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Show 5 needed. If every reader who is not yet a regular contributor were to join the "dollara- month club," and also to see to it that the Newsletter is sent to some potential helper not already receiving it, we would be greatly relieved and enabled to put our whole energies into the tasks before us. t TIRE School at St. Christopher's reverts, as of now, to its former status as a Mission school. That is how it began, and we were much complimented when the County and State asked to take over some of our financial burdens by making it into a regular public school. ThiR we were glad to do, so long as our religious education program would suffer no interference. Now, however, with the great surge of feeling about segregation, it obviously look~ bad for the State of Utah to countenance a~luff School for whites, and a Bluff Indian School. Actually, there never was any segregation in the true sense - the schools were s·eparate becauRe Navajo children at six or seven come with no pr~vious knowledge of English and present a problem with which the ordinary public sch-ool is not equipped to deal. Anyway, it has seemed best to dissolve our relation to the State, and accordingly we shall continue as before, except tha t we shall have to provide, from Mission funds, the necessary supplies, fuel and so forth, which the State has been sending us. Our very competent teacher, Walter Robertson, has agreed to put in at least this one more year, and already the enrollment is encouraging. IvlISITORS this summer have been from many parts of the world and the nation. In addition, we have our summer workers; this year we decided to limit the number to five and the ages to 20 and upward. They are making themselves useful in many and varied activities. The TV show "House- Party" has asked Fr. Liebler to be on )the Program July 2l. As this is a nationwide hookup many of our readers will want to know about it. |
