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...before their senior spring. “I think it’s going to act as a real motivator for kids who are truly interested in pursuing certain subjects and have run out of courses to take at the high school,” Walser said. CRLS Guidance Counselor Lynn Williams said that taking Harvard classes would give high-achieving students a taste of college life. “Students are able to experience what a college-level course is like. I think it’s absolutely wonderful,” said Williams, who helped establish the program...
...OnLine lists eight abortion providers, but the state has more than 70 pregnancy centers. NARAL Pro-Choice North Carolina was so concerned about their practices that it recruited volunteers to call centers and record the information they were given. NARAL reported that in the course of promoting abstinence, a counselor told an investigator that "all condoms are defective and have slots and holes in them." Another warned that "9 out of 10 couples that go through an abortion split...
...reaction. Having heard horror stories from friends in college, she was braced for the worst. "But it really wasn't what I expected," Barbour says. "They acted like they really did want to help me." While one woman handled the pregnancy test, Barbour spoke to a counselor who was very sympathetic. "She didn't show me any disgusting movies--though she did show me these plastic models of the fetus at each stage of development--and told me that it has a heartbeat immediately, which I knew medically was not true." The counselor asked about her resources, her family...
...There is college money available already but only to an extent," says longtime El Dorado High counselor Becky Ward. "Students may not be where they need to be, either academically for a scholarship or financially for an aid package. A lot of them are caught in the middle. We've had bright youngsters with enormous potential who had no option but to go to work. I don't think some people understand that...
Simon met the great love of his life, Joan Baim, at a Poconos resort called Tamiment in June 1953. He was a writer on the entertainment staff, making $20 a week. She was a dancer working as a counselor in the children's camp. Three months later they were married. Says Simon: "I knew immediately she was the girl for me. She was very beautiful, very athletic, very warm. She had very definite ideas, she was very vehement in her own scenario, but she was very supportive. She stopped working?which I think she probably regretted later?and gave herself...