January 11, 1973
Campus Opens
Childhood
Development Center
The ravages of Hurricane
Agnes will long be remembered
but not all of her long-range
effects are destruction and
devastation. One of the more
beneficial results will be the
establishment of an Early
Childhood Development Center
at the Capitol Campus of The
Pennsylvania State University.
What does a hurricane have to
do with an early childhood
program?
Dr. George Wolf, Head of the
Division of Humanities, Social
Science and Education,
explained, "When the University
made the land available for a
temporary housing community
for those left homeless by the
flood, our faculty recognized
this as an opportunity to
develop an early childhood
educational program. Secretary
of Education Pittenger already
had approved plans for our
Division to institute such a
program and the temporary
community not only stimulated
this development but also
provided another means by
which Capitol Campus could
help meet the community
needs."
The new center will
accommodate children of those
living in the temporary
community presently located on
campus and also will incorporate
the program presently being
conducted in St. Peter's
Lutheran Church in Middletown.
This day care center, operated
under the auspices of the
Dauphin County Child Services,
was flooded out of its previous
home at the former
Non-Commissioned Officers'
Club at the Harrisburg
International Airport.
This Childhood Development
Center is the brainchild of Dr.
Kathryn T. Starkey, Assistant
Professor of Educational
Psychology at Capitol Campus.
Not only did Dr. Starkey
conduct the initial survey of
families in the village and
develop profiles (age, income,
number of children) therefrom,
but she has played an important
role in the negotiations with
State and County officials for
the establishment of the
program.
After conducting the initial
survey, Dr. Starkey conferred
with Dr. Wolf and Dr. Stanley N.
Miller, Education Program
Chairman at Capitol Campus,
and the group began outlining
the objectives of the program.
This committee in turn met with
Samuel Yeagley, Executive
Director of the Dauphin County
Child Services and Bertie Shank
of the Pennsylvania Welfare
Department's Office of Child
Services.
Based on observations of the
University's Early Childhood
Education Centers located at
State College, the local campus
faculty had developed a program
of self-initiated learning for the
new center. The new program
combines the best elements of
those responsive environment,
behavior modification and
cognitive developmental
programs the committee
observed.
In discussing this new
program, Dr. Wolf emphasized
that the University's main
concern is not custodial care but
education. The interest
expressed by Dr. Wolf and his
cohorts is in early childhood
education and he views this as an
educational project with great
research potential .
Dr. Wolf explained, "The
program is based upon the
primary concept that
self-initiated learning of the
child responding to his interest
and maturity is the most
desirable and effective kind of
learning and that it best takes
place in a setting which is
supportive and free from
anxiety."
The $50,000 renovation
planned for the two buildings
will offer a desirable physical
setting for approximately 60
pre-schoolers as well as those 40
school-aged children who will be
attending the center after school
hours.
The first floor of one building
will contain an activity and craft
area, a conference hall and an
observation gallery for
professional educational
personnel and students. The
second floor will have medical
facilities, including an isolation
area for those who might
become ill while at school, and a
rest area.
This building will be
connected to the second with an
enclosed corridor which will
permit the children to go to the
dining hall without going out of
doors. In addition to the kitchen
and dining area, the second
building will contain a study and
game room, two craft rooms and
a music room. Both buildings
will have proper lavatory
facilities.
Plans for the renovations
were drawn up by Ronald
Leaman, an architect and
member of the faculty of Penn
State's York Campus. Dr.
Francis Ferguson, Chairman of
the Regional Planning Program
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The new center will be staffed
by a center director, an assistant
director, three professionally
accredited teachers, eight
teacher aides, cook, cook's aide,
custodian and
secretary-bookkeeper.
Funding the program through
June, 1973, will be $158,000 in
funds granted by Housing and
Urban Development (HUD).
Another $lOO,OOO, made up of
75 percent federal,' 25 percent
county funds, will fund the
program until January, 1974.
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American Artists
Exhibit
A gallery exhibition of prints
by the American Artists Group
is currently on display in the
Gallery Lounge, W-107.
the exhibit is sponsored by
the Pennsylvania State
University's College of Arts and
Architecture, the Museum of
Art, the Office of Continuing
Education, and Capitol Campus
students.
The exhibit contains 15
works by such noted artists as
Howard Cook, Wanda Gag,
Adolph Dehn, Will Barnet,
Frederico Castellon and Raphael
Soyer.
Among the prints are
lithographs, etchings, stencils
and woodcuts. Topically, the
prints vary from Wanda Gag's
beautiful "Ploughed Fields" to a
charming colored woodcut by
Will Barnet entitled "Peter and
Toy" to a stark, precisionist
influenced stencil by Henry
Billings of "Marine Elements." A
full range of artistic values and
visions are represented in the
city scenes, landscapes, potraits
and wildlife scenes.
The show in the Gallery
Lounge is open from 8 a.m. to 5
p.m. Monday through Friday
until January 29.
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Enrollment
Increases
University Park, Pa.
Veteran enrollment at The
Pennsylvania State University
has climbed to 4,167 flfis year, a
gain of more than 250 over the
3,914 registered a year ago and a
sharp increase from the 1,641
reported five years ago.
The total this year, according
to William H. Cox, veterans
officer in the Division of
Admissions, Records, and
Scheduling, consists of 1,754
veterans at the University Park
Campus and 2,413 at the
Commonwealth Campuses across
the State.
There are 2,147 veterans
enrolled in baccalaureate degree
programs, 331 in associate
degree programs, 556 as
graduate students working for
advanced degrees, 721 in
continuing education programs,
and 412 as adjunct students.
The enrollments at the
Commonwealth Campuses are:
Allentown 40; Altoona 274;
Beaver 122; Behrend at Erie
122; Berks at Reading 123;
Capitol at Middletown 412;
Delaware County at Media 114;
Dußois 93; Fayette at
Uniontown 190; Hazleton 64;
McKeesport 111; Mont Alto 53;
New Kensington 116; Ogontz at
Abington 184; Schuylkill at
Schuylkill Haven 90;
Worthington Scranton at
Dunmore 117; Shenango Valley
at Sharon 56; Wilkes-Barre 60;
and York 72.
MEE
Grad Program
Adds
Two new courses have been
added to the Master of
Engineering Program being
offered this winter term at
Capitol Campus.
Dr. R.A. Conover, Chairman
of the Graduate Programs in
Engineering, announced that
Introduction to Air Pollution
Control, a mechanical
engineering course, and Seminar
in Civil Engineering will be
added to present course
offerings.
These courses, which should
appeal to a wide cross-section of
engineers in the greater
Harrisburg area, may be taken
by a regular graduate student
pursuing an advanced degree or
by the adjunct student who may
have a particular interest in the
courses.
Introduction to Air Pollution
Control will be given on Monday
and Wednesday evenings from
6:30 to 8:30 and is a three
credit course. Tuition cost for
the course is $93.
The Seminar in Civil
Engineering, a one credit course,
will feature guest lecturers who
are experts in various fields of
engineering. Tuition cost for the
seminar which will be held on
Thursday evenings from 7:00 to
8:30 is $3l.
Individuals who are not
enrolled, but interested in a
specific lecture may attend as
guests. Wastewater Treatment
Plant Automation is the topic
for the first seminar which meets
January 11.
OPEN DAILY 9 to 9
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