Hallelujah - Thank you, Karen, for still having a memory for that trip to meet with the Sesame Street Planning Committee. Maybe we can get some stories from that time. Jean Long On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Karenbueno <karenbueno@aol.com> wrote:
I was on that trip! What year was it? Probably 1971? Lela Campbell was in charge. Besides Ruth Carter, we had two other 5th City staff in our three cars. We drove in tandem from Chicago to New York. One fun story: At a stop for overnight at a colleague who lived in the country, it was a very dark night when we arrived. One of the 5th City staff was totally frightened about even getting out of the car, because it was so dark. It was clear, and numerous stars could be seen. This woman had never been outside of the city of Chicago, and had never experienced a night without street and city lights!
Karen (Wright) Bueno
-----Original Message----- From: Jaime R Vergara <svesjaime@aol.com> To: oe <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Tue, Jul 30, 2013 12:36 pm Subject: [Oe List ...] 5th C preschool
Good to know, Jean. Might not be a bad idea (since Kemper is in Time's Chicago) if we can locate the Time issue (I'll see what I can google).
j'aime la vie in China
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-----Original Message----- From: Jean Long <jean.long512@gmail.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Tue, Jul 30, 2013 11:27 pm Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Completed Life of Ruth Carter
Dear colleagues - 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.
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.
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.
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.
...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.
God bless you, Ruth.
Jean Long Kemper Building Chicago
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