Evening star. [volume], April 10, 1955, Page D-11, Image 76

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'INNER SPACE' MEN —Comic-strip characters Susie and
Stevie from 'lnner Space' make learning to read a good
game for these advanced, preschool pupils of Dr. and
Two Comic-Strip Characters
Are Used as Reading Aids
BY CHRISTIE RINEHART
With a comic strip and some
old-fashioned ideas on the
three Rs, Dr. and Mrs. Edward
Monaghan of Alexandria have
set out to fight reading de
ficiencies in both children and
adults.
“I don’t see how children
have trouble learning to read
If they are taught the alpha
bet and some basic sounds."
Mrs. Monaghan says. "The
trouble is they aren’t taught
any more.”
The Monaghans teach pho
netics with the help of two
comic-strip, characters from
“Inner Space," which they
originated. Stevie and Susie
get into one situation after an
other to demonstrate basic
speech sounds.
For example, if Stevie hits
his thumb with a hammer, he
says, “Ow,” naturally enough
When the student recognizes
the “ow” sound, he is ready to
learn words with this sound in
them, like "how,” "cow.”
“brown,” “town.”
The idea of Susie and Ste
vie first came to Mrs. Mona
ghan, a specialist in remedial
reading and foreign languages,
when she taught reading to
soldiers at Fort Myer several
years ago.
“There was one boy there
who couldn’t read at all,” Mrs.
Monaghan recalls. “Since the
boys were only there for a
short time. I decided I would
have to show them how to read
by some really quick method.”
With Stevie and Susie, Mrs.
Monaghan gets the children to
read because reading Is fun
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and because school is a
pleasure.
Dr. and Mrs. Monaghan be
gan their task in earnest four
years ago in Alexandria. The
school is a nonprofit co-opera
tive where reading is taught
on all levels.
Preschool children of above
average intelligence come to
morning classes where they
not only learn to read English,
but foreign languages. “Last
year I tried them on Russian.”
Mrs. Monaghan says, "and
yoq’d be amazed how quick
th#f were to get it.” Mrs. Mon
aghan has also taught French,
Italian and Spanish to the
youngsters.
Costa Sergio, a boy whose
Mrs. Edward Monaghan. The boys are (left to right)
Skipper Booth, Pat Murray, Joseph Dixon, Wally Scar- ;
borough, Mike Mitchener and Levitt Bridgeman.
Greek father and German
mother Mrs. Monaghan taught
to read English, drops in at
these elementary classes and
speaks German with the chil
dren so they become familiar
with this language, too.
Slow readers are instructed
at afternoon classes and there
are classes in the evenings for
adults.
Mrs. Mohaghan, who taught
in the Americanization pro
gram, is currently on leave
from the New York public
school system.
Since the Monaghans began
their school, the success of the
“Space Kids” has spread far
| and wide.
Recently, the New York
Board of Education formally
adopted the “Sounds from
Inner Space” comic strip as a
regular part of its curriculum.
Other requests for the strip
have come from as far away as
Switzerland, French Morocco,
Denmark. Japan and Mexico.
Hadassah to Hold
Tots' Theater Fete
The Silver Spring Chapter
of Hadassah will hold a chil
dren’s theater party on Tues
day between 10 and 12 noon
The show will consist of all
cartoons and selected short
TV (Sr Dick Mansfield will
appear in person, and there
will be free safety cavalier
buttons and door prises.
Music Club
Auditions ,
Congressmen from districts
in which the contestants live
and other Special guests will
attend the Fourth National
Audition of the Friday Morn
ing Music Club on Wednes
day at 1 o’clock at the Cosmos
Club.
Special guests include Mr.
Maxim Kerolik of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Mrs.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth,
Mildred Miller of the Metro
politan Opera, Dr. and Mrs.
Howard Mitchell. Mrs. Le
nora Jackson McKim. Rosa
Ponselle, formerly of the Met
ropolitan Opera, Dr. Duncan
Emerich and Mrs. Alan Val
entine.
The Foundation will award
a (1.000 scholarship for strings
to one of the six finalists who
will compete before the panel
of nationally known musicians.
The panel is composed of
Mischa Schneider, cellist of
the Budapest String Quartet.
Elena de Sayn, concert violin
ist and former associate music
editor of The Evening Star,
and Roman Totenberg, con
cert violinist and conductor of
the Totenberg String En
semble.
The finalists will be chosen
on Tuesday. Contestants come
from all over the United
States and must be United
States citizens between the
ages of 18 and 25. ,
President of the Friday
Morning Music Club is Mrs.
Myron Witters. Mrs. Florence
Howard and Mrs. Kathryn Hill
Rawls are president and secre
tary of the club’s foundation.
STATE SOCIETIES
Officers
For Year
Named
[ BY RAY KALTWASSER
I New officers will be intro
-1 duced at the Missouri Society’s
April Dance from 10 p.m. to
1 a.m. Saturday in the Shore
‘ ham Hotel. They are:
Otis E. Lancaster, president;
• Brig. Gen. L. H. Renfrow,
George L. Warfel, and Harry
Wake, vice presidents; Mrs.
i Jewell Dowdall, secretary; Eric
; G. Jansson. treasurer, and
i Harvey Middleton, tyler.
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i Montanans have been in
vited to join the National
Railway Society on its rail
excursion to Pope’s Creek, Md.,
next Sunday. The society has
also scheduled a picnic and a
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beach and Gettysburg trip for
later in May and the summer.
* * * *
The Michigan Society has
elected Col. L D. Brent, with
the Office of Defense Mobiliza
tion, ite new president. Other
new officers are F. M. Radigan
and Thelma Walker, vice
presidents; Mathew E. Erick
son, treasurer; Jean Duty, re
cording secretary, and Mar
guerite Hansen, corresponding
secretary.
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Representative Clair Engle,
Democrat, is the new presi
dent of the California Society.
Other new officers are Rep
resentatives Holt, Doyle, Shep
pard and Teague and Frank
Rogers. Col. Ray Conlisk,
Admiral M. S. Tisdale, A1
Woodward, and Mrs. Edward
Wooton. all vice presidents;
Walter Phair N treasurer; Miss
Betty Lewis, secretary, and
Mrs. Gertrude Scott, historian
and delegate to the Conference
of State Societies.
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. C.
IC7CPAT, aran. to. taw
Progress Club's
Community Fair
To Aid Library
A Community Fair, spon»
’ sored by the Progress Club of
College Park and featuring
pony rides, sales of all kinds
and refreshments, will bene
fit the local library branch.
The fair will be held on
April 30 from 11 am. until
dark at College and Yale ave
nues in College Park.
All proceeds will benefit the
Paint Branch Community Li
brary at 4513 College avenue.
The library is a wing of the
Prince Georges County Me
morial Library. Under the
county system the county sup
plies books and librarians but
maintenance of quarters and
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all other expenses are a re
sponsibility of the community
where the branch is located.
Many community organisa
tions will co-operate with the
Progress Club for the fair, '
which will include suoh attrac
tions as plant and flower sales,
a balloon sale, penny pitch,
ping pong, a white elephant
sale, and possibly even a bow
and arrow range.
Mrs Jack M. Devlin, the
chairman, will be assisted by
Mrs. James M. Osborne, Mrs.
Thomas D. Munn, Mias
Frances Alice Thompson, Mrs.
Clark L. Simpson, Mrs. Merl
FT Hershberger and Mrs.
Frank Vrans. Mrs. William J.
Bailey, immediate past presi
dent of the Paint Branch
Community Library Associa
tion will serve in an advisory
capacity.