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k f 1 Superintendent of Lexington High School Social Studies teacher Geor e Southwick lectures to stu ents on the epression of the 1930's and the New Deal while senior citizens share their experiences of those times. and "Hunger ", taping by WHTT Radio on AIDS, and speakers from Lancaster Pre - Release Center on "Drug and Alcohol Abuse." High School Social Studies Teacher George Southwick directs the program. Special Education. Severely handicapped young people who formerly might be in private institutions now can participate in community -based Lexington - Arlington- Bedford - Burlington (LABB) programs covering needs from early intervention (pre - school) through age 22. Three LABB programs operate in Lexington: Life Skills, begun in September 1984, served 86 multiply- handicapped and non - ambulatory young adults in 1984 -85 and currently serves 98 students. The Vocational Skills Program, going since 1973, sends students to 14 private industrial and two non - profit /government work sites. The work - site program at Honeywell, Inc. Electro- Optics Center of Lexington won a 1985 Presidential Private Sector Initiative Citation. Last year (1984 -85) a total of 78 students participated and currently 85 are enrolled. In the two programs together, both directed by Robert Renna, 24 Lexington young people are now served. A third program, Alternative Choices in Education (ACE), directed by Robert Farias, helps 15 high schoolers combine work and study. The department is in the final year of its three - year plan to assign computers to special needs classrooms. The pilot program on computerizing In- dividual Educational Plans (IEP) was extended from Estabrook and Hastings to include Clarke and Harrington. A fourth K to 1 program was initiated with Bowman joining three other K to 1 programs existing at Bridge, Harrington and Hastings. Under the auspices of the Education Development Corpora- tion (EDC) research project, special needs teachers Debbie Packard and Helen Cushman have been using microcomputers to help special needs students learn how to write. Several monographs have already been prepared by EDC and work will continue for at least another year. Visual Arts. For the 14th consecutive year the High School's Art Department had more students exhibiting than any other Massachusetts high school in the Boston Globe's Regional Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit. Senior Scott Woodward won the Globe $1,000 scholarship for photography; Senior Joseph Lee's drawing and painting folio was selected for the National Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit. In addi- tion, photos of John Brigham, Mark Seasholes and Scott Woodward from Jack Zichittella's class were selected for the National Exhibit, in which 25 students were Gold Key winners. The 1986 Visual Arts Calendar, "Reflections," features over 35 pieces of student art work coupled with brief descriptive writings. Foster and Foster Real Estate Company of Lexington and ZBR Publishing Company of Wilmington co- sponsored the printing. The staff organized a K to 12 exhibit of over 300 examples of student work illustrating the concept of color theory and its sequential application in the Lexington curriculum. High School student art work was exhibited in the following shows: Norma Regillo's class exhibited fan designs for "Madame Butterfly" at the Boston Opera House and at Boston University Book Store; Jack Zichittella's photography students displayed works at Bel Canto Restaurant of Lexington and at the Tampa Florida Contemporary Museum of Art; Smedley Manion's class exhibited their work at Cary Library; the entire staff displayed their own drawings, paintings, photographs and sculptures at Cary Library in celebration of National Art Education Week. The Lexington Arts and Crafts Scholarship winners were Stephen Brock, Anne Haynes, Carol Maglitta and Julia Potter. The society ex- hibited work of the scholarship winners along with selections by the visual arts staff in October. Manion received a Massachusetts Alliance for Arts Education Award for outstanding teaching. Clarke Visual Arts Teacher Brenda Sullivan won a Fulbright Scholarship to teach in England during 1985 -86. SPECIAL PROGRAMS METCO. Twenty -six METCO program students graduated this year. Of these, 25 plan to attend a college or university. Junior and senior high Lexington METCO students participated in this year's METCO Basket- ball Tournaments. The high school METCO team won its fourth championship in five years defeating the Swampscott /Marblehead team. The junior high METCO Education 31