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Julie Brown editor/459-2700
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Thursday. September 5. 1991 O&E - (P.CJ1C
exhibit has
lots of class
ICHOOL DAYS these days
don't bear much resemblance
to those of 100 years
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In the day* of the boe-robm
rhoolhouse, children wrote on
- slates rather
ent ages were
same classroom by one teacher
Those school days are highlighted
in a new exhibit at the Plymouth
Historical 'Museum. "The American
Country School: A Nostalgic
Remembering" opened last week
and will continue through Nov. 24.
Tbe exhibit is tied into the opening
of the renovated Geer School in
Superior Township. Museum
staffers and volunteers also wanted,
to have the exhibit done la time
for the Plymouth Fall Festival.
PHOTOS AND artifacts in the
exhibit tell the story of the community's
educational history
"No computers on exhibit, no,"
said Beth Stewart, museum director.
"We didn't get quite that far."
Most items are'from the late
I9tb century on up to the mid-2Oth
-century, Tbe museum's main lobby
area is set up to resemble a oneroom
scboolhouse of 1M0 or
. thereabouts.
taken in1887.
of Ptym-
In those days, schools had coalburning
stoves and no Indoor
plumbing, Stewart said. Typically
children of different ages were in
the same classroom, and older students
tutored tbe younger ones.
The school year in'the past was
shorter because children needed to
work on family farms. "School was
i Township resident.
Other differences are evident as
well. Photos from the late 19th and
early 20th centuries show that
schoolchildren, of that era dressed
up more so than is true today. Tbe
teacher was usually a young unmarried
woman who would board
with a local family.
"She certainly couldn't live by
herself," Stewart said. Such an arrangement
wouldn't have been considered
proper, and the pay those
Thte bttkettmff uniform wm
worn in 1918-19 or
thereabouts.
teachers received would have
made living independently difficult
SOME EXHIBIT items have
Time at work flies by
for student journalist
By Julie Brown
staff-writer
Minal Hajratwala's summer in
New York City wasn't limited to seeing
Broadway plays and visiting
tourist attractions.
Hajratwala, 20, did 1 ' do those
things, but also spent two months
working as an editorial intern at
Time magazine She's a senior at
Stanford University and will graduate
in December with a bachelor of
arts degree in communication.
"I really liked New York and the
internship was obviously a good experience,"
said Hajratwala. a 19M
Plymouth Canton High School graduate
She was in New York City June 10
through Aug. 10 Time has an internship
program with about 40 colleges
and universities, and Hajratwala
was nominated and chosen through
that program.
She worked on the "back of the
book," which includes the magazine's
science, society and culture
sections. Hajratwala, the daughter
of Dr. Bhupendra and Bhanu
Hajratwala of Plymouth Township,
worked in the society section, reporting
on such areas as law, education.
religion, the press and food.
SHE WORKED on one food story
on Miami's cuisine. Hajratwala
earned three bylines in Time this
summer for stories on tbe growth of
Protestant superchurches, newsroom
plagiarism and the resignation
of Stanford University president
Donald Kennedy.
She did her reporting by telephone
rather than traveling around the
country Hajratwala, who was managing
editor of The CEP Perspective
her senior year of high school and
has worked at The Community Crier,
didn't find the pace difficult to handle
She's worked on The Stanford Daily,
the student newspaper at the university
near Palo Alto, Calif. At
Time, Hajratwala would often only
work on one or two stories at a time
Work, however, was more thorough
than what she'd done previously and
The weekly newsmagazine has high
standards for accuracy
She found most people returned
her telephone calls "A pretty good
response There are still people who
don't call you back "
Hajratwala, a former Canton resident,
found that Stanford University
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Minal Hajratwala enjoyed her summer internship at Time magazine
in Maw York City. She's a senior at Stanford University
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trustees were quicker to return calls
than had been the case when she was
working for the student newspaper
"I really enjoyed everything I
did," she said. "You learn different
things from every article."
IT'S UNLIKELY she'll return to
Time following her graduation in
December Typically, staffers have
at least five years of daily newspaper
experience, she said.
Instead, Hajratwala hopes to get a
couple of good internships for the
spring and summer of 1992 "and
then see where we go from there."
She's considering becoming a copy
editor and is flexible about moving
to any part of the country to work on
a daily newspaper
Hajratwala recently returned
from the annual convention of the
Asian American Journalists Association
in Seattle, Wash. She worked on
the daily convention newspaper and
attended a job fair
Hajratwala and other student interns
from Time were in a photo
printed with the publisher's note in
the Aug 12 edition of the magazine
Hajratwala was quoted in that note
as well.
"1 think those issues probably sold
oOt in Plymouth." she said with a
smile. *
Her family was proud that she
was chosen for such a competitive
program Hajratwala's parents
came to visit at the end of the summer
They wfent to see "Cats" and
did (hf' usu3] tourlst-tyf)^ things
"People are very supportive," said
Hajratwala, who has a brother, Nayan.
18, a freshman at Cornell University
in Ithaca. N Y One of her
professors at Stanford had worked at
Time and helped to steer Hajratwala
to the internship program
Other students at Stanford were
pleased Hajratwala was chosen She
made friends this summer among
other student interns at Time
Warner $ '
She wasn't particularly apprehensive
about living and working on
Manhattan Many people were oat on
New York's streets and she was nev
er m a completely isolated area
"Obviously, you have to keep your
eyes open." said Hajratwala, who
didn't ride New York's subways at
night
It's back to school time at the Plymouth Historical
Museum, according to museum di-
been borrowed from the Canton
Historical, Society. -Members of
that group have been involved th
renovating -one-room schoolhooses
in Canton.
"They've done such a good job
with Cherry Hill School and then
they're in the process of restoring
Sheldon School." Stew art said.
Canton Historical Society members
are researching the history of
local schoolhooses and plan to publish
a book.
School books, ink wells, desks, oil
lamps, fountain pens and other
items are featured in the exhibit at'
the museum, 155 S. Main, at
in downtown Plymouth.
Some items are from the museum's
collection while others have been
the past are featured as welL
Those students evidently earned
good grades and didn't mind passing
along their childhood report
cards for the museum's archives.
.. "I love tbe handwriting," Stewart
said. Penmanship was emphasized
in those days, and many students
had beautiful handwriting.
Often, students in the past had to
walk a distance to school, although
not necessarily the fabled five
miles through a blizzard uphill
each way.
"I would say quite a ways just
from looking tbe maps. Plymouth
was quite spread out" By the
turn of the century, more schools
had been open, particularly in
town, and students didn't
rector Bath Stewart. "Tha American Country
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areas; Geer School, for instance,
remained open until 1M2.
STUDENTS OF the past didn't
have much time for socializing
away from school. "Hut's where
you got to see your friends," Stewart
said.
Some members of the Plymouth
Historical Society recall their own
school days or those of their, parents
whin seeing the exhibit Exhibit
organizers plan to have children
from local schools visit to see
Diplomas and .report cards from schools, continued-to serve-outlying turn to Papa 2
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