divided into teams
according to subject matter
and grade level interest. They
observe, plan and teach in a
team situation with one week
devoted to each activity. At
the end of three weeks, they
start the second cycle of three
weeks, alternating in observ
ing, planning and teaching.
Seminar Sessions
Afternoons are being de
voted to seminar sessions and
team planning. Consultants
Young People May
Take Lessons From
Festival Musicians
An announcement of par
ticular interest to young peo
ple of the Rogue River valley
who wish to continue musi
cal educations during the
summer made last week by
the Peter Brltt Gardens Mu
sic and Arts Festival.
They will be given an op
portunity to study with the
visiting musicians drawn here
by the summer festival.
During his recent visit to
southern Oregon, John Tru
deau, conductor of the Port
land Pops orchestra, complet
ed arrangements whereby
young musicians of this area
may study under the top rank
ing musicians who participate
in the Britt Gardens Music
and Arts Festival at Jackson
ville Aug. 11 through 24.
For example, Trudeau said,
local students may have les
sons from Margarett Moore,
pianist and composer, who
has won wide recognition dur
ing her tours; and from Bev
erly LeBeck, former student
at Piatigorsky and Pablo Cas
sals, concert cellist.
Mrs. John (Shirley) Ander
son has information on the
musicians expected, and
would appreciate early calls
from persons interested so
that she may arrange sched
ules for teachers and stu
dents. ;
Young people of the valley
also will be given an oppor-.
tunity to usher during the
festival, Mrs. Anderson an
nounced. Reporting to Lewis M. Ty
cer, secretary of the associa
tion, Trudeau said ticket
sales in the Portland area are
progressing.
The Jacksonville series will
include at least 21 afternoon
and evening concerts, Tycer
reminded the public.
Asked To Invite Friends
He suggested that resi
dents of southern Oregon, in
terested in promoting good
will for the area, and good
music at the same time, in
vite friends and relatives to
visit during the festival dates.
Brochures, telling the festi
val story, are available at 1
King st. and may be obtained
from association members.
There are many areas in
which local residents may co
operate in promoting the fes
tival, according to Mrs. Bert
Pree, president of the asso
ciation. High school groups,
garden club members and
other civic minded individu
als and organizations inter
ested in volunteering for
these projects are asked to
contact Mrs. Pree.
Donald Wendt, Jackson
ville, should be contacted by
persons wishing to usher at
the festival or to help with
preparation of the grounds
or band shell.
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and major speakers for the
Portland workshop have been
retained from throughout the
country.
Sixteen staff members will
participate in a team teaching
workshop at Hoover school in
August, when a four-member
team from Estabrook elemen
tary school in Lexington,
Mass., is in Medford. The
workshop is being planned in
conjunction with Southern
Oregon college's participation
in the Oregon Program.
Participating in the Med
ford workshop will be Gilbert-
son, James Akerill, Mrs. Mar
jorie Blaar, Mrs. Esther Flie
gel, Miss Anna Laura Honts,
Jerry Martin, Baccus, Russell
Carr, Mrs. Barbara Doolen,
Richard Gaulke, Goodrich,
Mrs. Ruth Kaye, Mrs. Freda
Peterson, Bruce M e t z g e r,
Francis Guidry and Mrs.
Pearl Farnsworth.
The workshop will Include
large and small class instruc
tion during morning hours,
and seminar sessions during
the afternoon. It is being held
at Hoover because of con
struction at Wilson school.
Programmed Instruction
Two staff members are at
tending workshops on pro
grammed instruction under
the Oregon Program, and a
third plans to attend a simi
lar workshop in August.
Dr. Justin Dyrud is attend
ing a two-week workshop at
the University of Chicago, and
Robert Lane is attending a
programmed instruction
workshop during the eight
week summer session at the
University of Oregon. Metz
ger plans to attend a similar
workshop for two weeks in
August at Oregon College of
Education.
Herbert Sharp plans to at
tend two foreign language
laboratory workshops, both of
them in August. One is at
Portland State college and the
other at Willamette university
in Salem.
Thirteen staff members are
enrolled in an able and gifted
program workshop at South
ern Oregon college under
scholarships provided by the
state of Oregon able and gift
ed program. They are Ronald
Weatherford, Mrs. Ella Elle,
Mrs. Alice Webb, Mrs. Ger
trude Lorton, Mrs, Patricia
Colley, Mrs. Rebecca Long,
Thora Ward, Mrs. Barbara
Robinson, Mrs. Jeanette
Thompson. Mrs. La Vera
Wryn, Mrs. Charlotte Sweet,
Mrs. Ruby DoddB;: and- Mrs
Jerene Baker. 1 . ...
In Project English
Participating in Project
English at the University of
Oregon this summer are Miss
Sandra Lien and Robert An
derson.
Attending regular summer
sessions under National
Science Foundation grants are
Floyd Pawlowskl, Oregon
State university: Arthur Scott,
University of Minnesota;
Bruce Nelson, Wayne Stale
university, Detroit, Mich.;
Lewis Thanos, Reed college,
Portland; Vernon Arnold, Ore
gon State university; Marvin
Kautz, Stanford university;
and Donald Littman, Val
paraiso university, Ind.
John McKinney is aueno-
Ing a math institute sponsored
by the National science
Foundation at Alameda State
colleee. Alameda, Cam.
Two staff members win at
tend National Defense fcdu
ration Act foreign language
institutes in other countries.
Miss Dorothy Wilson will at
tend one in Spain, and Mrs.
Naomi Van Dyke will attend
one in Guatemala City. Miss
Esther Jones will attend a
similar institute at the Uni
versity of Missouri.
Science Institute
Mrs. Lillian Bohrer Is en
rolled in an NDEA science
institute at the University of
Oregon, and Richard Carter
started a two-month Ameri
can Heritage Foundation lan
guage and culture tour in
Spain last week.
Six staff members are or
plan to attend advanced place
ment institutes. Mrs. Mary
Anne Smith and John Smock
are now attending one in Eu
ropean history at Reed col
lege. The institute enas
Aug. 2.
Charles Nevi, Mrs. Frances
Ruck and Ray Weinhold plan
to attend an English ad
vanced placement institute at
the University of Oregon In
August, and Ralph Hale plans
to attend one on U.S. His
tory at the University of Ore-
son in August.
Vern Wollholl is rcgisierea
In a journalism workshop,
"The Newspaper in the Class
room," at the University of
California at Los Angeles
later this summer.
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