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7mans .15:3 p.2 "The · · The Lon!J;ley School THE MANSFIELD STATE TRAINING SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL VOL. XV, NO. 3 MANSFIELD DEPOT, CONNECTICUT 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 Rocky 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, Massachusetts. 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 Pennsylvania 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, Brooklyn 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