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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1979
Page
32
A University of California series examines how modern urban life strains surviving spouses. It notes the lack of integrated social supports, enduring gender roles, and the emotional and financial toll on widows and widowers in a society that prizes marriage as a core social unit.
Open houses are planned at several preschools this week with sessions for parents. Noelridge Park Preschool and Jack and Jill Preschool schedule morning visits, while Buttons and Bows Day Care Center and Sunshine Preschool also host sessions. Other centers include Little Ones Preschool, Happy Hours Preschool, and Stepping Stones Child Care Center with varied hours Monday through Thursday. The notice also contains unrelated essay content on widows and societal shifts.
A writer recounts a Virginia course promising letter-writing mastery. He becomes hooked, crafting letters to his congressman, alma mater, coach, and charity. Rewards arrive as contributions and gifts, prompting his wife’s plea to quit. He secretly writes to millionaires each night.
The feature discusses parental views on preschool value and the Cedar Valley Montessori program as a case study. It notes licensing since 1976 for day care and preschools, two years of experience or education for staff, and growing counts of facilities and enrollments in Linn County including Cedar Rapids Marion area totals and births in the Cedar Rapids Community district.
Helena Znaniecki Lopata directs Loyola University Chicago Center for the Comparative Study of Social Roles and teaches sociology. A former Roosevelt University faculty member, she authored Occupation: Housewife Widowhood in an American City Polish Americans and Women as Widows.
Heidi the Nubian goat, owned by the Delmar Kaufman family of Holly Grove, delivered four kids last spring and five this spring. Robb Kaufman, 18, her caretaker, notes the rare litter and jokes about Guinness World Records. The article also notes that on this date in 1918 the Royal Air Force was organized in Britain.
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