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...this wet afternoon, 16 students, ten to twelve years of age, are sitting in a circle at the Bridge Elementary School. They are all children of divorce. "It's just called a support group," says Frank Nelligan, the elementary school counselor who meets with this and similar groups once a week. Today one question before the group is whether a film on divorce that it has just seen should be shown to children whose parents are not divorced...
...parents aren't like that.' Those kids aren't the kind who will listen. They will just tease and look at you funny." A boy earnestly explains: "Sometimes you are too scared to tell your friends. You might be ashamed." "Ashamed?" a counselor asks. A girl called Flora (the names of students are fictitious) stares at the floor and says, "Sometimes they say they are just going on a trip. I was upset. They lied." The point of this support group, the real usefulness of a school's becoming involved, is made clear when the counselor...
...dozen such groups throughout the country for kids. The one in Lexington is known as the Divorced Kids Group, a name with more zest than, say, Children of Broken Homes Group, but not entirely satisfactory. Why should children define themselves by their parents' behavior? Howard Schofield, the counselor who started the group, feels the children's acknowledgment of their predicament is the first step toward feeling less helpless about it. Says Helen: "After all, the divorce is as much ours as our parents...
David Aaron, deputy assistant of the National Security Council, settled these weighty matters by flipping a coin with Counselor Alexander Bessmertnykh of the Soviet embassy in Washington. The coin: a U.S. quarter. "Eagles," called the Russian. Eagles it wasn't. So the first day's business meetings and dinner will be held at the U.S. embassy...
William Perry, longtime director of the Bureau of Study Counsel, won't be back on Linden St. next year. In his more than 20 years behind the chief counselor's desk, Perry revolutionized the concept of academic affairs counseling and turned Harvard's Bureau into a model for other schools. He also made more than a few friends along...