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Her interest in sports In: sav- ed the day for her many I time we. she. -titire perform. She but travelled, met people and gained an assurance she new or would have done so quickly, were it not for the events of the last few months. And she admits that the sched- ule is more time consuming and exhausting than she had imagin- ed when she won. But, for all that, she’d do it all over again! Mise, Perrin has completed two of a three-year arts course in which she is specializing in geo- graphy. She has had to postpone her studies for a year to fill the busy schedule that goes with her title. But the blue-eyed, slender girl with the long, brown hair didn't mind. She ramped around the Rotary Chiidren's Centre with ap- parent glee, delved in the sand. box for treasure, showed off her sash to a little tot with an en- quiring mind and played peek-a- boo with a couple of others. The youngsters, Bruce MacVi- car of Kitchener and Kerry Can non of Waterloo took the fur.. trimmed robes, the shmimering crowns, the photographs and the fuss in their stride with conspir- atorial glee. Without knowing it, they stole the spotlight from Miss Perrin, a former Miss Universe contestant and a candidate for the Miss World title later this month. 'rwiftiiree-vear.ous were clown. ed prince and princess of the Rotary Carnival here Friday by 21-yearold Jacquie Perrin of Orillia, who was declared Miss Dominion of Canada last July. Tots steal the spotlight That, at least, is what Mrs. Audrey Eichholz, chief of Produc- tion at the school library here, did to let the children " Winston Chumhill and Alexandra schools know that collections of folk art books are being added to their school libraries. Br PHILOMINA IUTl-OIRFOID Librarians will do just about Inythinz to let people to read books-even to toting a ukulele and putting on an impromptu folk show. School library workshop has big week ahead As soon Is the new addition I: opened, the rooms which are currently used for speech thera- py will be freed for clinics and physical and ‘occupational then- pr. During construction. an eleva. tor shaft will be installed which will make the basement space available for assessing and train- ing teenagers in the occupations of daily living. The possibility of setting up a nursery there. to assist new mothers of handieam ped babies, is also under consid. oration. It will be built on the second floor and will extend out over the existing parking lot. In this way there will be no out back on parking space which is at a premium. It will also include a larger kindergarten area and a profes- sional conference room. Centre co-ordinatqr Norah Bar, rat said the new facilities will house an auditory testing room, three treatment rooms and a Playroom where the youngsters can be observed from the treat- ment rooms. The former Miss Toronto Argo- naut was one of the attractions at Friday's and Saturday's Ro. tary carnival, being held to raise $140,00o for an addition to the Rotary Children's Centre. Appearances at fairs are high on the list of committments of a Miss Dominion of Canada. But if your favorite sport is riding and you let this be known at each new fair, you usually end up with a horse to ride when. ever you feel like it, Miss Per- rin discovered. ances would have been hard to take. The enthusiasm Mrs. Kadela can generate for libraries is pro. bably best illustrated by what happened in Port Credit when she Workshop head, In. Inna " dela, former library consultant to Waterloo public school board, and now a library coordinator for Waterloo County board at educa- tion, is not above turning story- teller to whet youngsters' imagin- ation. Sometimes, she'll even put on a puppet show to get young people interested in the wonder- ful world of books. Two days later, Nov. " I play and puppet Show will be presented in the morning and a play. Anne Comes to Green Gab. lee, is scheduled for the after. Oliver TWist asks fo/ More is the title of Wednesday's perform- ange. planned for the afternoon. The week. held to publicize children‘s libraries and books, will be marked at the school by three play presentations. Since then, they have been as- signed one part-time assistant, Mrs. Joyce Siegner, and four high school students who between them Pupils present three plays Pupils at Centennial School on Amos Avenue plan to celebrate Young Canada's Book Week (Nov. 15-22) with style. In February 1968, a workshop was established at Alexandra sdrool and Mrs. Kadela and Mrs. Eichholz were working about 24 hours a week stocktaking. advis- ing'and classifying. By Novem. ber both were on the job full time. _ The results have paid off well. Children, even very young ones, are now able to select reference wost f m hall trolleys and charge a',', out to themselves, so that anyone else looking for the same book knows where it is at any given time. Pupil education was another item high on the list of Mrs. Kadela's priorities. She. Mrs. Eichholz or a teacher-librarian, gave book talks and instruction in the use of the library. , And so with principal and tea- cher cooperation the system was developed. One principal even spent most of his summer holi- days helping to process books for his school. The room used for remedial reading at Northdale showed lib. rary possibilities and was equip ped accordingly. Harold Wagner school 'iovided a library service from trolleys in the main hallway. The idea was stolen from a reference section for other schools and space was found in the front foyer of Har. old Wagner school which could be transformed fairly easily into a central library. _ Teachers at Alexandra school gave up their staff room to make way for a library/At Brighton, it was discovered the nurse's room would do very well, provided the bed were concealed with screens. Getting books into the schools. however, was Mrs. Kadela's first consideration. Where there wasn't room for a central library. she and teachers put their heads to- gether and improvised. Working from the diningroom of her home, she set about com- piling a master file of books " ready stocked by public schools in Waterloo. (This was. of course, in pro county board days). New books were ordered and ”cussed for the schools to in- Clean: the existing two books per child ratio. Today, this has in. creased to seven books per child. Her library career started off in the children's department at London. She has been children's librarian in St. Thomas, in charge of ehildren's services at North York, the chief librarian in Port Credit before taking over the Waterloo job in summer 1987. When the library acquired new headquarters, the whole tmeet turned out to help nova house. Tiny tots loaded up their wagons and teenagers loaded up super- mart can: (which were loaned for the event) and got the job done in no time. In: chief librarian there - - “.- - ""l’l'""“‘ children centre and been a visit- ing instructor in education of ex- eeptional children at Florida State University. Her parents were both medical missionaries in Taiwan, where she was born in 1932. Her mother still retains a practice in Guelph. After her graduation in arts from the University of Toronto, Miss Little studied at the Insti- tute for Special Education in Salt Lake City, Utah, graduating " a teacher for children with motor handicaps. She has taught at the Guelph Rotary Club's crippled Jean Little of Guelph has writ- ten several books, all about child- ren with disabilities. something with which the writer is very familiar. She was born with scars on her eyes and was completely blind until she was two years old. She developed some sight then and now has very limited vision in one eye. On Monday, she has invited a well known author of children's books to visit some of the school libraries. and "libraries and she's reaching for it with both hands. Integration of library programs from kindergarten to Grade 13 is one of the things near and dear to Mrs. Kadela’s heart. She is also concerned that children will lose their imaginative powers if they aren't introduced to the magic world of books early in life. Young Canada Bookweek (Nov. 15-22) is giving her a first rate opportunity to publicize books She is currently involved with setting up a policy on book sel- ection, cataloguing and classifi- cation. Another matter being con- sidered is whether the workshop should be expanded to do all the ordering and processing (in effect set up a central supply depot) for " of these schools. Most school library books are now processed when delivered. In. Kndela was appointed con- sultant to two areas of the coun- ty, extending through Waterloo, Bridgeport, Bloomingdale, Erha- ville, St. Agatha, Woolwich and Welesley Townships and parts of Waterloo and Wilmot Townships and Kitchener. There are more than 50 schools and 8,000 pupils involved. work 40 hours a week. With this unit the workshop can process about 800 books a month. The scope of the workshop in- creased In! January when county school boards were created. tad... thm man". It.“ “Ska m M’ Immm..munm _ t' At that time, however, she and Mrs. Eichholz were busy planning displays for open house planned between 3 pan. and 9 p.m., Nov. 19, and 10 am. to 5 p.m., Nov. 20.2t. Les Thompson. an area super intendent with Waterloo County board of education, will be mod- erator at a symposium being held at the workshop, Nov. 19. Teacher- librarians and school principals will be invited. Other panelists at the event will be H. E. Parliament, assistant area superintendent with the board of education; Norman Spen- cer, Centennial school principal; Lenore Pearce. art supervisor for Waterloo County's public schools; Mrs, Marjorie Barber, a former librarian and school trustee with Waterloo school board: and Wil- liam Townshend, assistant super. intendent of planning and devel. 'll',',','."" with the board of educa- on. " Mrs. Kadela was hoping that I second visit by Miss Little might be possible during the week, but this information was not avail- able at the time this story wad being written. T Miss Little will be accompano ied here by her two West High- land terriers, which bear strong resemblance to little dogs in her stories. The animals are old hands at library visiting and behave with all the decorum demanded on such occasions. They invari- ably prove enormously popular with young bookworms. In 1966, Kin Little’s Spring Begins in Man-h was published. This is I sequel to Mine for Keep. and describes the problems of n younger child when there in II older crippled child in the family and liying c3nditions an}; camped. - __ U "e'-'"."-----..- IIII- vents-Ir“. Springr Begins in March and Home From Far-the story of a little girl whose twin brother wu killed in a traffic accident and whose family adopted two more 'thihhen---were both Junior Liter. ary Guild selections. Other books she has written are Take Wing, One to Grow 0: and When the Pie was Opened, I book of poetry. She wrote the book after sh. lpent years scanning for a “on dealing realistically with tho problems of crippled children. lent. The book won the “the. Brown Canadian Children's book award in 1901. . While she an: in “with. chi completed Mine for Keeps, tit story of a cerebral, [allied (bl who learned to live with her prob