Word: lydon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four-hour period of supervised play that the nursery offers daily for only $5 a month, and Miss Lydon's "parent education program" are two good reasons for the heavy demand on nursery facilities...
Santa Claus, in the form of PBH superintendent "Jock" Cockburn will take down the Christmas orders of 90 University Nursery School students this week. Santa made a surprise visit last week to let some of the junior undergraduates do their shopping early, and although Miss Winnifred Lydon, director of the nursery, fears that some of the older children may know "Jock" from PBH, the transactions came off smoothly...
Priority on admissions is given to the offspring of veterans, non-veterans' children coming next, and the boys and girls of service personnel still stationed at the University last on the list. So far, faculty children have no chance of getting in, says Miss Lydon, adding that even Dean Buck's youngster is not permitted admittance...
...Miss Lydon's parent program consists of continual conferences with the mothers "and especially with fathers who need to catch up on the latest child-raising techniques," she comments. There are occasional lectures, such as the one to be given on January 20 by Cheney Jones, leader of the Home for Little Wanderers in Philadelphia...
...nursery. The two-year-olds, the three-year-olds, and the four-year-olds each have their own play-room, complete with blocks, rockers, see-saws, and other bits of infant paraphenalia. There is even an isolation group for "sick or over-stimulated children," according to Miss Lydon who adds that the four-year-olds are "the wild crowd...