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p.H i i vummtjmuH I'fr- vis Barbara Walters' goof Sorry, wrong number Shopping for a sweetie The News-Journal papers Wilmington, Del. Thursday, March 19, 1987 Jy SIS Spring What spring means to me is something you can see, like me It is butterflies and kitten cries, It is going out with baref eet and hardly any sleet, It is pretty flowers for Mrs. Bower It is getting a suntan beside a big fan. Spring is something you can feel not steal You can sit by a pool and keep cool You can look at trees full of bees Or you can just sit on a swing and sing. By Michele Coleman, fourth grade iffy i lllttlil; Suzanne Martin's view of spring (left) contrasted sharply with Ayana McLaughlin's (below left).

Both are fourth-grade students. 7 mrf, 'm Si oeghts of sprin Spring fever The bright green trees how they dance how they sway I've got Spring Fever on this lovely spring day. The flowers are so decorative in shades of blue and pink, The bluejays and the robins are the prettiest I think. I see the birds are building nests upon the silken leaves, And now I lay to take a nap below these deep green trees. Because I have Spring fever, I'll watch the green trees sway, As I sit below this shady tree on this lovely, lovely day.

By Carolyn Bucher, fourth grade A unusual way of viewing the season: "Spring means that the birds will start coming back, and I will start getting them on my doorstep from my cat." "Spring also has some bad points," said sixth-grader Amy Rabinowitz. "For instance, when the sun hits me in the face sometimes I get a headache or sneeze." Allan Chow is another sixth-grade student who uses his face as a barometer: "Spring is my favorite season because summer is too hot and winter will freeze your face off," he says. "Also, fall is too windy for me because I deliver News Journel Papers and strong winds mean flying newspapers." Fifth-grader Susan Kelleher saw her chance to a couple of opinions through her essay: When spring comes, she said, "We get to open the windows in school because they keep the thermostat up near eighty degrees." Two paragraphs later: "I don't see why people don't like dandelions. They're pretty and they don't need to be watered." Susan wasn't the only one who had a gripe. Said sixth-grader Gwen Grabowski, "You can go outside and not get too hot.

Although sometimes you do because your parents make you put on a wind-breaker or a sweatshirt." At first, there didn't seem to be any malice in See SPRING D4 By EDWARD L. KENNEY Staff reporter Spring puts a bounce in our step and brings out the kid in most of us. So what better way to preview spring, which comes officially at 10:52 p.m. Friday, than through the eyes of elementary school students? That was the premise. To follow through with it, we asked fourth-grade through sixth-grade teachers at David W.

Harlan Elementary School, 36th and Jefferson streets, to give their students an extracurricular assignment: Write an essay on "What Spring Means to Me." Although the students, who are in academically gifted classes at the school, probably were not thrilled with the extra work, the results were heartwarming. Many of the entries we received were insightful, amusing and creative. As you will see, punctuation and spelling have been left intact to help capture the flavor of the pieces. Some of the students responded with poetry or colorful crayon drawings, but not all of them viewed the coming of spring through rose-colored glasses. Fifth-grader Neal Moody summed up his feelings this way: "Spring is like a teen-ager, but instead of breaking out in pimples, spring breaks out in green." Shelly Luber, a fourth-grader, also has an The arts by Penelope Bass Cope Wilmington club tops garden show Pamela Copeland captures Phila.

horticultural sweepstakes trophy By EILEEN C. SPRAKER Staff reporter Garden Club of Wilmington members, individually and collectively, came out major winners in the competitive classes at the Philadelphia Flower Show last week. Judging in the competitive classes is done during the course of the show, with final judging Saturday. The show closed Sunday. Pamela Copeland of Mount Cuba won the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's sweepstakes trophy for accumulating the most points in the horticultural classes 757, or 51 points more than her nearest competitor.

Her entries in bulb classes were especially successful. Copeland won 19 blue ribbons, along with many seconds, thirds and honorable mentions for a wide range of plants, including her beloved orchids. Contributing to her point count was a handsome hyacinth, Blue Blazer, which was named Best of Day in the horticultural classes on Friday. Copeland is a member of the Garden Club of Wilmington. Donna Marsden, who works in the greenhouse at Mount Cuba Center, accepted the sweepstakes trophy for Copeland at the awards ceremony on Saturday.

Another Mount Cuba entry, a rock garden plant, Raoulia aus-tralis, won the Edith Wilder Scott award for the Best of the Week entry in horticultural classes. Fred Brown, an American Rock Garden Society member who's in charge of the rock garden at Mount Cuba, accepted the award. The judges called the entry "rare in size, age and perfection." The Garden Club of Wilmington took the Margah Flood Memorial Trophy for the organization accumulating the most points in See FLOWERS D10 exhibition, Krill wrote a catalog, which will be published this spring by Trefoil Press for international distribution. For the show, the conservator chose 50 prints, drawings, water-colors and other paper-crafted items, such as wallpaper, playing cards and cut-paper designs, or fancy work, from the Victoria and Albert collection. Works on paper by Thomas Gainsborough, John Constable and Robert Adam are on view with botanical prints and textile designs.

In his catalog, Krill traces the development of different papers featured in the show. White paper, he explains, was composed of fine linen rags, and brown paper came from coarse rags. Both were made by a similar technique. First, the papermaker beat rags in water and turned them into fibrous matter. Then he put the suspended fibers in a vat.

The vat man formed paper by dipping a flat wire sieve or mold into the rag pulp, lifting it out and letting the water drain out the bottom. That left interlocking fibers on top of the mold. He then pressed and dried this sheet of paper between layers of felt. The paper was sized, or covered with a coat of gelatin, to allow use of fluids, such as ink or watercolor on the sur- See PAPER D6 Exploring the paper behind art Most of us take paper for granted. We scribble on it and eat off it.

Then we crumple it up and throw it away. But to John Krill, paper conservator at the Winterthur Museum, paper is something more. It supports the image in works of art, such as watercolors, prints and pastels, and in decorative art items, such as wallpaper and playing cards. Krill began research on the nomenclature of papers in 1975 when he worked at the National Gallery in Washington. His research, which continued after he took his present job at Winterthur in 1976, culminated in "English Artists' Paper: Renaissance to Regency," an exhibition opening today at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and continuing there through July 5.

The show will travel to the Center for Fine Arts in Miami, the Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University, State College, and the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Conn. To accompany the ft A ft. iim dimwit w.cw.ir This hyacinth helped Pamela Copeland win the sweepstakes trophy..