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need plenty of time to be kids. Their days include hours for drawing, painting, puppet shows, acting out plays, banging on a drum or totting a horn. The fenced yard provides a magic playland with a whole transportation fleet—trikes, bikes, scooters and wagons—swinging ropes, climbing ladders, gym sets with fireman's poles and gangways, sand and water tables and a magnificent tree with great, thick limbs only a few feet above ground that beg small boys and girls to scramble aboard.
Happy Kids
Sursum Corda’s combination of fun and learning works to keep kids involved, stimulated—and smiling. A crying or unhappy preschooler is as rare as hen’s teeth. The same applies to yelling and angry teachers. This doesn’t mean that the kids at the center aren’t disciplined. It’s just the opposite—they behave because they’re content, because they have all the attention they need, because misbehavior is met with firmness and consistency.
Good day care centers are difficult to find in the city. They're practically nonexistent in a rural area. Camille Harris realizes that and she's committed to continuing the unique program she began six years ago.
Sursum Corda’s director saw the handwriting on the wall and immediately began a “belt-tightening regime to prepare for anticipated budget cuts. The day care center obtained a bulk mailing permit in the fall of 1980 and began direct mail solicitation of residents in the community it serves. Enrichment classes—swimming, karate, art, piano, flute, recorder, women’s exercise, speech, caligraphy—offered in afternoons and evenings and-^uying summer months were expanded to bring in additional revenue.
The day care center looked for volunteers to replace staff formerly paid by CETA and found ten people willing to serve as teachers aides ftyir hours per week. In addition, Ester Settle volunteered to teach sign language, Jane Cooper to teach Spanish and Georgia Walsworth to do office work. Waldron
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