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Wo man's View SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1970 PAGE 15 Free Atmosphere Spurs Creativity At New Exploratory Learning Center By KAREN ROLAND Citizen Staff Writer A feature-length movie starring the students, faculty and staff of the Exploratory Learning Center (ELC) will be aired during the current academic year. That jis, it will be aired unless the cameramen come down with measles or some other problem peculiar to elementary school children. Table In The Making Woodworking is one portion of the center's CREATES program. Bruce McElvaine, 7, is interested in working on a table of his own design. ELC students are free to determine their own daily schedules.

The cameramen, editors and technicians, are first through sixth graders at the center, 1400 E. Broadway. They are participating in the District No. 1 Project CREATES (Cultural Resource Exploration; Awareness through Educating the Senses). Formerly named Miles Elementary School, the month-old center has an enrollment of 350 students with 12 teachers and 12 college-age teachers' aides.

The school receives the district budget allotment of $180000 annually plus 378,845 in federal money for the three year CREATES program. "The theory behind the center," says one ELC teacher, "is to make each child responsible for his own education with the guidance of his teachers." Rather than teach math, science, language arts, social studies and other subjects as separate disciplines, she explains, an effort is made to combine them as each child develops his own need to use them. The film-making exercise will serve as a laboratory in science (the technical, lab procedures), math (time elements, cutting of material), language arts (communication in the film and between students) and expression of artistic creativity itself. The center is divided into areas devoted to time, sound, color, music, art, games, photography, construction, home- Seeing Is Believing Functions of the human heart and eye are investigated by Jerry Martinez, 11, (left) and Mario Pereyda, 9. Visual teaching aids are 'widely used at the center to interest children in academic areas.

These boys may be encouraged to study in 'more detail the functions of the human organs. making and library, in addition to the three levels of academic study: primary grades 1 through 3, intermediate grades 3 through 5 and senior grades 4 through 6. "During homeroom every morning each student plans his own schedule for the day with the help of his teacher," says Edward Dubis, administrative intern. "If a teacher notices that a child is spending an inordinate amount of time in one area, she can encourage him to spend more time in other areas," says the child himself will make the decision." This, he explains will help the child "assume the consequences of his actions. He will become truly responsible for himself." This involvement of the student in his own learning process tends to make him more independent and self-confident, says center director Ron Dewitt.

"From looking at similar programs, we've seen that 'our students tend to fall into leadership roles once they reach junior high and high school," he says. They also tend to be better- than-average students with more of an ability to adjust to the "freer atmosphere of the upper schools," says Dewitt. The first thing tnat a visitor to the center notices is the free movement of the children. They shift from area to area every half-hour or hour, depending on their schedules. While they are in an area, they are free to move from one activity to another.

A second grader sits at a sniall table in the primary academic-room which serves about 75' first, second and third graders. She practices writing her name on lined paper and holds up the paper and reads the name 1 to a little girl seated next to her. can't write her name very well yet," says Valerie. Then something catches her attention across the room. Tea first graders are standing along the wall.

Each holds a card with a number on it and, at the teacher's instructions, lines up in numerical order. "Look!" cries Valerie. "Count those people: one, two, three, four. The philosophy behind the center, according fo Dubis, is found in the title of the CREATES program: Cultural Resource Exploration; Awareness through Educating the Senses. Children become interested in physical objects through their color, texture, shape or other tangible qualities and then ask questions of the teacher.

She guides the child into areas of learning. One small primary student holds up a dish of white powder to a teacher's aide. 1 the student says with a Spanish accent. "It smells like tortillas." The aide kneels down and inhales deeply. "It's flour, Dorothy.

Would you like to make a map of the United States out of it?" The aide shows Dorothy how to mix flour, water and salt to make a relief map. As far as Dubis can see, the child's involvement in the education process and his assumption of responsibility has resulted in a lessening of traditional disciplinary problems. "The children don't seem to have the time to get into trouble," says one teacher's aide. Perhaps they're too busy learning. A Patchwork Rug Color and texture are explored by Carlos Moore, 8, as he makes a rug from fabric scraps in the Exploratory Learning Center's homemaking room.

He is totally responsible for the design and construction, but may always turn to a teacher or teacher's aide for advice. Photography Lesson Citizen Photos by Bruce Instructor Jim Frederickson (third from right) shows his photography class how to adjust a camera lens for lights and shadows. Students are (from left) Ruth Ann Miller, Mark Rosenberg, Cecilia Aguilar, Debbie Aros, Patsy Palomino, Art Mendey and Brian Seekamp. Students plan make a movie of the Exploratory Learning Center's activities during the coming year. EUGENIA SHEPPARD Internationally-Known Skin Specialist Carries Moon Stone In Enamel Box NEW YORK Dr.

Erno Laszlo carries a piece of the moon in his pocket. At the time of the moon landing, a thousand small polished stones were given to heads of state and other dignitaries. Dr. Laszlo, so far as he knows, is the only one who ordered a special trouser pocket and an enamel box from Gucci, about the size of a walnut, so it can be safe from wear and tear and always with him. His piece of.

moon is brown and shiny not unlike semi-precious tiger's-eye. It was the gift of someone high in the government, but the name can't be revealed. Actually, the moon stone came to him in return for his understanding and advice on one of this world's great mysteries, the human skin. He foresaw the danger from pollution long way back. There's no doubt, he says, that polluted air is harmful to the skin, but he developed his products in a Berlin laboratory 44 years ago to provide protection today.

If Dr. in the mood, he cpuld write a gossipy book that would rock the public. The 1 names that'fill his treatment files read like a list of international society, and some of the great ladies have been swearing by him for as many as 25 years. He arid the Duchess of Windsor became friends after a brief power play on the subject of who should visit whom and in what, place. Some of the other famous ones are Jackie Onassis and her sister, Mrs.

Charles Engelhard, Mrs. Jock Whitney, Garbo and Audrey Hepburn. Dr. Laszlo's skin treatment -is based on washing with soap and water. A revolutionary idea in the old days when cleansing cream reigned supreme, the Laszlo thesis is now the basis for many of the latest cosmetic lines.

Recently, Dr. Laszlo signed off giving private treatments, but he still carries a magnifying glass in a pocket that doesn't hold the moon stone, and is willing to take a quick look at the state of his patients' pores. "Use hotter water," he' says, lose too much weight." No woman should lose more than four pounds a year, he says. A crash diet that takes off too many pounds in a hurry can cause permanent wrinkles and lines. About plastic surgery, he says, "I believe in it but only for skins that have lost life and are drooping and sagging.

It is not for young faces and small lines, but only for major improvements." Pulling up a young face can make it too rigid, he believes. In the beginning, and for many years, Dr. Laszlo was for private customers only and the products were custom order. He went public three years ago and is now expanding further into some 65 stores and specialty shops throughout the country. At Bergdorf Goodman hundreds of women have already signed for symposiums on skin care at most of which he will be present.

In New York, the products are also at Saks Fifth Avenue. Dr. Erno Laszlo Famous skin specialist Dr. Erno Laszlo has treated the skins of well-known women such as the Duchess of Windsor, Jackie Onassis and Audrey Hepburn. Betty Milburn Tucson Seen George and Margarett Barr are back after five fascinating weeks in Russia.

They flew from New York to Minsk, part of old White Russia, for an International Agricultural conference. Then they toured down to the Polish border, back to Leningrad (Margarett loved the museums) and on to Moscow. All in all, an unbelievable experience. On The Move Long-time residents and friends in Colonia Allegra have always celebrated together any event of note on their street. Tomorrow, the group will go to the ranch of Mr.

and Mrs. Carl Reinhard near Nogales for a farewell dinner for the Joseph Jontigs and Mr. and.Mrs. Stanley Heden and their boys. The Jontigs, who arrived at Davis-Monthan 25 years ago, are moving to San Diego.

And the Hedens are being transferred to Richmond, Va. This morning, Mrs. Jontig Ilona had a neighborhood coffee to introduce Joan DuPre. She and her husband Robert have purchased the Jontig Hacienda. Chatter The C.

Lyman Kingsbury family has been visiting Lyman's mother, Mrs. C. L. Kingsbury Sr. this past" Continued On Page 16.