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O C O 0 O MEDFORD MAIL '1H1BUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 3, JU fa m Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Copyright, Hall Syndicate, Inc. DROPOUT SEASON BEGINS This week and next mark the opening of high schools across the country. This week and next also mark the start of the "drop out season" for the frightening record of the past shows that nearly one-third of those who drop out of high school will do so in the first six weeks of the term and thereby not only doom themselves to the bleakest employment-earnings prospect but also create an explosive economic-social problem for all of us. This week, therefore, is the time when crash programs to encourage our youngsters to stay in school or go back to school should get into high gear from coast to coast. In New York City, crash programs are going on, other programs are being accelerated and they are having an impact. In the last couple of years, the annual dropout rate in New York City has declined 2 per cent against a national average decline of 1 per cent. That's not great progress but it is a move in the right direction so here are the details. i. (1) A New York City Mayor's committee will be directing a substantially expanded stay-in-school publicity program through out September. It consists of intensive radio and TV promotion and personal counseling to potential dropouts based on the strong economic theme "the more you learn, the more you earn." Mo bile stay-in-school units will be touring the city's neighborhoods. Favorite entertainers among teenagers will be leading neighbor hood rallies to help pound home the message. (2) The city's Board of Education will be holding "last ; chance" counseling sessions in 76 high schools on three successive .Monday nights throughout the month. Dropouts and recent gradu ates who have been floundering will be invited to return to their ; schools for expert guidance on study courses and future jobs. ,Paul Driscoll, a Brooklyn high school principal and coordinator ,of the city's anti-dropout programs, estimates that at least 10 ;per cent of this year's potential dropouts reached by the "last jchance" program will be persuaded to remain in school, j (3) DriscolPs group has just wrapped up a similar hearten 'ingly successful program. In August, counselors in six "under jprivileged" schools gave interviews on studies and future jobs ito 1,300 youngsters. Says Driscoll, "90 per cent of those coun selled have decided to stay in school. The response to our invita Jtions was far bigger than we expected." ' (4) New York's state-wide STEP (School to Employment Pro-,-gram) has tripled its efforts in the past five years, now reaches .16 New York City schools and schools in six other cities in the ! state. This is a half-work, half -study program study in the -mornings, work in the afternoons. It has three main aims: keep .the kids off the streets, train them through work for full-time '.jobs or, hopefully, get them back to school full-time. STEP experience so far indicates that one-third go into full-time jobs jor military service, one-third go back to full-time school, the rest stay with the half-and-half deal. The program covers about 1,000 potential dropouts each year. j (5) The city's long-standing "Cooperative Education Pro ,gram". also is being stepped up. Under this one, two youngsters !hold down a single job, alternating work with study. While the jwork-study program is now in fairly wide use throughout the 'country, the big thing about New York City's program this year is that, as a spokesman put it, "The city is literally making hun dreds of jobs available to participants." At the heart of the dropout program is the need for re designing of study courses to meet the practical needs of problem students and to prepare them for the mechanical or technical jobs that they can fill and that will be available. On this, work is just beginning. But we cannot afford to wait for realistic redesigning of high school curricula. This is dropout season and the time is today to save hundreds of thousands of teenagers from a lifetime on the economic and social junk pile. DEBRIS PHOTOGRAPHED Washington - (UPI) - The Navy said Monday the deep-diving bathyscaph Trieste last week photographed debris that may have come from the sunken nuc 1 e a r submarine Thresher. The pictures were taken on the bottom of the Atlantic about 220 miles off the New England coast where Thresher sank April 10 with 129 men aboard. 4-Season Jacket Knit this jacket for year 'round fashion and warmth. Note smart contrast edging. Quick - to - memorize, stitch forms stripe; slims larger sizes. 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The keys are in the form of new books added to Northrup li brary here by a $10,000 grant from the Kellogg foundation for the purchase of books to im prove the quality of teacher preparation programs and to in crease the effectiveness of its li brary services in general. The qualifications going witn the grant stipulated that the books purchased with the funds were not to be exclusively in professional education, but were to include other academic de partments that prepare students for teaching. Many of the books acquired through this program are of use to students other than those in teacher education. In this way the teacher preparation program and the overall library services have been improved. Linfield s Kellogg foundation grant is a part of a nation-wide three - year program during which $2,500,000 will be given by the foundation to approximately 250 of the nation's liberal arts colleges. Linfield is now starting its second year in the program. Youth Arrested As Woods Scanned Portland ( UPI ) Arhur Van Morris, 13, of Maupin was taken into custody here late Sunday while 35 volunteers tramped through the woods looking for him near Mt. Hood. The boy was reported miss ing from his cabin in the Zig Zag area Sunday morning by his parents. His mother collaps ed and was hospitalized when searchers failed to find any trace of him. Portland police said he ap parently became bored with the camp and decided to see the the city. They turned him over to Clackamas county juvenile authorities. fir $i ON HONEYMOON Actress Joan Bennett, center, chats with her recently married daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Fred crick E. Guest 11, upon the couple's arrival in London to begin a European honeymoon. Mrs. Guest (Stephanie) 20, is the daughter of Miss Bennett and her former husband, film producer Walter Wanger. Guest, 25, is the son of sportsman Winston E. Guest of New York. (UPI) Schedule Listed At Linfield College McMinnville Linfield col lege will open its doors to fresh men and transfer students on Saturday, Sept. 14. Other stu dents will start returning Tues day, Sept. 17. Registration for freshmen is Sept. 16 and 17. Transfers, sophomores, juniors, seniors, and graduates register Sept. 18. For most returning students the registration process will be simplified because of pre-regis-tration last spring before the summer vacation started. The expansion of the campus has made it impossible for stu dents to walk from one side of the campus to the other in five minutes. To remedy this for the fall semester, the time between class periods has been lengthen ed from five to ten minutes. Management Is Cautioned About Creativity Study A 3 Eugene Technical manage ments are asking the wrong questions and expecting t h e wrong results from research in creativity, according to Dr. Ray Hyman, associate professor of psychology at the University of Oregon. Writing in the August issue of the journal, International Sci ence and Technology, Dr. Hy man warned management that psychological "tools," such as tests for creativity and training programs to make people more creative, have limited, transi tory success at best, and many even have a negative effect on creativity. Although creativity research can make a contribution to man agement practice, the contribu tion will come through funda mental research aimed at a ba sic understanding of man, rather than attempts to devise short term, superficial "tools," which are supposed to increase cre ativity, he pointed out. . "Although management tends to deal with the 'creativity prob lem' by seeking ways to change its employees, any success in changing the employees' crea tivity may boomerang, unless at the same time changes are made in the company organiza tion and leadership," Dr. Hy man observed. False Expectations "False expectations and con sequent resentment can occur when creative people are put into an environment that is not ready for them," according to Dr. Hyman, who has carried on research in creativity for the past several years both at the university and at his -.former post with file General Electric company. The environment in which peo ple work is based on a series of major assumptions about what makes men behave as they do. Some of these assumptions are contradictory, and many .of them "do not hold up well un der psychological investigation," the psychologist said. "Hence, before changing the environment and the creativity of the people in it, we must modify the assumptions on which the environment is based . . ." Dr. Hyman wrote. "Such assumptions can only be altered by basic research in creativity, research whose ob jective is understanding . . . 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