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BAY THEATER BUTTONS BAY 24 Hour Program Info. 271-3772 Visitors Eighty-three senior citizens from Midland County attended the senior nutrition program during the cherry festival. They had their noon meal at Faith' Reformed Church, the newest meal site in Grand Traverse County. It is unusual for visitors to attend, but they are eligible, a spokesman says. Age 60 or over is the only requirement and making reservations before five p.m.

the previous day. The meals are prepared at the Grand Traverse Medical Care Facility and served at noon Monday-Friday at several sites around the county. The meals are funded under the federal senior nutrition program but a donation is requested. Counselors get special training By CORNELIUS H. BEUKEMA Special to the Record-Eagle INTERLOCHEN With the spring of a much younger person in her with the firmness of authority in her voice and perhaps most important -with the understanding that adds up to a heart of gold, she goes on about her business at the National Music Camp.

At the University of Michigan she has Photo by Wayne Brill Marie Hartwig the job just graduated to professor emeritus status; here at Interloehen. she's as busy as ever directing -the CIT's (counselors in training). That, of course, describes Marie D. (Pete) Hartwig, who 'way back in 1944 was brought to Interlochen by Dr. Joe Maddy to help set up a counselor training course.

Since then she has trained hundreds, perhaps up to 1,000 young women, mostly teens, to watch over -or look after or all those junior (third through sixth grade) or intermediate (junior high) girls in the clusters of cabins on the Interlochen acreage or at other camps across the land. Marie Hartwig is in that special set among us known as senior citizens and inasmuch as she has just reached age 71 and continues to show such vigor it might be said that she's more than ordinarily special. She has worked this summer with 25 CIT's and carried out the training program much the same as she built it in those World War II years. The girls and a few boys have a minimum training age of 17 and counseling age of 18. They attend classes from 9 to 11 a.m.

five days a week, at 11 go to class for basics in first aid and life saving, and after a lunch- rest period, go into water safety, crafts or sports. Then they return to their cabins to assist the counselors. They spend four weeks in junior camp, the remaining four in the intermediate division. "It's demanding work, requires close attention, but it's fulfilling, adds to a person's lifetime sense of responsibility which sense is shown by their being in the course," says Hartwig. Marie Hartwig, attained emeritus status in June at the University of Michigan from the post of professor of physical education, lecturer in the School of Education and associate director of intercollegaiate athletics.

She has held the associate directorship since 1973, when Michigan, along with other schools, upgraded women's sports by giving them equal intercollegiate recognition with men's athletics. "The first program there listed six Open Daily Saturdays 'Til 5:30 In Logan's Landing sports swimming, volleyball, tennis, field hockey, synchronized swimming and basketball," she explains. "Gymnastics, track and field and golf are being or will be added. So it's well rounded. We've had winning tennis and swim teams right along; won the Big Ten swim title in 1974." Hartwig hasn't always been involved in sports.

A graduate of Detroit Northwestern High School in 1925, she entered the university that year, graduated in 1929. Her ambition was to become a "cultured" private secretary work in the highest cultural circles. A month after her graduation, the Michigan League building opened -serving co-eds as the Michigan Union serves men. She did secretarial work in three posts over a short period, then Dr. Margaret Bell, head of women's physical education, spotted her as a likely candidate in that field.

"She offered me a job as a teaching fellow to work in intramurals and with the women's athletic assocation, but it required my taking 40 more hours of work in education," Hartwig recalled. "I earned my bachelor's in education in 1932, took my master of arts in 1938." She was a teaching fellow 1933, then was advanced to instructor. Promotions followed over the years. "When did you get your she was asked. "Heavens, I don't remember," was the quick reply.

She was acting director of physical education for women from 1968 to 1970, and in the latter year the men's and women's departments were merged. Michigan's long time and long ago athletic director, Fielding H. Yost, spoke often of "athletics for phrase hung on, has become reality. It was so repeated by Marie Hartwig. Then she added, "I dont' believe in recruiting women for teams, but I wouldn't be surprised if it came to that." Getting back to CIT's, we asked, "How does a girl enroll in the program here at Interlochen?" "Apply to the personnel department, but don't delay 'til too late in spring," she answered.

"The course involves a week of pre-camp work and eight weeks of camp. It's a brief career afterward in the sense that actual counseling usually is limited to summers during a girl's college years. "What's ahead for you this fall and beyond?" "I've got a lot of writing to do a lot of writing," was the reply. So, like a growing number of us -senior citizens these days, Prof. Emeritus Marie (Pete) Hartwig intends to go on working.

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