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THE TIMES AND DEMOCRAT. Orangeburg, S. Wdnedy, My 31 l97i.PK3B Music Is a Foster Family Affair Teen-Age Chess Expert Advises Teaching The Came To Children 0" of life for Schiller, who carries a folding chess board, zipper-cased playing pieces and basic chess books with him wherever he goes. He was an assistant tournament director for the U.S. Chess Championship, was captain of the Eastern High School co-championship team and has won many trophies.

He owns seven chess sets, including one huge "artistic" one. He also plays bridge, but thinks it involves too much luck. "In chess there's a very small percentage of luck," he says. "The only reason people lose in chess is because they make a mistake themselves. Schiller plans to attend the University of Chicago next year and major in Russian, a language he became interested in from reading books about chess, but which he now enjoys for its own sake.

In addition to speaking Russian, he speaks Serbo-Croatian and can read German, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Czech and Swedish, all of which he familiarized himself with through reading. C4V sistant teacher capacity in elementary schools. "I asked for the younger children because I feel they're easier to work with and there's more you can teach someone young," says Schiller. "I've always had the idea of introducing chess to kids and felt the best place was on the kindergarten level. "I learned at that age and Bobby Fischer did and so did most of the other players I have come in contact with," he continues.

"In the United States it may seem early but in the Soviet Union it's normal." Schiller, who gets a half unit credit per term for working five days a week with his young students, starts out by introducing the pieces one at a time and letting the kids become thoroughly familiar with how each moves. One 6-year-old has already played in an under-13-year-old tournament. "I give them general principles that get them going," he explains. "They use basically the same opening all the time, but they are beginning to get some attacking schemes down and occasionally get into some defensive things." The youth lists intelligence and a "very competitive instinct" as major prerequisites for the game. Though an aptitude for math often is not apparent at that age, he adds that the child who plays good chess will be good in math.

Schiller recalls that from the time he was 4 or 5 he played chess with his father or guests in a casual way. In the middle of junior high he joined a group of 9th-graders who played it a little more seriously. "We entered a tournament and had a crushing defeat," he admits, "and then I started to pick up chess seriously and bought the first of many chess books. I probably buy more chess books than any other junior (under-21 player) in the By JOY ST1LLEY AP Newsfeatures Writer PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. (AP) Five-year-olds are perfectly capable of learning to play chess and, in fact, that is the best age to start them out, says teen-age chess expert Eric Schiller, who serves as a volunteer teacher to kindergarten youngsters.

"The earlier they learn to play chess the more beneficial the ability will be," he says. "Chess playing helps develop more logical reasoning processes and helps them to think more clearly and evaluate decisions better." The 17-year-old senior at Schreiber High School here teaches the fundamentals of the game to kindergarteners at the Flower Hill Elementary School. He is a volunteer for HELP (Help Educate Little People), a program that places high school students in an as- Springfield Society Mr. and Mrs. R.E.

O'Farrell attended the recent benefit barbecue chicken supper served by the Norway Matrons in the Community House. On Thursday night, May 25. Miss Jane Bennett, high school senior, appeared on the music recital of Mrs. Helen M. Salley of Orangeburg held in Wan-namaker Hall of St.

Pauls United Methodist Church. She will sing three selections, I Love You (by Beethoven), A Mother's Love (Grace Nell Crowell) and The Impossible Dream (Mitch Leigh). Miss Bonnett has a lovely lyric soprano voice. She is a member of the chancel choir of the Springfield U.M. Church.

The prior hostess to the bridge club was Mrs. J.H. Corbett. Mrs. C.S.

Whittington won high score. trying to alienate her. "Our guidance counselor said there Is more alienation than togetherness today be-tween parents and 13- and 14-year-old kids," Marin added. T'When Susie told some of her friends in the school washroom she was sure her father would tell her to go ahead and try if she wanted to smoke, they told her she was a freak and her father was one, too, and wrote it on the bathroom walls. She's puzzled now and hurt.

But she'll handle It," her mother said confidently. When they go out on their boat everyone has his own job to do. Marin has to pilot the boat and she can't make lunch at the same time. So the kids have to do that job. "Wayne can do everything but see," his wife said.

"We were trying to make port quickly late one night when one of the belts came off the engine. "He started to change the belt. But he needs someone to hand him tools. Our oldest girl helped and now she knows how to change a belt in the pitch dark." "It never occurred to me to light a light," Wayne explained. "What don't I do in the dark?" The kids go with their parents on many entertainment engagements.

They're good with electronics, lighting, and help considerably. "Our careers and everything else are secondary to the children," said Wayne. "We do all the other things after their needs have been seen to." Marin added, "It's comfortable not to have conflict." But they do get some questions with punch from the kids. "One night," Wayne recalled, "my daughter Jackie came up with a dilly. she asked, i you had your choice, which would you rather be deaf or "I thought that one over and then told her I'd rather be blind.

She said, matter of factly, 'You're lucky then. You got your "The kids don't assume anything about helping me," he said. "They ask. "We are blessed with won By HELEN IIENNESSY NEA Womeu'i Editor NEW YORK (NEA) It was not an unusual boy-meet-girl, falls-in-love story. But there was one difference.

The boy was blind. Marin met Wayne Foster at a Cerebral Palsy benefit dance. He was playing in the band and she and her friends were guests. "As girls do," she remi-nisced, "we went over after the dance to talk to the band. And it was God's will that Wayne and I met.

From the moment our hands touched there was magic. "Friends told me," she continued, "that being married to a blind man wouldn't work. But they were so wrong. He has taught me to close my eyes and open my mind." They are a handsome cou- fie and the happiest people 've talked to in a very long time. And God has smiled on them.

Years have passed since that benefit dance. Wayne Foster, blind since the age of six, no longer just plays in a band. He has six bands of his own (50 musicians) and he played at President Nixon's Inaugural Ball. He's a song writer, too. His wife, a talented vocalist, sings with Wayne and the bands.

They have an album coming out called, "To My Friends," which they recorded themselves and published themselves, "with the help of experts," Wayne admitted. "We did the whole thing," he said, "in our own particular style happy and positive, including such tunes as 'Put On a Happy And the children are on it, too. We had a ball." Their four girls are Susan (14), Jacqueline (12), Nancy (8) and Bonnie (6). And Foster's music publishing company is named Sujanabo a combination of the children's initials. Wayne is now 35 and hopes his album will be published on his birthday, May 29.

How did the four little girls adjust to living with a blind father? Here's the story as told by Marin and Wayne Foster: "First of all we are probably a closer knit family than some. We are all involved in entertaining and in each other's lives, said Marin, "and the kids just grew up in an atmosphere for the finest in cleaning and most everything else related to the care of your clothes bring them to the experts FUm our convenient diivt-in window ALET0NE Cleaners 447HUSSULST. (ntt to Goody ui, kom t'om Winn Dtnr) 550 FVRSinm eee 7 mmmm Making beautiful music together as a family and professionally, the Fosters are, left to right, daughters Susan, Nancy, Bonnie and Jacqueline with Marin and Wayne. The two eldest girls join their parents on weekend dates, encouraging teen-agers to dance. EUREKA "530" VACUUM CLEANER Deluxe 6-pfl.

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"Even when I don't want to see something," Wayne laughed, "they take my hand to show me even if I'm on the phone." But the kids know Dad doesn't miss much himself. "We ask them how everything went each day when they come home from school, Wayne said. "There's a real 'fine' and a phony 'fine' and I can tell which is which. When their heels drag on the gravel driveway, I'll ask, 'Susie, what's wrong?" And she groans, 'Oh, daddy how did you The Fosters feel that the close-knit family is far more rare than it used to be and that they are beginning to get back some flack from their oldest daughter whose friends, jealous of her relationship with her parents are lope and take them to your safety deposit box or another safe place. Then make a note on your calendar to update your visual list in a year, either with new photos or a list of things you've acquired in the last year.

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"It's not so much their getting used to a blind father as it is their shock when they discover that not all fathers are blind," Marin said. "It's not a traumatic adjustment," Wayne added. "They wonder how their friends' dads can survive not being blind. Because fathers are supposed to be blind. You get such questions as, 'How come Jane's father drives a car? That's a mommy's Marin decorated their home with touch and sound in mind.

The walls are textured so that Wayne can touch and "see" them. The furniture is in distressed wood for the same reason, with hammered copper on the top of the bar. They have very few paintings but lots Because it's tedious, time consuming and difficult to update. One way to accomplish the same thing, however, is with photographs. Open the closet doors, spread out your clothes a little so a corner of each thing is in view and, click! Now turn around and photograph the bookcase on the other side of the room.

And keep going until you have a visual record of your entire house or apartment. Tuck the photos in an enve Cottons 2 yds. Hwy 301 North acquainted SALE derful children," Wayne concluded. "I think the Lord made a fair exchange with me." (NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.) Bikini Bulge If you try on last year's bathing suit and discover that you suffer from bikini bulge, there's only a few things you can do. Get rid of the bulge by exercising and dieting faithfully or buy one of the new one piece bathing suits that will at least camouflage part of the problem.

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That's why insurance companies and their agents advise, their customers to make a list of their possessions furniture, books, china, clothing everything. And they further advise those with homeowners or tenants insurance to keep this list in a safe place. George M. Snyder, vice president of Insurance Co. of North America recalls once when he was sent out to see a family whose home had been destroyed by fire.

"Together we made up list of things the family had lost," he said. "It took hours to put together. Several days later, the woman phoned my office to tell me they'd com-, pletely forgotten to list the contents on one room in the I house. As unlikely a story as that may seem, it happens all the time." But even a number of insur- 'ince people admit they haven't 1 lone a home inventory. Why? Pine Hill Society BY MRS.

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