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south west Edgewood Center, Girls' Home Merge ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1 978 PAGE 8 SW Edgewood Children's Center, 330 North Gore Avenue, Webster Groves, and the Girls' Industrial Home, 5501 Enright Avenue, St. Louis, have merged into one program to be located on Edgewood's 23-acre campus and to retain Edgewood's name. Both institutions feature treatment programs for emotionally disturbed-learning disabled children. Both are member agencies of the Children's Panel of the United Way of Greater St.

Louis and the Missouri Child Care Association of Missouri. Mrs. Robert Goldenhersh, president of Edgewood, and Richard Jones, president of Girls Home, said that the physical merger of children and staff was accomplished in March, and that the legal merger will take effect by June 30. The combined program will provide for 40 resident children, and the day treatment program will be expanded to 36 children from the present 28. The center provides services to children who cannot function in community schools or in regular family settings.

Children there receive special education, psychiatric social work counseling and group living experiences which enable them to return to their own families, or be placed with a foster family after a year or two of treatment. The professional staff will consist of seven special education teachers and 11 social workers. The Girls' Industrial Home brought over eight girls, all of whom were residents at the Enright Avenue location. Ralph Lehman, executive director of Edgewood, will remain as the chief staff officer. Nancy Dickinson, who had been acting director of the Girls' Industrial Home, will join Roger McManus of the Edgewood staff as associate executive director.

Edgewood's program began as the St. Louis Orphan Asylum. Its name was changed in 1943, and in 1956 it merged with the Forest Park Children's Center, a pilot project in residential treatment. The Girls' Home was founded in 1853 as the Girls' Industrial Home and School. It has been a residential treatment program since 1958.

5 I i i a i f. mmAnm Mjsawl 'Can't Take It With You At Kirkwood Center want to get married, but Alice is afraid their family backgrounds are too different for the marriage to be successful. Under Raymond M. Keller's direction, the Tee Gee cast's recreation of the Sycamore household was immediately persuasive at Tuesday evening's dress rehearsal. The timing of the comic lines was excellent.

The characters were strongly delineated and the stage was teeming with fittingly chaotic activity. Nancy Olson made the dancing daughter Essie an absolute delight and Paula Kirkpatrick was very appealing as Essie's equally scatterbrained mother. Jan Fox captured the painful ambivalence of Alice, who is embarassed by the family she loves. Amo Kracht anchored the cast with a knowing portrayal of the tax-evading Vanderhof, the one character who understands himself and the others. Kracht also designed the appropriately garish set.

The performance was weakest in the complex interactions of the second act. Here, the intensity slackened, and the cast did not capture all the conflicting emotions at the disasterous dinner party where the blue-blooded Kirbys meet the sappy Sycamores. The climaxes were effective nonetheless. The other performers were Karen Schroeder, Lee Mueller, Kerry Reth-mann, Randy Green, Loretta Lange, Chuck Derus, Larry Lingle, Irene Hercules, Tom Richter, Nancy Richter, Lynn Fox and Bob Schroeder. "You Can't Take It With You" will be performed at 8 p.m.

today through Saturday at the Kirkwood Community Center, 111 South Geyer Road. By GERRY KOWARSKY As April 15 approaches, a play about someone who outwits the Internal Revenue Service is just what the accountant ordered. The Tee Gee Players have filled this prescription to the letter with their rGVieW fine production of "You Can't Take It With You." The Classic comedy by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman proves that a good laugh can be just as welcome as an ironclad deduction. The Sycamore family, in whose home the action takes place, has an unconventionally healthy approach to living that provides sure-fire if only temporary relief from the 1040 blues.

The Sycamores are a fun-loving crew of endearing eccentrics who go about their business (or rather, avoid it) with disarming enthusiasm. The Sycamores have no love of labor, but everything they do as hobbies is a labor of love. Paul Sycamore, for example, makes fireworks in his basement, and his son-in-law prints innocently anarchistic messages, which he puts in the boxes of candy he delivers. Martin Vanderhof, the grandfather, collects snakes and attends college commencement exercises. Penny Sycamore's hobbies are writing unfinished plays and painting unfinished pictures.

Her daughter Essie has studied ballet for eight years and someday may learn how to pirouette. The one normal member of the family is Alice Sycamore, who works on Wall Street and has fallen in love with Tony Kirby, her boss's son. The young lovers 'it David M. Adams Job Phased Out Chief Bradford Epperson Heart Attack Victim Rock Hill Is Searching For New Chief Of Police Registration Deadline April 21 For County Arts, Crafts Fair Rock Hill is seeking a new police chief after the death of Chief Bradford Epperson. Epperson, 40, died Sunday of an apparent heart attack.

He had served as chief for Rock Hill, community of 6,800, since 1966. Lt. James Johnstone will head the department until a new chief is appointed by the Board of Aldermen. Mayor Jessee L. Stroup said, "I want a proper selection made I'm not pushing for time." The department has 11 officers.

Stroup said that although Epperson had had heart problems in recent years, his death came as a shock. In 1975, Epperson was president of the Missouri Chiefs of Police Association. He joined the Rock Hill force as a patrolman in 1962. Epperson, a lifelong resident of Rock Hill, is survived by his wife, Phyllis, a son, Randall, and two daughters, Kelly and Lynn. The Board of Aldermen has phased out the position of administrative assistant, and with it the job of David M.

Adams. Adams, 36, had held the $869-a-month position for two years. Mayor Stroup said the city's Finance Committee planned to establish a new position that would involve more administrating and payroll duties. Adams had been concerned primarily wjth securing federal, state and county grants for the community, Stroup said. SHEET METAL CHAMPION: Thomas Lee, a 1977 graduate of South County Technical High School, with the work that won him the chance to enter the International Skill Olympics this September in Korea.

His has not yet raised funds to make the trip, however. (Post-Dispatch Photo by Sam Leone) Summer Job Forms Available April 20 Because space is limited to 185 art entries, 60 craft entries and 20 student contestants, a drawing from all entries will be held at 6:30 p.m. April 26, in the main shelter of Tilles County Park, Litzsinger and McKnight roads, to determine participants and booth location. Admission to the fair is free to the public from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

both days. Many pieces on display will be for sale. Several categories of displays will be judged: oil and acrylics, water colors, hand-thrown and hand-built pottery, mixed media (including photographs, batiks, pastels, drawings, graphics, prints), sculpture, crafts (including hand-made articles not mentioned in other categories), and miscellaneous (at the option of the judges). A special category for ninth-through 12th grade students will also be judged. Registration forms for the Spring Arts and Crafts Fair sponsored by the St.

Louis County Department of Parks and Recreation the weekend of May 20 and 21 at Tilles County Park must be submitted by mail by April 21. The entry fee is $10 for adults and $5 for nine-through 12th-grade students. An entry blank and guidelines can be obtained by writing: Art Fair Registration, St. Louis County Department of Parks and Recreation, 7900 Forsyth Boulevard, Clayton, 63105. Forms can also be obtained at the department office on the seventh floor in the Government Center Complex, 41 South Central Avenue, Clayton.

Completed entry forms must be returned by mail only and must include a self-addressed, stamped business-size envelope and the entry fee. The youths will work from 25 to 40 hours a week at $2.65 per hour. Jobs with municipalities, school districts, and not-for-profit agencies will include recreation and playground leaders, clerical and teacher aides, child care aides, food and nursing service aides, laborers and custodians. Youths not attending school can obtain, applications beginning May 15 at the offices of the Missouri Division of Employment Security. Skilled Students Win Metal Championships Applications for jobs through the St.

Louis County Summer Youth Jobs Program will be available beginning April 20 from high school counselors and school district offices. The eight-week program is scheduled to begin June 19. It will employ 2,100 economically disadvantaged county youths ages 14 through 21. The program is funded by a $1,965,283 grant from the Department of Labor aflliici Directory Of Services A new directory listing more than 80 community services is available from the Office of County Youth Programs, Department of Human Resources. The directory, entitled "Services for Families and Youth," lists agencies for counseling, education, employment, health, legal assistance and recreation.

Each listing includes a short description with addresses, phone numbers, work hours and fees, if any. A copy of the booklet may be obtained free by calling 889-2167 or by visiting a Department of Human Resources Area Center: North, 9817 West Florissant Road; Centif 1, 9518 Lackland Road; South, 113 Lemay Ferry Road; and West, 501-E Manchester Road. MANOR HALL' LATEX FLAT ENAMEL Sadowski says he may receive additional support from the Alco Standard the parent firm of his employer, Ehrhardt Too) and Machine Co. The state club officer, who asked not to be identified, said the youth organization had found Sadowski an industry adviser and had arranged the donations from the tool and die association. Sadowski graduated last year from North County Technical High School with all A's.

Like Tom, he was denied permission for his instructor to acccom-pany him. The special district's board made both decisions March 15. Sadowski and Lee are the first winners from the county's technical schools during the three-years of national competition. The bricklaying champion, Ralph Julian, is from Clinton, Mo. Ten Americans in all are slated to compete in Korea.

Lee lives with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Lee, 10836 Three Court in Concord Village area of South County. He is employed as a sheet metal worker by Cambridge Engineering Inc. A mock pair of pants fashioned of pipe and sheet metal won Lee first place in the nationals.

He says the unusual, "impractical" project illustrates the three basic design techniques of the profession. Sadowski lives at 1741 Keelen Drive with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bernhard Sadowski. Glenn's twin brother, Greg, placed second in the metal shop category at the state level.

His brother, father or the industry representative may serve as his adviser at the international, Sadowski says. His father is a tool and die maker. Sadowski is an engineer trainee with the Ehrhardt company. His precision in making machine parts according to blueprints helped win the national contest, he said. Both youths, in separate telephone interviews, gave the same response to a question about the source of their metal-working interests.

"I've always liked working with my hands," each said. By KENNETH COOPER Of the Post-Dispatch Staff a St. Louis County can boast of two youths who are national champions in the metalworking crafts, but so far only one of them has enough financial support to ensure his participation in the International Skill Olympics in Pusan, South Korea, this September. Thomas Lee, 18, winner of February's national runoff in sheet metalwork, has tried to raise contributions from local industries without success. Lee says he is willing to pay his own way to South Korea, but needs more than $1,600 for an adviser, who must accompany him.

Lee's problem is complicated by the county Special School District's vote not to release his former instructor to attend the two-week competition, which coincides with the start of the school year. Lee graduated from South County Technical High School last year. He entered the first round of the contest's competition in April 1977. So Lee must also find an industrial sponsor who is willing to give a sheet metal expert two weeks off in order to make the trip to Korea. April 1 was the extended deadline set by the Vocational Industrial Clubs of America, sponsor of the American contest, for payment of a $300 deposit.

Lee did not meet the deadline and is worried that the organization will turn his slot over to the second-place finisher. "As of now, it doesn't look very promising," he said. "I don't think I'm going." But a state officer of the club said the national organization, based in Falls Church, is seeking support for Lee through its contacts with industry and labor. There are no plans to turn his slot over to the runner-up, the officer said. He cited the success of the national organization's efforts in helping Glenn Sadowski of Dellwood, the metal shop winner, as a hopeful sign.

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