Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 280, Decatur, Adams County, 27 November 1963 — Page 13

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1963

Quality Os Mercy Shown Daily At The Opportunity School At Vera Cruz

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By Mike Thoele The quality of mercy , . . is demonstrated every day only a '■ few short miles from Decatur, where the combined efforts of many kind-hearted people have produced, in a cramped old brick schoolhouse, an institution where five teachers work devotedly and patiently with forty mentally retarded children from a three county area. The building, a traditional redbrick, two-room structure, is located in Vera Cruz, just over the Adams-Wells county line, and the institution it houses is known as the Opportunity School. Born in 1955, the opportunity school ha£ matured into a well-equipped and well-staffed, though crowded, educational dispensary which offers light and hope to the area’s mentally’ retarded children. The school presently serves 28 children from Wells county, 10 from Adams and two from Huntington. The counties pay the students’ tuition. Started Ten Years Ago The school was fostered nearly ten years ago by Mrs. Max Fosnaugh, Lloyd Lieurance, Mrs. Leroy Wibel, Mrt. Paul Bumgartner and the Wells county Society for Crippled Children. Meetings were called and many interested persons from the Adams-Wells county area attended. In January of 1955 1 the group

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secured the deserted old Vera Cruz school building, which had been closed as a result of the Poplar Grove school consolidation in 1953. Classes opened with 10 students using only one room of the two-room building, while work was completed on the other. In 1956 the instituition became a public school, operated by Wells county and receiving pupils from other counties on a tuition-pay-ment basis: Since then the school has continued to expand its operations and is currently in the process of constructing an addition to its present building. The school was among the units merg.-

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ea into the 1 Bluffton-Harrison township metropolitan school district m January, 1962, and is now un’der the supervision of superintendent of schools Edwin E. Prible and board of education members Charles R. Wetetick. Leslie A. Dold and Dr. William Gitlin. Three Classes The pupils at the school are divided into three classes, taught by licensed teachers. Class work consists of ceramics, weaving, drawing, painting, rhythm band, crafts, music and shop. Mrs. Frieda Liby, principal of the school, instructs the M-l class

of 14 educable mentally retarded pupils with chronological ages of (> to 12 years. Mrs. Liby has been on the school staff since 1959. The M-2 class, also of 14 students, is taught by Ixniis Ross and is composed of educable mentally retarded pupils above twelve years of age. Ross, presently serving his first year on the Vera Cruz staff, /is a graduate'of Ball State Teachers College and is currently wonting on his master’s degree. Mrs. Nancy Justus taught the M-2 class last year. The M-3 class is instructed by Mrs. Esther Cobb and his 13 stu(Continue*d to Page 6-Al .

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