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Thursday, September 1«
EDUCATION
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Briefly noted
Board sets District 1
town meeting
The Savannah Chatham
County Board of Kducation will
hold a District 1 town meeting at
7 p.m. today at Bartlett Middle
School. 207 Montgomery
Crossroad. ScNouls in District 1
include Kllis, Heard, Hesse,
Smith and White Bluff elemen
taries. Bartlett Middle School
and Savannah High School. The
public is invited to attend.
St Paul Academy
teacher honored
Etta Williams, a teacher at St.
Paul Academy for Boys, has
received the 1997 SAM'S Club
Teacher of the
Year Award for
excellence in
teaching. The
award comes
with a $500
grant to her
school. Williams
was one of 1,500
teachers from
Williams
across the country who were selected to receive
the award. The teachers were
nominated by their school or
school district: winners were
selected by a panel of local community leaders.
Workshop aimed at parents
of middle-schoolers
A free workshop for parents of
middle school students is set for
Sept 25 from 6-9 p.m. at the
Coastal Georgia Center for
Continuing Education, 305
Martin Luther King Blvd. The
session. -with former middle
school principal and educator
Richard Ramsey, will focus on
community parent support systems and developmental issues
for middle grades students. The
workshop is sponsored by
Armstrong Atlantic State
University and the SavannahChatham County Public Schools.
For more information, call Mikki
Garcia, 356-2850, or Freya
Zipperer, 927-5281.
GSU dedicates
builders wan •
Georgia Southern University is
honoring the faculty and staff
who have helped make the growing institution the third largest in
the state.
The names of those who retire
from Georgia Southern after at
least 10 years will be engraved in
the Builders of the University
Terrace — a walled plaza behind
the campus' Sweetheart Circle.
Records from the institution's
beginnings in 1906 to the present
were researched so that no qualified retiree would go unrecognized.
"We will honor our past, our
present and our future with the
dedication of this, the Builders of
the University Honoraria Wall,"
Georgia Southern President
Nicholas Henry said during a
ceremony earlier this month.
Current employees, students,
the community and retirees contributed $100,000 to construct and
landscape the monument.
Among the more than 500
names already on the wall are J.
Walter Hendricks, the institution's first principal and first
retiree, and Mose Bass, a custodi
an who also served as a friend,
philosopher and father figure to
the students who resided on campus during his tenure.
SEARCH parents
meet today
The parents of SEARCH students will meet today at 7 p.m. at
Jacob Ci. Smith Elementary
School. 210 Lamarn Drive.
Anyone interested in the
SEARCH- program is urged to
attend Call :15H 5263 for more
information
Beach schedules
an open house
John Carm^fton
grader Crystal Johnson with a math problem.
Hinesville Middle School teacher Juubon Ma* we:
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"I tell them they either have an
option of doing this or becoming a
rmstrong Atlantic State used-car salesman," Schuberth said,
University's Troops to
adding "And they make great teachTeachers program is
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helping retired military
About 25 percent of new teachers
quit after their first year in the classpersonnel be all they
can be in the Classroom, Schuberth said. But just 6 percent of former military personnel
room.
Judson Maxwell used to spend his
give up after a year of teaching.
nights firing off artillery at Fort
"The military ingrained in them
Stewart; now his evenings are spent
the concept of a mission and getting
grading papers.
the job done," Schuberth said.
Oscar Goosby stopped writing
"Principals love them because of
briefings and reports when he
their reliability and leadership qualretired from the Air Force four years ities."
ago. Today he writes lesson plans.
Hinesville Middle School
Both men completed the Troops to
Principal Johnny Walker said his forTeachers program at Armstrong
mer military teachers have made
Atlantic and teach at Hinesville
smooth transitions from the field to
Middle School.
the classroom.
"Teaching has fewer rigors,"
"They really are excellent role
Maxwell said. "But both jobs have
models," Walker said. "Their experitheir stresses."
ence in dealing with some of the
The program, which has graduated younger troops probably gave them
about five people each year since it . some practice and knowledge to deal
was piloted in 1993, recruits retired
with the peer pressure and some of
military personnel who possess bacthe problems the students have at
calaureate degrees and are seeking a home."
second career.
Because dealing with a classroom
Christopher Schuberth. Troops to
full of 12- and 13-year-olds on a horTeachers director, said it usually
mone high can sometimes seem like
takes 1&-18 months to complete the
combat. Maxwell and Goosby said
education courses and student teach- their military' training often conies in
ing. It doesn't matter when they left
handy.
the service or when they graduated
"My military training taught me to
from college — as long as they had a
be adaptable in any situation and
grade point average of 2.5 or higher,
that was helpful in the classroom."
he said.
tioosby said. "Sometimes we have to
The pay isn't great - usually about make adjustments and still maintain
$24.000 annually to start but com
discipline and control."
bined with a military pension, it is a
In some cases, the students give
Savannah Morning News
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Oscar Goosby: "My military training taught me to be adaptable In any
situation and that [is] helpful In the classroom."
them automatic respect because of
their military experience. Goosby
said. But they still have to work to
maintain good behavior in the class
room.
Both Goosby and Maxwell concede
that teaching real live middle school
students is nothing like reading
about it in a textbook, and the mili-
tary style of giving orders doesnt fly
in the classroom.
"In the Army, I can tell you to sit
down and you have to do it because
of protocol." Maxwell said. "With
kids, you have to convince them to do
what you want."
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Savannah Morning News
Is this a put-on?
How to tell whether a child's tummy ache is serious
By Mary Landers
Suv.mn.ih Moininj; News
iimim troubles
it's a common child
hood complaint, one that seems even
more prr\,ilrnl on school mornings
Mut how ran a parent tell w hethcr it's sen
oils''
|)r Nicholas ('oslrmi. medical director of
the (ieor^ia (Jastroeiilerology Group, says
it's probabh a good idea to seek medical
attention, according to when a child com
plains of ,i stomach ache and exhibits one or
more ol the follow IL)n .symptoms
T
e Recurrent pain or pain present for sev
era! weeks
e Pain that awakens a child from sleep or
interrupts play.
e Pain accompanied by weight loss, diar
rhea. vomiting or blood in the stool
e Pain associated with meals, after eating
certain foods, during stressful or exciting
events
e Family medical history of conditions,
such as peptic ulcer disease, irritable
bowel, inflammatory bowel (Crohn's disease
or ulcerative colitis) or m i l k intolerance that
cause abdominal pain
No pain should be ignored. Costrini said
It's usually real and deserves a parent's
attention, including measures such as a
heating pad. rest and acctominophon to
ease symptoms
Mut if a child complains of pain only occa
sionally and none of these symptoms are
present, it's probably not a big worry, he
said
It's common for a tummy ache to pass
quickly. A typical scenario is a child com
plaining of stomach pain in the morning at
school The school nurse calls Mom or Dad,
who leaves work to take the child home. Bv
midafternoon. the recovered child t* i
to play outside Mom. who* been warned
and inconvenienced, might deride <a*rY
been duped But she'd probabtir be wra«£
fostrini said.
"The correct conclusion u thai the past
was real but was the nunifestatMo <rf row
thing minor," he said
Kids who try to fake a stcwarharfce pn*
themselves away — they raoplaai cfmmme
ous other pains but continue i
activities without missing a beat.
"And they look like a million barb,*
fostrini said.