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Angels School Appeals for Funds to Stay Open (Chicago (Tribune FEBRUARY 14, 1971 3 METRO Section SOUTH 10' CENTRAL c. -rjj1 iv TRIBUNE Staff Photo by Quentln Oodt The $1.25 million Our Lady of the Angels School building stands today at the spot where its predecessor was destroyed by the tragic fire of December, 1958. Doors at Our Lady of the Angels are kept locked to protect children from strangers, said Sister Mary Bertilla, the principal. Inside, there are fire panic-bars on the door for quick exit, with the hopes they will never be needed again. The 11-year-old building remains spotless inside and out.

Halls are active but calm. "We don't have regimentation but a kind of happy quiet," she said," as pupils change classes under modular scheduling breaks." All the pupils are now Catholic and reside within parish bounds but there may be some revision next fall, according to Father Dodaro. "We have to service the parish community first. The parish subsidizes 60 per cent of the school's cost." No Racial Problems Racism is not a school issue. About 4.5 per cent of the pupils are black with a rise to 15 per cent anticipated by fall.

Communication rather than discrimination is the problem because of ethnic factors. Fifteen per cent are from Polish-speaking homes; 85 per cent are Italian, with half non-English speaking. To aid such students bilingual volunteer mothers give the children special help since no language books meet their needs. Educational emphasis in on reading, listening and looking. BY KATHLEEN BURNS Former parishioners of Our Lady of the Angels Catholic Church, 3808 W.

Iowa are being asked to turn their memories of its past into funds to fight for the future of its' school. Started with the church in 1894, the school is facing an anticipated deficit of $125,000 by the end of the school year. The $1.25 million physical plant was constructed in 1960 following the tragic fire which killed 92 children and three nuns Dec. 1, 1958. The five parish priests have drafted a I Our Udg of The Angels is the TAXPAYERS BEST FRIEND! THIS N0N-PUBUC SCHOOL rt SAVES ILLINOIS TAXPAYERS ANNUALLY I I HOO Pupils k.

52Q Minimum State Aid Pfus 200QOOO BUILDING an appeal letter and are searching for former alumni and residents who have drifted out of the area. Letter Requests Funds "Ties built by memories of school days and associations with priests and nuns are ties that can't be broken, and we would like to build on them. You know what a great parish Our Lady of the Angels is and has been. You had a large part in making it so. Despite our parishioners doing all Lhey can, we are sending out an S.

O. S. Save Our School to you because we know you care," the letter states. "We have about 400 contributors so far," said the Rev. Fred Brandstrader, one of the parish assistants.

With racial shifts and diminishing numbers of Catholics at Resurrection, St. Mel's and Our Lady of Sorrows Churches, Our Lady of the Angels has become the largest West Side parish, he said. Boundaries are approximately Kedzie Avenue to the Chicago and North Western Railway tracks and the Lake Street tracks to Potomac Avenue. "An average parish is 2,000 to 2,500 families. We have 3,800," the priest said.

Contacting Former Parishioners But this is a drop from 4,500 families two years ago and a student enrolment almost cut in half, from 1,526 in 1966 to 878 today. The problem is finding where these people now live so they can be contacted. "People are turning in names and one leads to another but we have no complete files of forwarding addresses," Father Brandstrader said. Our Lady of the Angels' problems are shared with many Catholic schools that have older parishioners moving out and non-Catholic families moving in. Tuition and lay salary costs rise as enrolments and religious faculty drop.

In the new learning center, shelves are lined with materials such as comprehension quizzes which students take, check and file in a folder without being graded. For beginning readers there is a "listening post" of hexagon tables with head sets for enrichment lessons, social studies and science while the teacher gives individual help to others. Housed in the school is a media materials cooperative for 22 Catholic schools, stocked with films, records, tapes and transparencies. Each of the 25 classrooms has an overhead projector, and a pool of electronic aids is readily accessible. tion is all black and predominantly non-Catholic.

The local public school, Ryer-son, 646 N. Lawndale bulges with its 2,800 students spread out into three shifts, with 22 mobiles and a demountable building to handle the student influx of the last two years. Protect Children To avoid neighborhood troubles at dismissal, teachers voted to cut the day so pupils could leave early. During the half hour lunch, they stay with the children. After school, there are supervised programs in the parish's $400,000 "fun building" which opened November, 1968.

In 1969, their tuition doubled going to $150 for the first child, $75 for the second and three or more went free. Today it's $170 for one, $125 for the second, $100 for the third and all others. Parishioners Persist Parishioners refuse to let pessimism pervade, turning to an accelerated, individualized academic program thru parent-faculty efforts and an involved community perspective. "We are an island in the midst of turmoil," said the Rev. Richard Dodaro of the staff.

One block away, the buildings are boarded up along Chicago Avenue south of the street, the popula Valentine's Day Creates a Renaissance in Poetry To Gracie in my second grade class: I love you, I love you, I love you I do. But don't get excited, I love monkies too. David. ft vv 1 'at BY JEANNYE THORNTON AND FREDERIC SOLL It's hearts and flowers day again and while most messages of love and devotion will not be the hallmark of originality, it fills' the heart to see how people still find new ways to get Valentine's Day off their collective chest. Poetry books pop open and people look for an original phrase from Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley.

One would be sacrificing days to count the ways, "Let me count the ways" appears on letters and cards probably enough 'to stretch to the breadth and heighth of the nation's Valentine soul. Some, of course, will just spend the day with a jug of wine, a loaf of bread and whomever the thee happens to be, feeling that presence wakes a heart from yonder. A random selection of heart-felt greetings reveals the. variety of "Be My Valentines" growing in the valley of sugar and spice: Mary I wanted to say something special to you this year for Valentine's Day on account of how you were so nice to me and the kids. So I went down to the public library and got some books on poetry.

The librarian found something called a sonnet that said "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." But it sounded too beautiful and you would have known it wasn't original. So I found something in another book myself that was more original, by a guy named Coleridge: "All thought, all passions, all delights, whatever stirs this mortal frame, all are but ministers of love, and feed his sacred flame." The kids and I will cook breakfast today. Love, Jack. the running board of Louie's big car in the middle of winter must've froze my brain because Harry tells me yesterday it's Valentine's Day today which is a day I should've remembered on account of the big garage party me and the boys is holding on Clark Street. So since everyone isn't invited, especially women, I want you to know by mail now that today a lot of hearts will be bleeding for you.

Poochie. Dear Linda-lu If you will promise not to make me look stupid anymore in English 404, I'll let you be my Valentine. P. S. I'll even let you carry my books.

Ollie. Dear Kevin: Were I not so shy I could send you a copy of the "Sonnets from the Portuguese" or a collection of love poems bespeaking my everlasting servitude and undying devotion, or I could write my own "Hymn to Him." I made a special trip to the library to find someone to quote, to find someone who had already said the kinds of things I wanted to say. But I cannot be poetic or use some other author's words, I can only promise from this day forward to wake you gently each morning for the rest of our lives and whisper softly, I love you. Happy Valentine's Day. Your loving wife, Gladys.

Baby Riding around all the time on 0 Sign of the Times Hello, Young Lovers ril Mff fKi Iff i iuH jjjJ Inside Metro (TRIBUNE Staff Photo by Roy Hall Cupid took his time, but did he make a match! Childhood sweethearts Morris Zaslowsky, 74, and Mrs. Alice Maizell, 70, will be married today at Motele Synagog. The couple met in third grade, went thru grade school and high school together, then moved their separate ways to college and business. Each married and raised families. Forty-seven years later, Zaslowsky, a widower, called Mrs.

Maizell, then a widow. And they didn't even need a matchmaker to help them set this Valentine's Day wedding date. Mrs. Maizell's two sons, one daughter and four grandchildren will be present for the ceremony as will Zaslowsky's son, daughter and five grandchildren. Mrs.

Maizell retired in December after 20 years as a Chicago school crossing guard. TRIBUNE Staff Photo) Casey Bukro's Life Line column and Terri Schultz's Our Town column. This sign at'a local drive-in restaurant hag a subtle warning: The Internal Revenue Service will get you if you don't watch out! Dr-1 iii ftp a if. yj i 1 MlitfTirninKiJfc.tfhwlll. rirt ii trir nil.

IH iXiliwi'. TRIBUNE Staff Photoi-by Alton Kaite Black Hawks' left wing Doug Mohns gets a big change of Black Hawks' left wing Dennis Hull keeps Marilyn Jack Flve-ycar-oId Mark Llherman gets a welcome helping pace as he takes a leisurely stroll down the Ice with Shara Tho it's not Halloween, 4-year-old Steven Taylor gets a real treat as he tries to unmask Black Hawks' goalie Tony Esposito. son from making a three-point landing during a brief skating lesson. hand from Black Hawks' center Stan Mikita. Mayfield.

30 Youngsters Get Chance to 'Glide' with Black Hawks BY ANGELA PARKER The clatter of barely used skates, sparkle of excited eyes and chatter of 30 young voices provided a different hue to the Black Hawks practice session one morning last week. Thirty youngsters from the Model Cities Uptown area had an opportunity to watch, talk and skate with the city's hockey pros in the Chicago Stadium. They even got some lessons from the men who make hockey their livelihood. "There's Tony," shouted five-year-old Gwcn Brown as she pecked over the railing and saw star goalie Tony Esposito. "My mommy and daddy and I watch the games on television.

My dad would have liked to come too." Know Names, Records While anxiously waiting in the penalty box like professionals do for their period on the ice, tho excited children tajked hockey. In fact, it was amazing to see tho number of players tho children could name. They knew their playing positions and the Black Hawks' scoring records. Even the younger children knew details about the sport. Tony Rouse, 5, said he had been watching Douglas Jarrett, No.

4, and Keith Magnuson, No. 3, but his favorite player is Bobby Hull, No. 9. Victor Kulikauskas, 12, has been participating regularly in the Model Cities Uptown ice skating program. "Dennis Hull Is No.

10," he said. "Bobby Hull was injured in Sunday's game. He's not even practicing today." Lesson Is High Point And if the children's excitement could increase, it did when they got on the ice with the players. Flying down the ice with Doug Mohns can be pretty exciting to a 5- or 15-year-old and perhaps even for an old hockey fan. The lesson with the Blade l'awks was a high point of a American Indian Center, the Glenview and Northbrook Skating Clubs and State Sen.

Robert Cherry 11th gave the project 25 pairs of skates each. Director Is Pleased Erwin France, director of the Model Cities Program, was on hand for the fun at the stadium. Altho he said he was not an avid hockey buff, he didn't want to miss seeing "those kids meet with the pros." "The program that we're seeing here is really what Model Cities is all about," he said. "Forty million dollars in Model Cities funds is not enough to make any great impact upon the problems that we must overcome. It's thru the spinoff effects like this that we hope to make significant progress." "There is plenty of room on the outdoor rink at Clarendon Tark and there is a sufficient supply of skates for more children to join the program," said Mrs.

Hanlcy. She learned to skale at the ago of three aid has been skating professionally since leisure time program sponsored by the Uptown Model Cities program. The idea for the program was that of Mrs. Caroline Hanlcy, a professional skater who Is a member of the Uptown Model Cities Council. She gives skating lessons to neighborhood youths each Sunday between 1 and 3 p.

m. In Clarendon Park at 4500 N. Clarendon Av. Now, on Sunday afternoons, Clarendon Park resounds to the cries of happy youngsters and the swish of their skates as they progress in their ability under the tutelage of Mrs. Hanlcy.

The park was made available by the Chicago Park District, and many individuals and organizations help to provide skates for the Leisure Time Model Cities project. Thru donations, they acquired 150 pairs of skates which the children can use during their lessons. The Black Hawks contributed 50 pairs of Ice skates and SOJozcn pairs of laces. Tho.