Ruth Carter -- Iron Woman
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
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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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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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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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
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
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
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
was preschool the 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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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. So the 4 parts of the preschool curriculum were Basic Relational Psychological ? Imaginal Lela, Sarah, Kaze, . . . and all the others: maybe I do not have level 2 and 3 correct? Paula On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 1:43 AM, the telfords <thetelfords@gmail.com> wrote:
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>
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
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
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
wrote: preschool the 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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Thanks to those of you who knew Ruth well and have emailed words in response to her death. I never worked with Ruth, but I always considered it to be a special occasion when I was in her presence, especially when she and her children sang. She was pure spirit, and those of us who listened were delighted and renewed. There is no way to say enough what she meant to our shared mission. In gratitude, Doris Hahn On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Paula Philbrook <paula.philbrook@gmail.com>wrote:
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. So the 4 parts of the preschool curriculum were
Basic
Relational
Psychological ?
Imaginal
Lela, Sarah, Kaze, . . . and all the others:
maybe I do not have level 2 and 3 correct?
Paula
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 1:43 AM, the telfords <thetelfords@gmail.com>wrote:
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>
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
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
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
wrote: preschool the 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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Would it be fair to say that IE is not itself curriculum but is rather the educational philosophy grounded in a practical methodology or process with which all the curricula we had, 5th City, Training Inc., RS-1, etc. was delivered? Randy Sent from my iPhone On Jul 31, 2013, at 8:57 AM, Paula Philbrook <paula.philbrook@gmail.com> wrote:
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. So the 4 parts of the preschool curriculum were Basic Relational Psychological ? Imaginal Lela, Sarah, Kaze, . . . and all the others: maybe I do not have level 2 and 3 correct?
Paula
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 1:43 AM, the telfords <thetelfords@gmail.com> wrote:
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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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!" 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! Ruth was one of the great reading teachers and suggesters of curriculum. NanGrow ----- Original Message ----- From: Paula Philbrook To: Order Ecumenical Community Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 9:57 AM Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Ruth Carter -- Iron Woman 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. So the 4 parts of the preschool curriculum were Basic Relational Psychological ? Imaginal Lela, Sarah, Kaze, . . . and all the others: maybe I do not have level 2 and 3 correct? Paula On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 1:43 AM, the telfords <thetelfords@gmail.com> wrote: 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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OE mailing list >> OE@lists.wedgeblade.net >> http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net >> > _______________________________________________ > OE mailing list > OE@lists.wedgeblade.net > http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net > > _______________________________________________ > OE mailing list > OE@lists.wedgeblade.net > http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net -- Paula Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. 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What a wonderful piece of history, Nan. When Joe and I arrived in Chicago in 1968 I spent every other weekend on EG - teaching the comprehensive curriculum to grades 4,5 and 6. Whatever was being taught to adults on campus that weekend was to be taught to our children. That year my group included 3 Grows, 4 Boivins and assorted others. I loved it, although my permeation job was being a college teacher. I recently reminded Keith and Brad how much that time meant to me. My big "deer in the headlights" response to an assignment came in January 1971 in Sydney Australia when Jim Bishop assigned Ann Duffy and me to "head up" the EG camp in Perth during the Aussie Summer program. At that time my permeation assignment was teaching high school - a far cry I felt from infant thru grade 8+ camp. I also realized this assignment would mean agonizing leave-taking from my 6-month old twins in Sydney, a continent away from Perth. But after 2.5 years in the Order I was disciplined enough to say "yes" to my assignment, delighted Jeanette Stanfield would be surrogate parent to Jon and Ben, and eager to work with Ann, and so headed west. On the bus that crossed the continent with participants from more eastern spots, Ann and I recruited the most wonderful EG Camp faculty: gems among which were John Hutchinson, Julie Braithwaite and Pat Smith. That year we had a number of infant and preschoolers from Mowanjum, all of whom had serious dysentery and malnourishment, which Ann dealt with in her inimitable measure upon measure of love. (She, too, had left an infant, David Duffy, in the care of Jeanette.) I wish I could remember the theme of our Camp and the songs we created. It was outstanding, and we all returned to our original places enriched and so thankful that our capacities had been so terribly but wonderfully stretched! (Thanks Jim Bishop!!) I realize all of that would not have been possible without the pilot demonstration "Fifth City Preschool!" Yes, may Ruth Carter's name be raised with deep respect around the world. Marilyn From: oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Nancy Grow Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 4:12 PM To: Order Ecumenical Community Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Ruth Carter -- Iron Woman 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!" 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! Ruth was one of the great reading teachers and suggesters of curriculum. NanGrow ----- Original Message ----- From: Paula Philbrook <mailto:paula.philbrook@gmail.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 9:57 AM Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Ruth Carter -- Iron Woman 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. So the 4 parts of the preschool curriculum were Basic Relational Psychological ? Imaginal Lela, Sarah, Kaze, . . . and all the others: maybe I do not have level 2 and 3 correct? Paula On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 1:43 AM, the telfords <thetelfords@gmail.com> wrote: 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
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
workshop because the curriculum received a National 1st place award from
was preschool 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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Dear Telfords, What wonderful work you two are doing in the Blue Mountains of East Timor. We celebrate with you!!! I don't know if Elise is on this list or not, so I am making sure. The first item that came to mind as a gift to the minister of education would be a statue of the Iron Person, standing tall, along with this wonderful story of Alice Baumbach's about the gifts of local people being trained to do the jobs they care so much about, except lacking credentials. Also Lela Jahn's & Karen Bueno's reflection yesterday about those early years. Since we only have 24 hours, I would suggest a framed copy of the Iron Person ( Great one on cover of 2010 Directory about the right size). I also thought of the current work that Elise is doing with Early Childhood Education. Don't know what is downloadable, but could certainly be pointed to as an ongoing program. There is someone at Kemper who is Elise's teammate who might have ideas. Pam or Jean or Marge could possibly direct this to her if Elise is out of town. Our best wishes for a successful and meaningful meeting with the Friendship Committee. Keep us posted. With fond memories of our work down under many years ago. (Jeremiah was 8 months old so that makes it 35 years ago. Surely not!) Lynda Cock _____ From: oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of the telfords Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 2:44 AM To: Order Ecumenical Community Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Ruth Carter -- Iron Woman 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
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
workshop because the curriculum received a National 1st place award from
was preschool 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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Dear Elaine and John, The work Ruth and so many others with the Fifth City Preschool is part of our Imaginal Education collection of the archives. Although many things are not scanned and available for download, we do have hard copy of hundreds of talks, models, manuals and constructs. We are working on how people can visit the site and request documents for a small fee. Here is the link to the collection if you haven't seen it. <http://wedgeblade.net/wordpress/imaginaleducation> But the real task of the IE collection team is to figure out how to reach a new audience, a new group of pioneers who are working on how to transform the task of education at all levels. (Check out Tim Dove interview to see how IE is transformative in a Middle School). How to communicate the insights and the life stance that is required to be effective in the Imaginal Education task. We want this to be global and we would like to ask one or both of you to consider being part of our IE team. We're just at the front end of this task and we can really use any wisdom, contacts, relationships and passion you have "down under". This is an open invitation to anyone on this list serve. Good luck with the meeting. Grace & Peace, Jack For the Imaginal Education Collection team. On Jul 31, 2013, at 9:30 AM, "Lynda Cock" <llc860@triad.rr.com> wrote:
Dear Telfords, What wonderful work you two are doing in the Blue Mountains of East Timor. We celebrate with you!!!
I don't know if Elise is on this list or not, so I am making sure. The first item that came to mind as a gift to the minister of education would be a statue of the Iron Person, standing tall, along with this wonderful story of Alice Baumbach's about the gifts of local people being trained to do the jobs they care so much about, except lacking credentials. Also Lela Jahn's & Karen Bueno's reflection yesterday about those early years. Since we only have 24 hours, I would suggest a framed copy of the Iron Person ( Great one on cover of 2010 Directory about the right size). I also thought of the current work that Elise is doing with Early Childhood Education. Don't know what is downloadable, but could certainly be pointed to as an ongoing program. There is someone at Kemper who is Elise's teammate who might have ideas. Pam or Jean or Marge could possibly direct this to her if Elise is out of town.
Our best wishes for a successful and meaningful meeting with the Friendship Committee. Keep us posted.
With fond memories of our work down under many years ago. (Jeremiah was 8 months old so that makes it 35 years ago. Surely not!)
Lynda Cock
From: oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of the telfords Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 2:44 AM To: Order Ecumenical Community Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Ruth Carter -- Iron Woman
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
Dear colleagues, Wow!!!! What a woman Ruth was, I met her last in 2000 at the pre-school in 5th city, and was impacted again then. John and I add our deep thanks to Ruth and all her colleagues for their pioneering work, and will be with you in spirit at her service. Lela has agreed to put together a tribute to Ruth and Imaginal Ed for Wind and Waves.... no doubt with input from others...so we may well collect up stories over the coming months for W&Ws. In fact the W&W team is thinking about devoting a whole issue/series of articles to IE..so would appreciate thoughts on this. How could I stay out of this Imag Ed. conversation!!!!...a relational way of life! ..a conceptual framework...transformational image/ paradigm change, ( inquiry-based learning, relational, restorative practice - all with its roots in Imag. Ed.) is how I have used and translated this wonderful gift of IE over my years in schools. Together with few other colleagues on this list, and others, some of us are in process of establishing a Community of Practice around Creative Education for 21 C (This began to get some legs out of conversations at the Nepal Conference in November... We are about to have another conversation next week on this. We would like to see how this connects with the IE team work. The real task, is indeed, as Jack says below But the real task of the IE collection team is to figure out how to reach a new audience, a new group of pioneers who are working on how to transform the task of education at all levels. (Check out Tim Dove interview to see how IE is transformative in a Middle School). How to communicate the insights and the life stance that is required to be effective in the Imaginal Education task.... Jack, we would like to know more of what the IE team is doing and how we might link and participate? Lynda, Katie Kretzmann in Chicago may be the person you are referring to...she is a part of this CoP think tank, as is Steve Harrington......we are still at beginning steps, but maybe this IE team is the link we need. best wishes, Robyn ----- Original Message ----- From: Jack Gilles To: Order Ecumenical Community Cc: kelisepackard@rcn.com Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 12:49 AM Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Ruth Carter -- Iron Woman Gift to Minister ofEducation in East Timor Dear Elaine and John, The work Ruth and so many others with the Fifth City Preschool is part of our Imaginal Education collection of the archives. Although many things are not scanned and available for download, we do have hard copy of hundreds of talks, models, manuals and constructs. We are working on how people can visit the site and request documents for a small fee. Here is the link to the collection if you haven't seen it. <http://wedgeblade.net/wordpress/imaginaleducation> But the real task of the IE collection team is to figure out how to reach a new audience, a new group of pioneers who are working on how to transform the task of education at all levels. (Check out Tim Dove interview to see how IE is transformative in a Middle School). How to communicate the insights and the life stance that is required to be effective in the Imaginal Education task. We want this to be global and we would like to ask one or both of you to consider being part of our IE team. We're just at the front end of this task and we can really use any wisdom, contacts, relationships and passion you have "down under". This is an open invitation to anyone on this list serve. Good luck with the meeting. Grace & Peace, Jack For the Imaginal Education Collection team. On Jul 31, 2013, at 9:30 AM, "Lynda Cock" <llc860@triad.rr.com> wrote: Dear Telfords, What wonderful work you two are doing in the Blue Mountains of East Timor. We celebrate with you!!! I don't know if Elise is on this list or not, so I am making sure. The first item that came to mind as a gift to the minister of education would be a statue of the Iron Person, standing tall, along with this wonderful story of Alice Baumbach's about the gifts of local people being trained to do the jobs they care so much about, except lacking credentials. Also Lela Jahn's & Karen Bueno's reflection yesterday about those early years. Since we only have 24 hours, I would suggest a framed copy of the Iron Person ( Great one on cover of 2010 Directory about the right size). I also thought of the current work that Elise is doing with Early Childhood Education. Don't know what is downloadable, but could certainly be pointed to as an ongoing program. There is someone at Kemper who is Elise's teammate who might have ideas. Pam or Jean or Marge could possibly direct this to her if Elise is out of town. Our best wishes for a successful and meaningful meeting with the Friendship Committee. Keep us posted. With fond memories of our work down under many years ago. (Jeremiah was 8 months old so that makes it 35 years ago. Surely not!) Lynda Cock ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of the telfords Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 2:44 AM To: Order Ecumenical Community Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Ruth Carter -- Iron Woman 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. 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Regarding the question below, "was the curriculum which was developed in 5th City the foundation for what later became known as Imaginal Education?", here is my opinion on the subject. Imaginal Education was the basis for the 5th City curriculum, not the other way around. I joined the staff of the 5th City Preschool in the last weeks of 1969, and the curriculum was in full swing. Our basic understanding was that we were out to change the images of the children we taught, from victims of their circumstances to "iron men", able to make free decisions based on compassion and a bright future. I had a break from preschool on another assignment from Sept. 1970 through Dec. 1970. During 1971 I was assigned to expand the daily preschool curriculum with appropriate activities to enact our three year goal chart, type it up, mimeograph it (for pete's sake) and see that it was delivered to each teacher each morning along with needed supplies to teach to the day's rational and existential aims. I once has a full quarter of those daily curriculum sheets in my own files, but I have lost track of them. I fervently hope that they are in the archives. We shared our work with our sister preschool in Hong Kong, where they followed the same curriculum. I hope that the three year chart of goals is also in existence in the archives, as well as the Tools Chart. But, as a short answer to the question, the basic tenents of Imaginal Education were in place before the teaching in the preschool. We were creating curriculum out of the structure which had been put in place by the leaders of the Ecumenical Institute--the Order Ecumenical. I was not there, but I presume that was between the creation of the Faith and Life Community and our full engagement in creating the preschool program. Maybe the date was 1967 or 1968? Those who know, please confirm. Karen (Wright) Bueno -----Original Message----- From: the telfords <thetelfords@gmail.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Wed, Jul 31, 2013 12:44 am Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Ruth Carter -- Iron Woman 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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