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/ Sec. 2, Pg. 2 - Plaindealer - Wed. Oct 22, 1969 Principal Terms Marian "Strong Academically" "Marian is very strong ac­ ademically this year, "Rev. Philip L. Kennedy, principal of Marian Central (atholic high school, reported to the school's Council of Administration at its regular monthly meeting. u Academic strength has always been a tradition at Marian and this year is no exception." The remarks were included in the principal's verbal report tp the council on the school's 1969-70 program. The report also included enrollment fig­ ures and overviews of the fac­ ulty, the school's activity pro­ gram, and the new fixed mod­ ular schedule. "All faculty members are fully certified," said Father Kennedy, "and all„are teaching in their academic areas which certainly gives strength to our academic programs." The school presently has thirty- six faculty members-24 laymen (16 men - 8 women), 5 nuns and 7 priests. Ten are new to Marian this year. The student- teacher ratio is 19-1. Marian has 543 students from fourteen different parishes in the county. By parishes, the enrollments are: St. Margaret Mary, Algonquin, 36; SS. Pet­ er and Paul, Cary, 13; St. Thom­ as, Crystal Lake, 22; St. Pat­ rick's, Hartland, 5; St. Jo­ seph's, Harvard, 21; St. Mary's, Huntley, 3; St. John's, Johns- burg, 41; Sacred Heart, Mar­ engo , 5; St. Mary's, McHen­ ry, 63; St. Patrick's, Mcllenry, 73; St. Joseph's, Richmond, 8; St. Peter's, Spring Grove, 16; Christ the King, Wonder Lake, 29; St. Mary's, Woodstock, 205. Father Kennedy said that the addition two years ago of the video tape recorder has en­ abled teachers to strengthen their classroom technique. Faculty members have been taping their class presentations and then later re-playing them and reviewing their teaching techniques. The video tapes have proven invaluable inpoint- ing out to faculty members both their strengths and weaknesses, showing them points which they can emphasize and areas which must be improved. Also, faculty members who know they are going to be ab­ sent have taped their presen­ tations beforehand *^o be play­ ed to the class on the day they cannot be there. This has not only saved the school the cost of substitute teachers, but it also has insured continuity of suject matter in each class­ room. ACTIVITY PROGRAM The school's activity pro­ gram is also going well, ac­ cording to Father Kennedy. The school operates on a fixed mod­ ular schedule which is new this year. The schedule for Mon­ days and Fridays is different than that for Tuesdays, Wed­ nesdays, and Thursdays, and, under the new fixed modular scheduling, the students have one and one-half hours free on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, _ and Thursdays to attend the activ­ ity of their choice. Marian now has twenty dif­ ferent clubs and twelve other activities which meet during the day for the student body. There is also an intramural program which takes place during the day. Students may choose to attend one of these activities or they may attend Mass, use the library, or plan indepen­ dent and group study during the activity period. It's each stu­ dent's responsibility to make a decision on how he wants to use his time, and, reports Fath­ er Kennedy, "the students have been able to responsibly make their own decisions and the whole program is going very well." Ninety per cent of the students are now enrolled in at least one activity. Another advantage of the ac­ tivity program is that most stu­ dents rarely have to stay af­ ter school or return to school for their club meetings. Since the school serves all of Mc­ llenry county, transportation to extra-curricular activities has long been a problem for the students. The day-time activity program is helping to alleviate this problem. BUDGET APPROVED The monthly financial report also included information that the Bishop of Rockford, the Most Rev. Arthur J. O'Neill, has approved the school's budget for the 1969-70 school year as sub­ mitted by the Council of Ad- minstrations. here and there in BUSINESS The council took action to in­ clude in its constitution an ar­ ticle which makes Marian's Di­ rector of Religious Education a voting member of the Council of Administration, and approved a motion which allows only one vote to co-pastors of a parish if both attend a council meet­ ing. The pastors must inform the chairman of the council be­ forehand as to who will do the voting. The matter of allowing associate pastors to attend council meetings in lieu of their pastors and to vote in their place was sent back to committee. The progress of the county- wide Ad Hoc committee and its purposes were %lso discussed. The committee, with represen­ tatives from the fourteen Cath­ olic parishes in Mcllenry coun­ ty, was formed in August as a direct result of a recom­ mendation of Dr. James M. Han- Ion of Marquette university in his report on Catholic education in McHenry county. John L. Se- besta of Crystal Lake is chair­ man of the Ad Hoc cr-as-viittee. SHOP IN McHENRY k w McCLORY REPORTS From Washington TRAP SHOOT WINNERS -- Sun Electric Corporation's Trap Shooting club held a trap shoot for its employees recently in Cary. After all hits were counted, Charles Hacek, of McHenry was awarded first prize, with Jim Christy, Island Lake, taking second, Jim Szabel, Crystal Lake, third, John Schiller, Mar­ engo, fourth and Larry Denton, Cary, placing fifth. FENCE MATERIALS for Home - Farm - Industry I BOARDS POSTS RAILS WIRR -- Gates -- •WOOD *METAL *W|RE •TUBULAR All Sizes Available - 200 To Choose From --Fence Posts-- •STEEL 'PRESSURE TREATED or Cedar Any Size - Any Length Farm Fencing - Any Size, Any Style McHenry Fence & Supply Largest Fence Erectors In Northern II1.1 Specializing in Fence Building of all types. 2017 N. RJngwood W. McHenry 385-1469 What the American people fail to understand is how a per­ ennial farm program can ab­ sorb more than $5 billion an­ nually without improving the economic condition of the A- merican farmer. Programs in­ volving subsidies, supports, loans, guaranteed prices and other benefits have all failed to solve the problems of most American farmers.. The new Secretary of Agri­ culture -- Clifford M. Hardin -- formerly chancellor of the University of Nebraska, has suggested several plans design­ ed to relieve American agri­ culture from the numerous and expensive regulations which are presently in effect. Secretary Hardin suggests no less than two alternative approaches in­ tended to reduce Federal spend­ ing and to improve the econom­ ic condition of the nation's cot­ ton, wheat, and feed grain far­ mers. One suggested program would encourage farmers to "set aside*' acreage now devoted to production of cotton, wheat and feed grains for which the far­ mers would be compensated on the basis of their normal al­ lotment of the markets attribu­ table to those products. From the land which was not set aside, farm products would be mar­ keted without governmental re- striction, with the expectation that free competition would im­ prove farm prices in this coun­ try, aod would open up foreign markets where American far­ mers have been losing ground in recent years. In addition, the proposal would enable the participating farmers to have price support loans on the acre­ age which is not set aside. An alternative proposal would establish a total grain base and authorize an allotment of the base for wheat and feed grains. The balance of the farmer's land would be diverted from production of such crops, and the termer would be compen­ sated for this diverted land. A proposal of even greater interest is the Resource Ad­ justment Program which envis­ ions a permanent shifting of cropland into other uses for which there is a growing need. These other uses might include timber, grazing, recreation, the propagation of wildlife and other non-farm uses which might ben­ efit an urban society. A corol­ lary to this proposal would be a so-called easement plan under which crop rights would be sold to the govenment, but title to the land would remain with the far­ mer. The nation's numerous farm organizations have received these alternative farm propos­ als with a noticeable lack of en­ thusiasm. The free enterprise oriented American Farm Bur­ eau Federation, through its President Charles B. Schuman declared bluntly: " We are dis­ appointed in the Administra­ tion's farm program' pro­ posals." The so-called Farm Coalition, which includes the National Grange, accepted the Secretary's proposals but stated: "We do not believe this call for lower supports and re­ duction erf (subsidy) payments is consistent with his asser­ tion that farm income must be improved." Despite these crit­ icisms, it is refreshing to have new approaches to a problem which has persisted over a per­ iod of more than thirty years. In a broad sense, the Sec­ retary's recommendations are consistent with the philosophy of the Nixon Administration. In­ stead of dictating policies and programs to a benign Congress, this Administration recognizes the lawmaking prerogatives of the U.S. House of Representa­ tives and Senate. Secretary Hardin has suggested alterna­ tive proposals which merit the earnest study of the Congress's two agricultural committees, as well as the critical analyses of farm experts in and out of gov­ ernment. . The overall aim of this Ad­ ministration cannot be misy taken. 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