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With a little cooperation from Mother Nature, the third Skinker-DeBaliviere Issues Seminar was held on January 31 (it had originally been scheduled for December 5 and initially re-scheduled for January 30). Attendance at the three seminars averaged thirty persons per session. Participants’ evaluations seem to indicate that the sessions were generally interesting and informative. (Copies of the evalu ation are available at the Council office.)
The seminars’ goals were to increase cooperation and communication among the area’s four schools (Hamilton, Hamilton Br. 3, Neighborhood, and St. Roch’s) and between the schools and the community. To that end they seem to have been successful. The evaluations returned at the last session showed that 100% of the participants agreed with the statement “Cooperation and communication among the schools and community has increased as a result of these seminars.”
Part of the January 31 meeting was devoted to trying to answer the question “What have we accomplished and where do we go from here?” Participants agreed that the series of seminars had produced four major outcomes:
(I) A clarification of the similarities and differences which exist among the area’s four schools;
(2) More knowledge about all of the schools and the people within them;
(3) An awareness of ways to collaborate and share resources – an as yet unfinished process; and
(4) A discussion took place in which representatives from the schools talked about ways of collaboration and how they could be useful. Participants decided that now that they have an inkling of the kinds of resources available (human and otherwise) at the other schools, the next step if up to them at an individual and school level. It was agreed that Tom Hoerr will contact each of the schools sometime in April to see if there is a need to again come together as a group.
In summary, the seminars seem to have laid the groundwork for future cooperation and communication among the schools and, perhaps, between the schools and community. Skinker-DeBaliviere’s best resource is the people within its boundaries; the seminars provided a forum for involved parties to interact and begin to work with one another in a positive manner.
Special thanks go to the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council for sponsoring the seminars, Grace & Peace Fellowship for providing the space for the sessions, and Dr. Roger Perry for serving as facilitator.
Originally published in The Paper, April 1978.
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Archival transcription note: The printed “next step if up to them” is retained.
Original source: SD_Times1978_04.pdf, printed page(s) 3; PDF page(s) 3.
