June 10, 1970 (8 pages)

: Ldn ‘Graduation © conducted at two schools ALMOST 300 Grass Valley and .Nevada City youngsters completed their elementary educations Thursday with outdoor commencement __ exercises. Above, the 200 Gilmore graduates listen-to teacher John Kartozian. Below, the 94 Seven Hills graduates march to the ceremony. Local man passes bar. Richard John Schneider of Grass Valley has passed the California Bar, making him an attorney at law eligible to practice in this state. The results of the recent examination were announced Tuesday. Schneider, a former Boeing test pilot, moved to Grass Valley with his family last year and has been working for the Sierra Miners Hospitals Foundation, Recently he has been serving on the Grass Valley schools tax override c@mmmittee, Pace ae Experimental program _ approved by students lessons, it became evident that the students are not well found-Eighth grade students at Lyman Gilmore School were almost unanimous in approval of “an experimental program which “ began in September. For one-third of the school : day, 100 eighth graders attendNeil Hennessy new director of Sierra-Miners Don Matson, director at large of Sierra Nevada MemorialMiners Hospitals Corporation has resigned and was replaced on the board of directors by Neil Hennessy at Thursday's meeting of the Sierra NevadaMiners Hospital Directors. Hennessy, a local Realtor, was co-chairman of the Sierra Nevada Miners Hospital expansion fund drive and is a former Nevada County Supervisor. Matson, a local lumber dealer was a charter member of Western Sierra and Nevada Counties Area Wide Health Facility Planning Council. He'served six years on the Grass Valley Elementary School Board, Matson will be attending Consumnes River College near Elk Grove, Calif., majoring in business accounting. Mr. and Mrs, Matson have leased a home in ‘Elk Grove. CYA escapee is captured A 19-year old youth who walked away from the Washington Ridge California . Youth Authority Camp early Monday morning had but brief hours of freedom before he was back in custody. The California Division of Forestry apprehended Michael E. Schwartz shortly after noon on Banner Mountain Road. He is in jail and probably will be referred to another CYA facility, according to an official at the ; gram and made suggestions for ing with letter grades, a re— quirement of 50 per cent suced a class with a combination of two subjects, language arts and social studies, The subjects were presented as one and the traditional letter grading system was not used on report cards. At the conclusion of the @xperiment, 95 of the 100 students involved voiced their satisfaction with the system. Evaluation of the students' work during the experiment indicated that not only were the students satisfied but that they worked at a high level of production, school officials said. In a report to principal John Waggoner concerning the experiment, the students and the instructor evaluated the profuture programs. These are some of the remarks in the report: — By eliminating letter grades, competition and comparison were eliminated from the classroom. Each pupil's work was evaluated individually, ” and when possible assignments were made on the same basis. — In past years, when workcessful completion of the work was established to receive a passing grade (D). At this writdents in the experimental group fall below the 75th percentile. — The two period class (two hours) proved to be a very rewarding facet of the experiment. Increased time to work with each class produced these advantages; ability to work on personal problems, elimination of homework and completion of many assignments during one class session, better knowledge . of students’ attitudes and needs, increased time to explore side issues and for student. discussions, less need to review material, creating free time in classroom for relaxation or doing work of student's choice, The third purpose of the experiment was not as successful as anticipated. This was coordinating of two. subject areas so that one-third of the students’ work day could be presented as an integrated unit. No letter grades and double classroom poses of the experiment. _— In using language arts skills to perform the social studies ing (May 8), only 15 of the ‘stue’ time were the other two purvata sat acral a 640 4 ed in the former subject area. Itwas often necessary to halt a lesson to work on very basic material in language arts. Suggestions for future experimental programs were: -1) Development of at least one long period during the school day. 2) Combining of language arts with reading or ‘reestablishing it as a separate subject. 3) Elimination of grading. 4) Reduction of class sizes. _ 5) Creation of a special classroom and program for the lower 15 per cent of the students, Law repeal needed to letter meet order "It won't work unless the law of gravity is repealed."So spoke Supervisor Dean Lawrence Wednesday when the board discussed a letter from the health department which concerned areas within Sanitation District No, 1 where residents have failed to connect to an existing sewer line. Mrs, Lawrence cited "uphill" =locations as a reason for repeal of nature's law as the only feasible economical and physical solution to make some connections. County Counsel Leo Todd explained. that if residents are not within 200 feet of the line there is some question whether such connections will be required. He suggested, and supervisors agreed, that in the near future the board rule on requirements when they sit as.a board of directors of the sanitation district. Some time ago, according to Hal Cox, county sanitarian, former county health officer C, Jackson Rayburn declared sewage conditions critical in the Glenbrook area. Cox "disliked" to. see any more septic tanks go into a critical area. However, he said that. the declaration referred only to everything on the south side of Wolf Creek. Therefore it appears if Mrs. Lawrence's constituents live on the other side they will not be required to comply with Semenee with the sewage sysem, J THE BEST MOVE OU EVER MADE _ 20 YEARS . EXPERIENCE es SSA eae pana CE NE Ret 5 see iia a aaa > ae oo Og ae

: Ldn ‘Graduation © conducted at two schools ALMOST 300 Grass Valley and .Nevada City youngsters completed their elementary educations Thursday with outdoor commencement __ exercises. Above, the 200 Gilmore graduates listen-to teacher John Kartozian. Below, the 94 Seven Hills graduates march to the ceremony. Local man passes bar. Richard John Schneider of Grass Valley has passed the California Bar, making him an attorney at law eligible to practice in this state. The results of the recent examination were announced Tuesday. Schneider, a former Boeing test pilot, moved to Grass Valley with his family last year and has been working for the Sierra Miners Hospitals Foundation, Recently he has been serving on the Grass Valley schools tax override c@mmmittee, Pace ae Experimental program _ approved by students lessons, it became evident that the students are not well found-Eighth grade students at Lyman Gilmore School were almost unanimous in approval of “an experimental program which “ began in September. For one-third of the school : day, 100 eighth graders attendNeil Hennessy new director of Sierra-Miners Don Matson, director at large of Sierra Nevada MemorialMiners Hospitals Corporation has resigned and was replaced on the board of directors by Neil Hennessy at Thursday's meeting of the Sierra NevadaMiners Hospital Directors. Hennessy, a local Realtor, was co-chairman of the Sierra Nevada Miners Hospital expansion fund drive and is a former Nevada County Supervisor. Matson, a local lumber dealer was a charter member of Western Sierra and Nevada Counties Area Wide Health Facility Planning Council. He'served six years on the Grass Valley Elementary School Board, Matson will be attending Consumnes River College near Elk Grove, Calif., majoring in business accounting. Mr. and Mrs, Matson have leased a home in ‘Elk Grove. CYA escapee is captured A 19-year old youth who walked away from the Washington Ridge California . Youth Authority Camp early Monday morning had but brief hours of freedom before he was back in custody. The California Division of Forestry apprehended Michael E. Schwartz shortly after noon on Banner Mountain Road. He is in jail and probably will be referred to another CYA facility, according to an official at the ; gram and made suggestions for ing with letter grades, a re— quirement of 50 per cent suced a class with a combination of two subjects, language arts and social studies, The subjects were presented as one and the traditional letter grading system was not used on report cards. At the conclusion of the @xperiment, 95 of the 100 students involved voiced their satisfaction with the system. Evaluation of the students' work during the experiment indicated that not only were the students satisfied but that they worked at a high level of production, school officials said. In a report to principal John Waggoner concerning the experiment, the students and the instructor evaluated the profuture programs. These are some of the remarks in the report: — By eliminating letter grades, competition and comparison were eliminated from the classroom. Each pupil's work was evaluated individually, ” and when possible assignments

were made on the same basis. — In past years, when workcessful completion of the work was established to receive a passing grade (D). At this writdents in the experimental group fall below the 75th percentile. — The two period class (two hours) proved to be a very rewarding facet of the experiment. Increased time to work with each class produced these advantages; ability to work on personal problems, elimination of homework and completion of many assignments during one class session, better knowledge . of students’ attitudes and needs, increased time to explore side issues and for student. discussions, less need to review material, creating free time in classroom for relaxation or doing work of student's choice, The third purpose of the experiment was not as successful as anticipated. This was coordinating of two. subject areas so that one-third of the students’ work day could be presented as an integrated unit. No letter grades and double classroom poses of the experiment. _— In using language arts skills to perform the social studies ing (May 8), only 15 of the ‘stue’ time were the other two purvata sat acral a 640 4 ed in the former subject area. Itwas often necessary to halt a lesson to work on very basic material in language arts. Suggestions for future experimental programs were: -1) Development of at least one long period during the school day. 2) Combining of language arts with reading or ‘reestablishing it as a separate subject. 3) Elimination of grading. 4) Reduction of class sizes. _ 5) Creation of a special classroom and program for the lower 15 per cent of the students, Law repeal needed to letter meet order "It won't work unless the law of gravity is repealed."So spoke Supervisor Dean Lawrence Wednesday when the board discussed a letter from the health department which concerned areas within Sanitation District No, 1 where residents have failed to connect to an existing sewer line. Mrs, Lawrence cited "uphill" =locations as a reason for repeal of nature's law as the only feasible economical and physical solution to make some connections. County Counsel Leo Todd explained. that if residents are not within 200 feet of the line there is some question whether such connections will be required. He suggested, and supervisors agreed, that in the near future the board rule on requirements when they sit as.a board of directors of the sanitation district. Some time ago, according to Hal Cox, county sanitarian, former county health officer C, Jackson Rayburn declared sewage conditions critical in the Glenbrook area. Cox "disliked" to. see any more septic tanks go into a critical area. However, he said that. the declaration referred only to everything on the south side of Wolf Creek. Therefore it appears if Mrs. Lawrence's constituents live on the other side they will not be required to comply with Semenee with the sewage sysem, J THE BEST MOVE OU EVER MADE _ 20 YEARS . EXPERIENCE es SSA eae pana CE NE Ret 5 see iia a aaa > ae oo Og ae