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I United Press International _ father Donald Baigen,
Oblate provincial for the order’s
central province, said the funds
would be used to “provide coun
seling services and interim
financial support for workers in
nuclear arms manufacturing
who choose to seek work in
a S'
United Press International
JAMARILLO — A group of
these hklriests has donated $10,000 to
’t put a prefidiolic Bishop L.T. Matth-
said, “butk^ 11 to provide counseling,
- the only su PP ortan 8 financial aid to Pan-
seen to the A nuclear plant workers who
:al proudrjhoose to seek work in peaceful
Occupations.”
■ Matthiesen. bishop of the
|jnarillo Diocese, last summer
^ fcrged employees to leave their
Rsat Pantex, a Department of
|neigy facility that assembles
i nuclear weapons.
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LI L Wednesday by the West Texas
Catholic, a weekly newspaper,
n t | le Matthiesen said his statement on
the immorality of nuclear arms
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to economically assist
■ • . workers who decided to seek
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s r i maneriort to aid such work-
'ers, the Oblates of Mary Im-
Attorn e vE® cu * ate > an order of Catholic
e does m-*P r ‘ ests > presented Matthiesen
rirt an (fJl h a check for $10,000.
3le k' T h e Solidarity Peace Fund
Will hopefully bear the fruit of
■■■■Btceful conversion for Pantex
“f
peaceful occupations.”
Another member of the
Oblates, Father Larry Rose-
baugh, served a year in prison
for his Feb. 10, 1981, attempt to
scale a fence at the Pantex plant
during a prayer pilgrimage with
five other priests.
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Children learn self-teaching
in local Montessori program
by Kathy Robinette
Battalion Reporter
Most children learn how to
read, write, add, subtract and
multiply by the third grade.
However, at the Mary of the
Oaks Montessori School, a child
can learn all this and more by the
age of 6, when most children are
in first grade.
Mary of the Oaks is the only
Montessori school in the local
area, on River Road off High
way 60, and is based on the prin
ciples of Dr. Maria Montessori,
founder of the Montessori
System.
Montessori, who died in
1952, worked with handicapped
children in Rome and observed
how quickly they used their
senses. From these observations,
she developed a system that en
courages self-education by
teaching young children to train
their senses.
Director Veronika Motekaitis
said she became interested in
Montessori’s work while she was
a graduate student at Illinois
Teacher’s College. Motekaitis
started a Montessori school 10
years ago with three pupils —
one of whom was her daughter
Milda — in an extra bedroom of
her home.
In 1974, the Mary of the Oaks
Montessori School opened with
12 students, and today, it has 15
pupils
“The Montessori system is a
no-rush, no-bother system,”
Motekaitis said. The children,
ranging in age from 2'/2 to 6,
choose what they want to study
on a particular day, she said.
The program helps the child
develop his eye-hand coordina
tion, Motekaitis said. The
youngest children begin by
studying practical life activities
in which they learn how to coor
dinate their small muscles by
washing hands, washing scraps
of material, pouring liquids,
scrubbing floors, sewing and
polishing objects, she said.
By the age of 3 to S'/a, they are
well into practical life. Mote
kaitis said they begin sensory ex
ercises by working with building
blocks — learning to identify the
largest from the smallest and
tracing geometric shapes with
their fingers. This practice will
help them when they start to
learn to write.
Usually by the age of 4 to 4'/2,
the child will begin to learn read
ing, writing and math, Mote
kaitis said. The children also are
taught science, geography,
music, creative dramatics, art
and dance.
In addition to these activities,
children learn grace, poise and
courtesy, Motekaitis said.
Latin leader blasts
Clements’ oil ties
photo by Gabriel Elliott
Trevor Carney, 3, of Bryan, how to identify
the letters in the alphabet.
United Press International
AUSTIN — The national
president of the League of Un
ited Latin American Citizens on
Thursday accused Gov. Bill Cle
ments of making contacts with
leaders of Mexico to “feather his
own nest” and promote his oil
well drilling business.
Tony Bonilla recalled that
when Clements was campaign
ing for office he responded to
questions about bilingual educa
tion by telling reporters he wa$
not running for governor of
Mexico.
“If he wasn’t running for gov
ernor of Mexico, why is he
spending so much time down
there,” Bonilla said.
“Our opinion is the governor
is doing this to feather his own
nest in anticipation of departing
from office, and so he can be
come even wealthier in his drill
ing business.
“I challenge him to deny he’s
talked to anybody on these trips
about his own business.”
The Latin leader said Cle
ments’ contacts with outgoing
Mexican President Jose Lopez
Portillo and Portillo’s apparent
successor, Miguel de la Madrid,
would be very important to the
oil well drilling firm founded by
Clements.
Bonilla also said LULAC
opposes Republican proposals
for a temporary guest worker
program allowing Mexican
citizens to work in the United
States, claiming such programs
in the past have amounted to in
stitutionalized slavery.
“If the governor is so con
cerned about the people of this
state, he should see that legisla
tion is enacted in the next ses
sion, or call a special session, and
see that farm workers are given
their rights,” Bonilla said.
“Then we can sit down and talk
about these other problems.”
The LULAC president also
criticized President Reagan’s
New Federalism, saying it would
seriously curtail bilingual educa
tion programs, increase suffer
ing. among the poor and in
crease the financial burden on
states that are already in a bind.
“It is LULAG’s contention
that the president should spend
less time visiting with consul
tants at $ 1,000-a-plate dinners
and start visiting with the real
mainstream of America, the
middle income and the poor,”
Bonilla said. “The message he
would be receiving is that we do
not want free cheese donated to
us; we want jobs.”
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