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EDITOR: KERRY KLUMPE, 369-1003 THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER MONDAY, MAY 28, 1990 PAGE A-9 In briefA-10n Kids get rodeo thrills, spillsA-10 State newsA-11 ObituariesA-11 rn ME 1 BD Her spirit's on the mend Zoo keeper learns to adapt without right forearm Camilla Warrick LI 1 'X If I Sl 1 II 4 1 If I lA 'V Jr Up'M Vs; This mentor makes the most out of learning mmmm'''mm''m'm''m Eileen Fre sessions at University Hospital five days a week for two hours, to help her adjust to doing things without her right hand. For example, a steering wheel at the hospital helps her adjust to driving. Water skiing is a favorite hobby of Stober's, and the hospital has rope similar to a ski rope to help her prepare for summer. For two hours each day in her Kenwood home, she is required to sit at a machine which helps to extend her elbow. Arm massages and wearing a vari- not a victim.

She is a survivor. "For as many things bad that have happened, as many good have," Stober said. "You appreciate things more." Stober, 25, is coming through her ordeal with a positive attitude. "It's too serious to take serious," she said. "If someone would have told me a month ago I'd feel as good as I do now, I would have said no.

"The pain has gotten a lot better. At first you think you'll never get over it. Then you start to feel more like yourself as the pain diminishes." Therapy has become part of Stober's routine. For about six hours each day, Stober is in some type of therapy. She attends occupational therapy BY LORI ECKENBERGER The Cincinnati Enquirer The ceramic polar bear that graces the table in Laurie Stober's living room serves as a reminder of her love for the animal.

The arm extension machine a few feet from the glass animal serves as a reminder of how one bear changed her life. For Stober, her workday at the Cincinnati Zoo March 28 was anything but routine. While watering Icee, a 750-pound male polar bear, the bear raised up and bit the hose, her right hand and forearm. Now, two months later, Stober is ety 01 splints during tne aay are aiSO The Cincinnati EnquirerSteve Perez part of Stober's therapy. Now, her goal Laurie Stober has a daiy worout with a variety (Please see STOBER, Page A-ll) of therapy devices.

chette can't help smiling at all the talk about "partners." You hear it a lot in Cincinnati these days when the subject is education. It's a me- She's a do-everything to students, an inspiration to educators, and a charismatic force to parents. One big, happy picnic WmMWmW Lw- if. Charm, wit enchanting to admirers Hundreds flock to Tutu; 'he's history in making' BY JANE PRENDERGAST The Cincinnati Enquirer Archbishop Desmond Tutu has charmed his way through Cincinnati and he certainly has made an impression. Bob and Gail Tanner, of Fort Wright, skipped the service at their usual church and delayed a Sunday trip to Zanesville to stress the importance of Tutu and his work to their daughter, Tiffany, 9.

"He's history in the making," Gail Tanner said. "We wanted her to see him. He's so motivating." The Tanners didn't have tickets as more than 400 people crowded St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Evanston Sunday morning to meet the archbishop and hear his 18-minute sermon. They stood outside for an hour until all parishioners were seated.

They finally got seats in the balcony. Standing outside the church after the service, Tutu greeted every visitor with a hug, kiss on the cheek or a handshake. As the Tanners walked by, the archbishop bent down to meet Tiffany. She stood on her tiptoes; he cupped her face in his hands and smiled. "I'm glad I came," she said.

The South African spiritual leader, with his high-pitched voice and infectious laugh, has left everyone from his limousine driver to children feeling as if they have a new friend. "He's just a wonderful man. I think he charms everybody who meets him," said Greg Boese, owner of Starre Systems Limousine. Frances Willard, wife of the Rev. Wilson H.

Willard the church's rector, presented gifts from the parishioners to Tutu's family a silver platter with Fountain Square engraved on it to the archbishop's wife, Leah, and quartz clocks with Sunday's date engraved to their daughter, Mpho. The parishioners also collected $2,000 for Tutu's African Refugee Scholarship Fund. The archbishop received a purple cope and mitre designed and made by Vincent Nealy, now of New York, who grew up attending the church. "It's a wonderful color, Episcopal color," said Tutu, trying it on. "It's gorgeous." Sunday evening, Tutu spoke of the importance of togetherness as he addressed a near-capacity crowd of 900 at Christ Church downtown.

Tutu told the crowd that "interdependence is the fundamental law of our being" and explained that the apartheid of South Africa is un-Christian because it calls for separation. ga-vitamin word, packed with promise. Got a problem with motivation? Attendance? Achievement? Got a student without hope? A school lacking resources? Try a partner, or whatever you wish to call it. The crucial thing is to establish a long, slow relationship with somebody who will care. Eureka! This could be the fix the city's public schools long have needed.

Administrators now are touting one-on-one learning. So are businesses. So are thousands of volunteer mentors. So is Eileen Frechette only she began promoting it eight years ago. She, too, had a moment of discovery that realigned everything she'd learned during 15 years of teaching science.

To this day, she can recall her excitement. Yet the occasion seems quite mundane. She and her husband, Ed Gutfreund, "stumbled upon a preschool for their 3-year-old son. That was it. But what Frechette found in Cincinnati's Waldorf School was not just a nursery program for Beau, but "an educational system I could invest myself in." Elbow grease and all So that is what she did as fully and enthusiastically as she coordinated tailgate markets for area farmers.

She has mopped Waldorf's floors when she couldn't afford the tuition, organized fund-raisers, taught preschoolers, led adult seminars and helped expand the nursery into a full-fledged primary school. Each year an extra grade is added. Students describe her as the do-everything person at their school. Fellow educators call her an inspiration. Parents say she was the magnet that drew them.

"It's been her relationship with everyone that's made the jump to the grade school possible," said Kathleen Gervasi, a former teacher whose children also attend-' ed Waldorf. "She's an incredible adminis-; trator and a woman of vision." Most of Frechette's work has been volunteer at her own request. Only in the past two years has she been paid, and compensation is low. But she's not complaining. "I want to do that I believe in," she said.

A product of 1919 The Waldorf system, launched by Dr. Rudolf Steiner in Germany in 1919, stresses independent thinking, imaginative work, self-motivation. Frechette had been discouraged after years of teaching high school chemistry, physics and earth science. Students seem fixated on getting the right answer. Their ability to observe the world openly, she felt, had been conditioned out of them.

So she was pleased to hear people talking about nurturing the whole child and fostering individual expression. But just as important was "the very human connection" she said she saw teachers making with students. As a mother, she wanted teachers who would get to know her children, willing to commit time and effort to their development. "It means you have to believe that a child is a somebody, not a something to fill up with facts and figures," she said. Personalized learning is nothing new.

Nor is it the property of any particular educational system. Frechette believes it comes from the recognition that "we are not computers to be programmed. Knowledge has to be bonded to a real feeling for Ae person." So regardless of who's doing it, whether it's Cincinnati Public Schools or the private school, Frechette is glad. There is nhihg emtio ahnnt her smile. A shoulder-to-shoulder crowd enjoys MA the sun and fun at the second day of the three-day Taste of Cincinnati on Central Parkway Sunday.

Taste committee member James Bowles estimated the eat-a-thon drew more than twice the 100,000 who sampled area restaurant fare on Saturday. ABOVE: A westward view of the orderly festival crowd from a scaffold above Central Parkway. RIGHT: Three-year-old Karyn Labbe of Centerville makes short work of the "tequila shrimp" from the Diner of Sycamore served up at Sunday's Taste of Cincinnati. i f-- I The Cincinnati EnquirerGlenn Hartong Top spot for accidents: Martin Luther King Dr. What today means Time can't dim memories of war heroism Wesley Werner American Legion Post 513, said since 1976 he has seen a resurgence of patriotism, something he said was scarce during the Vietnam era.

"Patriotism is still alive and we at the post hope it stays that way." It was the first time in recent years that Arlington had sponsored a Memorial Day ceremony. During the 1950s and early '60s, Memorial Day activities in Mount Healthy attracted hundreds of people, Gamble said. Ed Friedhoff, president of Arlington Memorial Gardens, said, "The most enduring monument is not made of marble, stone or bronze, it is made of memories." That sentiment continued in Meier's speech. "May we remember also that, in war, even victory is costly not so costly as defeat, but heartbreakingly costly." BY CHRIS RICE The Cincinnati Enquirer An inscription on a memorial at Arlington Memorial Gardens in Mount Healthy had particular poignancy Sunday. "Pause you who pass beneath this flag, and remember the sacrifice of life and of the treasure that has kept it aloft, unstained and beautiful against the sky." The memorial is for Thomas E.

Wood, a World War I marine. On Sunday, about 75 people paused to remember Wood and others who fell fighting for their country. "Some people have forgotten," said Leroy Meier, president of Mount Healthy City Council and key speaker at the Memorial Day ceremony. "But w're trying to revive a part of history." Charlie Gamble, commander of the involved. "I don't know what it is," said Ginley, who has been sorting through police traffic reports since 1986.

"I've had three accidents and all of them came before my 26th birthday." Ginley, 53, compiles the data to be used by local and state officials for legislation and study. The data he gathers is one source used to help determine whether intersections warrant traffic signals. The other and the one Ginley admits carries the most weight is public opinion. Cincinnati's other top two crash sites involve Martin Luther King Drive: At Jefferson Avenue (Vine Street) and King, there were 34 accidents in 1989. Another 14 occurred at the westbound intersection, which is the entrance to the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency. At Clifton Avenue. 28 cars were (Please see TRAFFIC, Page A-10) BY FREDERICK BERMUDEZ The Cincinnati Enquirer Unless you like dealing with insurance adjusters, you'd better be careful at the Central Parkway-Martin Luther King Drive intersection. Thai's Cinciuuati's hot spot for traffic accidents, according to the city's traffic engineering division. "The basic rule is the more volume, tlicn the more cars, then the more craslies," said Bill Ginley, a technician for the Cincinnati Traffic Division.

Of th auto accidents yearly in Cincinnati, 38 occurred at the Camp Washington intersection. That spot led all intersections in the number of accidents last year and is among the most again this year. Local and state figures show accidents most frequently occur on Fridays between 5 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. And male drivers younger than 27 are the most likely But teaching at Waldou involves a struggle.

Although attendance has grown to about 70, finances are always tight. The board has discontinued an earlier practice of letting parents barter for tuition. Even so, every teacher has had to forego a decent salary and benefits. One took a $10,000 cut in pay to teach there. "It's absolutely worth it," Frechette said.

"You see it in the children all the time. Yet this is a system in which the teacher grows, too. I'm always being pulled to a different stage of understanding." Camilla Warrick's column appears 6t.