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The William Patterson College of New
Jersey has provided a final assist to Bi-
centennial planners at the community
and classroom levels.
long stemmed Irish clay pipes, clay mar-
bles, a toy gun, china dolls, glass bottles
and a wood jack knife, among other items.
The students are members of an histori-
cal archaeology class taught by Ronald
Wild who regularly teaches social studies
at Hamilton High School. They earned a
year’s credit for their summer program and
saved a considerable amount of money for
the Milwaukee County historical Society
which owns the site.
There is still more digging to be done
and the project is expected to be com-
pleted as part of the 1976 summer school
program of the Milwaukee public schools.
The Curtin house will be reopened as a
museum. No work had been done on the
Wisconsin landmark since the depression
years when restoration was financed by the
Works Progress Administration (WPA).
The home of Jeremiah Curtin, 19th cen-
tury linguist, writer, diplomat and folklore
expert, is being reconstructed thanks to an
important assist from 24 Milwaukee high
school students.
Reconstruction of the home, one of the
most important historical landmarks in the
Milwaukee area, is a project of the Wiscon-
sin ARBC and the Milwaukee County
A RBC. It is located in a Milwaukee suburb.
Working in the historical archaeology
course offered as part of the 1975 summer
school program of the Milwaukee Public
Schools, the 24 high school students dug
up 204 shopping-type bags of artifacts
which must be identified, catalogued and
added to the restoration of the 122-year-old
house in time for the 1976 observance.
The students found exquisitely pat-
terned English bone china, silver spoons,
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Williamsburg Christmas Decorations
Things that were used as Christmas Declarations 200 years ago in Williamsburg
are hidden below.
See if you can find: Wreaths, candles, nuts, pineapples, pinecones, boxwood, fruits,
apples, holly, wassail bowls, misteltoe, kissing ball, cedar, berries, pears, figs greens!
Native Americans
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At a recent conference entitled “Patri-
otic Potpourri”, the college made availa-
ble a wide variety of ideas and projects it
had collected throughout the past two
years of Bicentennial involvement. Prac-
tical application of the ideas by clubs,
communities and schools was empha-
sized.
Mini Page Author
Contributes Times
Bicen Feature
The Bicentennial Times is pleased to
announce that Miss Betty Debnam, crea-
tor of the Mini Page, has generously
volunteered to contribute a special Bi-
centennial series for the young readers of
this publication . . Her first offering “For
Kids” appears on this page.
Miss Debnam originated the Mini Page
in 1969. The feature first appeared in The
News and Observer, Raleigh, N.C. She
holds a Master’s Degree in Education
from Duke University and taught school
for 11 years.
Miss Debnam, who is both author and
illustrator for the Mini Page and the Bi-
centennial Calendar ‘n‘ Charts, says she
felt for many years that newspapers
should produce educational materials for
use in the elementary classroom. Her
contribution to the Bicentennial Times is
a further extension of her efforts in this
direction.
The Mini Page is America’s largest
syndicated feature written especially for
children.
For three consecutive years, the fea-
ture has received distinguished achieve-
ment awards from the Educational Press
Association of America for excellence in
educational journalism.
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tional Park Service and the Bureau f
Indian Affairs. Cooperation was also
forthcoming during the year from such
other federal agencies as the Bureau of
Outdoor Recreation, the Economic De-
velopment Administration, the United
States Information Agency, the Depart-
ment of Defense, the Department of La-
bor, the Department of Health, Education
and Welfare, and the Department of
Housing and Urban Development.
Many meaningful projects emerged in
the relatively brief period of ARBA activ-
ity in this field. These projects include the
perpetuation of Indian culture and tradi-
tion, the improvement of communica-
tions among the tribes, the establishment
of museums and handicraft centers, and
the promotion of tourism to American
Indian areas, among others.
ARBA’s Office of Native American
Programs, located in Denver, Colorado,
launched a cooperative effort with the
National Park Service to assist in the
organization of a traveling Indian arts
exhibit entitled “Indian Pride on the
Move”.
A total of 30 teacher-prepared Bicen-
tennial classroom projects from kinder-
garten through the 12th grade was on
display. Also shown were exhibits depict-
ing elementary and junior high school
programs implemented this year at Wash-
ington School in Wyckoff and George
Washington Junior High School in
Wayne.
Bicen for the Feet
America has a chance to “get back on
its feet” for the Bicentennial. The Na-
tional Hiking & Ski Touring Association
hopes its Bicentennial program will en-
courage Americans to walk, jog, ski, hike,
or bicycle along trails in every state dur-
ing 1976. “200 Years — 200 Miles of
Trail” is the title of the Association’s
project which has enlisted the support
of 30 states. Wisconsin and Minnesota
have already pledged more than their
200 miles, and a number of other states
have identified the 200 miles to be set
aside. The National Hiking & Ski Touring
Association received a $5,000 grant from
ARBA to initiate the program and is in
need of further support. Contact:
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Many of the projects resulted from
workshops given previously for teachers
by the college faculty and other projects
were supervised by teachers who had
taken Bicentennial courses at the col-
lege.
Bicentennial kits provided by the New
Jersey Bicentennial Commission and the
state’s Historical Commission were
distributed as resource materials for Bi-
centennial planning for communities and
classrooms.
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Based on the premise that “Political
democracy was the challenge of
1776—Educational democracy is the
challenge of 1976,” six televised dia-
logues concerning the direction of the
American educational system were re-
cently aired in St. Louis, Mo., as part of a
Bicentennial look at the future.
Topics discussed by leading educa-
tors, authors and business people ranged
from “Good Education: Who’s Going to
Pay?” to “Are the Three R’s The
Answer?” The guest list included author
Dr. Marshall McLuhan, Dr. Robert Mat-
son, founder and president of Futurem-
ics, Inc., and Mrs. Martin (Mae) Duggan,
founder of Citizens for Educational Free-
dom and president of Parents’ Rights,
Inc.
Producers of “Forum V: The Challenge
of ’76” recognized the need to examine
education as it exists in America today, at
a time when dissention over methods,
societal controls, quality and goals is
extensive, and discussion is particularly
important. Supported by a re-grant from
the Missouri State Committee for the
Humanities, four local television stations
contributed television time and facilities
to the Forum V project.
Looking ahead to America’s Third
Century, the Reverend Walter Ong, pro-
fessor at St. Louis University commented,
“When I think about the situation of the
humanities today and about the talk we
hear concerning an education revolution,
it strikes me that we often are not aware
how much of the revolution has already
taken place.”
Dr. Robert Maston told viewers, “Peo-
ple must see the great need for long
range planning, they must say to them-
selves ‘I’m going to be there in the future,
I am going to have to make some
changes. I’m a shareholder in the fu-
ture.’”
Concern for continued education
throughout an individual’s life and the
problems of providing “equal educational
opportunities” were recurring themes in
the six forums, while David Frank, direc-
tor of the Loretto Hilton Repertory Thea-
tre said, “I think we feel very strongly that
the Arts in general, and drama in particu-
lar, are a sorely neglected area in terms of
being democratically available within the
education process.”
Co-director of Forum V, Taffy Wilber,
summarized, “Through the media of our
day we are provided with an unparalleled
mechanism to continue the thrust of the
American Revolution toward a humanis-
tic system of education in our technologi-
cal world.”
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