INDEX of Packet


A) Characteristics of Gifted Children

B) Problems in school

C) How the NFGCC began

D) What you can do

E) Why there is a need for the NFGCC

1) Introduction

2) Letter from Moses Brown School "cannot provide the proper situation for Lance"

3) Letter to Commisioner Howe in Washington, D.C.

4) Letter from J. Ned Bryan, Educational Specialist

5) Recommended Reading list

6) Quotes

7) 9/26/68 Letter to the Editor- Some thoughts on the emotionally disturbed

8)10/11/69 Letter to the Editor- "Parochial" elementary policies are discussed

9) Case Study of a child

10) Case Study of another child

11 Letter to Judge William Goldberg

12) Mrs. Selwyn's letter in Providence Journal Bulletin 4/9/70

13) Marie's Response to Mrs. Selwyn's letter - 4/13/70

14) Actual Article in P.J.B. "What are we doing with our brightest children?" And a statement by Marie Friedel on "drugging".

15) The Ten Commandments that block Creativity - by Stanley Krippner

16) The Neglect of Gifted and Creative Children
And a News Article- Children's Rights is Conference Topic

17) Statement of M.F. to the Special Populations Sub-comittee

18) Creative Growth Center Philosophy

19) "Focus on Youth" by Bert Wade- P.J.B.

20) The Problems of the Creative

21) Proposal for Gifted Children

22) Letter to M.F. from Dept. of Health, Ed., and Welfare

23) Identification & Evaluation Procedures for Gifted and Talented programs

24) Case Studies of more children Open Hearing on Discrimination Against Children

25) Hyperactive Children Falsely accused

26) News Article on 4 and a half year old Joyce Palumbo

27) Family Sanctioned to Run Classes From Home

28) Letter to Governor Garrahy

29) Educating a Gifted Child (Rhode Island Review)

30) The Gifted Child by Kimberly Schwab

31) Family Battles to Educate Child at Home

32) Testimony- National Commision on Excellence in Education

33) A Fable?

34) Poem published in weekly bulletin of The Edgewood Congretional Church

35) "On The Role Of Creativity in History"
"Is America Neglecting Her Creative Talents?"
Arnold Toynbee

35B) "On The Role Of Creativity in History"
Cont.
Arnold Toynbee

36) "Grade Them "A" For Creativity" by Georgie Anne Geyer

37) "Suggestions For Parents of Able Children" John C. Gowan

38) "Make School Fit The Child" Joanne Koch

39) Dyssynchrony: "The Times are Out of Joint."

40) "You mean a rabbit can be taught to fly?" by Leo Buscaglia, Ph.D.

41) Questions concerning reading

42) "Schooling Counter to Talent Development" Gifted Children Newsletter

43) "Accent on Talent" NEA Service to the schools of the nation-Vol. 2 No. 5 3/68

44) "Kari's Handicap-The Impediment of Creativity" Robert E. Samples

45) "For Many, Being Gifted Brings Lifelong Struggle" E. Paul Torrance

46) Gifted Children Susceptible to Cults" Gifted Children Newsleter

47) "Wonder and Ethics in Therapy" Rollo May, Ph.D.

48) Letter to Charles Town Montessori School from Parents

49) Tragic Report of cruelty to gifted

50) Kevin's Case History

51) Gifted Children Monthly - "The Homeschooling of Andrew Wyeth"

52) "Identifying and Teaching The Gifted, American Education's Stepchildren" Fisher,Ph.D. & Fisher, Ed.D

53) Educating the gifted: Prudence Island Couple tries to beat the system" McVicar

54) vita, Marie Friedel

55) vita, cont. M.F.

56) "People" Article in P.J.B.

57) Certificates and Awards of Marie Friedel

58) Gifted not served by schools, federal study finds

59) Letters of appreciation from thankful parents to Marie Friedel

60) Article: "Shortage of Ritalin Leaves Parents Scrambling"

61) "Reflections" by Anne Marie Roeper, Ed.D

62) "Those engaged in medical research on violence should....." M.F.

63) E. Paul Torrance - "The Creativity Man" - Millar (book cover)
E. Paul Torrance signs his book to Marie Friedel.

64) Ritalin Use is a Bar to Military Service

65) Parents to Protest Treatment of Gifted and Creative Children

66) WARNING TO PARENTS

67) Feed a Fever!

68) Pope Was "Pesty" Schoolboy

69) "Your Gifted Child" Part 1

70) "Your Gifted Child" Part 2

71) Albert Einstein

72) Letter from Commissioner Burke To Marie Friedel

73) Marie Friedel's Response to Commissioner Burke

74) Marie Friedel's Response to Brian Donohue