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THE HEWS
By Mable S. lewis
One of the most remarkable phenomena on the American
scene in the past decade has been the rat to growth of public
Interest In the educational problems of the gifted child. The
strength and scope of this interest has been attested to by the
amount of attention given the subject by many popular magazines.
Numerous seminars and
panel discussions on radio and
TV have considered this
problem. A comparable rise
in professional interest is in
dicated by the increased number
of professional conferences at
state and national levels.
The general conclusions of
these many articles and discus
sions can be summarized as
follows:
1. The educational system
is the obvious place for us
to prepare ourselves for
world leadership.
2. Gifted children are among
our most IMPORTANT NA
TIONAL RESOURCES.
The common element inmost
of the large number of defi
nitions of a GIFTED CHILD
is “intellectual ability** as
measured by some form of in
telligence test. These tests
attempt to measure the ability
to reason, define verbal con
cepts, perceive essential simi
larities, and relate past knowl
edge to present situations. The
ability to perform such tasks
has been closely related to aca
demic success.
A much broader definition of
the GIFTED CHILD has been
used in communities such as
Quincy, Illinois, and Portland,
Oregon. These communities
are interested in children who
have shown outstanding skill
and talent in specific areas as
well as children of high gen
eral intellectual ability. Special
provisions are available for
children who have musical ta
lent, artistic ability, social
leadership potential, and a va
riety of other special skills.
The general characteristics
of these children have been a
focus of research for many
years. The nearly unanimous
finding of all research studies
has been that the family back
ground of these children, as a
group, has been better than
average no matter what the cha
racteristic under question.
These families tend to have
a favorable socioeconomic
background, better than average
education, less divorce, and
above average income.
Recently a famous parent,
Mr. Archie Moore came to At
lanta for a professional appea
rance. It was my pleasure to
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interview him. He talked most
ly of his four children. Rena
Marie, Joan, Hardy Lee and
his eighteen month old baby boy.
The three older children at
tends the San Diego Christian
School of California. Joan now
six years old is a gifted child.
At eighteen months of age had
a well established vocabulary,
when she was two and a half
years old she knew all of her
ABC's and could spell many
simple words. At three years
she could print all of her alpha
bets. At four she could say
her prayers in French, had
memorized long verses of the
scripture ^and because of her
exceptional intelligence was in
vited to appear on many TV
programs. She is an excep
tional student in Arithmetic,
which she learned from her
fathers mathematical record.
Archie, her famous boxing
father has made a special re
cording, THE TIMES TABLE,
WITH A SOUL AND A BEAT,
which is on the market and has
almost reached the million
mark in sales. The Cover of
the record has a large auto
graphed picture of Archie and
written in large bold letters,
LEARNING CAN BE FUN FOR
KIDDIES AND GROWN-UPS
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The Eru Productions of San
Diego are proud to present
Archie in another of his great
talents.
This is only an example story
about one gifted child in Ca
lifornia, there are thousands
of others everywhere, they only
need to be discovered; never
forgetting that there is a pos
sibility that a child could pos
sess intellectual gifts even if
he wears poor or inadequate
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Pictured above is Professor Cordell Wynn, principal of the HENRY A. Hunt Elementary
School, Macon, Georgia, crowning Mrs. Cameron M. Alexander (Barbara J.) as “Mrs. PTA” for
1963-64. Mrs. Alexander is the wife of the Reverend Cameron M. Alexander, pastor of the New
Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, and is the mother of three sons - two of whom are enrolled in the
Henry A. Hunt School. The Alexanders are former Atlantans having just moved to Macon last
summer where they are presently residing in the newly purchased church parsonage at 1745
Kitchens Road. In addition to Mrs. Alexander’s affiliation with the PTA she is active in many
religious, civic and social circles. Seated on the queen’s left is the second runner-up, Mrs. Rose
Marie Collins and on her right, the first runner-up, Miss Mary Daniels. The crowning took place
in the school cafetorium.
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eral civil rights wrok,” ac
cording to the newly amended
by-laws.
'’Mock” political action refers
to the recent Freedom Ballot
Campaign in which Aaron Henry,
President of COFO, ran for
governor and polled 85,000 Free
dom Ballots from officially dis
enfranchised Negroes.
Robert Moses, Director of
SNCC’s Mississippi vote drive
since July 1961, was reelected
Project Director for COFO.
CORE staff member Dave Dennis
was elected Assistant Project Di
rector.
“SNCC’s wholehearted par
ticipation in COFO is part of
our South-wide ONE MAN —
ONE VOTE campaign aimed at
breaking down all barriers to
Negro voter registration except
residence and age,” stated John
Lewis, Chairman of SNCC.
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