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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.
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Linfield College
Receives Books
McMinnville Some 850 new
keys to learning have been made
available to Linfield college stu
dents this past year through the
W. H. Kellogg foundation of Bat
tle Creek, Mich.
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.
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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 . . .
Research that aims at giving
managers what they now think
they want better tools to im
plement their current image
will contribute little."
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though he retired from the bar
ber trade several months ago,
every day is Labor Day for L.
D. Johnson. Johnson, who was
born Sept. 3, 1894, was named
Labor Day by his father, who
drew a $2 fine from his union for
failing to march in a parade at
Omaha, Neb., the day of his
son's birth.
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