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Photos by John Spicklemire, Times Staff Photographer, By JEAN TABBERT : IF CAN'T BE SAID THAT members of the Children’s Museum Guild are in the candy business . . . but they're behind an outfit that dispenses some of the tastiest “sugar-coating” in town. Prigcipal job of the Children’s Museum at 3010 N. Meridian St. is giving school children graphic information on the things they're studying. Pupils, regularly drawjng upon the museum for help with their study projects, are given the vitid pointers that make homework go down “like candy.” And the guild works long and hard. for the museum. x 2 Vit: iY Srrangps a money-making project, all the members roll up their sleeves. Just now it's the annual “Harvest Ball” * which is coming up Nov. 26 in the, Woodstock Club. Mrs. Walter wo ow C. Hiser, president, heads the arrangements committee, and she's 3 = es Tt Nim Lay assisted by Mrs. Berkley Duck Jr., ways and means chairman. Mrs, William Forsyth, Miss Emily Blasingham Just so all the proceeds collected will be donated to the museum, a : » the members make the decorations themselves. Fashioning the I Jack Heidt and Bob Kirby. sunbonnets which will help carry out the harvest-time theme hi ad 0 are (lower left) Mrs, Duck, Mrs. Burchard Carr, invitations chair- TARLAC oo Io FAR SA Wn man, and ‘Mrs. Robert D. Gruen, finance committee member. : = = = o o 2 THE GUILD ORIGINALLY WAS FORMED to provide volunteers who would assist with routine duties. But now its sphere of influence has spread until its members are called upon to help with almost all of the museum's enterprises. In its 14th year of service, the guild fosters interest in the museum’s cultural and educational programs, which touch every school child in the city. The 60*active members lend a hand in the visual education division. They also raise funds to further these objectives. Each member must donate a minimum number of working hours at the museum. After eight years of active service, a worker automatically becomes an associate member. No matter what an individual's talents may be, there are more than enough opportunities to exercise them in the thousand and one tasks necessary to keep a museum ‘‘going.” » » Ld » ~ - THE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON STORY HOUR is one of the regular guild activities. Mrs, Frederic M. Hadley conducts the current session for groups of pre-school and elementary children. In the photo at upper left, she’s holding the eager attention of 4B pupils at School 76. Kindergarteners Elizabeth Kivett and John Hobson (upper right) are ready to take a dose of pleasant learning as they arrive at the museum. Mrs, Hiser, the<guild president, welcomes them to the building. Lending a hand in preparing the exhibits is one of the most important functions of the guild. Mrs. Donald Morris, chairman of the exhibit committee, and Mrs. Robert Greely, assist Mrs. Hilda Gross, the museum's curator, with the birth of a new one (left, second tier of photos). A tedious task which the guild handles is the periodic library check-up. Mrs. Kevin Brosnan and Mrs. Louis Schwitzer Jr. catalog new arrivals in the children’s book section (center photo). . : ” n Ed y ~ o THE GUILD MAINTAINS EXHIBITS at the Juvenile Court, and members like Mrs. George M, Hoster and Mrs. John Troyer are assigned to arrange them (second photo from bottom at left). The cases vary with the season; already the members have their holiday exhibits in mind. . Numerous informal clubs are included in the museum’s curricuium. Several members of the Pre-History Group meet with Mrs. William Forsyth (right center photo), a guild worker, and Miss Emily Blasingham, staff member of the museum, to bone up before a class session. Guild members act in an advisory capacity here while the museum staff does the teaching. Being “tutored” are Bill McGowan, Jack Heidt and Bob Kirby, all St. Joan of Arc school pupils. There's a heap of elbow grease poured out in the guild's workshop sessions. Mesdames E. Paul Tischer, Robert ButterCarr worth and Arthur Slifer (lower right), paint designs on dishes : for an exhibit, but repairing ‘pnutilated dolls, torn clothing Sc x p and books are other projects which regularly are on the agenda.