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Hambri Practic By SUSAN ROSS Faculty Editor Most professors ask no more out of their class than that they be re ceptive to education on a subject; other professors have gone beyond this to help the students gain practical experience. Dr. Walter R. Hambrick and Dr. Sue Rouse teach classes in which students are required to be In contact with mentally retarded individuals. The classes were asked to visit mentally retarded children and then write reports of their observations and results. The professors secured permis sion for students to visit Pineland, a hospital for mentally retarded children in South Carolina. Pine land is the home of children rang ing from bedridden cases with IQ's of zero to the trainable cases with IQ's of 80, according to Ham brick. Teaching a P.E. 562 class on special education, Hambrick re quires 18 lab hours of contact with handicapped children. "Stu dents may choose to work at 'We Care' at Trinity, Happy Time or Pineland," he said. "Every kid's a different kid, and if you're reading books and using lectures and theory, you don't really understand what it's like to be a teacher," Hambrick said. "I can learn more down there Dean Martil COLUMBIA PICTURES,. AN IRVING ALLEN p,ouc. Now MIRACLI The Blossom Shop FLORISTS Devine and Saluda FIVE POINTS ck,Rou 1i Expe for a few minutes with one of the kids than I can spending 10 hours with a book," he said. "I have reviewed many books and given many lectures but every time I work with one of these individuals, I get some thing I could never learn in the books," Hambrick said. Working under a federal grant for research on special education of children, Hambrick lectures in workshops across the state. Stressing the importance of physical education to mentally re tarded, Hambrick said, "The latest research shows there is more than one factor to mental retardation and also that IQ is not a static thing; therefore the best way to reach the retarded is through physical activity. 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X 90, SYRACUSE, N. Y. 13201I W9 .T. 'jC State Deparkr rig By KITTY McCASKILL Staff Writer Twice captured by the Russians in Iran, once as a boy in 1909 and again as an Army officer in 1942, Dr. Edwin M. Wright brings 20 years of experience with the State Department to his position as expert on Middle Eastern af fairs in the history department. Wright's parents were Presby terian missionaries to Iran (form erly Persia). "I grew up there and that made me an Iranian citi zen; so I have two citizenships. I lived there till I was 14," he said. After graduating from Wastear College in Ohio, Wright returned to the Middle East and was prin cipal of several high schools for 17 years. I m HAMILTON E WCE ,-. 5 99 u S.t.ares D electin Serfec rte in ymbn, on la o y inve 0 192,DrudwietM Terigtms ig Wig's paeswerePrsby teria misaries to1 Irafm "m 1146 LAnur i Pope FIe, 6vt Q 55 LW EMiBt S P4.CC*, 1 rU%. DoWN fW A- Muc* AISg8 u*'P N H6 Is RuoS AWA IrI 00 GENE! pepl tog o oprfs i. 0 0 Went Veteran Ltlls Mle "I was interested in education. We were church affiliated but our main purpose was to enable people to go on to professions. We wanted to produce an edu cated class," he said. Wright served in the U. S. Army in the Middle East from 1941-46. "We tried to find out what was going on-what the Germans were doing. They had sabotage units all over the Middle East. Our major business was to find out what was threatened. "In 1940 our government real izeu they had no preparation for a war in Asia. The Office of Stra tegic Services began to prepare studies for the War Department on Asiau countries." In 1946 the State Department asked Wright to come work for them because he was so familiar with this area. "I was born there and knew all the languages-Per sian, Turkish, Arabic and Arme nian," he said. "Now Russia was trying to take over Iran. United Nations and American support to Iran blocked this. It was the same way in Turkey. I was working with the State Department on "What< your nar Nr There must be a safer girls. Luckily for you, w tions on self-defense i of Hai Karate* After Cologne. But even so, pli careful how you use it. life is fine, but the way you'll be too battered to Hai Karate-be iv MO,s 1SA6 b SE- ro,u%esm A GROUP bF MONE T leou or olte11 eIl'Sta gee NA_- 4u. NA STINNe 0 ho deast I various threats." Wright continued, "I've twice been captured by the Russians in Iran. In 1909, when I was a boy, they came into Northern Iran. Also in 1942, when I was in the Army, the Russians caught me and threw me out. They told Gen. Connally that I knew too much so I was sent to Cairo. "The Russians have a card sys tem on me as they have on any one who has lived over there 35 years. They held Northern Iran during the war, and they didn't want me ther." Wright was also involved with the Arab-Israeli conflict. "In May 1948, when Israel was set up, I was on the delegation to the U. N. The U. S. took the British place when they pulled out, and we've been her main support since then." While in the State Department, Wright was frequently used as an interpreter for heads of state. "I aerved as interpreter for Presi lent Dwight Eisenhower and Tur key's President B3ayar and also ror President John F. Kennedy mnd King Zahir of Iran. At of ~icial dinners I would sit between hem or just behind them keeping ny head stuck between them and lid you say ne was?" way to mee e put instruc wvery package Shave and ease be a lit tle A good social you're going enjoy it. a careful how you 16mrs Mur 5AS$ to M o. 19 Rcr, IT A 106 . I'Mg AF i r Ss A Liw hT 1EftME OQc'r j(AJl) LAVt5 "a5TGAt. Jbk%&A A'DIT RscEi lb facE 'iMe 1+1.EMG . rb ftop ( OIR P T i5 Th5 UPE -LSMC ALL AouT? xpert interpreting." When he retired from the State Department in 1966, Dr. Richard L. Walker, with whom he had worked for many years, asked him to come to Carolina. "They had no one here on the Middle East so he asked me to fill that slot. I enjoy teaching and hope to con tinue next year." Wright K8 t