Word: ferrugia
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...many as 20% of Leigh's Webster Groves classmates currently take prescription medication to treat depression and other psychiatric disorders, according to the school's social worker, Pat Ferrugia. Nationally, an estimated 1 in 20 children and adolescents suffers from depression. While doctors have long dispensed drugs like Ritalin to children and adolescents, teen prescriptions for antidepressants such as Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil have grown rapidly in recent years...
...Ferrugia teaches at the Radcliffe studio in exchange for the use of it. To Harvard that seems a fair exchange. But it is economically unreasonable...
...putting in more time at her vocation, both teaching and sculpting, Ferrugia loses time to make a living. So she lives on fifty dollars a week. Her work might be first class but her living conditions can't be. Other potters face similar problems...
HARVARD SEEMS to be quite willing to welcome promising young artists like Ferrugia, and yet does not support them. It will take all of the credit, but refuses to assume the responsibility...
...Ferrugia shows her work at Passim's, Jim Rippe, another Radcliffe craftsman, shows his at Hilles--each tries to drum up both economic and emotional support from a community that seems all too willing to accept superior work, but none to eager to provide for it. Teachers at the Radcliffe Pottery Studio should be recompensed for their time. Artistic exhibitions are important but artisans should not have to feel it necessary to give a show in order to peddle their wares...