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PAGE IS - PLAINDEALER-WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11. 1974 Camping Out Fun in the out-of-doors wa. on the agenda when sixteen McHenry Cadette Girl Scouts and sixteen children from the McHenry County Mexican Migrant council got together for a day at the Harrison Benwell Conservation area recently. (ligi Smith and Wendy Mueller of Cadette Troop 41 show four children the McHenry County Mexican Migrant council that sleeping in a pup tent can be fun. Although several of the children did not speak English, soon everyone was communicating in a Spanish- English sign language which worked beautifully. After taking a nature hike through the wooded area, games were played including a spirited baseball game. Lunch was cooked over open fires, after which the Cadettes demonstrated how to pitch tents. Before leaving late in the afternoon, each child was given a stuffed animal to take home. HOSPITAL NOTES MCHENRY HOSPITAL Patients admitted to McHenry hospital included Violette Jablonski, Charles Prokop, Richard Penny, Maston Wrublewski, Agnes Barbier. Deborah Jayko, Evalien Schaefer, Alice Bert, John Grogan, Jennifer Stueben, McHenry; Sigfred Olson, Spring Grove; John Diehl, John Gorgan, Wonder Lake; and Barbara Wagner, Island Lake Patients admitted to McHenry hospital included George McLean, Thomas Boelens, Mary Smith, David Sima, Wayne Tronsen, McHenry; Helen Leaveck, La Verne Logan, Wonder Lake; Annalise Busch, Spring Grove. HARVARD HOSPITAL Mrs Mary Rabiak, McHenry, was a patient in Harvard hospital MEMORIAL HOSPITAL WOODSTOCK Admittances to Memorial hospital, Woodstock, included Baby Jeremiah Collett, Kathryn Everson, Anthony Noonan, Bonnie Morris, Irma Adier, Rosa Kennebeck, McHenry; Tammy Slater, Everyone agreed camping was "muy bien". Summer is almost over, but memories of many happy moments remain, especially for children. BACK TO SCHOOL ? & College or University ? No matter where you choose to go, you are always within reach of home and friends with The McHenry Plaindealer • Society • Local News Sports Special Features Leaving town doesn't mean having to lose contact. Take your friends and good times along with the McHenry Plaindealer. SPECIAL COLLEGE Offtfc 9 month subscription within the Untied States SQOO «qulto Abot McHenry Construction MND it in I I'I or Jul) Grace Smith, Josephine Keywan, Wonder Lake; and David Koshnick, Solon Milles. BIRTHS MCHENRY HOSPITAL Mr and Mrs. John Spellman, Crystal Lake, are parents of a son, Eric William, Aug 27, weighing 7 lbs., 15 oz. His maternal grandmother is Eleanor Gundlach of Woodstock and the paternal grandparents are Mr. an Mrs. John J. Spellman of Chicago. Mr and Mrs. Kurt Smith announce the birth of a son Sept 6 MEMORIAL HOSPITAL WOODSTOCK Mr and Mrs. Gerald Rodenkirch, Wonder Lake, are parents of a daughter Sept. 8. Coners At Work For Holiday Hospitality ON DEAN'S LIST Barbara Lebak, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Robert G Miller, of 219 Barreville road, McHenry, has achieved recognition on the dean's list at Bradley university in Peoria. Barbara is a senior, majoring in foreign languages, who received a straight-A average on a perfect 4.0 scale. There are 766 students recognized on the dean's list for the second semester of the 1973-74 academic year, according to the office of Dr. George B. Ferguson, vice-president for academic affairs at the university. BSSSRt ATHENS, ILL Dr. Tal bert Hill celebrated his 100th birthday this year and finally decided it was time to tnrn-in his medical license. Since his practice in this rural Illinois community began in 1898, Dr. Hill has delivered 2,250 babies and his retirement leaves the city of 1,000 residents without a doctor. The Coners, a committee of the Woman's auxiliary of Memorial Hospital for McHenry County, use moss in the miniature woodland scenes and sea-scapes they are making for sale on Holiday Hospitality dav Wednesday, Oct 2. "What the Viereggs did is typical of the interest and involvement of the Coners-- and their husbands!" says Mrs. Philip Masslich, chairman of that busy committee. "We are forever looking for new ideas and materials - and our husbands and other interested men in the community are a tremendous help They not only climb roofs > to gather materials," she adds, "they build our shadow boxes, supply our wooden bases, make our wooden vases, and saw and drill the cones and nuts we use in our wreaths." Originally, the Coners became famous for their unusual and beautifully executed holiday wreaths, door swags, and wall plaques made of pine cones, from which came their name. These are still the staple of their annual Holiday Hospitality day display, with new and delightful designs being added all the time. However, the Coners have greatly expanded their skills into the area of Christmas tree ornaments, shadow boxes, paper weights, and holiday decorations of all kinds. This year on Holiday Hospitality day, the Coners will be showing the full panoply of their handiwork in the big Exhibit Hall C on Country Club road at the fairgrounds. Besides the familiar and much-sought-after cone and Delia Robia holiday wreaths, Holiday Hospitality day guests will see different and dramatic wreaths made of the wild grapevine, garnished with gourds, nuts, and dried peach pits. There will also be pale, golden straw wreaths, bound in brown velvet ribbon and adorned with small cones, making a lovely lasting wall decoration. Ordinary binder twine becomes a wreath of enduring elegance when trimmed with exotic African pods, chestnuts, and a cluster of dried seeds, Smaller wreaths of binder twine braided into bright circlets, with a saucy Santa in the center and touches of gay gingham and red ball fringe, are perfect for informal holiday decorating FJerhaps the most amazing work the Coners do is with miniatures, an art they have brought to near perfection With a delicious mix of artistic treatment and enchanting humor, they have created dozens of mini-scenes for holiday pleasure and year- round enjoyment. Best known are the Field and Garden Miniatures exquisitely fashioned each year by Mrs Charles Wright. Protected by glass domes so they may be preserved as keepsakes, Helen Wright's story-book scenes each tells its own tale Some scenes are so srrjall in detail they must be closely studied to truly see what magic she has wrought with seed pods, small sprigs, wisps of lace, a snippet of felt, a dot of moss, a miniscule strawflower, and always some central figure - a child, a little old man, a ferocious tiger, a sly fox, a yellow bird One such scene, designed with the coming Christmas season in mind, depicts the Three Wise Men - minute ceramic figures found by the Philip Masslichs in San Salvador. Astride their miniature donkeys, the Wise Men pause for moment on their journey in the shade of an olive tree - a small dried twig. "Tiny figures like these and others from Italy, Germany and Sweden are becoming almost prohibitive in price," says Helen Wright. "They are already collector's items." It is because of this that one particularly gifted Coner, Mrs. Orville Parrish of Crystal Lake, has devised an ingenious means of making these small figures herself. Of a combination of white bread, glycerin and glue, she deftly molds tiny people, infinitesimal song birds, scampering squirrels - even the spooky faces of wee witches who, in garments of cornhusks and with flowing hair and brooms, will fly in the branches of the holiday tree or whirl as mobiles in the Christmas air. Also available on Holiday Hospitality day will be the Coners' whimsical and popular athletic Cone People - skiers and golfers - made of spurgeon's WIN a 7-day Island Cruise on the m/s Italia! M/% _ ̂x, •••• IM Vm ̂ --<=*= • •••» C O S T A L I N K f fTtv?rr>llw You may be the winner of an all-expense- paid vacation for two! One lucky customer from Spurgeon's midwest stores will win! REGISTER until Sept. 28 in our Founda­ tion department -- no purchase necessary; winner need not be present at drawing! 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These serious small skiers, wearing goggles, bright felt caps and warm scarves against the winter weather, support themselves on their imaginary slopes on tooth-pick ski-poles. Like the skiers, the tiny golfers all seem intent on perfecting their game as they carefully position their slim wire club and take aim at the ball - a single tapioca pearl! Holiday Hospitality day visitors will note the versatility and variety of materials, both natural and man-made, which are employed by the Coners. They will find an abundance of finished items all ready for tree and home holiday decorating. For those who wish to try their own talents, there will be ideas and materials a-plenty and festive handmade nylon net bags for convenient carrying The Coners and all other committees of the Woman's auxiliary of Memorial Hospital for McHenry county are currently hard at work preparing for the 19th Holiday Hospitality day, a project the auxiliary sponsors each fall. The building and equipment funds of the hospital benefit annually from this all- community event. LEARNING DISABILITIES IN CHILDREN BY MARTHA B. BERNARD NFW YORK, N Y.--Have you ever had difficulty following the writ ten word? Have you ever writ ten "was" for "saw"? Have you put your shoe on the wrong foot or transposed a tele­ phone number? Some three to seven percent of al l children in the United States have such problems ex­ treme enough to require special assistance in school. Their con­ dit ion is known to doctors as "minimal brain dysfunction" and to educators as "specific learning disabil i ty." To a parent, a learning dis­ abil i ty most often means frus­ trat ion. The child doesn' t do what is expected of him. He is easily distracted, interested in the unimportant , l is tens but ap­ pears not to hear, spil ls the milk by pouring too much into the glass, writes across the l ines in­ stead of between them. He probably seems quite bright, yet gets bad marks in school. The child is wrongly as­ sumed to be "bad" or "stupid" and the parents are told, "You aren' t str ict enough." What really is the problem? Perhaps comparing the si tuation to a crossed telephone wire may make it easier to understand. We have all had the experience of being told, ' I phoned you last night and was sorry you weren' t home." All the t ime you were si t t ing at home and the phone never rang. Imagine your own frustrat ion and consider what i t must be l ike for a child who is receiv­ ing confusing, intermittent mes­ sages al l the t ime. He is out of step and begins to show angry reactions to those who don' t understand his way. Children feel their parents ' disappoint­ ment and sense their own fail­ ure and inadequacy. Most parents, at some time or another tel l their children, "You're lazy," "You could do better if you would try," or "No one in this family ever fai led in school before." The Council on Family Health, sponsored as a public service by the man­ ufacturers of medicines, points out that if you find yourself saying these things repeatedly it may be t ime to seek compe­ tent help. Seeking Assistance Discuss your concerns with a family physician or pediatrician who has known your child or, if no such relat ionship exists , go to the hospital pediatric cl in­ ic for a thorough workup. If the doctor thinks it is necessary, he may suggest an eye. ear, neuro­ logical , psychological , and/or educational evaluation After discussing the results with you and, hopefully, with the school psychologist , he can recommend a program to ease the pressures on both child and 0 family. Remember, i t is your right to be thoroughly informed of test results . Such a program may includ£ special class placement, special assistance by a resource teach- cr, medication to ease hyperac­ tivity or anxiety, eye exercises or special perceptual motor training. A word of caution: Don't as­ sume that any child who is fai l­ ing in school or underachieving has a learning disabil i ty. All chil­ dren need to feel accepted and not different . The tendency to use the term learning disabi I - i : ;es as a catch-all has confused efforts to provide service to children who arc indeed dis­ abled and for whom there is no simple formula for help. I he causes of learning dis­ abi I t ies are not clearly known as yet I t is believed, however, that the more technology inter­ feres with the natural process of childbirth, the more possible adverse effects on the fetus or newborn become Since preven­ tion is st) much easier than cure, al l women should becomc more informed about the possible consequences to their children of medication taken during pregnancy, anesthesia, lack of proper nutrition and induced labor. v •? \