<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Dear colleagues -</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Working with the archives - and the living stories that have been shared with us - have made us (the archive team and volunteers) aware of the gift to the nation that Ruth Carter and the imaginal education approach to teaching used in the 5th City Preschool came about.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Ruth and another preschool teacher were invited by the team that was putting together Sesame Street to come to New York and share with them the imaginal education curriculum being used in the successful Fifth City Preschool.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Why? Apparently the Preschool had been named one of the top two preschools in the nation. Sargent Shriver had visited the preschool and said that the curriculum made it number 1 - but the facilities required he name it number 2.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">We have also heard that there was an article - and picture - in a Time magazine talking about the 5th City preschool - and that is why the Sesame Street planning crew asked Ruth and colleague to come to New York and talk to them.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">...and that one bright shining moment pales in the face of the additional 50+ years that she gave caring for and nurturing the teachers and students of the 5th City Preschool.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">God bless you, Ruth.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">
Jean Long</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Kemper Building</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Chicago</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Wanda Holcombe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wandah70@gmail.com" target="_blank">wandah70@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I remember with great fondness working with Ruth in the 5th City Preschool in the early days of its creation. She was always an inspiration of hope & tireless energy.<br>
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May the seeds of her hope continue to blossom in all of us (children & adults) who were part of & continue the 5th City Preschool.<br>
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Wanda<br>
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On Jul 28, 2013, at 4:48 PM, Terry Bergdall <<a href="mailto:bergdall2@gmail.com">bergdall2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Pat Turner, the current Director the Fifth City Preschool, informed<br>
> preschool Board Members this morning that Ms Carter was admitted to<br>
> the hospital on Friday evening and died earlier today. I will pass on<br>
> more information as soon as it is available.<br>
><br>
> Grace and Peace,<br>
><br>
> Terry Bergdall<br>
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