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People You'(l Like to KhbW' Occupational Therapjist Helps Patients to By MAKGAftET STOVALL Stall. Wrlltr "Many of us ultimately arrive where are by un- related things." 1 Florence Cromwell, who has just been elected p'rcsi- dent of the American Occupational Therapy Associa- she happened to become an occupational therapist. "1 had originally trained as an elementary 1 had taught naval officers-as a Wave. I had served administrative assistant in naval aeronautics--a switch like thal'makes sense to the Navy; they put you where they need you. But my problem at the end of the war was where do I go froni there?" Having a cousin who was just graduating as an occupational therapist led her to ihihk of it as a potential, she said.

had always been interested in crafts and attracted by gadgetry and this is part of the occupational therapist's, skills' and this with one's teaching 1 experience and interest in people and It a kind'of added together." Chose School for (9.3'. Training Miss Cromwell, who had originally attended Smith College in Massachusetts.from which she was commissioned on graduation to teach for the Navy, decided on Washington University in St. Louis for her O.T. training. It was the oldest of some 35 universities which now offer an occupational therapy course, she said, Washington's having been started just after World War I.

"Sadly but medical rehabilitation takes big advances after the wars with focus on the problems the injured soldier. It was just beginning to blos'som as we know it now." Miss Cromwell's work as an. occupational therapist has been entirely in California and she is currently coordinator of occupational therapy for the Rehabilila- lion Research and Training Center of the University of Southern California School of Medicine. "The whole purpose of this project I am on is to help all of the professionals who work in health care to.be concerned with what we call comprehensive medical care, that is to say--not just crisis medical care. Doctors are traditionally trained to care for someone acutely ill.

Medical schools are now trying to teach tliat the crisis care is not enough; What happens to this poor fellow; after his life is saved? The doctor can't do it alone. This is where he has to understand and use all of the sources'availablc in the medical team. "It is kind of a new concept to some of the medical people who have been so long used to the one-to-one relationship. But with our country looking more and more to the health care problems of all of our citizens, the physician least of all can care for all of the demands on his time. This is why, also, most of the health professions now have category.

Assistants in 'occupational therapy, have been trained now for; mahy years. There-is also the licensed vocational nurse, and there are assistants to assistants. The idea is to use everybody at his highest level of skill." Philosophy of-SelfrSiifficiency Gone The philosophy of Miss Cromwell believed, has to become a thing of the past. "People are too valuable, each in his own way." Occupational therapy-may serve as a catalyst for i Stall Pholo HELPING HANDS Florence Cromwell describes work of occupational therapist in new teomwork concept of medical care. She has just been elected president of the American Occupational Therapy Association, now celebrating 50lh anniversary year.

recovery following serious injury or accident or it may contrive to keep old people from vegetating by helping them continue to function, at least to some degree, for themselves and as a part of their environment. Gadge- try comes into the piclure in inventing a spoon a crippled hand can hold or a head wand for the armless to perform a new or a once-familiar thing. The occupational also shows the cardiac victim energy-saving ways to function-- "This may mean thc-difference between becoming a cardiac invalid or being, in the case of a woman, the homemaker and mother in her family's life." "There are all kinds of degrees of disability," Miss Cromwell added. "Some people think they have to have two hands, but there aren't many things that can't be done just one. We try to get function out of both hands but, if not, we get Iheni to learn to live as a one- hander.

It's really a fascinating as well as a challenging profession." Miss Cromwell's, interest work Iwould indicate she does pretty much the same thing in the. spare time she has. Just now, as'president of the national organization which; incidentally, is celebrating its 50lh year, she is called on to travel a lot but when she is home she sews, does crafts and does other tilings "like a postman's holiday because the tools in occupational therapy are the everyday things." The occupational therapist's challenge is to help anyone who has been taken out of the mainstream of life, Miss Cromwell said. "Our people are generally in this helping profession because they care for people." Credit Courses Slated on KCET By DAVE SWAIM Slsfr Wrilrr A 12-weeks television course in high school to assist dropouts or adults --I thnir (sHnratinn. will be inauguraieu who were 'unable to finish school in continuing their education, on KCET, Channel 28, Los Aiigeles, beginning Monday, March 4.

Sponsored by the Manpower. Education a non-proi Sponsored by the Mannowi with the American Foundation on Automation profit group affiliated Of Local Note Dr. Thomas A. Wynne, 1156 Green Pasadena, has been re-elected to active'membership in the American Academy of General Practice, the national association of family doctors. Re-election signifies that Ihe physician has successfully completed 35 hours of accredited postgraduate medical study in last three years.

TWO TALKS ON VIETNAM Two scholars will discuss "Why Vietnam?" in Sexson Auditorium on the Pasadena City College campus next week. Dr. Robert Scalapino of UC Berkeley'Will speak at 10 a.m. Monday, Feb. 26, and Dr Mark Mancall of Stanford- University will be heard a.m: Thursday.

Feb. 29. The public is invi'led to attend both the free lectures. PARLEY- FOR PRINCIPALS Dr. Madeline Hunter and Gordon Winton will be the -California Elementary School Administrators Association, South Coast Section, winter- conference March 2 at Pasadena High School, according to William Weigel, general chairman and president of the Pasadena group.

Dr. Hun- ter, principal of University Elementary School, will discuss innovations and changes in American Education as she sees.it as an instructional leader. Winton will present an'assessment of the will be included. bighischoorequivalency Thomas Fair Neblett, west coast director of the institute, announced that educators- have prepared 60 half-hour programs in the fields of natural.science, English grammar, social studies, mathematics and The programs will be ed over Channel 28 from 6 to 6:30 p.m. each weekday evening.

Students wishing to qualify for tests may complete to TV High School and purchase a home study kit at $12,50, Neblett said. The program, Nebletl is designed lo help persons deprived of employment through lack of a high school diploma. Those successfully completing the tests prepared by the American Council on Education will receive 'certificates. Finance Director May Run OAKLAND (AP) Dr. Max Rafferty, campaigning for the Republican' U.S.

Senate nomination, said Friday, he "would hope that every member of the John Birch Society would for me as individuals." But the state superintendent of public instruction added that he also wanted the vote of "every single member of any organization" not on the' U.S. attorney general's list of subversive groups. Rafferty, making an airplane campaign tour of California, the day after he challenged U.S. Senate Assistant Minority Leader Thomas II. Kuchel for the GOP nomination, discussed the ultraconservative Birch Society at a news conference in Oakland.

Asks Rafferty A few hours earlier, resigning Stale Finance Director Gordon Smith considering running for the. Senate said he will try to convince Rafferty to withdraw from the primary race. told a news conference San Francisco International Airport that he did not want to run in a three-man primary race. He would not" say, though, If he would- withdraw himself if a still runs. Raffer- ly said later, "I will not withdraw." Rafferty flew to Oakland from Sacramento, where he met with Republican Gov.

Reagan, who him he would remain neutral in what could be a fiery GOP primary battle between Kuchel and Rafferty, the favorite of party conservatives who say Kuchel votes too often with the Democrats. ptioto by. Norm Denlo SIERRA MADRE EVENT--Chamber of Commerce president Ben presents "Citizen of Year" award to Mrs. Ruth Barden, civic leader who has served community in many capacities over the Doug Delahboke, right, outgoing president; looks on. Mrs.

Barden has served on PTA, Civic Club and olher groups. Boy's Condition Serious Wightman Controversy Rages New of Over Rescue Rule Pr By JOHN q. COPK1ANU Stall Writer A 13-year-old boy hiker remained in serious condition in St. Luke Hospital Friday night following a nearly fatal fall do.wn a 300-foot cliff below Ml. Wilson.

Skyline Park Thursday afternoon. Meanwhile, controversy continued lo rage over wh'ethdr'he might have been rescued an hour sooner if it hadn'l''-bcjpn-foi' the bickering between Sheriff Peter J. Pitchess and the Sierra Madre S-e a and Rescue Team. Arthur Clements, 13, of 4430 Avel, Pico Rivera, Icll from.the trail and lay badly.in- on a mountain-side ledge. of the es- Birch Society members were a a climbed daw.n.tP-!Jie the rally at the Hollywood la'dium Thursday night in which st of ie Mt Wilson Oh- Rafferty announced his candi- a 0 i telephoned Sierra Asked About Birchtrs Other stops were Fresno, Bakersfield and San-Diego.

newsman VsfeT'if John" Ben H. Wightman was reportedly installed as president of the Sierra.Madre Chamber of Commerce at a dinner meeting at Brookside -Golf Course succeeds Doug Dolali- ooke, who served for two years as president of Ihe civic-business group. Jim Burke was installed as vice president of the chamber, and Wightman presented the Citizen of the Year Award. Chief of Police James Zurcher led the' salute flag and past cliSrhrkr rpfeiiidenl John II. it The MEI re- ROY T.

JORDAN succumbs at 49 Insurance Firm Owner Jordan Dies Funeral services will be an- today by Mountain View Mortuary for Roy T. Jordan; 49, Pasadena insurance company owner who died Friday after a prolonged illness. 'Jordan, who ran Roy Jordan at 7-iO E. Colorado a business established by his father, (he late Roy R. Jordan, in 1923, went through the Pasadena dacy.

Rafferty said he didn't' know of a added: suppose we've got people from al! areas of political life." He said Reagan, who was repeatedly asked about the Birch Society when he ran for gover- nor in 1966, had the best answer "If they come to my party, they buy my philosophy, I don't buy theirs." Visils Governor a said he would not accept the endorsement of any "quasi official 1 such as the Birch Society. "I'm looking for the individual voter," he said. Rafferty visited with Reagan for about 15 minutes in the governor's office. Accompanied by his wife, he shook hands and joked with the governor in an outer office before moving into Reagan's study. Rafferty admired a black cowboy hat hanging on a coat and Reagan explained had been given to him by some citizen of Placerville the old Mother Lode mining town that was once called Hangtown.

Madre police who in turn alerted the Sierra Madre Search and Rescue Team Miner Harkness rescue team that following the 2:20 p.m. report of the emergency he started assembling volunteers. The rescuers gathered at Ihe Sierra Madre Passionist Fathers Monastery grounds, a set helicopter landing spot, within minutes but no county fire department "chopper" was dispatched, due to the fact that the Sheriff's office refused to acknowledge the Sierra Madre team's status as a rescue unit under the fire department. Harkness charged that the delay was caused by the Sheriff's refusal to recognize the Sierra Madre'team's "existence" after it was "fired" when members refused to become gun-packing lawmen. The Sheriff's office, through its public relations representative, simply said "no comment" in answer to a question as to whether or not the department's policy might be endangering lives'.

As nearly as can be determined through interviews with all concerned, Ihe Sierra Madre rescue i a well-seasoned group, had seven men ready (or the air-lid at 2:35 p.m. The Sheritf's department, using its prerogative of being in charge of 'all: rescue' efforts, within the county, allegedly refused use of the fire department eniiirjment Cur I is p. jn.v Qg.a.tiqn.. Rob; to fraflsport'fhe'tearn ert H.rGTeetf.-aJspJCpasr.prest;', denr, over installation of Al Foxton played piano, i "The i Connie during cocktail hour preceding Delahooke acted as master of ceremonies. Members of the Crown City chapter of Ihe Sweet.

Adelines entertained during the dinner. Guest speaker was William H. Fisher, of the Southern Counties Gas who presented an "inspirational challenge" to community to stimulate worth-' while projects while emphasiz-: ing moral and spiritual Guests of honor at the banquet; were members of 1968 Board ofi Directors i i Marvin llcelands, Jim Brown, Jnsto, Caffi, Bob'Green, cil, Ralph llurwit, Jerry Jeanne McGee, Lola Bill Sullivan, Ron Thurston, Wolfe and Delahooke. Wilson area. Supervisor Warren Dorn, who backed the Board of Supervisors' action to transfer the res- cue team activities to the County Fire Department after the controversy with Hie Sheriff's Department, Friday called for an immediate report from both departments to straighten out a problem he felt might have serious consequences.

School Expert To Give Talk Dr. E. Maxwell Benlon, specialist in problems of education for the California Taxpayers' Association, will be speaker at the luncheon meeting of the Cili- 7cns Educational. Council Monday, at the West San Gabriel Valley YMCA. Community organizations within the A 1 a a High School District which would like to have a representative at the luncheon may call Jack J.

Jones, 282-6111, ext. 26, for reservations. an OKs More Employes Merit Employment, Training and Research, and another from Sigmund executive secre- Public school system and grad- tary of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO. Applicants are requested to send $12.50 to: TV High School, Box 6200, Los Angeles, Calif. 90055.

SACRAMENTO An increase in the number of slate mental hospital'workers per patient has been proposed'by Gov. Reagan, who a a slashed their staffs nf a controversial economy move. A statement from -Reagan's office said the administration has "adopted in principle," guidelines sel last year by Ihe California Commission on Staffing Standard. However, neither the number of employes lo be restored nor Ihe cost of the additions were revealed as Reagan; administration prepared a comprehensive progi'am or improving mental hospital care. "JThere.wiU.lje an increase-in the number of staff people per patient," said an aide to Spencer Wik liams, human relations.

The aide added wouldn't go into effect unlil the flscaI.year.stahing Jiily 1 as It will need legislative approval. 'Murder Trial Of W. A. Parker Set April 16 The murder trial of Warren A. 'Parker, 43, Pasadena is scheduled to be held April 16 at 9:30 a.m.

in Department 117 of Los Angeles Superior Court. The trial was originally set to La in Feb. 19, but was transferred lo Los Angeles due to the local congested court cal- Parker is chaiged with fatally -shooting his wife Marian Elizabeth, 32, in the kitchen of their home. at 2SO-1 N. Holliston last Aug.

6. iiatcd from John Muir High School before securing his degree at Pomona College. 'He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Velma Jordan and three daughters, Anne, Robin and Nancy, of 239 Glen Summer and a brother, Daniel L. Jordan, of 1262 Rubio Altadena.

Jordan, a lifetime Pasadena resident, was a member of the University Club, Tournament of. Association, Pasadena Chamber of Commerce, Insurance Agents of Pasadena organization, Live Oak Tennis Asso-. ciation. and Mt. Olive Lutheran Church.

It was under his leadership a the Award of Merit program was initiated in Pasadena. may contribute In Jordan's memory to the Institute, of Applied Medical Research, 134 Fair mount Pasadena. 3 by Worm Oedtorc ALUMNI-PICK SLATE--Newly elecled. officers of Ihe Woshington Junior High School Alumni a former principal reminisce over, a school publication. From'Ihe Ed'Stsllway is the new president, Thomas Edison and Blanche Lunk McHenry, secr'etcry-lreosurer, right.

Next to is Pauline Handy, long-time principal. Mrs. McHenry has been member of ass.ocialion for 20.yean. It.li the only junior high group in the United Slates. Yet Claim I Forms lo Be Senl in Area Veterans' exemptions a i forms will be mailed this year; (or the first time to all veterans who i an exemptiort- from Pasadena cily property- taxes last year, City assessor; Waller Reed announced.

He ajso announced thai fornia veterans of the- Viv.lnam- war who meat the residency re; quiremenls may also file by taining Ihe necessary forms at Room 111, City Hall. Filing must be done in person, the first time. The veteran must, submit official evidence of quali-; fying active military and the deed or actual of purchase of real Reed said. Additional information may obtained by calling Ext. 223.

War Dead Lislcd i The Defense Department listed Fri day Ihe names of 140 U.S. sery-f icemen killed in action, died ofj; wounds, 'changed from missing; to dead and known to have died in captivity. Forty-seven are i i They include: Army. First Lt. Robert S.

Hut-? chinson II, son of Mr. and Robert S. Hutchinson, 15(540 Subida who was killed..