26 February 1957 [Notes from a Collinwood HS P.T.A. meeting?]
Schneider [sp? – Oscar J. Schneider was CHS school principal]: Schools are for education & nothing else.
Get back at him!
Parents get report cards.
1) Clean & fittingly groomed kind of clothes – teenagers – blue jeans – party clothes are out.
2) School offers best opportunity for learning & team work. Socializing agency. Work & play with each other starts from the home. Making opportunities: to play his daughter back yard [?].
3) Good manners – more than form – simply kindness & consideration of others.
Excuse me is little good manners when you’ve knocked a person down. Better not to knock him down in the first place.
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4) Restraint – self restraint must be balanced by self discipline.
We need policeman because people have learned nothing of self restraint.
5) Respect for authority – should be taught by parents. Primary rules of behavior.
Policeman shoved [?] at ball games. Schneider [?] feels a sad commentary.
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6) Saturday Movies: coed lines at [?] Mental, emotional stability.
The child hardest to love is the one who needs it the most.
Policeman calls to tell about the Buick – Father asks, “Is my car damaged?”
7) Parental harmony – Nothing is so damaging as quarreling, fighting, fussing, nagging.
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Children have come to school and attempted suicide because of nagging homes & bickering.
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She said she was not a D.P. or a displaced person – She was legal!
Budapest – is beautiful. Between Danube – Buda – Pest.
Many universities – music and drinks.
She sings a song.
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Three blind mice. & [John J.] Pokorny spoke. Coordinator of Civil Defense, Cuyahoga County.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945 – 12 years ago.
Russia 1950 had weapon. Civil Defense Law [obscure word] on state gov.
We are tired of wars – disasters – but must be realistic # prepared. Mayors and governors. U.S. Gov. – partner rather than a coach in Civil Defense. 20 M tons of TNT. 7 or 8 miles destroyed. Fallout. Radioactive fallout. Radar screens. VS shelters.
Concept of C.D. must change. Shelter and funds. Cities – 33. 60M people. 100 per person. Radio active fault [sic] – be where the bomb isn’t.
Radar – reinforce outer perimeter. C.D. Minimum levels and property. How much research is being done on effects of Radioactive fallout? How effective are other perimeter or radar screens?