Page 6 — SUSQUEHANNA BULLETIN Melody Mumma Local girls see Germa ny Last Thursday Melody Mumma and her friend, Claudia Brandt, both jun- iors at Donegal High School, boarded a plane in Philadel- phia that took them to Frankfort, Germany. They will stay in Germany visit- ing Claudia’s great uncle’ and aunt until April 19. While there they will im- prove their conversational German and learn more a- bout German culture. Clau- dia’s great uncle and aunt have made plans for the Donegal girls to get ac- quainted with neighboring German girls and to visit the University of Frankfort with a cousin of Claudia’s. This spring Melody wrote an essay in Mr. Joseph Si- berski’s English class that attracted the attention of the Donegal High School ad- ministration. The essay was a review of some recent articles in educational jour- nals on the subject of the open classroom. The open classroom, in which there is very little outside discipline and very Program at A spring program will be presented by students of the Kraybill Mennonite School on April 4, at 7:30 p.m. The program will be rendered in the Cross Roads Brethren in Christ Church at the corner of Donegal Springs Road and S. Angle Street, Mount Joy. Students from Grades 6 through 9 will participate. The acappella chorus direc- ted by Chester Kurtz, will sing such old time favorites as “A Mighty Fortress” and “Great is thy Faithfulness.’ They will also sing several much freedom for students to learn in whatever ways they like, has been very pop- ular in the last decade a- mong educational theorists. But in the last few years, it seems, the open class- room has been given some second looks that reveal weaknesses in it as an edu- cational method. Melody’s essay points out that in learning in school many different meth- ods can be successful in teaching a subject. A meth- od which removes teacher control from students may not really “free” the stu- dent, but just allow the stu- dent to be controlled by his or her peers, “who have no more experience or wis- dom than he.” Melody’s essay ends with a plea for “system which recognizes and stresses in- dividual discipline, respect for others’ rights, but never- theless freedom to act at will within one’s own rights.” Kraybill folk songs, melodies and spirituals and will close with a choral tune from Schies- wig-Holstein region entitled “God is my Song.” A dramatic presentation written and directed by Leon Good will depict the upheavel of Reformation times as seen and experi- enced by teenagers in the Swiss-Dutch Anabaptist movement. Psalm 96 will be present- ed in choric form by a junior high boys’ group un- der the direction of Russell Baer. The public is cordially invited to attend. School tax census The Donegal School Dis- trict conducts a census sur- vey each year of all resi- dents living within the school district. Each home will be visited starting Mar- ch 24, 1975. The census has no direct influence on property ass- essments or rate of personal taxes, but is needed to se- the census takers so the project may be completed with minimum cost prior to May 1, 1975. The census takers for the school dis- trict are: Marietta Borough - Marilyn Baker; East Donegal Township - Benjamin Gain- er; Mount Joy Borough - Virginia McKenna and Ruth Newcomer; Mount Joy residents within the school district. The information will be data processed and files maintained which will be utilized by the schools to best serve the total popu- lation. It is requested that all individuals cooperate with It would be of consider- able assistance to the census taker if you would have available the following in- formation for each person living in your home: Name, age, birthdate, as well as grade and school if attend- ing school. DONEGAL SOPHOMORES SCORE ON NATIONAL TEST Sixteen members of the tenth grade at Donegal High School will receive National Certificates of Educational Development awarded for performance at the 90th percentile or better as mea- sured by national norms on The National Educational Development Tests admini- stered by the Guidance De- partment at Donegal High School according to Donald W. Drenner, Principal. They are: Cynthia Char- les, Joan deVitry, Cynthia Emenheiser, Gregory Galla- gher, Philip Good, Linda Hostetter, Mary Kanoff, Bar- bara Landis, Bruce Martin, Jonathan May, Michael Mc- Mullen, Philip Mitzkavich, Jennifer Neiss, James Pro- well, Robert Roaten and Jacob Sherk. The National Educational Development Test Battery is used to measure broad as- Loose John W. W. Loose, chair- man of the social studies department at Donegal High School, and president of the Lancaster County His- torical Society, has been elected Secretary of the Hertiage Center of Lancas- ter County at a meeting of the organization held this week. The Heritage Center, which is affiliated with the Lancaster County Bicenten- nial Committee, is an organi- zation of local men and wo- pects of the general educa- tional development of stu- dents and to compare each student’s development with his current potential for achievement. The NEDT program has four objectives: 1. To help students better understand their academic strengths and weaknesses. 2. To help teachers and counselors bet- ter understand the instruc- tional and guidance needs of individual students. 3. To help school administrators better understand thestreng- ths and weaknesses of their school curriculum. 4. To help school personnel iden- tify academically talented students who should be en- couraged to extend their education beyond high school. elected men who are undertaking the restoration of Lancas- ter’s State House (Old City Hall) and adjacent historic buildings and the develop- ment at this site of a mus- eum and cultural center re- flecting the historical herit- age of the people of Lancas- ter County. The State House, which faces Lancas- ter’s Center Square, served for 13 years at the beginn- ing of the 19th Century as the capitol of the Com- monwealth of Pennsylvania. PACK 136 MOUNT JOY CUB SCOUTS Webelos Den under lead- ership of Dana Mark and John Auker, will go on a hike to Mt. Gretna to get moss and plants to qualify for their Naturalist Badge, April 19. On April 3 they will go to St. John’s Episcopal Church in Lancaster, to hear a talk on citizenship. Den 4 under the leader- ship of Ann and Robert W. Mark, took a hike to Mt. Gretna on March 29. 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