Page 12—SUSQUEHANNA TIMES ‘Love with proper guidance’ at Little People Day Care Miss Rankin, director. of the education A conducts a summer kinderghrten class Little People Day Care School, R.D.3, Columbia, is more than a babysitting facility. The program, ac- cording to owner/adminis- trator Mary Jane News- wanger, combines ‘‘lot’s of love with proper education and guidance.” Mrs. Newswanger is very proud of the school. “We have a very creative pro- gram at this Little People School. Because my hus- band and 1 own the school we can be very lucrative with the system.’ The Little People School in Columbia is unique in several ways. Due to the high rate of shift work in the Columbia and Marietta areas, the school has an evening program that runs through 1 am. ‘“We are the only Little People School that offers such a program. We have to offer the evening program because of the area we are serving. It’s important for a child to experience regularity. With- out the evening program, children of people working a swing shift would have a break in their education. Now they can come to the school regularly.” The school, providing services to children from Marietta, Maytown, Colum- bia, Wrightsville and Mountville, also offers a certified kindergarten pro- Math is made fun at Little People Day Care Center. Here a student learns how tall she is with a very inviting wall chart. al program at Little People Day Care School, gram. Students receive kindergarten credit by at- tending the Little People school. There are presently four certified teachers at the Columbia facility, with a fifth teacher planned for the fall. All teachers are college graduates who have degrees in either early childhood education or elementary Mrs. Carol Wenger te aches younger children at the Day Care School. Here the students are learning to color inside of the lines. education and they are state certified. Little People Day Care School is licensed by the Department of Educa- tion, division of private academic schools. Mrs. Newswanger is es- pecially proud of the outside programs, or field trips, offered by her school. Students three years and up participated in a learn-to- swim program at Golden Meadows Pool, Lancaster. The lessons were held at the indoor pool, two days a week. Students graduated as bullfrogs or polliwogs. The children also visited Pizza Hut where they were allowed to make pizzas. They made sundaes at a Carvel Ice Cream Store and begged to bring back August 13, 1980 spiders, snakes and mice from the Long Park petting zoo. The children also visited the Lancaster County Park and enjoy almost daily the park located directly behind the school. ‘‘We conduct nature hikes and use the park for picnics and fun,” Mrs. Newswanger [continued on page 5] le JLo rry ceell foe re 2 School records for East Donegal Township, dating back to 1834, were recently discovered at the Donegal School District. After gathering dust in a forgotten file for handwritten records reveal instance, early their own school house, desks and benches. The first teacher, M. T. Simpson, was paid only $30 a month—but he apparently the year—January, Febru- ary and March. Sertay Se JL oorecgd of Mariatta al Ml iis nl FH ln Lo HY, Arter 150 years, the some interesting facts: for teachers were expected to supply taught only three months of re 2 of U3? ry aA Yee LA 7 WW Shed ‘1 Taneats -wloe Ale Ar yais Marcotte Fe irri Ale cl plnl Lk Todor /7 i of Soff foes Lad SL 2 0 tlle oo) Al pfs LA€L PF? ey! lee, 9 / a ie J JL. 2 »20¢ ide, Sb Socrnas Aze A 7g tect Zo of eee wi err, Heel agama 77 Art Jaca Hai Education was free, un- less the student wanted to learn Latin, in which case he or she had to shell out $2. The total budget for the township schools, in 1834, was $2,393. There were three schools in Marietta, two in Mount Joy, two in Maytown, and one each at the Donegal Meeting House, at Ziegler’s, at Hiestand’s, and in Spring- ville. Segregation became of- ficial policy in 1837, when Ruface Childer was hired to teach ‘‘the colored children of Marietta.” Poor Mr. Childer made only $5 a month, a sixth what the white, male teachers made. An 1839 decision to extend the school year to five months may have generated some contro- versy. For whatever reason, more than a third of all taxpayers voted to eliminate the whole school system, in 1840. The schools, however, survived. Teacher salaries were standardized at $30 for white men, $20 for white females and negroes. By 1850, the salaries had dropped to $22 a month for Sample of ornate writing from one of the East Donegal Township record books uncovered recently East Donegal Township school records back to year 1834 uncovered recently males and $17 for females. In 1870, the idea of a Donegal School District was abandoned, and each muni- cipality took over its own schools. However, a joint “‘colored’’ school was pro- posed. It was eventually voted down. Donegal School District, having disappeared in 1870, did not exist for seventy years. It reappeared in the 1940’s, when the state began encouraging school consolidation. Meanwhile, the school year had gotten a lot longer, teacher salaries had risen, and taxes had soared.
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