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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>At the beginning of our stay in the Fifth City
house, June 1966, I was informed that my assignment was Pre-school". I was
rebellious. I told Slicker that wasn't the kind of experience I was looking for;
I had four kids under six! He said, in true Slicker style, "well, we need
a trained theologian in the pre-school and you are it for this year!" I
asked if there wasn't an alternative,like getting a job in the city.
His response: "The only alternative if you don't accept your assignment is
for you and your whole family to leave!"</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> So I started working in the
preschool the next day, with Ruth Marshall, Ruth Carter, and several others.
There was no printed curriculum in those days. The four areas rotated among the
teachers, each of whom was supposed to deliver us a slip of paper with
instructions what to do before the class began. Sometimes some of us JUST
made it! Because I kept yapping about how the curriculum should be worked
our in advance and published by the week the previous Friday
afternoon. The result was that I was assigned to preschool for two more
years, to June of 1968. By then we had the first year long curriculum
"mimeographed" and had taught the three and four year olds to write and read
their own "book". (My name is Jerry. I like apples. I don't like potatoes.
I have a brother. His name is Paul......" About 10 pages , one sentence to a
page, that they could read aloud in front of the group and shock and horrify
their older brrothers and sisters. Ruth Carter's son got in trouble the
first day at Stewart School by asking when they would start reading; he was
bored with toys!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> Ruth was one of the great
reading teachers and suggesters of curriculum.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>
NanGrow</FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=paula.philbrook@gmail.com
href="mailto:paula.philbrook@gmail.com">Paula Philbrook</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=oe@lists.wedgeblade.net
href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">Order Ecumenical Community</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, July 31, 2013 9:57
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Oe List ...] Ruth Carter --
Iron Woman</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=+0><FONT
face="comic sans ms,sans-serif">I would say that the Imaginal Education was
developed about the same historical time as the Fifth City Preschool
curriculum. The intention of the curriculum was to be a grounding example of
imaginal education.</FONT></FONT></FONT>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=+0><FONT
face="comic sans ms,sans-serif">So the 4 parts of the preschool curriculum
were </FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'comic sans ms',sans-serif">Lela, Sarah, Kaze,
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'comic sans ms',sans-serif">maybe I do
not have level 2 and 3
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=+0><FONT
face="comic sans ms,sans-serif">Paula<BR></FONT></FONT></FONT><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 1:43 AM, the telfords <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:thetelfords@gmail.com"
target=_blank>thetelfords@gmail.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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class=gmail_quote><BR>Dear Colleagues<BR>Although I never actually met Ruth,
her name and her contribution to our common mission is lodged in my
memory.<BR><BR>Now, a question - was the curriculum which was developed in
5th City the foundation for what later became known as Imaginal
Education?<BR><BR>This coming weekend the Blue Mountains East Timor
Friendship Committee, which Elaine & I are members of, are hosting a
visit by Dulce Soares, the East Timor government's Vice-Minister for
Pre-School and Basic (primary) Education - the ET Government has recently
launched a new Pre-School initiative to establish pre-schools widely across
the nation and I understand they are at the stage of putting together a
curriculum.<BR><BR>I was meeting with a couple of members of our organising
team this morning and we were discussing what would be an appropriate gift
to give to the Vice-Minister, and having just read about Ruth and the 5th
City curriculum before I went to the meeting, I said I could possibly come
up with a gift related to that.<BR><BR>Is there something I could download
which at least would give her an introduction to our approach to early
learning/development?<BR><BR>Any suggestions you can make in the next 24
hours will be most welcome.<BR><BR>Grace & Peace<BR>John<BR> <BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Isobel A Bishop
<SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:isobeljimbish@optusnet.com.au"
target=_blank>isobeljimbish@optusnet.com.au</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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class=gmail_quote>Dear Lela,<BR>Thank you for this tribute to Ruth.<BR>I
remember her very well at S '68, when a bunch of Aussie children came
over.<BR>I did not know here well either, and yet was very impressed with
her style of ease and competence.<BR><BR>We appreciate what you all
have written..<BR>In peace,<BR>Isobel Bishop<BR>
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<DIV><BR>On 31/07/2013, at 11:48 AM, Ken Fisher <<A
href="mailto:hkf232@gmail.com" target=_blank>hkf232@gmail.com</A>>
wrote:<BR><BR>><BR>> Likewise, Ken<BR>><BR>><BR>> On
2013-07-30, at 4:19 PM, Charles Hahn wrote:<BR>><BR>> Hi Lela!
What a tribute!!! I knew Ruth, but not that well.
Your<BR>> comments really hold her up for the world to see.
Thanks,<BR>> Charles<BR>><BR>> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 2:28
PM, Lela Jahn <<A href="mailto:lelajahn@hotmail.com"
target=_blank>lelajahn@hotmail.com</A>> wrote:<BR>>> Ruth and I
were tied at the hip for the 3 years in the late 60's when I
was<BR>>> the director of the 5th City Preschool and she was my
right and left hand.<BR>>> She and I climbed many mountains together
-- attending a national preschool<BR>>> workshop because the
curriculum received a National 1st place award from the<BR>>> Office
of Economic Opportunity (OEO), receiving teaching machines from
IBM<BR>>> for the 4 year olds which got our picture in the newspaper
because of the<BR>>> audacity of believing machines could teach,
making really cool uniforms for<BR>>> all the teachers, designing
the new preschool building on 5th Avenue with<BR>>> Sheldon Hill ---
the list goes on and on. Yet there were also many
valleys<BR>>> where Ruth never flinched, never complained. She stood
firm in her belief<BR>>> that the 5th City Preschool was a
demonstration to the world of the<BR>>> importance of
providing all children from 4 months on up with a
positive<BR>>>
self-image.<BR>>><BR>>><BR>>><BR>>> In turn, Ruth
Carter, became my mentor, my symbol, of the Iron Woman<BR>>>
standing in the desert with arms out stretched knowing that the desert
could<BR>>> become the promised land. And it did because she lived
--- and still does in<BR>>> the lives of all she
touched.<BR>>><BR>>><BR>>><BR>>> Lela
Jahn<BR>>><BR>>><BR>>><BR>>>
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<DIV>Paula <BR><BR><FONT color=#000099 size=1
face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif"><EM>Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,
chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house
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