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Tuesday, May 2, 1961
Springbrook
Dedication
Set Sunday
Dr. Thomas G. Pullen, jr.,
Maryland State superintendent
of schools, will be principal
speaker at the dedication of re
cently opened Springbrook High
School Sunday, May 7.
"Hie ceremony will begin at 3
pm. at the school, two miles
north of White Oaks intersec
tion on Route 29.
Formal dedication and wel
come address is to be by Jack
Wise, president of the Spring
brook PTA. The building will be
presented by Lauren L. Mur
ray, representative of Johannes
and Murray Architects.
Acceptance speeches will be
by Dr. Harold Breimeyer, pres
ident of the Montgomery Coun
ty Board of Education, and
Richard C. Ahlberg, Spring
brook principal.
Other speakers will be Blair
Lee, HI, head of the Montgom-;
ery County legislative delega
tion, and Dr. C. Taylor Whittier,
Montgomery County superin
tendent of schools.
Blair Latin
Team Wins
First Place
Montgomery Blair High
School’s Latin team was de
clared winner of the countywide
Latin Scrabble League at a
championship match held at the
Wheaton High School on April
21.
Playing against Wheaton
High School, which scored 575
points, Blair was triumphant
with 949 points. Members of
the winning team, all second
year Latin students of Miss
Hazel Bratt, included Susan
Baker, Carol Jordan, Charles
Cockerill, Phyllis Teitelbaum,
Kathryn Simpson, and Nancy
Gatzke; and alternates, Alan
Snyder and Bob Shaw.
Originated by Wheaton High
School during the past year, the
league embraced second-year
Latin students of seven county
high schools.
Bethesda-Chevy Chase ranked
third in the league.
Parents Honored
During Weekend
At College Fetes
Parents of three Silver Spring
students at Milwaukee-Downer
College, Milwaukee, Wis., were
among honor guests during
special activities at the college
last weekend.
Carolyn and Judith King,
daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Da
vid B. King, 12813 Bluehill rd.,
were members of the cast of a
play, “Conversation Piece,” pre
sented as a part of the pro
gram. Carolyn King is a junior
at the college and her sister a
aophomore.
Harold C. Tellock, 2021 Pow
der Mill rd., was a guest of his
daughter, Barbara, a freshman,
during the weekend.
Progress Report
Issued by WSSC
A 40-page pictorial summary
of the 1960 activities of the
Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission has been issued by
the suburban Maryland water
sewer agency.
“Progress Through Planned
Action” is the theme of the re
port, which can be obtained
free of charge from the WSSC
Public Information Office, 4017
Hamilton st., Hyattsville.
Hie report points out that
“vitality of the suburban areas
of Montgomery and Prince
Georges counties, plus the
promise for continued rapid
growth in the WSSC’s bi-county
service area, make providing
for the future the important
concerns of the commission.”
Women Voters
To Meet
The annual meeting of the
Montgomery County League of
Women Voters will be held Sat
urday at the National 4-H Club,
7100 Connecticut ave., Chevy
Chase.
Scheduled to begin at 10 a.m.,
the morning session will be de
voted to reports, discussion and
action on the proposed budget,
and presentation and discussion
of the League's program for the
year ahead.
Action on the program and
election of officers will take up
the afternoon session.
Reservations for the noon
luncheon may be made with
Mrs. John Heiberg or Mrs. Clif
ford Barnett before noon
Wednesday.
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NEW MEMBERS—Rockville Mayar Alexan
der Greene (left) swears in Thomas Lowrey
(center) and Melbourne Ward as new mem
bers of the City Board of Supervisors of
Study of Mental Health
Facilities Urged by
County Welfare Group
An expert investigation of
the county’s needs for more ade
quate treatment services for
its emotionally-disturbed and
mentally ill was called for last
week by the Family and Child
Welfare Committee of the Mont
gomery Health and Welfare
Council.
The recommendation occupied
top priority among six major
conclusions reached by the com
mittee . following a two and a
half-month study of community
problems and needs affecting
families and children in the
county.
The study disclosed a need for
additional mental health serv
ices for both adults and chil
dren in the county, the commit
tee reported, pointing out that
of the two psychiatric clinics in
thtf community now, one is pri
marily diagnostic and consulta
tive and the other is insuffi
ciently staffed and “does not
possess the facilities to meet
the needs of the community in
this regard.” It added that at
the latter center, admissions
have been closed recently.
A need for in-patient diagnos
tic centers for adults and Chil
dren on a short-term basis also
was brought to light in its
study, the committee said.
It urged that a recommenda
tion be made to the County
Council for the establishment
of a committee comprised of ex
perts in the mental health field
and representative citizens of
the community to determine
“the appropriate organization
and structure for a county of
this size to meet its mental
health needs.”
In other words, to determine
how to expand the county’s cur
rent mental health facilities.
The committee also asserted
that the Health and Welfare
Council “should assume more
leadership in concert with ap
propriate community groups “in;
educating citizens in the value
and necessity of mental health
services.
It urged the experts, in mak-;
ing their investigation, to avail I
themselves of research mate
rials available from “national
standard-setting organizations”
such as the American Psychiat
ric Association, the President’s
Joint Committee on Mental
Health, the National Mental
Health Association, and the
Group for the Advancement of
Psychiatry.
Turning to other areas of
family welfare needs in the
county, the committee also cited
more adequate vocational train
ing and employment opportuni
ties for young people, and called
for strengthening and extend
ing family counseling services.
Of the first, its report pointed
out that “too many children in
Montgomery County are either
dropped from school before
they are 16 years of age or do
not remain in school beyond the
high school level.
‘The committee believes that
tarining in mechanical, domes
tic and other skills would be of
utmost value in assisting these
young people and in realistically
preparing them for their future
positions in the community.
“Such a training program
should also include the provi
sion of employment opportuni
ties for these young men and
women,” the committee de
clared, adding that coupled with
teh training should be the
Elections. The ceremony was held during
a meeting of the City Election Registration
Committee. Photo by Mervis
evaluation and revision of pres
ent child labor laws which
often prevent youngsters in this
category from obtaining a job.
In its recommendation for
building up the area’s family
counseling services, the commit
tee suggested that the Health
and Welfare Council consider
establishing a “family court”
with family casework services
being provided as an adjunct of
the court.
Juvenile delinquency came
under consideration by the com
mittee, with a resultant recom
mendation for a study of the
services now available for the
early detection and treatment
of “youngsters with problems
that interfere with the proper
social functioning in school or
in the community.”
While such services are pro
vided now by public health
nurses, pupil personnel work
ers, teachers, school counselors,
social workers and the Juvenile
Aid Bureau, the family welfare
group asked that their roles and
functions be clarified.
Revision of Maryland’s resi
dent laws, which, the commit
tee said, at the present time
prevents the Welfare Depart
ment from offering an indigent
NIH Dance Concert
Slated for May 12
A modern dance symposium
showing the development of the
art of creative dance theater
will be sponsored by the Mod
ern Dance Class of the Recrea
tion and Welfare Association of
the National Institutes of
Public Works
Chapter Names
Gray to Office
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John Gray, Rockville’s direct
or of public works, has been
elected secretary - treasurer of
the Maryland - D.C. • Virginia
Chapter of the American Public
Works Association.
Gray is the first chapter of
ficer from Rockville. The chap
ter, fourth largest in the nation,
held its election in Baltimore
with about 275 municipal and
public works officials attending.
The 29-year-old Gray has been
with Rockville for three and a
half years. He was named city
engineer in 1958 and then ap
pointed to his present post in
January, 1960.
Ashburton School
Sets Registration
For Kindergarten
Annual pre-school conference
to register kindergarten chil
dren for next fall at Ashburton
Elementary School will be held
Thursday and Friday in the kin
dergarten room.
Children who are five years
of age on or before January 1,
1962, are eligible to enroll. The
conference is sponsored by the
Ashburton PTA.
Members of the PTA health
committee, under the chairman
ship of Mrs. Rene Griffith, will
conduct the registration. Ap
pointments can be made by call
ing EM. 5-1492 or EM. 5-2888.
newcomer more than transpor
tation back to his legal resi
dence, also was recommended
for study by the Health and
Welfare Council, as was the
betterment of housing condi
tions in several areas of the
county.
The six major needs cited in
its report were selected from
many by the committee as "the
most pressing, immediate prob
lems existing in Montgomery
County.”
“Omission of other problem
areas from this report in no
way minimizes their import
ance,” the committee said, add
ing that it intends to consider
them further for possible future
action.
Representatives of the follow
ing agencies cooperated with
the committee in its study:
Family Service of Montgom
ery County, Montgomery Coun
ty Welfare Board, Pupil Person
nel, a department of the Mont
gomery County Board of Edu
cation; Montgomery County
Health Department; Montgom
ery County Juvenile Court;
Psychiatric Services, a unit of
the Montgomery County Health
Department, and Community
Psychiatric Clinic.
Health, Inc., at 8:30 p.m. May 12
at the NIH Clinical Center audi
torium.
Original dances and music
have been composed for the con
cert. Dances will be performed
by the Modern Dance Class and
advanced students of the Reper
tory Dance Center In George
town.
Mimi Bowen-Roberts, a pro
fessional comedienne from the
New York stage, who is a part
time researcher at NIH, will be
mistress of ceremonies.
Peeples Urg es
Tetanus Shots
Dr. William J. Peeples, Mont
gomery County health officer,
has urged county residents to
get tetanus immunizations soon.
Farm workers, construction
workers and persons involved
in outdoor work are most sus
ceptible, Dr. Peeples said. Any
one who has not been im
munized can get tetanus from
minor cuts as well as from
deep wounds.
Persons who have not re
ceived tetanus toxoid should go
to their private physician for a
series of three shots, two a
month apart and the third at
the end of a year. Boosters are
needed at times of injury or
five years after the initial
series.
Tetanus is a rare disease, Dr.
Peeples said, but it is more
often than not a fatal disease.
Of all the infectious diseases,
only rabies has a higher fatality
rate.
Marrioil Honored
J. Willard Marriott, president
of Hot Shoppes, Inc., was hon
ored as the “Restaurateur of
the Year” at a gathering of the
Restaurant Association of Met
ropolitan Washington recently
at the Occidental Restaurant
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