Dear Colleagues
Although I never actually met Ruth, her name and her contribution to our common mission is lodged in my memory.

Now, a question - was the curriculum which was developed in 5th City the foundation for what later became known as Imaginal Education?

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.

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.

Is there something I could download which at least would give her an introduction to our approach to early learning/development?

Any suggestions you can make in the next 24 hours will be most welcome.

Grace & Peace
John
 
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Isobel A Bishop <isobeljimbish@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
Dear Lela,
Thank you for this tribute to Ruth.
I remember her very well at S '68, when a bunch of Aussie children came over.
I did not know here well either, and yet was very impressed with her style of ease and  competence.

We appreciate what you all  have written..
In peace,
Isobel Bishop

On 31/07/2013, at 11:48 AM, Ken Fisher <hkf232@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Likewise, Ken
>
>
> On 2013-07-30, at 4:19 PM, Charles Hahn wrote:
>
> Hi Lela!  What a tribute!!!  I knew Ruth, but not that well.  Your
> comments really hold her up for the world to see.  Thanks,
> Charles
>
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Lela Jahn <lelajahn@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Ruth and I were tied at the hip for the 3 years in the late 60's when I was
>> the director of the 5th City Preschool and she was my right and left hand.
>> She and I climbed many mountains together -- attending a national preschool
>> workshop because the curriculum received a National 1st place award from the
>> Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), receiving teaching machines from IBM
>> for the 4 year olds which got our picture in the newspaper because of the
>> audacity of believing machines could teach, making really cool uniforms for
>> all the teachers, designing the new preschool building on 5th Avenue with
>> Sheldon Hill ---  the list goes on and on. Yet there were also many valleys
>> where Ruth never flinched, never complained. She stood firm in her belief
>> that the 5th City Preschool was a demonstration to the world of the
>> importance of  providing all children from 4 months on up with a positive
>> self-image.
>>
>>
>>
>> In turn, Ruth Carter, became my mentor, my symbol,  of the Iron Woman
>> standing in the desert with arms out stretched knowing that the desert could
>> become the promised land. And it did because she lived --- and still does in
>> the lives of all she touched.
>>
>>
>>
>> Lela Jahn
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