Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph from Colorado Springs, Colorado • Page 43

COLORADO OCTOBER 24, 1971 SECTION.E Children, Students Learn Whether In Pumpkin Patch or Peanut Butter Justin makes sure little Brian has a Susan makes an emegency Hank decide whether to pour Juan- pumpkin he can carry. call. ita Evans tea or coffee. Justin blows blue bubbles. hands are cold.

Would you carry my Susan asks. Mrs. Alice Griggs suggests Peter build blocks "this By JANE MARTIN Gazette Telegraph Staff Writer At the Day Care Center at El Paso Community College, children, unbiased- ly termed by one of the student teachers as the most beautiful children in the world, learn all sorts of fun things. They learn to hammer on nai's and not on each other. They learn to blow bubbles through a straw and not to suck up.

Thev learn to paste and to share and to put puzzles together and to take turns. And while they are learning so are the child development students at the community college who use the laboratory school. Students must work directly with young children to qualify for state certification to direct or administer a day care center. Nursing, psychology and other students from the area also observe at the center, to get laboratory experience. The licensed center can accommodate 16 preschoolers, aged to 5, and 6 toddlers, aged 10 months to years.

Parents of most of the children attend the college or teach there. The center is self supported. According to Keith Godshall, head of the child development program, the day care center instructors try to coordinate classroom learning with laboratory experiences for the EPCC students. So everyone learns together. Mrs.

Virginia Nelson helps everyone. director of the center. Take the day everyone helped make By JAN HOEGH cause; men are more likely to young people in the legisla-, cause they may be less careerj But it is difficult for women an important place for devel- MDKING AHEAD Dorothy Bradley stands in the ckyard of Richard (her uncle) home on scade Avenue, taking a moment to rest and think out the next session of the Montana State Legisla- re. She was thJkmly woman in the last slksion and more wdnen will begin campaigningKfor seats the state house. (Gazette Telegraph Photo) Gazette Telegraph Staff Writer get into it with an eye on ca- Dorothy Bradley sat in the she said.

Colorado Springs sunshine, re- tend to be more membering the snowy weather compassionate and they have she had left in Montana. She is the right to put those qualities the only female representative into she asserted, in the Montana State Legisla- are value-oriented; only 24 years old. men are finance-oriented. Of A graduate of Colorado Col- course only a gener- lege, she was an anthropology she cautioned, major. Miss Bradley decided is need for both that in order to help promote She predicts, is the last environmental concerns, she session in which there will only vould try to get into politics.

be one woman in the is a need for morel During the session, she was she smiled, not the only young legislator, not just considered a Two others were 22 and 23 aleasant a ddition to the back years old. their votes were usually women are not she qualified, lard to she Getting more youths involved League of Women Voters in politics is good, she said, but is very active in Montana and she see much encourage- has become ment from the low numbers of Miss Bradley has encountered students registering, some rather strange problems have the student working in a world which is support when I really needed geared so much to men. she said. teasing was tun. but I port abortion lo- like being considered a wering the drinking she said.

Miss Bradley said she thought yet it was pretty great That students and most other up there, because they gave me people are crisis oriented. They a seat on any two committees wait until there is some big of my choice. issue and usually react when been lucky. I saw a too late to do much, handle for opportunity and hap- all the Montana students pen to grab who are eligible the Her father had not been sur- young legislator said, prised she entered the race, be- would total one-tenth of those cause he understood her con- voting in the last general cern for the environment. was just surprised that I She believes youth can have she laughed.

power, although they may not are more lively to be in agreement on every issue, get into politics because of ai was exciting to have she bubbled. And young oriented. decide their roles, she oping attitudes. can get into a bind try- agreed. legislate attitudes, people should take more res- Jng to their placg -n thg hgrd tQ k))OW which is a Au the )uter bills in the wory ity ln Jn political sphere rather than vot- cop-out, marriage or avoiding stop people, but you well.

They can control city their consciences she can fine the heck out of them if lirics. jectured. But she knows that homes are (CONTINUED ON PAGE S) the most important JCW 1 place. I wish more of them would take the 10 minutes to Miss Bradley said that whether college students vote in their home towns or in the towns where they attend school was not crucial. However, she did see that in some instances they could become a power block in a university town.

There is so much mobility she said. seems pretty ridiculous to have residency requirements so strict. Voting need to be made any more difficult. The most discouraging thing for the concerned young woman is the lack of faith many students have in the political system. of my friends said they would not vote and perpetuate a faulty system.

But 1 think more young people should get into the areas that disap point them and change While Miss Bradley has beenj in the legislature, she has jflr ed pass mining reclamation. water pollution and other environmental bills. She even got the courage to introduce an abortion bill. was afraid, because it myjht jeopardize my other pending She feels women find it easier voting their consciences, be- TO BE COMPASSIONATE Montana State Representative Dorothy Bradley sits under a blue spruce tree to think about qfcan and his effect upon environment. llhe said women are generally more compassionate than men and that their concern should be represented in legislatures.

Miss Bradley likes to take moments to slow down pace $nd enjoy the simple pleasures of'the outdoors. the morning snack. They learned words ike "spread" when they put the peanut outter on the graham crackers. "Let's remember about licking the knives. We don't use the knife for any more spreading if we lick the knife," Mrs.

Nelson reminded. So the children licked their knives and asked for clean ones. Mrs. Nelson didn't say anything about licking fingers or licking the peanut butter jar lid! She's a nice teacher. She always says please and thank you and she never says no or don't or raises her voice.

Then there was the pumpkin farm, the first field trip of the year. The students, children and teachers had been learning songs about pumpkins and songs for riding on the bus for a week. They had been pretending about pumpkins and learning about pumpkins. "They're involved and that's the way they really learn," Mrs. Nelson said.

The trip to the Venetucci Ranch and the pumpkin patch happened Thursday. When they arrived after the excited bus ride, the children stepped onto a huge field filled with pumpkins, many hurt by frost but still enough for each to find one to take home. The youngsters had a hard time remembering what Mrs. Nelson had said about riding on the bus "Feet on the floor and seats on seats." When everyone got back to the Bott Street center, it was time for lunch. Thank goodness.

Shannon forgot to blow bubbles. She sucked up instead and Susan Monahan helps her wash the soap taste away. For Shannon and the other children, happiness is a pumpkin they picked up themselves. (Gazette Telegraph Photos by Stan Payne) Young Legislator Asks for Commitment.