Monrovia News-Post from Monrovia, California • 13

-w- IME LIi IL4ji ti V1111 1 1 i ty ri75 EzakV) 4-1 Trierts1P1sL Coo rt cr J-r-N1 et) EIZ dr aw sa Li DAIWA Mcri-Go-Round ba 1 li 1 Marilee r't-) Reyes Mcri-Go- 177 71 a A i laiound 9S I i tx -N: -1 1 1 I Marilee Reyes Editor THE GOOD OLD DAYS --Several weeks ago I 3 took some pictures of a 13 year old young lady Kim Burns for a 4-1-1 article Kim raises rabbits and has been quite successful so much so that she will be taking her one-rabbit show to Sacramento to the State Fair While the 4-11 group meets in Arcadia it serves a rather large area including Temple City and El Monte Kim lives in El Monte i near Cherrylee School and as I drove to her house I was transported back in time (W back in time) to when I was girl The area is definitely rural evert though it is plunked down within four- or five blocks of a thriving business area The zoning is obviously established for livestock Aside from the rabbits Kira raises she and her mother Diane also have five horses and a number of chickens and dogs And I loved it I guess I'm just a country girl at heart Anyway I arrived at dusk Children were playing a game of over-the-line in the street some where a donkey brayed and a rooster decided to practice for the sunrise I was so flooded with 4 memories that I could have stood there all evening long reminiscing about the "old days" in Temple City 5 where a donkey brayed and a rooster decided to practice for the sunrise I was so flooded with memories that I could have stood there all evening le long reminiscing about the "old days" in Temple City and had never spoken One day sts act at a paint easel To Mrs Glyer's Sterifitt a he picked up a brush in each hz-j er1 tat write both brushes gongs at once-Through such experiesees ls Gt-ez 11 field She returned to school master's degree in art therery trete Irmer2ztsHeart College in 1976 Since thtt tis served on staff at Maryvale aerlwvising and training students and at tts BALI Counselling Center Woodlmid HILts She explains the creative protege as" solving process --La way of pereeivie: bt able to make order out of at-4 tab exprees the form requires an cceeity" It is this basic theory wkich sks br" to hag-- art therapy sessions converting it to a tool for healing Her goal is to help the client reconcile the Wk conscious with the conscious: to provide her clients with a way to identify their problem- with Images and then to deal with the knowledge or realizations that those images have revealed One of the simplest techniques she uses many times a person will say "I can't is the collage She gives the client a box of pictures cut from magazine and through the selection and arrangement of the picture the groundwork bk laid for the healing process tobeajn Through the process of identifying the persons own symbols for his inner conflicts and sublimated past experiences a new vocabulary develops wkich the trained therapist can- utilize to help the patient The client now has a workable image before him and Mrs Glyer is able to help him identify resolve his own conflicts Other media used are paint clay colored pen- dig even an ordinary lead pencil will assist the trained therapist to help the client Mrs Glyer herself conveys an attitude of kindness and stability as she expresses her own motivation and tells of experiences she has had over the years She has learned "the creative energy is so powerful that we can utilize a person's own imagery to contact the inner personality and connect to the outer reality" It would seem with the discoveries being in the arena of individual art therapy that there could be an even broader sociological application to the simple animal drawings found on cave walls or the popularity of more ornate or highly stylized works of a Dali or Michaelangelo than previouslr imagined By MARILEE REYES 1 Temple City People editor Throughout man's recorded history art has been 4- 1 regarded primarily as a means of creative exprea- sion as an ornament of decoration or as a tool for :1 ri recording a civilization's heritage and history i' In recent years however it has taken a new A tack of perhaps even greater social value in that it is being successfully used as a key to unlock the sub- conscious mind: a way of opening the doors and letting the sunlight into those dark recesses where unreasonable fears and intolerable memo: i i ries hide Memories and fears which plague and --4--v- often times render a person an emotional cripple -4 'e------- many times to the point of not being able to function ''N This new direction art therapy enables a per- son who has been unable to identify andor com- municate the shadows in his mind to someone trained to help him draw out the anathema and NN reconcile it to a workable component in his life According to licensed art therapist Helen Glyer of Temple City the practitioner deals in communi cation particularly in non-verbal forms The at therapist seeks to establish an emotional environment in which the patient or client feels free to I 4 express feelings using various art media as tools to 41 i 'I 11 communicate symbolically with the therapist 40 Itt 4 The therapist in turn participates in the activi- ty to varying degrees depending upon the needs of ''fr 1 ----7 the client and by careful observation and diagno- -11 i th sis the therapist begins to guide client to the e4t Aov 1r 1 point where he is able to discover what it is that 4 ------t- burdens and confines him The ultimate goal is to les-- 0 free the person so he might be independent and Louie Nunn Foothill Inter-City Ntroispapors able to resolve inner conflicts without the aid of a therapist Helen Glyer explains art therapy Mrs Glyer serves on the staff of Westminister Center for Personal Development in Pasadena and (r) she maintains her own office in Temple City She came to this particular field of endeavor rather by accident as many other art therapists have done veop In her case she discovered that children who had problems communicating verbally were able to express themselves in other ways given the tools to use She had been employed as an instructional aide to a speech therapist in the Los Angeles City Sheila Thompson Editor- Schools While there were children who could be helped by the program there were others who for INTER some reason or other were simply unable to talk or CITY NEWSPAPERS express themselves in any way One four year-old THURSDAY AUGUST181983- WO I boy drew her attention He had a physical problem to s'l -floi ''440c---4- -414------gc 1 s-7is ih----e ii erarns 11 egu 400- --1 -)t'''t -''-'47 point ere a is bl I 4 Z------- or-- :4 burdens and confines '4- 40'- free the person so he Louie Nunn Foothill Iota-City Noviopopers able to resolve inner therapist Helen Glyer explains art therapy Mrs GI serves Center for Personal she maintains her owl came to this particulal accident as many oth In her case she disco' problems communica express themselves in to use She had been emplc to a speech therapiE Sheila Thompson Editor- Schools While there helped by the prograr B-1--FOOTHILL INTER-CITY NEWSPAPERS some reason or other' express themselves in THURSDAY AUGUST le 1983- It' I boy drew her attentioi 11 16 st :1 00111p1 I 1 I I I i i I 1 t( 1 I i i i i 1 1 i i 1 i 1 i i 1 1 i I 1 I it 'e i 1 -i ii 1 i i 1 IL 1 1 1 1 1 i I 1 I 1 1 I I i 1 1 I 0 1 I I i I I I 1 1 remembered in particular a girlfriend Nancy Fuller who had won a white horse in a contest She had colored in a picture of the Lone Ranger and Silver front the back of a cereal box and a white horse (Little Silver) was the first place prize Needless to say it was the most exciting thing that ever happened to us because Little Silver event'' ally became a community horse I'm sure Mr and Mrs Fuller never knew that when they paid the feed bill but we kids loved the horse and were sure he loved us back Silver soon became (a name derived from his whickered greeting) Ile also soon be- came a palomino a dapple-grey and a "real horse of a different color" lavander thanks to giant sized bottles of food coloring On lazy summer- afternoons usually this time of year when we were bored out would come the bucket food coloring water and a sponge and poor Who-who was soon Incognito He really was a good-natured horse and I'd almost forgotten about him until the evening I went to take Kim Burns' picture And as one thing leads to another' am now wondering where Nancy 4 is Arcadian cadian turt' ds Ar findn now- wondering where Nancy Retired caalan -1-11-a I remembered in particular a girlfriend Nancy Fuller who had won a white horse in a contest therapy She was an exceptional person The whole fami- ly and all of their animals were exceptional They had a cocker spaniel named Sugar who used to run around with a bantum roster on her back If I weaving good ti remember correctly there were several the ban! ties and one of the bare-back riders was "Little By CARMEN RAMOS CHANDLER Instead he Beaver" I think the other was "Red Ryder' To pedal Correspondent or friends top things off Nancy had two ebony colored chick- Nearly everyone has some type of Dr: Sykes 1 ens which I remember to be as large as a small( hobby even if it's just collecting very relaxii I turkey and feathered like a bantum rooster She junk in the garage And some people think of anyt had won them in some kind of contest They were will go to great lengths to enjoy their "Say if yl from the orient and one of them would ride Who hobbies or in Dr John Sykes case spread you who I kid you not great distances threads goin Those really were good old days Dr Sykes a recently retired re- eight shafts 4 4 weaving good By CARMEN RAMOS CHANDLER Special Correspondent Nearly everyone has some type of hobby even if it's just collecting Junk in the garage And some people will go to great lengths to enjoy their hobbies or in Dr John Sykes case great distances Dr Sykes a recently retired Instead he or friends Dr: Sykes very relaxing think of anything "Say if you threads going eight shafts i lb 1 1 i 440 vol" 4 I 1 4 '4 46' v) 1 staillk A 4 6 411V a el 1 0 46 h' I 1 -4 Al 1 I A a il ll 4 th -4-sw It i p44 1 live i A A A i' '1' lAttA AAA '''t 64 uI r-l '1-- '-4 11r 1 0 2 1 014 smommwmose t' I A 04 i 14 r--- 11 VI 4 L----k 141-ti 4 -14 s---- i vs 14 11 -e 4 ----mlo 1011117 ik i A 4 --r I 1 4 411i111111AIrCol 'm 1 4 jo 41 400 OtiV140114 Jenny Campbell faFoothill Intercity Neteepapero prefers giving it to family said he finds weaving because "you can't else" you are weaving a bedspread may have 1800 2000 across and you've got a shaft is a lttle thing that carries the loop to raise certain threads depending on how you thread it So if you make a mistake after you're towards the middle and you go ahead and finish it and then you do your test you always test your threading to see if you've made any mistakes then you have to cut the threads and you have to take them all out So it's a lot of work" Dr Sykes learned weaving as a little boy in England "My family's been in weaving in Yorkshire for 'at least three generations As a little boy I used to go around the factory and I'd see them with the hand looms testing out patterns and things" he said When he badly injured his wrist in Saigon during World War II an orthopedic surgeon recommended he take up carpentry or weaving as therapy "Well I'd already done a lot of carpentry and so I bought a loom small loom and I started weaving tweed and stuff clothes In fact I still have a coat I made of Harris tweed that I wove" he said researcher at the Southern California Cancer Center likes to spend his spare time weaving and in 1972 he imported a contramarche loom from Sweden Why? "Because you can't get one over here" he said With the loom which takes up about a third of his garage and is designed by Swedish weaver Ulla Cyrus there is not as much tension on the threads as there is with American looms said Dr Sykes "It cost me about $560 (to bring it to America) and a loom of that size would have cost me over $2000 here This was better built because it's built by people who have a great deal more experience in weaving After all our country is a little over 200 years old they've been weaving in Sweden five times that" he said Now that he has retired Dr Sykes expects to spend more time at the loom In the past he has made bedspreads rugs cloth and tapestries He said he would never consider selling his work "It's too valuable" I WISH I'D SAID THAT From the Monrota rian newsletter "It's always easy to see both sides of an issue we are not particularly concerned about" "Generally the theories we believe we call facts and the facts we disbelieve we call theories "It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong" said Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and my favorite Mark Twain showed up on the bottom of an herbal tea box telling the world "If we always tell the truth we don't need to remember what we said" Sounds like good advice to me TESS'S PLACE you have noticed some free hug coupons in the paper lately they're from Tess She was visiting her daughter Robin up north and saw one on the refrigerator She promptly confiscated the idea and brought it south bought the space in the paper and has been running it just because she knows people sometimes could use a free hug So clip one and redeem it on a day when a hug will help you make it through 7 a i I i When he came to America he did not find much time to weave but when he left the MD Anderson Hospital in Houston Tex where he was working as a general cancer researcher and came to California Turn to ARCADIA Page Cat fancier now runtg I op fo vt efans I I I I i I I 1 I i 1 1 I I 4 1 I 1 i i i i I i I it i i 4 I 1 i 1 I 4 It 1 WOHELO WOHELO WOHELO apologies to Camp Fire Councils everywhere Several weeks ago I ran a story on an award ceremony for the Temple City area Camp Fire Club and made an awful faux-pas Not once but several times I wrote "Weholo" in referring to the organizations watchword It should have been "Wohelo" Everyone knows it stands for Work Health Love It should have been easy to get it right but I apologize a thousand times I could blame it on the computer but it might turn on me sometime when I need its total cooperation The fault is mine Forgive me Camp Fire? ARE IN SEASON Frances Hargrave TC's BPW's Woman of the Year is a great-grammy again Gary and Pam Schaeffer introduced Brenton Loysen on June 30 Frances is one of the nicest ladies I know and she has done a great deal for youth everywhere not Just in Temple City I'm sure little Brenton will like to visit this great-grandma's house whenever possible Bob and Marilyn Frock also of Temple City who help keep youth baseball alive in that town celebrate Michelle Marie Martin born July 22 Larilyn works for the Temple City Animal Control Department Michelle shares the honor of being the second child of a five generation family along with her brother Robert who is five Mom is Debi Lartin a graduate of Arcadia High School in the cid-70's ti a 0 A )k 1 i '5 1 0 4C 1- i ir 1 6 1 1 "9 i 1 1 ks1 f'4) 1 4 i At 4 A 1 A't 0 I o- ri I 1 i 0 Al A WO 1 W' I -I Il i 4 I I root 41qmvoit I 1 1 1 bookoommoomo 1 -i I 4 44 I '4 4 Although Simone McQueen's current life centers around cats it was not always so While they have been a part of her life for as long as she can remember she did take the time as a youngster to win some medals of her own both as a rollerskater and figure skater She also water-skied to Catalina Island and back and has trick skied winning numerous awards However in the early 1960s she turned her attention to the raising and showing of Himalayan cats Her first show cat Mink Queen Frosty Frolic was the first all-American frost point Himalayan and Frosty Trinket was runner-up Prince Bapu of Mink Queen was all-western honorable mention Blue-point Himalayan and Caraway was all-westernchocolate point Now the 75 trophies 62 rosettes and hundreds of ribbons she displays belong to her cats During the course of her serious involvement with live cats she had some of the first solid lilacs and solid chocolate Himalayans now called Kashmirs in the United States But after 10 years of raising and showing them she had to quit It became too heartbreaking to sell them Now she has a Blue Persian named Hercules and a black hybrid Inka-dee along with a dog a Shih-tzu which she says thinks itself to be a cat But even though she no longer shows them she will never be without a They are her life and a look around her shop Cats Wonderful and the variety of items she displays would indicate that she is not alone Millions of cat lovers- support a healthy trade in cat supplies and tin kets many of which are found in her shop Everything from cat to shoe laces featuring kitten- design can purchased there While some furry felines have achieved fame and even a certain amount of ty such as Morris Garfield and Ileathcliff many more are just loved and appreciated for- their special qualities Its to these cats and their people that Simone- McQueen has dedicated herself Sometimes people will come to her asking what to do about a sick cat but she is quick to refer them to a veterinarian But other than that she loves to exchange stories about cats with her customers and provide just the right gift or trinket for a cat or a cat fancier She's been doing it for a long time and plans to continue Iler shop may be found In Old Town- Monrovia at 507 Myrtle BEFORE DISNEYLAND I was a I used to lie in a big brass bed one of my Grammy's patchwork tucked beneath 17 chin a dirty chin if I was lucky enough to the bath and gaze through the winter win! Ows the bare birches wore stars on their limt2 like glittering strands of diamonds or fireCes suspended in twinkling flight Today's child see a festival of lights every night at dusk for an entry fee of $1195 but I I liked the wintrr windows best they prepared me for the eztes when I don't have $1195 Mediae Reyes I Foothill inter-City Newspaper- Simone 31cQueen with her trophies and toy cats DAMAGED PAGE I DAMAGED PAGE 11.