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THE MANSFIELD STATE TRAINING SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL VOL. XV, NO. 3 MANSFIELD DEPOT, JANUARY - FEBRUARY 1962 FIFTY - THREE AWARD Badges for successfully completing the requirements for the rank and honor. The girls were also congratulated on their selection of a visit, during the Christmas Season, to St. Joseph's Home for the Aged in Willimantic, as one of their ervice projects. Pictured with the girls are the active adult members of the Mansfield Troop and visiting Girl Scout Executives. tanding in the third row is Mr. Edward Bohan, Supervi or of Adult Ed•1cation. Seated in front row, from left to A very impressive ceremony was held in the Longley right are Mr. Louis Boly, Principal; Miss Eleanor Judson, chool Multiuse Room, January 15, when the girls Practice Teacher; ~rs. Dona Maroc, Assistant cout p•ctured above received recognition for several ~couting Leacler: Mrs. Ellen Barnes, Eastern Connecticut Girl cout achievements. Troop Commillee Members and GirlScout Council; Mrs. Virginia amuelson, eighborhood Con­ Executives from Willimantic presented 11 Fly-Up Wings suI tant; 1\1 iss Ann Coffey, Scout Leader; Dr. Herbert to girls progressing from 8rownie to Scout , also twenty­ Flynn, Assistant SupeJintEndt.nt and Dr. John Cas ell, one Girl Scout Pins and twenty-o ne Nature Tree Finder Director of Training.

1961 MARKED ANOTHER YEAR OF PROGRESS FOR MAN5FIELD

This is a brief summary of the more important Capades a t New Hoven Arena . . . Boys' varsity basketball developments during the first six months. A similiar game with Coventry Boy s' Club .. . Girls' junior varsity basketball review of the second six months is planned for the April game with North Coventry Grammar School ... Girls' orchestra - March MANSFIELDER. played at Thomson Hall Dormitory Party and boys' band played at Seg uin Hall Dormitory party . . . 54,272 articles completed by JANUARY Pri.1ti ng Department ... Mansfield is again lowest of all state Senior Dance, New Years' Day . . . Our daily enrollment, at institutions in annual and v.eekly per capi1a costs ... New Lo ngley School, is now four hundred twenty - nine ... Boys' extractor d e livered to Laundry ... Mil k production averaged varsity basketball game with Ma rianopolis Preparatory School 1600 quarts daily, which is unusually high production for winter of Thompson, Connedicut ... Volunteers sponsor dance ond month ... Knight Hospital is b eing completely redecorated game nite" for residents . . . Thirty-four residents guests of . .. Interior painting in progress at Goddard and Matthews West Haven Probus Club during evening performance of Ice Halls ... New shipment of 2000 chicks arrived at Fa rm ... THE MANSFIELDER

THE MANSFIELDER During 1960 we recorded on egg production of 63,173.5 dozens, plus five tons of dressed fowl and five tons sold live to ~ · Enfield Prison Form. There was also o harvest of 400 tons of hay and 500 tons of corn ensilage . . . . Stainless steel covers ~ for the pasteurizing plant, a new bottling machine and a new His Excelle ncy, John N.Dempsey .. Governor dump truck was secured as surplus from the Veteran's Home in Hill ... Visitors included Ida Axelrod, National Associa­ Boord of Trustees Charles H. Walte rs, President tion for Retarded Children; Twenty-five members of the Mrs. Phoebe Be nnet, Secretary University of Connecticut Sophomore Council; The Reverend Justice Allyn L. Brown Mrs. Matthew M. Hogan Richard Archambault, Sacred Heart Parish, Taftville and Mrs. Maric.rie G. Campbell Mrs. Katherine Bonya Norman B. Wagoner six members of C.Y.O ... . Six new wheelchairs contributed by Mansfield Parents' Association . •. 517 visits and studies comp­ Dr. Neil A. Dayton ..... Superintendent leted by Social Service Department during January and Edward J. Bohan, Editor February. Dr. John T. Cassell, Director of Training William Stearns, Supervisor of Vocational Training MARCH Donald Clark, Photographer Mrs. Ellen Jones of LaMoure Hall named Psychiatric Aide Engravings courtesy of The Willimantic Daily Chronicl e of the Year . . . Hartford Police Athletic League staged show in

THE MANSFIELDER is hand set and printed monthly by Longley School Auditorium . . . Boys' Band and Girls' Glee the boys training in the print shop, Mansfield State Training Club entertained following luncheon for Public Welfare and School and Hospital, Mansfield Depot, Connecticut Humane Institutions Committee ... Six members of Catholic Guild for the Blind visited blind class and presented members with JANUARY .. . (continued from page 1 ) Easter baskets .. Mrs. Phoebe Bennet, Mansfield Board of Trustees Parents' Association donated stereophonic record player member, appointed Board of Trustees member to New London Opening of Seminars for Supervisory Personnel .. . Four Southern Child Guidance Clinic •. . Boys' Band and Senior Girls' Glee Glub Connecticut State College Students practice teaching at Longley gave assembly program at Ellington High School ... . Conversion School . . Visitors included Dr. Finlayson, Department of Health, of food costs to I. B. M. completed .. . Resident accounts a Iso Toronto, Canada and two architects; Miss Carla Hallin and Miss converted to fully automatic system .. . Six calves born Janice Euley, University of Connecticut, Sop he more Class Council; Volunteers sponsor arts-crafts and three bingo parties ... Girls' Miss Susan Backrach, teacher, Wellesey Hills, . varsity basketball team won three of four games scheduled, boys' FEBRUARY varsity basketball team lost their game and the boys' junior va rsity Approximately ninety-two out-patient clinic examination yearly basketball team won both of their games •. . Miss Arlene Miller, University of Connecticut Sophmores sponsored a bingo Miss Edith Klein and Miss Marie Rubis, seniors in special education party ... Girls' Orchestra entertained at Wallace Hall Dormitory from Southern Connecticut College, began a nine week practice party . . • Mansfield Volunteers sponsor dance . . . Boy Scout teaching period at Longley School . . . Visitors included Dr. A. B. Week observed by Scouts attending Sunday Church Service in Sigmann, Acting Superintendent and Business Manager William uniform .. . Seven hundred thirty-four residents are assigned J. Steruernagil of Ebensburg Training School, to various job-training areas ... Boys' varsity and girls' v:~rsity observed and discussed all phases of program; Dr. Helena B. basketball teams won and lost a game during this month . .. Hale, Lancaster, New Brunswick, Canada, spent three days at Two hundred fifteen visitors atte nded the Clinic Day Program Mansfield before deporting for Japan to serve as a consultcnt . . . . Boys' band and glee club entertained during Knight Hospital party . .. A large quantity of surplus material secured from APRIL U. S. Coast Guard Academy, includir.g 260 beds and useful E ighty residents atTended Shrine Circus, State Armory, kitchen equipment . . . An analysis of our Laundry costs shows Hartford . .. Ninth Annual Easter Egg Hunt conducted ... . Boys' that Mansfield is again operating the lowest cost Fer pound Band presented concert during visit of Appropriation Committee fo r all state agencies. Our cost per pound, for a six month total .. . Easter vacation at home enjoyed by 297 residents .. .. Girl of 1,708,731 pounds, averaged $.0169. The state average is Scout inter-tree p meeting ~ t Mansfield with troop from Old Lyme $.0368 per pound .. . The combined wholesale value of milk, . . . Annual Minstrel Sho ~ presented three times for residents cream, beef, hides, cows and calves for the year 1960 was and over 800 visitors ol\ o went on road for presentations at $96,383.67. Poultry also hit a new high in egg production. Norwich Hospital and Connecticut Valley Hospital . . . THE MANSFIELDER

Approximately seventy employees of Seaside Residential Center Physical Education student, College; Miss Beth attended special two-week training course at Mansfield ... Devenney, student, Univers ity of Hartford; Miss Yvonne Barber Repainting and weatherproofing of Longley School, Laundry, Berne, Switzerland; Thirty-nine students from Norwich Free Administration Building and Employees Cafeteria also interior Academy and Ellington High School Future Nurses Club also redecoration of Longley School in progress . . . Mansfield twelve students from Woodstock Academy Social Studies De­ Parents' Association donated stereophonic record player with partment toured Longley School and discussed program. radio, twelve Emerson radios and eighteen "Happy Birthday" JUNE records Fourth annual party sponsored by John Hay Dr. Dayton presened seventy-four employees with graduation Temple 46 for 120 residents between 7 and 12 years of age ... certificates at completion of Basic Nursing Course ... Thirty-five Our Day School enrollment consists of six full day and two residents attended Weiner Roast by Mansfield Volunteers ... half day pupils . . . Volunteers sponsor two bingo parties and Annual concert by Willimantic City Band at Longley School dances during month ... Visitors included Mrs. Bette T. Chappell, Auditorium . .. Swimming pool opened for summer ... Printing instructor and forty-five senior students, Willimantic State College, Department produced 59,560 printed items ... During past year discussed program and saw demonstration of "teaching machine"; our boys on Community Placement earned $148.909.50 and Mrs. Hanna Miner, teacher, Lisbon, Connecticut, observed girls earned $100,836.00 ... Achievement tests completed for blind class; Mr. Murdock and Miss Simmons, Willimantic State educable school residents . . . Mansfield Parents' As sociation College; Miss Andrea Broderson and Miss Priscilla Russell, had 552 paid memberships during past year . . . Scouters Keene Teachers College, New Hampshire; Miss Lois Bennett, Roundtable Meeting for Natchaug Boy Scout District held at West Hartford, Connecticut and H. R. Ekenberg, Axtell, Nebraska. Mansfield . . . Band and Senior Boys' Glee Club participated MAY in an assembly program at E.O. Smi·th High School ... Mrs. Ellen Over three hundred residents participated in Interfraternity - Jones, winner of the Aide of the Year Award and Runners-up Panhellinic Play Day sponsored by University of Connecticut Mrs. Yvonne Saucier and Mr. Archille Racine were presented students ... Approximately two hundred residents attended checks by Dr . Francis J. Rio, President of Mansfield Parent's Coleman Brothers' Carnival in Willimantic as guests of Dick Association ... Home Making Department sponsored fashion show Coleman ... Twelve Alpha Epsilon Phi pledges from University of wearing apparel completed in sewing classes during schoo I of Connecticut, visited residents unable to attend Carnival, year . . . Academic classes close June 21 .. . School boys softball distributing candy and other gifts Connecticut State team played a game with Mystic Oral School at Mansfield ... Employees' Association, Chapter 1 C6, sponsored May Dance at Visitors included Mrs. Walter R. Silvernail and nine members of Sherman's Corner, Chaplin . . . Windham High School Band Haddam Homemakers; Mrs. Ella J. Woods, Prince Edward Island, Presented concert at Longley School Auditorium for residents Canada; Dr. Eleonora Marie Preston, Los Angeles State College, Forty girls attended Eastern Connecticut Children's California; Mrs. Doris Smith, Special Class Teacher, Sterling, Symphony Concert at Shafer Auditorium, Willimantic ... Thirty­ Connecticut; Mrs. Vincent J. Maramarco and nine members of four residents attended "Game Nite" sponsored by Volunteers Ministry to Children; Mrs. Clcire Landmann end memrers of Farm harvested 401 pounds of asparagus and 422 Rockville Jaycee's Wives. pounds rhubard Alterations and remodeling of vacated Hospital Kitchen completed, providing a room for eye clinic and PERSONNEL NOTES s&veral storage rooms ... Mansfield Volunteers conducted Bingo We wish to extend a sincere welcome to the follcwing for residents . . . School boys softball team traveled to Mystic employees who joined the Mansfield steff: Oral School for game there . . . Dr. Dayton and Dr. Cassell Yvonne M. Butts, Carlyn V. D'Onofrio, Mary Dubay, Sonia G. reelected to office in A.A.M.D. during eighty-fifth annual meeting Ke-ndell, Theodore Kite, Arthur Nichols and George West to the held in Cincinnati ... Nurses and Students Clinic Day attended Nursing Service. by 340 persons from Norwich State Hospital, Institute of Living, A welcome back is extended to Vincent R. Tatter of the Southern Conn . State College, St. Francis Hospital, University Nursing Service. of Connecticut, Our Lady of Angles Academy, Seaside employees, VERY BEST WISHES for many happy years of retirement to Frank Kuchle of the Dairy Farm with over thirty-six years of parents and selected Mansfield employees . . • During this service and Elsie Fleeting of the Nursing Service with over twenty school year 1,353 persons have attended the Clinic Day programs years of service. · •• Visitors included Miss Nancy S. Hochberg, Physical Education Sincere sympathy is expressed to the family of Mrs. Teacher, Glastonbury, Connecticnt and Miss Catherine Nagi, Mary Tatro. THE MANSFI~LDER

CHRISTMAS DONATIONS TO THE Honorable Allyn L. Brown, 262 Broadway, Norwich $25.00 RESIDENTS~ ACTIVITY FUND A. F. of L., Local No. 389, Mansfield State Training Appreciation is expressed to our many friends for their School and Hospital 25.00 thoughtfulness and generosity by remembering the Mansfield boys and girls. The money donated is the means of obtaining L.A. Dairs, Treasurer, Emblem Club No.5, 19 Davis Avenue, Rockville, Conn. 25.00 the "extras" that add so very much toward making a Merry Christma remembered throughout the year. Mr. J. DeRacco, Manager, Sears Roebuck & Company, Manche~ter , Conn. 25.00 Mrs. Josephine Lauter Greer, President Mr Henry F. Ludorf, Architect, 95 Elm St., Hartford 25.00 Electro. Motive Mfg. Co., Inc., Willimanti $200.00 25.00 Bureau of aval Weapons Representative Mrs. Kathryn J. Bonyai, 120 W. River St., Milford c/o Pratt & Whitney, East Hartford 170.00 Mr. C. W Kealy, 39 So. LaSalle St., 3, 25.00 Electric Boat Employees' Community ervices Assoc., Mr. & Mrs. John T. Creaser, Mansfield State Training Groton, Conn. 150.00 School and Hospital 25.00 F.S. Kaplan Paving Inc., 61 Airport Rd., Hartford 100.00 Employees of Smith-Gater Corp. (Name of Deborah Employees of Dept. 97, Pratt& Whitney, E. Hartford 70.00 Ann Cox, niece of Irene Huhn and Anita Robillard, Employees of above Company) Farmington, Conn. 25.00 Office Employees, The Hart Manufacturing Co . Elmwood Acres Club, c/o Mrs. Alice Dick, Treas., Hartford, Conn. 70.00 1171 New Britain Avenue, West Hartford 25.00 Edward Martin, President, Localll99, U.A.W., C.I.O., Mr. Lester L. Egan, 67 Birchwood Rd. Whitney Chain Co., 106 New Park Ave., Hartford 50.00 East Hartford 8, Conn. 25.00 Employees of the Vulcan Radiator Company 775 Capitol Ave., Hartford, Conn. 50.00 173 other donors contributed from $.20 to $20.00. O.C.S. Ziroli, 19 Mohawk Drive, Easton, Conn. 50.00 John A. Hurley, Jr., 772 Whippoorwill Lane, Stratford 50.00 MOVIE SCHEDULE ~r. Henry Quellmalz, President, Boyd Printing Co., Friday Evenings - - Band Concert 6:45 - - Movies 7:00 49 Sheridan Ave., Albany 10, ew York 50.00 Saturday Mornings - Movies 8:30 Employees of EIS Automotive Corp., P.O. Box 701, Middletown, Conn. 45.00 MARCH 9- 10 YOU HAVE TO RUN FAST Craig Hill Elaine Edwards Catherine J. McAuliffe, Treasurer Special Education Service Group, 50 Chapman St., East Hartford,Conn. 41.00 MARCH 16 - 17 FLIGHT THAT DISAPPEARED Craig Hill Colts Patent Fire Arms Mfg. Co., Hartford, Conn. 37.00 Paula Raymond TEENAGE MILLIONAIRE Employees of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft MARCH 23 - 24 Airport Dept. 400 Main St., East Hartford 35.00 Jimmy Clanton Rocky Graziano Ararat Chapter of B'nai B'rith c;o Mrs. Harold Blum, MARCH 30 -31 POCKETFUL OF MIRACLES Special Gift Chairman, lOOMohawkDr., WestHartford 29.00 Glenn Ford Bette Davis

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