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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1978
Page
5
Cedar Rapids district manager James Wood outlines reasons for long waits at the Social Security office and offers potential solutions. He notes complaints about perceived inactivity among staff and discusses ways to streamline service.
The St Luke's Student Nurses Association presents a two performance variety show This Is Entertainment Friday and Sunday at 7 30 p m in the St Luke's Auditorium Nearly 30 student nurses and two instructors perform comical skits poetry and songs Tickets 50 cents for children 12 and under and 1 for adults Proceeds fund a trip to the national convention in April 1979 and a May student picnic Tickets at the door For more information contact Susan Shouse at 398 7645.
Sunday Parade Magazine explores a rising trend as more athletes turn to faith for guidance and resilience. The piece profiles several sports figures and discusses how religious belief influences training, competition, and personal life.
Dr. Reid Zehrbach of the Grant Wood Area Education Agency will present a paper on Early Childhood Screening and Intervention Strategies at the joint Iowa School Psychologists and Iowa Psychological Association conference in Des Moines. A panel on Alternative Secondary Education will feature Ron Eide, Jack Gary, and Ralph Plagman from Cedar Rapids and Iowa City groups. The meeting begins Friday at the Howard Johnson Convention Center.
Classified notice urges planning a garage sale and suggests advertising in the paper to draw a crowd. It highlights practical steps for sellers and emphasizes reaching local buyers.
Education writer Christie Wallace reports Dr. A D Hieronymus of the University of Iowa urged a back to maximum competencies approach at the Houghton Mifflin Measurement Conference. He criticized minimal competency testing and linked the current test score decline to a broader move toward basics and rigorous standards.
Hieronymus describes a testing approach for the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills that allows students to start and stop at different levels. The method, called out of level or individualized testing, aims for valid measurement across third through ninth grades. The two day Measurement Conference is sponsored by Measurement Research and Westinghouse Learning Corporations.
The 1978 certified professional secretary examinations will be given Friday and Saturday May 5 and 6 at Kirkwood Community College. Kirkwood is among 200 testing centers across the U S and Canada, with testing open to secretaries meeting National Secretaries Association requirements. Some institutions grant college credit and placement for successful completion. Contact Sharon Tauke at 398 5526 in Cedar Rapids for details. ON THIS DATE in 1924 actress Nina Foch was born.
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