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Wonder Lake Mary Jean Huff 728-0267 Postmaster Murphy Lists Rules For Correct Mailing Postmaster Lorraine W. Murphy claims that much mail received at the Wonder Lake post office is delayed or cannot be deliyered at all simply because the address is wrong or cannot be deciphered. She added that it is necessary to include the proper amount of postage on all mail. Letters without postage are returned to the senderv For Christmas cards, she asks that McHenry, Woodstock, Crystal Lake, Wonder Lake be separated, others all out o& town. Boxes will be provided in the lobby for this service. L \ FIVE YEARS OLD Birthday greetings to Jen­ nifer Hallerud, daughter of Cliff and Joanne Hallerud, 4802 E. Lake Shore Drive, Wonder Lake. Jennifer will be five years old on Dec. 18. A family party for the birthday girl was held on Sunday, Dec. 14. Helping to wish Jennifer a happy birthday was her proud grandmother, Elmira Sirfidne. Belated birthday good wishes to Jennifer's mom, Joanne, who celebrated her birthday on Dec. 8. VOLLEYBALL TEAM The Wonder Lake ladies volleyball team had a rematch with the McHenry ladies volleyball team and Wonder Lake won, five games to nothing. Another match is scheduled on Jan 11, at Edgebrook school in McHenry. BIRTHDAY GREETINGS Happy birthday on Dec. 17, to Patty Freund Hutchinson, who will celebrate in the far state of Idaho, with her husband, Keith. Birthday greetings to Jim Golden, who carries out the important duties of principal of Harrison school, on Dec. 17. Happy birthday to George Hartmann on Dec. 18. Happy ninth birthday to Katie Gib­ bons, daughter of Tim and Kay Gibbons, on Dec. 18. Happy birthday to Patrick Sauers, son of Chuck and Ann Sauers, who celebrates his fourth on Dec. 19. Happy birthday to Brenda Ber­ lin on Dec. 19. Happy fifteenth birthday to Nancy Hartmann on Dec. 19^Happy birthday to Sonia Miller on Dec. 19. Happy fifth birthday to Kimberly Powers on Dec. 20. Happy third birthday to Carrie Gallagher, daughter of Ed and Dee Gallagher, on Dec. 21. Happy birthday to Colleen Keith on Dec. 23. HAPPINESS IS - Happiness is...watching a basketball game. Happiness is., .finishing Christmas shopping early, with all the gifts wrapped and ready! Happiness is...watching the magnificent beauty of our American mountains as John Denver gave us his Rocky Mountain Christmas special. /4 fatter k&nub love Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote some of the finest love poems in the English language. Born in 1806, an illness at the age of 15 left her an invalid. For yeats she lived in seclusion in her home at 50 Wimpole Street in London. Then the magic of love entered her life in the form of Robert Browning, himself a gifted writer. Their courtship developed slowly. At first, they merely wrote letters. Then she let him come see her. They were married on September 12, 1846, much to the sorrow of her father, who never saw her again. Below, I have reprinted her Sonnett XXXVIII (Letters from the Portugese. You may have to read it several times to capture its beauty. In it, she tells of the first time Robert kissed her ("only the fingers"). The next time, her forehead. Finally her lips, since when she is proud to call him, "My love, my own." Many young people are led to believe that "love" and sexual intimacy are one and the same. Although she wrote well over a century ago, Elizabeth tells in a beautiful way how love unfolds for those who wait: First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white,.. Slow to world-greetings .. quick with its 'Oh, list,' When the angels speak. A ring of amethyst I could not wear here, plainer to my sight, Then that first kiss. The second passed in height The first, and sought, the forehead, and half missed, Half falling oh the hair. O beyond meed! That was the chrism of love, which love's own crown, With sanctifying sweetness, did precede. The third upon my lips was folded down In perfect, purple state; since when, indeed, I have been proud and said, "My love, my own." R.J. Hastings is editor of The Il l inois Baptist in Springfield Happiness is...congratulating newlyweds, Julie Weber and John Rice, who were married at Christ the King church on Dec. 6. Happiness is...playing a stack of. Christmas records while you're doing the housework. Happiness is...writing a letter to Santa. Happiness is...enclosing a picture of the kids in those Christmas cards sent far away. Happiness is...making a fruit cake. Looking Back V Teacher Of The Week (District 15) GRADUATE...87-year old Mrs. Marie McCombe of Reading, Mass., holds up her high school diploma she just received from the State Board of Education. Mrs. McCombe, born in Hoboken, N.J. in 1888 left school in the 8th grade. To get her diploma she made several trips to Boston to take tests which she never studied for. The $4,167Renault 12 Station Wagon gets 30mpg on the highway. The $6,175'Volvo 245-S Station Wagon gets 241 You get front-wheel drive, rack and pinion steering, Michelin steel-belted radials, tttthttt i i! i . reclining front bucket seats, and electric rear 'l||(i window defogger, standard on Renault. Brand New! Renault Station Wagon Lit#"1 RENAULT *P.O.E. East Coast as of 6/15/75. Price excludes transportation, I '1 dealer prep., taxes or optional equipment. tEPA Figures as of 5/15/75. 12 SW: 23 mpg city, 30 mpg highway 245-S: 17 mpg city, 24 mpg highway only *3695 00 1112 W. Rand Rd. Gorttel Sales Inc. [Route 120) McHeni In recent years the discus­ sion of gerontology has be­ come important to federal and state governments, to colleges and universities, and to the general public. On the frontier, early death was common and elderly rela­ tives were cared for in the homes of their families. Very little statistical information 6n the topic exists, and as recently as 1970 a General Assembly committee discovered that many state agencies were still unable to supply data dealing solely with the elderly. It was not, after all, until 1915 that Illinois required the registra­ tion of births and deaths. The initiative for dealing with the problem of the aged in the Prairie State has come almost exclusively from the federal government, a pattern which began when the first public notice of Illinois'ilderly appeared in the census roles of Revolutionary War pensioners published in Washington. In 1847 records do show that the first patient to die in the newly established Jackson­ ville hospital was an "aged and demented female" who caught fire from a stove. In 1869, the first year that patients were classified by age in the hospital director's annual report, only six of 323 patients admitted were older than 60, two suffer­ ing from "old age." The Civil War prompted the creation of a Soldiers and Sailors Home in Quincy in 1885 and a Soldiers' Widows Home in Wilmington. But these were gestures of ap­ preciation for military Service rather than a recognition that the elderly faced difficult prob­ lems of survival. Although a state Board of Charities had been appointed in 1869, the state's growing number of hospitals and pri­ ons maintained separate admin­ istrations, purchasing policies, and procedures. No real effort was made to coordinate state­ wide activity, keep useful rec­ ords, or make a programmatic commitment to the aged. The Progressive Period saw the combining of a jumble of 19th-century commissions and agencies into the state Depart­ ment of Public Welfare as a part of a general governmental reorganization, but the aged received little special attention. Grey Power first appeared in the depression which broke hundreds of thousands of older citizens on the economic wheel. New machines threw them out of factories first, new routines eluded thejn, and fam­ ily moves to a city or out of one left them isolated. It was in these years that Dr. Francis SECTION E. Townsend issued a spine- tingling call Which gained a significant response among Illinois' aged. He advocated that everyone older than 60 receive a monthly allowance of S200 with the only provision that it all be spent in 30 days. The federal government re­ sponded quickly to real politi­ cal pressure with the passage of the Social Security Act. When funds from the new law first became available in Illinois in July, 1936, the state's needy elderly were found to be either carried as part of county relief or among the 55,000 inmates in the 27 institutions run by the Department of Public Wel­ fare. • The first two years under social security in Illinois were frantic ones. Nearly 151,000 persons applied for grants the first month of the program, but only 22,000 were pro­ cessed. The state's bureaucracy was suddenly charged with spending 50 percentmore than the costs of all the state's prisons, hospitals, and charita­ ble institutions combined,-and it nearly collapsed. Still, by 1939, 27 percent of all IUinois- ans older than 65 were re­ ceiving social security (up to 90 pcrcent by IV)70) with monthly payments of $16.50 ($117 in 1970). Less effective federal initia­ tive in housing followed during the same period. More impor­ tant, however, was health care provided by Titles 18 and 19 2 - PAGE 3 - PLAINDEALER-WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17,1*75 of the federal Social Security Gerontology is a subject which Act establishing the Medicare and " Medicaid programs in 1965. More recently the feder­ al government instituted Sup­ plemental Security Income, guaranteeing an annual income to the aged who meet its pre­ requisites. Under increasing political pressure a Department of Aging, a cabinet-level position, was created by the state in November, i973;andin 1974, Illinois had at least 40 discrete programs treating its aged in diverse ways. Historically, these develop­ ments are a recognition of the fact that in 1890, there were 137,717 of Illinois' 3,827,352 citizens, or 3.6 percent of the population, older than 65. By 1970 that number was up to 1,100,000; and by 1980 the projected figure is 1,206,200 or nearly 11 percent of the population. It is also recognition that more and more families now have two or three elderly per­ sons older than 85, children past retirement age as well, and grandchildren unable in many cases to support them all. It is finally recognition ot sexual politics and its effect on the family, a response to the fact that women not only live longer, but that more are choosing to remain unmarried and childless and have stopped playing the roles defined for them before Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinham, and ERA. promises to grow old with the state. Instant Replay Be Safe Any material that has been treated with a cleaning solvent or saturated with flammable liquids or solids should never be placed in a dryer--or you're risking ex­ plosion. Foam rubber and rub­ ber-like materials can be dried in a dryer--on the "air" setting only. A "heat" setting used on those materials may damage the plastic and could be fire hazard JAMES ROTH James Roth is a third grade teacher at Hilltop school. He is a graduate of Concordia Teachers college and has taken courses from La Verne college. Mr. Roth has previously taught in Schaumburg and Lockport, New York. Mr. Roth is on the District 15 Science committee and is the HPTO representative for Hilltop school. He is married and has two children, Christopher and Benjamin. He enjoys camping, print making, remodeling his house and is a member of the Zion Lutheran church. He resides in McHenry and his hometown is St. Louis, Mo. There is a growing "Reading Tree" in his classroom and a Thailand bulletin board. Students are studing Eskimos and the Alaskan area. The Science class recently finished a unit on the galaxy and is now involved in the "plant world" with emphasis on plants from around the world. tlORNSBY S fami ly centers mmm Ho! Ho! Ho! Hurry on down to Hornsby's for this super spectacular sale! Lots of last-minute gift ideas are waiting! Be sure to be on time and stay late to take advantage of all these specials! 6 to 7 P.M. 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