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Food for young minds is provided in this
shipment of science and natural history books received by
Brookline School. Examining the books are Thomas Sproull and Betty Ann Galco,
11-year old sixth grade pupils,
and School Librarian Emaline Keebler.
Schools Here Get Science
Group's Books
Libraries at three Pittsburgh public schools
have been enriched by shipments of books from a special rotating library provided
by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The schools - Brookline Elementary and
Peabody and Allegheny High Schools - were selected from among hundreds of
applicants throughout the country for participation in the library
program.
Brookline has receive eighty books dealing
with a wide range of scientific and natural history topics. At the end of the
present term the books will be passed on to another participating school and a
shipment of eighty different books will be received.
A spokesman for the Pittsburgh Board of
Education said that schools here were chosen on the basis of the interests of
their students and on the resources of their present libraries.
* Copied from the Pittsburgh
Press - September 16, 1959 * |