THURSDAY,. OCTOBER 27, 1966
Hospital Patients Print
You won’t find it on any news stand and it’s not
likely to win any prizes for journalistic excellence,
but few publications today can match the heart
warming impact of the Cresson News.
, The Cresson News, you see, is written and edited
by the mentally retarded children of the Cresson
State School and Hospital.
And in its own small way, this monthly “news
paper,” mimeographed on tablet-size paper and held
together by staples, represents the basic philosophy
of the school itself, to help the mentally retarded help
themselves to useful lives in society despite the
handicaps which they may , face.
Jokes, cartoons, sketches, articles, everything
that goes into the Cresson News is done by the young
sters. Only the technical end of the work is handled
by the staff.
“Anyone of the boys or girls who wants to write
something-for the paper is encouraged to do so,”
says Thomas F. Stich, school principal, and instructor
in Special Education from the University which is
responsible for the educational aspects of the insti-'
tution’s program.
“We don’t ask for stylistic or prize-winning
writing. What we are concerned with is bringing
these kids out of their shell, making them forget
their fears, and expressing themselves, no matter
what they say.”
“Our little newspaper serves as an inspiration to
the children here,” Stich continued. “It helps teach
them to read, write, and even speak, because they
go from classroom to classroom gathering material.
It’s all part of our program to develop the total
child and encompasses almost every imaginable as
pect of learning."
The youngsters write about everything around
them, subjects such as the boy who wore the “Bat
man’s costume to.class; a new classmate from Al
toona; new words learned in school; a little girl on
her way to the dentist; the student who fell from a
tree, and “hurt her arm.”
Here for example is a sports report written last
summer about a softball game:
“Cresson State School and Hospital played
Cresson Plastics at the Munster ballfield. CresSon
Centennial Links PSU And Kansas
Students 'Clean Up' Politics
It’s up to today’s colleges and univer
sities to help dispel'the notion that politics
by-,nature is a. dirty .business,, the new -.head,
of the department of political' science said.
"Politics is no more dirty than the par
ticipants and environment will allow,” de
clares Bernard C. Hennessy, former head
of the National Center for Education in
Politics in New York, N.Y.
“The unethical aspects of politics are
no more prevalent than the unethical be
havior in business or any other interhuman
action.”
And to help restore the image of poli
tics to its rightful place in today’s society,
Hennessy said it is up to the colleges and
universities to prepare their students bet
ter for leadership in the world of politics.
“By enriching the academic study of
politics in our schools we can provide bet
ter training for political leaders of the fu
ture and in turn help enhance the image of
politics itself,” Hennessy said.
How is this being done at the Univer
sity?
“Well,” he replied, “we have a number
of programs at all levels. For example, there
are our internships under which the stu
dents get the opportunity to spend several
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Plastics won the game 16-12 with the game going
nine innings. The team lost several balls because
it got dark in the last inning . .
A child’s cohception of right and wrong also finds
its way into News’ “editorials” as indicated by this
brief article on interruptions:
“We interrupted our janitor when he was scrub
ging the hall. We stopped him from doing his
.work. He was angry with us. He said-to us, ‘Quit
walking on the wet floor.’ We said, ‘Pardon us,
Sir.’ ”
“We are attempting through every available
means to show that the mentally retarded are no
longer something to be hidden away in a dark room
and forgotten,” explains Stich. “Many of these chil
dren at'Cresson can and are being trained so that
they Can take their place In Society. All they need
is a little care and encouragement.”
Originally a tuberculosis sanatorium, the Cresson
School and Hospital assumed its present role in 1964
as a prototype demonstration and experimentation
school jointly operated by the University and the
Pennsylvania -Department of Public Welfare.
It represents a coordinated effort With providing
the educational services and the institution itself
the ancillary and hospital services.
The educational program has two major func
tions, according Stich. It must serve a? a training
ground for faculty and students from all disciplines
interested in working with the retarded, and it must
provide optimal educational services for the children
in residence there.
At present, some 350 youngsters, ranging in age
from one to 19, are living at Cresson. Almost a
third of the children are considered educable or
trainable and have been enrolled in training pro
grams. This is where the University comes in.
Under the direction of William Carriker, head of
the department of special . education, the classroom
program at Cresson has grown from 64 .resident
children in four classes to 112 residents in eight
classes.
, The scope of the program already has been
broadened to serye the needs of the emotionally
disturbed as well as the educable and trainable re-
A centennial linking the Univer- there from 1855 until 1862,:when he
sity. and the_ University of Kansas enlisted in the Union Army and
through ■ the career of John Fraser, recruited a full company of stu-
Fenn State’s third president, ie the dents who setved with him in the
theme of an exhibit now on dis-- 140th Pennsylvania Volunteers.
play in the lobby of Pattee Library.
Fraser became president of the
University, then known as the Agri
cultural College of Pennsylvania, in
1866, the same year the University
of Kansas opened. at Lawrence.
When he ’ was offered the Kansas
chancellorship a year later, Fraser
left Penn State in 1868 during a
time of crisis and reorganization to
serve Kansas through an equally
critical period until 1874. “Old
Main" at' the University of Kansas
was built during his administration
and named Fraser Hall in 1897 in
his honor.
Known as a scholar and dedi
cated teacher, Fraser . may have
achieved both presidential positions
partly through men who had been
his students at Jefferson College in
Canonsburg before it became part
of Washington and Jefferson Col
lege at Washington, Pa. He taught
weeks or months, perhaps even a whole
semester, as full-time regular staff
in a congressman’s office, a mayor’s office
or a party chairman’s office working very
closely with, him.”
"We also have conferences and work
shops in which politicians and student lead
ers and political science students are brought
together to discus some of the issues, cam
paigning and the other activities of political
parties on the state and local level. Finally
there is the course-related field research in
which students are sent out to do interview
ing or to gather data about political leaders
or political activities in their areas.”
A graduate of Syracuse University in ’
1948 and author of several books on poli
tical science Hennessy was affiliated with
the National Center for Education in Poli
tics for six years before coming to the Uni
versity.
“It’s objectives were designed to help
colleges and universities better prepare their
students for leadership in politics today,”
he explained. “We strongly urged students
and faculty to become involved as political
leaders at state and local levels where poli
tics, is most important and primarily oh an
avocational basis, not necessarily a profes
sional one.”
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John Fraser was bom in. Scot
land in 1827 and studied gt the Uni
versities pf Edinburgh and, Aber
deen. from which he was graduated
in 1844 with high honors in mathe
matics. Before coming to the Uni
versity he taught for six years in
the Bermudas, served as principal
of a private school in New York,
taught mathematics and asfronemy
“at Jefferson and became founder
and head of a private academy in
Connellsville.
During the Civil War, Colonel
Fraser served with leadership and
courage at Chancellorsville, Gettys
burg, Spotsylvania and Petersburg,
where he was taken prisoner in
1864. After his release he was brev
eted Brigadier General and mus
tered out in May, 1865.
He was appointed to the Uni
, versity faculty the same year as
professor of mathematics . and as-
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Newspaper
•tardee. i Within a few years, officials at Penn State
hope to expand it even further to coyer all areas
of exceptionality related to mental retardation.
As Stich explained, the primary objective of the
University program' at Cresson is to return a maxi
mum number of the mentally retarded to useful roles
in society.
The Cresson’ News is just one of many activi
ities sponsored by. the school toward that end.
The youngsters also put on a carnival, gynastics
show and arts festival each year, giving them the
opportunity to display their skills and talents to the
public.
“You should see that carnival,” smiles Stjch.
“The kids play the parts of the barkers, the acrobats,
the clowns, the concessionaires and even the strong
men.”
The arts festival also shows off the artistic
abilities of the youngsters, covering every imaginable
art form, from finger painting, to sculpture, crafts,
clay and wood work. One boy built a miniature' house
and wired it himself.
And while the children are learning, graduate
students from-Penn State are learning too, serving as
“interns” with on-the-job training for their future
roles in teaching exceptional children.
A full-time educational staff is on duty at the
institution, consisting of Stich as principal, three
demonstration teachers certified to teach the mental
ly retarded, a teacher’s aide and a graduate intern.
Dr. Thomas D. Marro, assistant professor of special
education at Penn State, serves as liason officer
between the two institutions. And the summer exten
sion of the program is entirely staffed by graduate
interns.
Nothing sums up the success of the Penn State
program ahd its student teachers more than this
simple tribute written by the children themselves in
the Cresson News last spring:
“The end of the school year is near, and once
again a fine group of teachers is going to leave
us. We have been very lucky to have teachers
like Mrs. Brown, Mr. LeCompt, and Mr. Markie
wicz. They have been very good to us. They have
taught us many things. We want to thank them.”
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tronomy'and lecturer' in military
tactics. He became-a faculty -leader
ip'reorganizing the College'to meet
its responsibilities as Pennsylvania’s
land-grant institution and succeeded
to the presidency upon the resigna
tion of William H. Allen in Novem
ber, 1866. . .
Following his chancellorship at
the Univerity of Kansas and a two
year term as State Superintendent
of Public Instruction in Kansas,
Fraser returned-to Pennsylvania to
serve op the faculty of Western
University( now the. University of
Pittsburgh) until his death in 1878.
General . Fraser’s memorabilia
were given to the University of
Kansas by his widow, and much of
the Fraser material now on exhibit
in the Pattee Library is on loan
from tlie Kansas 'Collection of the
University Library at Lawrence.
The Fraser exhibit in Pattee
Library is part of a general his
torical display arranged by the staff
of the Library’s Penn State Collec
tion and will remain on view
throughout fall term.
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are all set for Halloween. They made the the special instructors assigned to the
masks themselves as part of the educa- school by the University.
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On Solar Eclipse
When the sun slips behind
the . moon, blackening the-
Brazilian sky in mid-Novem
ber, the red glare of Ameri
can rockets will light the
landscape. University engi
neers will be trying to dis
cover how solar radiation af
fects the ionosphere or upper
atmosphere.
University studies will be
part of a vast array of proj
ects swinging into action dur
ing the total eclipse of the'
sun over parts of South
America and the southern
oceans on ' November 12.
More than 300-scientists and
engineers will be in ' Brazil
as part of America’s effort.
Six large jet aircraft will
wing across the sky in the
shadow of the moon. Two
ships, including the Oceano
grapher, will be in southern
waters, manned by U.S.
scientists. Some 20 rockets
will be flown from Rio
Grande, Brazil, by a number
of teams. ■
The four rockets carrying
University experiments, will
be launched during the solar
eclipse by the U.S, Army’s
Ballistics Research, Labora
tory as 'part of an over-all
effort :to understand the
loVer ioposphere, that- por
tion of the atmosphere rough
ly between 25 and 70 miles.
The eclipse experiments are
especially' important because
radiation from the sun is the
primary cause of ionization
"of the upper atmosphere.
Chief .-experimenters are
Drs. Leslie C. Hale, Associ
ate. Professor, and Thomas A.
Seliga, Assistant Professbr of
Electrical: Engineering, in the
Penn State lonosphere Re
search Laboratory. They will
take two of their graduate
students to Brazil to help
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The experiments, two on
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ets, will be lifted more than
50 miles into space by Nike-
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Research / Laboratory with
the help of BRL.
Seliga’s experiment uses
radio propagation techniques
to measure the electron den
sity of the D ' region of
the ionosphere. Measure
ments will be made with a
rocket-borne receiver which
will pick up signals trans
mitted from the ground dur
ing ascent. Signal strength
data is then used to deter
mine the electron density
profile at the time of the
rocket flight. The interpre
tation of the data is per
formed with the aid of full
wave computer solutions of
the equations governing ra
dio wave propagation in the
ionosphere.
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with electron density of the
ionosphere because of the
ionosphere’s effect on long
range radio communications.
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processes in the upper at
mosphere. The state of the
electrons in the ionosphere
during the eclipse will be
compared with “normal”
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conducted by other Ameri
can teams in Brazil at that
time.
-The second experiment is
a “subsonic blunt probe” de
signed by Hale to collect
charged particles in the iono
sphere during a slow para
chute descent of the pack
age. The theory of operation
of these probes is largely the
work of Dr. David P. Hoult,
Associate Professor in the
-Department of Aerospace En
gineering.
Probes traveling at super
sonic velocities in the region
of 25 to 50 miles above the
Earth have an ionizing ef
fect of their own, the engi
neers explained. The rocket
can drastically alter the com
position of the gas surround
ing it, opening direct meas
urements to question, Hale
said. By use of a parachute,
many of these unwanted Ef
fects can be overcome.
Over a period of two years,
working under U.S. Army
grants, IRL engineers have
developed new methods for
studying the electrification
of the atmosphere or iono
sphere, Hale said. A stand
ard payload has been de
veloped and 14 meteorologi
cal-type rockets have been
launched to date with pgra
chute-borh blunt probes to
measure charged particle
parameters at these altitudes.
The two most recent shots
were at White Sands on Aug.
29, and at Ft. Greely, Alas
ka,. on Sept. 6.
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