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Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Mar 12, 1972

Page

10

Special Education Aids Disadvantaged In City

In Decatur City Schools special education serves all exceptions to the norm. Mrs. Margaret Vann outlines programs from trainable retarded students in Brookhaven and Oak Park to a pilot hard of hearing classroom and a physically handicapped unit at Riverside High. The goal is full integration within peer groups as units grow beyond 50 teachers city and county wide under a federal grant.

Ben Windham Decatur City Margaret Vann Decatur Brookhaven Oak Park Vann

Dogwood Plantings Honor Late Russell Johnson in City Area

Mayor Charles Gunthorp and Women’s Chamber of Commerce leaders Mrs. Lester H. Smith and Mrs. I. B. Schmidt admire one of 28 dogwood trees planted near City Hall. The trees were donated by the chamber in memory of Russell Johnson, the late landscape engineer who helped start the project in October 1954.

Charles Gunthorp Lester H. Smith Women’s Chamber of Commerce I. B. Schmidt Russell Johnson Johnson

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