Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1978 — Page 5
20 foster children later-
Sharing motherly love a sheer joy for widow
KEEPING IN TOUCH are civic minded members of Kappa Psi Fraternity, Indianapolis Alumni Chapter. They are {from left, seated,) Jesse L. Carter Sr., past polemarch, board member; James R. Mosby, polemarch-elect; William Mays, vice-polemarch; James Vincent Smith, keeper of exchequer and Roger Keels. Standing are Guy Russell, historian; Ronald Chandler Sr., lieutenant strategus; Robert Williams, Dance Committee chairman; Maurice Edelen, Pierce Cody, Cecil Ross, Holton Hayes. Officers not included in the photograph are Joseph Slash, assistant keeper of exchequer; Fred Davidson III, keeper of records; Marshall Gardner, assistant keeper of records; Charles Dudley, reporter, Donald Robinson and Walter Smith, board members.
Cliatting with the F.A.C.
There was near perfect attendance for Federation of Associated Clubs executive board directors’ first post-sum-mer vacation meeting Monday
Karyelien Dunn, 1308 Persh-
ing. **•
Increased FAC membership
evening. Directors, like every- dues went into effect Sunday, one else seeing the building’s marking the first time in the
“new" interior, commented on the almost completed redecora-
tion.
With chairman Owen W. Woolridge detailing the agenda, committees responded favorably, agreeing, among other things, to change the organizations’s constitution pertaining to the vice-president’s office. An ultimate goal for each
organization's history. Board of directors members who voted for the additional charge cited “ever-increasing costs and the prospect of a budget deficit" as reasons. Dues hadn’t been increased since
FAC’s 1937 founding.
CHALK up another first for winsome Jean McAnulty Lamm recently elected an assistant vice president of Indiana National Bank in public relations. Mrs. Lamm comes to the post well suited, being a former Indianapolis News reporter and press secretary for one-time Gov. Roger D.
Branigan.
PTA at work
is theme of
area confab East Central Regional Fall Conference of the Parent - Teacher’s Association will be October 11, at the Holiday Inn,
21st and Shadeland.
Registration is at 9 a.m. and the fee is 50V to be paid in cash at the door. Conference will
Sad news for our many
^ friends and supporters who
member is more new faces with look forward to the annual
each promising to try to bring awards dinner. There won’t be open at 9:30 a.m., with lunch al least five perspective mem one this year. Cancellation was served from 11:30 - 12:30 p.m. bers to meetings. decided during the board of Adjournment should be no later
Gladly reported was re- director’s September 25 meet- than 2:30 p.m.
plenishing of the flower fund. iag^U was also deeded to use Lunch reservations should be l^ose shaHng colorful ac- gas-qiatead-of oil 4o heat the made through Mrs. Frank counts of their vacation travels FAC home and reports were Coleman, 615 N Payton, Inwere Mrs. Samantha Spears, made on the interior decorat- dianapolis, 46219, area 317,
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Miss Thelma Pruitt, John Metzger, Mrs. Leona Conally, Miss Faira Pruitt, Chester Little and Dwight Carter.
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belaieu August birthday greetings with wishes for many many more to the following: Ruben Hill, 2110 N. Illinois; Lennie F. Fisher, 2060 N. Alabama; Willora Morris, 453 W. 29th; Martha Walker, 5525 E. 42nd; Leona Little, 1304 Burdsal Parkway; Gladys Smith, 363 W. 11th; Laura Barnett, 240 E. 9th; Henry Underwood, 3116 Winthrop; Teresa Hazelwood, 321 W. 44th; Hallie Carter, 4061
Graceland.
Julia Holland, 4252 Sunset; Wanda Woodson, 912 Pershing; Pat Evahs, 2146 Boulevard; Esther Graves, 2105 Boulevard; Nathaniel Gore, 2945 Ralston; Eva Board, 431 W. 31st; John Starks, 2534 N. Illinois; Thelma Pruitt, 2715 N Guilford; Florence Collins, 458
W. 26th.
Thelma Harvey, 1257 N. West; Alberta L. Baker, 2540 N. Illinois; Lennie B. Holt, 2534 N. Illinois; Dorothy Starks, 3015 N. Meridian; Russell Starks, 3015 N. Meridian; Irene Craig, 2540 N. Illinois; Ruth
Members are especially ask ed to attend the regular monthly meeting Monday night at 7. Besides business, an outstanding program is planned consisting of music by affiliated club
357-5461.
Theme for the conference is “PTA in Action Today." Areas to be discussed are: How do we identify concerns and then act on them? (facilitator, Mrs. Mary Eggert); Programming (facilitator, Mrs. Guy Dennis);
groups. There’ll also by a brief Testing and basic skills, MinOrient travelogue. It begins at imal Competency Testing, do
8 p.m.
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All affiliated club memberships expire this month and those planning to renew them should do so at once. This reminder comes in the wake of increased postage rates.
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Give one their flowers while they live, so they may see the beauty that the flowers may bring.
we understand them? (facilitator, Mrs. Shirley Thompson). There will also be an update on PTA projects: Cultural Arts by Mrs. John Long: Comprehensive Health by Mrs. James Simon: Parenting by Mrs. Jack
Jenkins.
Don't throw out the liquid from canned vegetables. This is usually rich in nutrients.
Eastside PPWS BY CLIMA V. ROGERS.
Just in time for Christmas children 3-5 begins at 10:30
Holcomb. 2832 McPherson and giving the Bi-Centenial reprint a m - on Saturdays. Advance
of the 1910 pubbcation “Greater registration is required in the IndianapoUs” by Jacob Piatt Rile y 110001 or cal1 635-5662,
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POTTED* ! 1 Dunn 10 two volumes plus the extension 251. Travel slides of
' i 1 complete index prepared by the Greece, “Land of Antiquity,”
WPA and publised in 1939.
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PLANTS
HOSPITAL BOUQUETS CORSAGES
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presented by Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Simon are Thursday, 7
Sunday Kaleidoscope for p.m., at Broad Ripple Library, Children at Central Library, 40 6219 Guilford.
E. St. Clair, continues Sunday,
2 p.m. A monster rally with tales, poems and riddles about monsters for children 6 and older is featured. Puppets will perform in “Beauty and the Beast.” The other two stories will be “The Monster in the Mill” and “Liza Lou and the
Yelier Belly Swamp.”
Fall preschool story hour for
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Golden Leaf Federated Club meets October 14 with Mrs. Clema V. Rogers, 1533 N. Hamilton. Time is 1:30 p.m. Sadie Hardiman is president. Grand United Order of Odd Fellows and Ruths entertain Area 3 of the order October 14 at Stouffer’s Inn. Delegates will be from Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, New York, Missouri, Pennsylvania and Indiana. Sessions will be opened by
Grand Master Gaines.
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“Being a foster parent is the greatest joy I’ve had since my husband died,” said Lillian Collins, 544 N. Elder Ave., of her seven years as a foster parent. “I had something to give and I needed someone to give it to...I knew babies would appreciate what I have to give.” Mrs. Collins has opened her home to children who, for a variety of reasons, cannot live in their own homes. She crxes for them as if they were her own children until the time they can go home again. In the time she’^. been a foster parent, Mrs. Collins estimates that 15 to 20 chUdren of all ages, races and physical capacity have stayed in her home. She has three foster children currently, and all of them are seriously handicapped in some way. “Tve always been involved with children,” said Mrs. Collins. Even when she began working at the age of 17, “If the family didn’t have children, I wouldn’t work for them.” Mrs. Collins has had four children of her own, however, only an adult daughter, Bernice, is living. Bernice frequently helps Mrs. Collins care for the foster children, even though she no longer lives at home.
That Mrs. Collins is completely devoted to her foster children is easy to see, for even her home is oriented toward the younger set. There is a train and some Sesame Street characters painted on the family rrom wall, a playpen in the middle of the same room, toys are everywhere and a few scuff marks on the floor show where some active play and some moving of furniture took place. As far as Mrs. Collins is concerned, that is what a house is for. “If it’s a rainy day, and the kids have to play inside, we just move the furniture around to give them more room.” However, Mrs. Collins doesn’t spoil the children, despite all the attention she gives them.. “If you do something and deserve a scolding, you get it,” she said, and there are no exceptions, even with the handicapped children. She said she is used to working with children who are “handicapped to the extreme,” and she doesn’t worry about having problems that are too big to handle, because “there’s no use worrying about problems before they come.” Mrs. Collins became interested in foster parenting when her husband died after an extended illness. She went through the Children’s Bureau of Indianapo-
lis, a United Way agency, to become licensed, and within three months, she had her first foster child. She has devoted almost all her time since then to her foster children, and she wouldn’t have it any other way. “My joy is right here,” she smiled. “I wouldn’t change a thing if I had to start all over again.” She rarely leaves the children with anyone besides Bernice, though for that matter, she rarely leaves them at all. Either they all go our together, or she stays home with those wh'" can’t go. One of t.her current foster children requires constant care and doesn’t have the muscle control or coordinatior to even sit up alone. Consequently, Mrs. Collins has spent a lot of time at home. Frequent visitors from her church keep her “spiritually alive,” however, and daily visits from her neighbors keep her in touch with the “outside world.” Being such a devoted foster parent has had its drawbacks, admist Mrs. Collins. “I don’t care if they stay a week, you get attached to them,” she said of her foster children. “I know I can’t keep all by babies," she said, but knowing that doesn’t keep her from missing them.
“I cry when they leave, but I don’t let them see me cry. They know I’ll miss them, and I want them to know I’m happy that they can home.” She said that the children she finds herself missing most are those who are seriously handicapped. “You give so much of yourself that you miss them the most when they’re gone.” When a child first comes to stay with her, she said it’s important that “you...get an understanding between the two of you.” She also said that once there was some jealousy on the part of one youngster who had been her only foster child for a while before another came to join him. In that case, she had to make it clear that no one was taking his place, but that rather, another place was being
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made. “I don’t put it into ‘Tp^t’it into d acti MrS " C ° llinS ' With all the love and concern Lillian Collins has, she no doubt keeps very active. She enjoys it, though, and claims, “I can’t grow old, they won’t let me, and I appreciate that. I haven't any wants, worries or needs.” She added, ‘Tve got a bunch of nice children,” and for a woman who loves children more than anything else, what more could she want? Anyone interested in learning more about foster parenting can call the Children’ Bureau of Indianapolis at 634-6481 and ask for more information.
Lite-a-Bike set
Phillips-Highbaugh VFW Post #9843 and the Ladies Auxiliary will team for a Lite-a-Bike project at 10 a.m. Saturday in a parking area at 28th and College. First 100 children will get free Lite-a-Bike strips and refreshments.
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