Word: janvier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marie Louise Antoinette Hungerford. Downvill. Entrée le 15 Janvier...
...would like to add my complete appreciation of Carmelite Janvier. We are the parents of a mentally retarded child and two wonderfully normal children, and we feel personally that our lives have been enriched and matured by this experience, especially because we have come to realize how perfectly wonderful people like Teacher Janvier...
...found a way to help them. In 1925 she became the first of New Orleans' "visiting teachers"-a dedicated band of men and women whose duty it is to care for the school system's handicapped and troubled pupils. Last week, as 65-year-old Carmelite Janvier prepared to retire as director of the city's Division of Special Services, she and her colleagues were caring for nearly 20,000 children a year...
Little Laborers. At first, Teacher Janvier had wanted to be a writer. Though she could never see a blackboard, she managed to get through Newcomb College and to take an M.A. in English at Tulane. Then a friend offered her a job as a local factory inspector in charge of investigating child laborers to see if they were of legal age to work. "It was amazing," she recalls, "how people would try to change the records so that their children could go to work before they were 14. But even those who were 14 were pitiful little things who should...
Tests & Truants. As the years passed, the city began to assign other teachers to help her. In 1940 it created its Division of Special Services and made her the first director. Soon, in addition to her visiting teachers, Director Janvier had departments of clinical reading, corrective speech and hearing, psychological testing, special education. The division started classes in hospitals, gave instruction to bed-ridden children at home, trained the stutterers and the retarded pupils, dealt with the truants and chronic delinquents. "Now," says Director Janvier, "I feel we have a division far ahead of any other down this...