ORIGINAL
SASKATCHEWAN NEWSTART STAFF AT PRINCE ALBERT, SASKATCHEWAN
Mary Jean Martin and Rita Paulhus created this list of staff at Saskatchewan NewStart in Prince
Albert, with additions to the list contributed by Ralph
Himsl, Jack Mitchell, Phil Warren and Stu Conger. As you read the
list, and if you were at Saskatchewan NewStart, please add other names you
remember and send them to info@calsca.com.
Commenting on the synergy that these people created, Mary Jean has written:
I would be hard pressed to give titles as I probably did not know them in the first place. We each did our part, blending our various skills to create something new and workable. Consider, for example, how the army guys organized us with 24 hour clocks so that we almost came to understand them. Remember how many drafts of lesson plans were typed by our skilful stenographic staff long before word processors were invented. Recall how the audio-visual staff had to teach the developers what was possible from their world that we could not even imagine, and how their knowledge expanded our abilities to think up ideas. Recollect how the coaches who were hired from the target populations brought experience and first-hand insight to add criteria to our deliberations.
How
amazing the NewStart schema was. Stu Conger had such a big part in
dreaming up the original plans. Each of the staff that passed through the
organization brought fresh ideas contributing in ways that are
immeasurable.
By the
way, credit for the original list of staff goes to Rita Paulhus (the
Coordinator-Manager of the Life Skills Stenographic Staff) as well as to
me and then to Ralph and others with whom we have shared the
list. (And of course to Phil and Jack who added names at your
Symposium.) Rita and I started this list many years
ago. When we had occasion to look at it last summer even we
had to stretch our memories about some of the names. It was
interesting for us when we created this list and I trust it will be for
others.
Mary
Jean was one of the Life Skills developers, along with Ralph Himsl, Jack
Mitchell and Phil Warren, who attended the April Life Skills symposium in
Calgary. The four of them gave
wonderful, amazing, firsthand accounts of how it was to develop NewStart Life
Skills. We have it all on video-tape. Can anyone suggest a way to get the tapes
transcribed on the cheap in Alberta or BC?