European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 20, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago 16 the stars and stripes april 20, 1968 school kid Spur on to show by Sid Schapiro is new York Bureau chief i7�or 10 minutes each Day 1,000 elementary school pupils Are really tuned in on closed Cir Cuit television. The youngsters seated in 40 classrooms watcha to show the morning report put on by Stu dents in the fifth and sixth grades at the Murr Yavenue school in suburban Larchmont . A program of school news and world events i telecast each morning from a full blown to studio set up in the school basement. This show written produced and directed by the students received National attention recently when it was featured on the National broadcasting company s to network program All started when a television camera was donated to the school. The studio now has All the necessary equipment to give it a highly professional image. Teachers and parents lend a hand but the Mai is handled by the boys and girls who Man the two Small to cameras operate the lights writ and gather the news and work the controls. Most of the program preparation is done on the students own time before and after classes and during lunch periods. The National education association in washing ton says it knows of no similar project at any of the nearly 1,000 elementary and secondary school sin the United states that Are equipped with closed circuit to. It May seem unusual that 12-year-old children can operate the videotape recorder the studio amplification system and other complicated equipment use Din television said David k. Stewart principal of the Murray Avenue school. The development of children requires that they be subjected to discipline and to Structure. The organizational Structure required for the child involved in television production is to say the least extensive. He learns to follow directions to care for equipment and to work with other children in a variety of pointing out that the key element in our closed circuit television is reality Stewart emphasized that the handling of official school communications is an important the children develop poise Anda High level of sophistication. Being on is a special stimulus Stewart commented. Children with speech problems have improved significantly As they move into the spotlighting front of the camera. Children with behaviour prob lems have shown marked improvement As they experience the demands of the student to staff includes a director floor Man Ager announcer cameramen lighting technicians writers reporters newscasters and of course the Weatherman. The staffers change jobs each week on a revolving assignment basis. Director Paul Cummings gives High sign three minutes to air time. Up photo she May be Only 11, but Leslie Gagney takes operation of to camera no. 2 most seriously. The to staff about 8 . And run including a in addition to telecasting school announcements they present reports on International events National and local news and sports and even write and deliver editorials designed to make their school a better place to live and a typical school Day arrived at the studio went through a dry bit of off camera dialogue such As this camera two pan a Little More to the i do i la fall off my with Only seconds to go director Paul Cummings 12, shouted not so much noise out there and then be Gan the countdown five four three two one Cue he called out pushing the control Button that put the program on the air at exactly 8 50 .the curly Brown haired newscaster scanned her script smiled and looked straight into the television camera. Then delivered her Lead item of local Are Village elections today reported Anne Schiowitz who is 12 Yea sold. People have been voting since Early morning. In Man tronec a and Larchmont they re voting for Village trustees. Remind your parents to go vote. The polls Are open until 9 then Leslie Gagney 11, panned Cam Era two to sixth grader Hill Hoffman covering National affairs for this re port president Johnson called on t h e american people for a program of National austerity and an All out Effort to win the Vietnam War win the peace and Complete the at Home " in a segment titled Why we say."12-year-old . Hample who likes to be called ".," delivered this Fea Ture item have you Ever wondered where the expression Fork Over came from. Almost All farm land in England was formerly owned by noblemen. The common people rented the land to grow crops on. They had to pay Silver for use of the land. Since Silver was scarce the peasants sometimes did not have enough Silver to pay. They would thence forced to pick up their very Best Grain with a Pitchfork and give it tothe Nobleman s agent that is Fork it Over. The expression is now used in figurative sense. When we say someone Forks something Over we mean he gave something which he had to give Al though he did not wish Pollak 12, ended the program with an editorial. Recalling a disagree ment with the school s principal he said in part under our country s Bill of rights i am constitutionally allowed to Dis agree with or. Stewart. But he does thave to listen. What i am trying to say is if you believe in something stick to it. Don t give up just because the Odds an against
