924-Lancastor Famine, Saturday Novambar 24,1984
LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The
Christmas shopping season is now
in full swing, meaning that malls
and stores will be crowded with
shoppers hurrying to purchase all
the items on their shopping lists.
For small children, these holiday
crowds can mean an increased
chance of getting lost. In a crowd,
a young child is always on the
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NEWARK, Del. - Michele
Davis, a University of Delaware
senior working toward double
degrees in the colleges of
agricultural sciences and arts and
science, has won a national Alpha
Zeta scholarship for outstanding
performance. Davis, who comes
from new Castle, Del., was one of
University of Delaware senior Michele Davis receives
national Alpha Zeta scholarship check from agricultural
college associate dean of students Dr. Ralph Barwick {center)
and dean Dr. Donald Crossan. Davis is working toward
degrees in animal science and biological science and plans to
become an animal nutritionist.
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ragged edge of being lost. He is a
catastrophe just waiting to hap
pen.
He runs ahead, lags behind,
stops to look and touch, takes off in
another direction to explore
something which has attracted his
attention. Parents are only human,
and can also be distracted for the
moment it takes for a parent and
student wins national
30 winners in the U.S. Alpha Zeta is
a national service fraternity for
agricultural majors.
Joint majors .crossing college
lines are rare at the university,
according to Dr. Ralph Barwick,
associate dean of students for the
agricultural college. Davis must
complete course requirements for
both degrees. She i« maionn^
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Holiday crowds can mean lost children
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child to lose contact, according to
“Growing Child,” a monthly child
development newsletter.
When the child is found
usually only moments later when
he begins to wail loudly both
parent and child are relieved. The
child is comforted, and the parent
takes tighter security measure^
But sometimes it doesn’t work
scholarship
biological science as well as
animal science-in \vhich she plans
to earn a degree with distinction.
This involves conducting original
research under the supervision of a
faculty advisor. Her thesis will be
on the effects of several poultry
medications on feed efficiency.
An outstanding student
academically, Davis also has an
outstanding service record at the
university of Delaware. She is a
member of the Delaware chapter
of Alpha Zetz, a member of the
animal science club, and editor of
the agricultural college
newspaper. She is also a member
of Mortar Board, a national
honorary society whose members
are selected for both scholarship
and service.
This fall Davis supervised the
Alpha Zeta farm tours for area
school children, which are held on
the grounds of the college of
agricultural sciences in Newark. A
graduate of William Penn High
School, she has also spoken with
student groups there about careers
in agriculture and assisted a
biology teacher with a laboratory
on poultry anatomy.
Davis is considering two options
after graduation-graduate study,
or work in the field of animal
nutrition. As an animal
nutritionist, she will be qualified
for a career in either the broiler or
pet feed industry.
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out so easily. When the dawdling
child looks for his parents, they are
gone. And with them goes his
whole world. He is small and lost in
a forest of moving, unfamiliar and
uncaring big people.
Where are Mother and Father?
They are always in the world as he
has known it. Now his whole world
is shattered. How could they leave
him? Don’t they love him any
more? Are they gone forever?
At this point, sheer panic strikes
and most children will cry loudly
and push here and there, calling
“Mommy! Daddy! I want my
Mommy!” These children are
conspicuous and readily
recognized as “lost.”
But a child may simply freeze in
terror at his sudden loss of security
and simply stand there, jostled by
the crowd, with tears rolling down
his cheeks. Another child may
cower in fear and to escape the
crowd may crawl under or into any
small enclosed space to hide.
These children may take hours to
find.
And what of the parents during
this time? Worried, fearful for the
child’s safety, angry at his
disappearance, angry at them
selves for letting it happen, im
patient at the time lost, and angry
at the thought that the child’s
“lostness” reflects on their
carelessness. It is this strange
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mixture of worry, fear, guilt, and
anger that produces such a mix
ture of parent response when the
child is found. Here are a few
suggestions to avoid lostness;
•If you are using a shopping cart,
put the child in the seat provided.
•Many discount houses and
department stores provide
strollers for young children. Use
them. This is particularly im
portant if you have a lot to do
because it keeps the child from
becoming overly tired and
unhappy.
•Use a child’s harness and lead.
These are not always easy to find,
but there are easy alternatives; an
old leather belt with a snap ring, or
a waist harness made out of cloth
and clothesline.
•If a child does get lost, it is
important that he know his full
name. Make a game of teaching it
to him: “What’s your name little
boy?” Later add “What’s your
Daddy’s name?” and “Where do
you live? 1 ' This last becomes very
important if you are a family that
moves frequently.
•Finally, should you and your
child get lost from each other,
remember that it can happen to
anyone. Try to “keep your cool,”
and at the moment of reunion let
your phild know that you are as
happy to find him as he is happy to
find you.