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FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS-WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1990
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Charles Findley shows interested young students tools from bygone times
Teacher’s dislike for reading leads to award
By Wilma J. Martin
Special to The Forsyth County News
A teacher's early dislike of reading
that turned Dawson Primary school s
Media Center into a student learning
experience has resulted in a nomina
tion for an award for an outstanding
program.
Charles Finley, a former third
grade teacher who is now the Primary
school s Media Specialist said his dis
interest in reading as a child enabled
him to relate to young students who
needed a little prodding in order to
check out library books.
“Since I really didn't like to read
much when I was a child, as a teacher
and Media Specialist. I wanted to
help children appreciate literature
and to really want to read and check
out books." he said
Finley said that he felt that turning
the media center into a learning envi
ronment with eye-catching displays
would spark young students' learning
interests better than just displaying
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racks of library books.
Primary students coming into the
Media center can now review their
library books in front of a display of an
old Ben Franklin wood stove com
plete with rocking chairs.
Nearby, student’s interest in history
is sparked by a genuine old wooden
plow, and an assortment of local an
tiques including a milk strainer, a
fence yoke, a wagon wheel hub. turn
of-the-century household items and a
froe. a tool once used to cut hand
made wooden roofing shingles.
Many of the items were donated by
local residents, or found by children
on the newly-constructed schools’
grounds, Finley said.
"These grounds were once fields
where the County raised crops of corn
and other garden stuff to help feed
people who couldn't help take care of
themselves before the Welfare pro
grams. When the school was being
built, kids were finding objects in the
newly-graded dirt Eventually, I be
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gan displaying these things to chal
lenge the children to read books. Oth
ers started seeing what we were doing
and brought us some antiques and
other items. It just started mushroom
ing," Finley said.
Finley also displays and demon
strates old tools from the collection
during Pioneer Day which is spon
sored by the local Senior Citizen’s
Center each year.
Because of the program’s success,
Finley recently received the Univer
sity of Georgia’s Shelton Root award
for his outstanding media contribu
tion for children’s literature. Also
Finley’s program has been nominated
for the John Cotton Dana library pub
lic relations award.
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Dawson Friends and Neighbors
...she had so many kittens,
she didn’t know what to do
By Wilma J. Martin
Special to the Forsyth County Newt
A visit with Dawsonville’s Julia
Cochran. 69, reminds one of the “old
lady who lived in a shoe.” The only
difference is that it’s kittens that Julia
has too many.
“I had 10 cats and had to raise a
litter by hand after the grey mama kit
ty got killed. People set them out and
they wander over here. I just can’t
stand to see anything starve," she
said.
But being a widow on Social Securi
ty with little money to spare for fancy
cat foods, the kittens learned to eat
whatever was put before them, Julia
said.
“I put pinto bean soup in their food.
They love green beans and broccoli.
They'll eat anything that comes off the
table, and they love to be held. You
don’t have to call them to eat, they’re
always ready,” she said.
If anyone wants a kitten, Julia said,
she has an available supply!
In addition to nurturing homeless
kittens, Julia raises beautiful beds of
flowers and a backyard garden with
her green thumb.
Originally from Rabun County, near
Talula Falls, Julia moved to Dawson-
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ago. After her husband Artis J. Coch
ran passed away in 1974, Julia decid
ed to stay in Dawsonville.
“I like a small town, there’s never
anybody that bother’s you . You can
get to know people easier and they’re
friendlier,” she said.
A dream trip would be to Hawaii
just to see the flowers.
“I’d love to go and just see. As it is, I
don’t get any further than Nashville,
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if I go there.”
Julia has seven children, 13 grand
children, with one on the way, and twc
great-grandchildren. Her sons in
elude Randall Martin 42, Danny Mar
tin 40. Tommy Martin 48 of Carters
ville. Son, Allen Martin Sr. 43, anc
Daughters Patricia Cranford. 36 anc
Carol Wallace 27, live in Dawsonville
Daughter Sue Taylor lives in Blue
Ridge.
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