The Penny Record (Bridge City, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 33, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 26, 1989 Page: 1 of 8
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The
Penny
Record
Home Owned and Operated "
Vol. XXXI, No. 33
Bridge City, Texas
December 26, 1989
FREE
Spring registration Jan.
8-10; late registration Jan.
11-12 at LU-PA
PORT ARTHUR-Regular
registration for Spring ’90 at Lamar
University-Port Arthur begins
Monday, January 8, in the first floor
lobby of the Madison Monroe
Builoding, 1500 Procter. It con-
tinues Tuesday and Wednesday,
Jan. 9-10. Late registration will be
Thursday and Friday, Jan. 11-12.
Thursday, Jan. 11, will be the first
class day.
“It is imperative that students fol-
low the alphabetical schedule the
first day,” Dean of Student Services
Thomas Neal said. Monday morn-
ing students should pick up
registration materials by their last
initials: 9-10 a.m., C-D; 10-11 a.m.,
E-H; 11-noon, I M; ::oo.vl p.m.,
• N-S; 1-2 p.m., T-Z; and 2-3 pin., A-
B.
From 3 to 6 p.m. Monday and the
• remaining days of registration, all
students may register at any time.
The foyer of the Monroe Building
will be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.,
Tuesday through Friday.
Students are encouraged to pick
up schedules of courses and ap-
plication for admission and to meet
with admission advisors as soon as
possible, according to Dean Neal.
Advisors may be contacted in their
offices in the Monroe Building
during regular hours Jan. 2-5, 8
a.m. to5 p.m., or at 983-4921 or 727-
0886, ext. 320 or 359 during those
hours.
Students who have not success-
fully completed three college credit
hours prior to Fall '89 will be placed
by the Texas Academic Skills
Program test scores or ASSET
scores. Those who took the TASP
and whose scores have been
received by LU-PA or who have
taken ASSET test at LU-PA will be
placed according to the scores.
Those with no scores will take the
free approximately two-hour
ASSET before they can be advised
and register, according to Dean
Neal.
During registration, those stu-
dents who have scholarships, are
veterans, or have applied for grants
will be able to check on these items
at a station in the main foyer.
Students interested in financial
aid need to meet with a financial
advisor in the Financial Aid Office
or call ext. .347 or 377 for informa-
tion. A student who has not yet ap-
plied for aid or whose application
has not been processed yet by Col-
lege Scholarship Service will be re-
quired to pay his own tuition and
fees. However, if his eligibility is
later determined by the scholarship
service, he will be reimbursed, ac-
cording to Director of Student Aid
Reagan Bedford.
In addition to financial aid, the
university accepts MasterCard or
Visa, or the student may select
from the convenient three install-
ment payment plan, according to
Dean Neal.
MHMR of Southeast receives
$58,000 grant from Meadows
Foundation
BEAUMONT-The Meadows
Foundation of Dallas has granted
MHMR of Southeast Texas
$58,000 toward implementation of
a ROPES Course program.
The ROPES (Reality Oriented
Physical Experience Services)
program is a clinically-proven ex-
periential modality that affords
participants the opportunity to ad-
dress their treatment issues in a
physically and emotionally safe en-
vironment. This aproach uses
traditional group therapy tech-
niues combined with ROPES ele-
ments. The elements, or obstacles,
are constructed in various areas of
the facility rounds. Some of these
obstacles are constructed utilizing
the existing trees while others are
constructed around telephone
poles. Specialized ropes, gal-
vanized steel aircraft cables,
wooden walls, swing ropes, tire
swings, and various other ap-
paratus are combined to make up
what is commonly known as the
“ROPES Course”. The result is an
experience which allows par-
ticipants to confront their dysfunc-
tional or problem areas in the “here
and now” in a way which is much
more dynamic than other clinical
modalities.
The Ropes Course uses a series
of initiatives, or challenges, that are
both physically and emotionally
demanding. Groups of people must
learn to work together, communi-
cate effectively, and to trust their
peers in order to complete the tasks
and advance in the program. As
participants confront these chal-
lenges, they experience all of the
feelings and sensations that accom-
pany life itself. However, because
of the action-oriented, experiential
nature (growth through actual ex-
periences) of this kind of group,
those feelings and sensations are
more readily accessible and ob-
servable. Participants do not just
desribe themselves and their
problems, they re-experience and
act out who they are and how they
relate to other individuals. ROPES
then provides a safe arena to ex-
plore those feelings and to begin to
establish new and more productive
skills. The patterns and behaviors
that emerge in ROPES groups are
expressed and explored, and in-
sight begins to develop. The per-
sonal and group confidence gained
from these experiences assists par-
ticipants in overcoming the fear
and trust issues that get in the way
of good mental health.
The ROPES course works for
clients, staff, and will be available
for the community and business as
well. It can promote better com-
munication and term building ex-
periences for the facility's relation-
ship with the community. By serv-
ing as a very effective marketing
See MHMR. page 2
HOST FAMILY AND EXCHANGE STUDENT-Janie Bean, Johanna
Thornstrand of Sweden, Jenny Bean, Jamie Kay Bean, James Bean
Exchange student shares
holiday tradition
by Barbara Fix
The warm glow in the fireplace
reflected in the smile of the young
woman sitting on the sofa.
“On December 13, we have like a
holiday that you don’t have called
Santa Lucia.
Have you heard of it?” asked
Johanna Thornstrand. “My
mother in Sweden sent us the things
you wear when you do it.
“I made a special kind of bread
that we eat that morning, and I
dressed up like her (Santa Lucia),
and I served my family breakfast in
bed. And then my two sisters
dressed up in their clothes too. We
went around all of Bridge
City to our relatives and went to
them and gave them bread.”
The breakfast was beautiful said
Janie Bean, Johanna's host parent.
Bean smiled as she described the
white Santa Lucia robe and crown
of candles and listed Johanna’s
acomplishments including straight
A’s in school. “She’s a jewel,” said
Bean.
Johanna is an exchange student
with ASSE International Student
Exchange Programs and came in
August to stay with James and
Janie Bean of Bridge City. The
Beans' daughters, Jamie Kay, and
Jenny, were the “two sisters” who
also wore Santa Lucia robes.
“We had a lot of fun," said Johan-
na, “and if it shouldn't have been a
school day, we could have done it
all day.”
The night before Santa Lucia
Johanna Stayed up late to make the
special holiday bread. She and her
host family had had difficulty find-
ing saffron for the bread and what
they found was expensive, but it was
worth it, said Johanna.
Early the next morning after
breakfast, Johanna and the Beans
delivered bread to relatives. The
three girls sang each place they
went.
“It’s supposed to be like one
Santa Lucia and then a lot of other
girls that sing, but we’re only
three,” said Johanna. “We were
singing only one song like. “We
Wish You a Merry Christmas.”
Johanna’s dark almond eyes and
long ebony hair seemed out of
place as she talked about the
Swedish holiday. Both she and her
brother were born in Korea and
were adopted by a Swedish couple
when she was one year old. She
also has a 13-year-old sister who
was born in Sweden.
Several considerations led her to
become an exchange student.
Before applying to ASSE she
talked to friends and relatives who
had been exchange students.
“I don’t know. I just w anted to do
something different,” she said.
“Go somewhere I've never been."
Although she had seen most of
Western Europe, she had never
been to America.
She had taken eight years of
English in school from the fourth
grade up to the senior year. And
she had learned some words from
American movies and television
programs before that.
"You get inspired." she said.
"Because everything on TV or the
movies is in English, and the music
is in English. Almost everything is
in English... We don't do like other
countries do. If it’s a foreign movie,
they put their own language on it.
We don’t do that."
But she still thought of Texas like
many others outside the state.
“When I first heard that I was
goingtoTexas, I thought a lot about
cowboys and cows, ranches," she
said. “But 1 mean it’s almost noth-
ing around here.
Johanna said that one of the best
things about being an exchange stu-
dent is getting away from home —
See EXCHANGE STUDENT,
page 2
Saunders
receives as-
sociate degree
by Barbara Fix
Mary Jane Reed Saunders of
Bridge City graduated from Lamar
University - Orange
Dec. 15 in the Lutcher Theater,
Orange. She recieved an AAS de-
gree in technical acounting.
Saunders was a member of Phi
Beta Kappa. She is married to
Charles "Chuck" Sanders and has
two childern attending Bridge City
High School, Laurie and Kevin
Sanders.
New program used for
identifying children
by Brian Richardson
A new and developing program
that aids parents in identifying
children is catching on and finding
success in Orange County.
Baptist Hospital of Orange and
the Orange County Sheriffs Office
are sponsoring the child identifica-
tion program in which members of
both organizations set up booths at
area stores, schools and fairs.
Cards that include pictures of the
children, their fingerprints and
basic identification information are
printed up and given to the parents
for use if the child becomes lost or
missing.
DeDe Byars, Baptist Hospital’s
Community Services Coordinater,
said that a booth at Wal-Mart in
Bridge City, set up Wednesday,
made identification cards for about
180 children.
“The program is catching on,”
Byars said. “It originated at the
Care Fair a while back and people
are responding to it well.”
Lieutenant Stephson of the
Sheriff’s Department said the
program has progressed from year
to year.
“The program has been real suc-
cessful. We’ve done it three or four
times this year and the turnouts are
better and better,” he said
Stephson added that mothers in
particular appreciate the effort.
“They give a lot of good comments
and we get nothing but positive at-
titudes about it,” he said.
The process is a simple one that
takes little time. First, a picture is
taken of the child. Then, the basic
information of the children is taken
down along with the fingerprints
and placed on the card with the
* photo.
The card is then laminated and
given to the parent for future use, if
necessary.
Byars said that the hospital and
the Sheriffs Department do many
civic programs together and it was
natural that they collaborated oa
this effort.
“The program is a big undertak-
ing so it takes both organizations to
do it. This also allows us to share ex-
penses,” she said.
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Honda Spencer
Ronda Spencer to be
featured soloist at Sunday
Night Live
On Sunday, Jan. 7, at 7 p.m., a
special concert will take place. The
14th Sunday Night Live program at
St. Paul’s United Methodist
Church will make a full circle.
Ronda Spencer will again appear,
this time as a soloist. She sang at the
very first Sunday Night Live
program.
Ronda has begun a far reaching
ministry through the Women's
Aglow organization. She is always
in demand at churches and Chris-
tian organizations in Louisiana and
Texas.
With her wide range of vocal
talent, Ronda has settled in singing
contemporary Christian songs to
the delight of both young and old.
She always tempers her presenta-
tion with little stories of how God
enters into her every day life in lit-
tle ways as she serves as a devoted
wife to Johnie Spencer and loving
See SPENCER, page 2
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