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Page 4 PHOENIX January 17,1974Kill hiCity Predicts SpringCompletion Date for3rd St. PlaygroundThe Third St. Playground in Prospect Park will be rebuilt by Spring 1974. The playground has been in ruins since the PRCA dug it up last June to begin the construction, and then discovered that the sub-surface was too soft to carry the weight of the new playground. The chairman of the Park Slope Civic Council%u2019s Third St. Playground Committee, Mrs. Marjory Potts, said that when her committee discovered this incredible bungle in August, they harassed the Mayor and then PRCA Adm inistrator, Richard Clurman, until they got %u201creal%u201d results.Mrs. Potts said, %u201cMr. Clurman, after apologizing to us for all the bungling that went on over this new playground, put an excellent man in charge. He is Richard Bader, Deputy Administrator for Capitol Projects and for the first time in what is now four years of frustration, we could believe that we would have a playground. Mr. Bader got the architect to redesign the playground quickly, he saw to it that the new plans and problems were resolved im %u00admediately by city agencies, and he has promised us that this playground will be built by Spring 1974.\%u201cMrs. Potts added that shebelieves Bader, because he is the first PRCA official to have communicated steadily with her and to have been honest about what the problems were and what could be done.Mrs. Potts and her committee have been working since January 1970 to get the old Third St. Playground turned into a dynamic, h a n d s o m e %u2018 %u2018a d v e n t u r e %u2019 %u2019 playground of which there are many in Central Park and none in Prospect Park. Mrs. Potts also said, %u201c It is ironic, but the final design wjiich calls for the whole playground to be made of natural timber instead of concrete, is far more beautiful than the original design, and far more in keeping with the wooded setting of the Third St, Playground.%u201dThe new playground will have %u201ctarzan%u201d rope swings, a cargo net, rubber tire swings, a tree house, a pyram id of climbing tim bers, slides of various sizes, a fireman pole, a water-channel for sailing small boats and wading, lots of sand, and safe baby swings off to the side, made of soft rubber straps. The magnificent tree in the middle of the site will be unharmed. Mrs. Potts added, %u201cNever mind the children, I can%u2019t wait to play there.iiiiiiiminiimiiniiiimiiiiniHi%u00bbnniiiinigiimimiimiiiiiniinnignininnngiHiiiiimmiinimiimiiYMCA W eek%u2019 Opportunity To Test Physical FitnessProspect Park-Bay Ridge YMCA on Ninth Street, joins with Y%u2019s throughout the country in celebrating Nation YMCA Week, Jan. 20-27th. This year marks the 130th anniversary of the founding of the YMCA movement.During YMCA Week, the %u2018Y%u2019 will be giving free fitness tests to men and women. Following the testing, individuals will have an opportunity to talk with the Physical Director to see the results ands t o io p, m . ' J rO t t c^ M eXUIO^ ^ z z t a u r a n tate* 115 MON1AGLE STREET mmgmmevaluation of the tests. All activities will be at 357 Ninth St.Saturday, January 26 is Youth Day for boys and girls ages 6 - 14. All the youth in our community are invited to participate in the gym and swim program from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Other activities will include an art workshop, theater improvisation, and fitness testing.Fitness tests for adults will be conducted Tuesday January 22nd through Friday January 25th from 2-6 p.m. A new physical fitness class will be conducted Tuesdays and Thursdays 6-7 p.m. beginning January 29th.Additional information can be obtained about YMCA Week and other Y programs by visiting your local Y, 357 Ninth Street or calling 768-7100.DiON'T frtT To t h i s v z k n iT H e n v i s i t M P L S %u2019 O U V L A K !147 AVoMTrtMJt St.- tk * \%u25a0rV isit th eP ro m e n ad eR esta u ra n tfor steaks, chops, seafood, soda fountain.Home-style Cooking is our specialty.Under the auspices of the John Jay High School FamilyLanguage Program, the Lara family are getting extra help inlearning English. Shown here left to right, is the \Teicher, making a point with the children, Julio, Francisco, Rosaand Lourdes.City Therapy DenialFought by Board 15Philip Kaplan, President of Community School Board 15 which includes South Brooklyn and Park Slope, is fighting a directive of the New York City Board of Education to deny speech therapy instruction to a youngster because he is a pupil in a parochial school.The youngster, a resident of District 15 and enrolled in a nonpublic school in the district was declared to be ineligible for speech services. John E. Lent, Acting Director of Speech Improvement, stated that he truly regretted he %u201c cannot perm it speech im %u00adprovement teachers to service nonpublic school children until we have a ruling from the Corporation Counsel.%u201dKaplan, noting a ruling had been requested more than a year ago, called the delay %u201cintolerable since it is the welfare of innocent children which suffers most from such a delay.%u201dFurther, he has researched the matter and referred to a similar case in upstate New York in which it was decided that %u201cresident children attending non-public schools be provided by the Board of Education with all health and welfare services.%u201dCommunity School Board 15, says Kaplan, is on record that all children that reside in the district are entitled to special programs if they are handicapped, regardless of whether they attend public or non-public schools.Initial reaction from the New York State Departm ent of Education seems to supportDistrict 15%u2019s position. %u201cWe will not rest,%u201d Kaplan stated, %u201cuntil every child receives the best education we can provide. This is one more example of how a decentralized district can make a meaningful contribution to the education of its children, and how insensitive the Central Board of Education is to the children of this city.%u201dP.S. 29 PresentedSkits About KingThough city schools were closed on Tuesday in observance of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, the life and work of the martyred pacifist was celebrated in the public schools throughout last week. Children from the third, fourth and fifth grades at Cobble Hill%u2019s P.S. 29 presented a memorial program in the school%u2019s auditorium on Friday, Jan. 11.Arranged by Third World Studies teacher Anne Hubbard, the performance included skits about Dr. King%u2019s life, the singing of Freedom Songs and %u201cBlowin%u2019 in the Wind%u201d, by Bob Dylan, poetry by Langston Hughes, and a reenactment of seamstress Rosa Park%u2019s insistance on keeping her seat in the front of the bus%u2014which became the springboard for the civil rights movement.Culminating a week of classroom concentration on the vision of the non-violent leader, the performance wound up with the singing of %u201cLift Every Voice%u201d, the Black anthem.fllnonroserMid-Eastern and International CuisineOPEN 11:30a.m. to Midnight,7 Days a WeekServing Lunch and Dinner 212-624-9267 218 COURT STREET, BROOKLYN, N.Y.Jay StaffI utoring EnglishSixty newly arrived non-Englishspeaking families are now involved in what has been called %u201cone of the most truly innovative programs in the city of New York.%u201d Each of the families has at least one and sometimes two students in Park Slope%u2019s John Jay High School. The program is operated out of John Jay with State Urban Education funds. Thirty-four members of the John Jay teaching and paraprofessional staff, many of whom are bilingual, go out into the community to teach the family unit how to speak English better.Of the sixty families being served 35 are Spanish, 14 are French, 6 are Italian, 4 are Arabic, and 1 is Greek. The members of the family are all encouraged to become involved in existing adult education classes and career ladder programs. Even though the teacher visits each family only one hour per week, he acts as a catalyst in the family%u2019s effort to become oriented to their new lives in New York City.Evaluation of the program for the past three years has shown it has been extremely successful not only in improving the English language proficiency of all the members of the family, but also in bringing parents into school activities and preventing dropouts. Statistics show that the high school students participating in the program showed only a 6 percent truancy rate as opposed to a 40 percent truancy figure for all other non-English-speaking students.The success of the program stems from the deep personal interest which the teacher and paraprofessioifal take in the problems of the newly immigrated family. The credo of the program is that people will learn a second language only if they want to. Aural-Oral methods, tapes, dialogues, drills %u2014 all of these are to no avail unless the learner is deeply and emotionally motivated to learn a language. By the consistency of his weekly visits, the teacher establishes a human bond between the school (and the American society which it represents) and the new family.While drilling dialogues, the teacher by his very presence, serves as a motivation for all members of the family to pursue paths which will lead to fluency in English as well as social and economic stability. Over coffee and dialogues the teacher becomes involved and in every case spends unstintingly of his own time (and money) to help these people.According to the Program Coordinator, Maureen Sloan, %u201cAll of this could not be achieved if the teacher were operating anywhere other than the family%u2019s home.%u201dSchool's AssociatedDean Raymond E. Lisle announced today that Brooklyn Law School had become a member of the Association of American Law Schools on the basis of action taken at the annual meeting of the Association held in New Orleans December 27-30, 1973.With our expanded fa cilitie s,i -... . ? 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