West Side Recorder Volume 6 No 1

              WEST SIDE RECORDER
Volume 6—Number 1
Monthly Newspaper of the West Side, Denver, Colorado
May, 1969
Five West Side Schools
Getting New Principals
Well Miss You
Changes in school administration at four West Side
public schools were announced Thursday evening, May
15, at the regular meeting
of the Denver Board of Education.
A new principal has been named for West High School, to begin
next fall. He is G. Robert Wilson, administrator of the Metropolitan Youth and Education Center at 1420 Kalamath St. He
succeeds Earl Paul, who will retire in mid-year and until then
will do research for the central
school adminstration downtown.
A real loss to the West Side
will be Jack Beardshear, principal at Baker Junior High School.
Mr. Beardshear will become
principal of George Washington
High School. West Siders send
their good wishes with him.
The new principal at Baker
will be Donald P. Genera, who
has been principal most of the
year at Elmwood Elementary
School. The new Elmwood principal has not yet been announced.
Greenlee Elementary School
will have as its new principal
Mrs. Marie Meitz, who comes to
the West Side from being assistant principal at University Park
Elementary School, 3140 East
Iliff Ave. She succeeds Kenneth
Gorsline at Greenlee who is retiring.
Auraria Center
Sets Camp Dates
Auraria Community Center is
planning a variety of activities
for the summer, to be both in
the building at 1212 Mariposa St.
and at camp sites.
The center is trying to coordinate its program with that of
the City Parks and Recreation
Department which will be conducted in Lincoln Park.
Day Camp again will be held
at a camp site near Morrison.
Camp dates for the different age
groups are as follows:
June 23 to July 3 for youngsters who have completed
fourth, fifth or sixth grade.
July 7 to July 18 for those
who have completed second
and  third  grades.
July 21 to Aug. 1 for those
who have completed kindergarten or first grade.
Auraria  camping fees will be
$2   a  week,   including  insurance
and milk. Children going to camp
will take their own sack lunches
and meet at the center to go to
camp  on  a  bus.   They  will get
back about 4 p.m. each day.
Family Camp is being planned
in coordination with First Mennonite Church. Entire families
will attend, from July 7 to July
12, at Pine, about 35 miles west
of Denver. Activities will be
planned for each age group and
for the whole family.
A child care program for elementary- school- aged children
whose parents are employed all
day is being planned in cooperation with the Denver Welfare
Department. There will be activities for these children at Auraria
Center, at the camp, and on special trips. The program will be
all day, each week day from
June 9 to Aug.  29.
Sister Mary Stanislaus, who
has been principal of Sit. Joseph's
high school for seven years, will
be going to a new assignment for
the 1969-70 school year.
Michael Barbich will be the
new principal at St. Joseph's. He
has been a teacher and vice
principal there for six years.
This will be the first time that
St. Joseph's high school has had
a lay principal.
Senior Mass and supper is at 4
p.m., May 24. Graduation will
be June 1.
Five West Siders
On Auraria Board
Five West Siders have been
elected to the board of directors
of Auraria Community Center
for terms of one year or more.
Mrs. Leona Partney of 713
Delaware St., was re-elected, having also served last year. She
will serve until 1972. Other West
Siders added to the board are
Mrs. Grace Cabral of 436 Delaware St., who also is chairman
of the Auraria Head Start policy
advisory committee, Mrs. Alberta
Crespin of 1467 Navajo St., Donald Gallegos of 1149 Lipan St.,
and Phil Torres of 1033 Ninth St.
Other newly elected board
members, named at the annual
meeting May 14, are Miss Jane
Collins, head of social services
at Denver General Hospital;
Leon Selig of 4201 East Sixth
Ave., Kenneth Valis of the Colorado Paint Company, and Mrs.
Robert Wham of 2790 South High
St.
During the program for the
annual meeting, Dr. Robert O'-
Dell of Metropolitan State College
gave a slide show on plans for
the new Auraria educational site
to be built north of West Colfax
Avenue.
Dr. O'Dell explained that no
land south of Colfax Avenue will
be used for the new complex.
He warned against any persons
who buy West Side property
south of Colfax Avenue, who
claim that it will be condemned
at a later date. He said that in
other cities the land close to a
college campus has increased in
value, and he predicted this will
be true on the West Side, also.
Our  Sympathy    Following the school board election—
to all Denver school children who will not be going to school
with children from different social, ethnic and economic backgrounds.    Now  we   must  work  even    harder    for     improved
education.
Now is the time to—
Clean Up and Fix Up.
Let's  show the world we are
proud  of Our West Side!
Parish Planning
Un Buen Tiempo
Play school, family nights,
swimming, camping, hiking, arts,
crafts, outings and summer employment for young people—all
these are planned for the summer at Inner City Parish.
The Parish summer program
will begin June 16 and go
through August.
Play school is for three-year-
olds, Tuesday through Friday
mornings. The community meeting and worship service is at
9:30 a.m. Wednesday. Family
night is at 7:30 p.m. each Thursday.
Operation Crosstown will be
run for fourth, fifth and sixth
graders for the two weeks beginning June 16. A program in
swimming skUls will be open two
afternoons a week.
Tutoring and instruction in
piano and guitar will be offered
on request.
The Neighborhood Service
Corps will provide employment
for some young people. Persons
who need help on projects in
their home or yard are asked to
notify the Parish at 244-2636.
All West Siders are welcome to
participate in the programs at
the Parish.
A special thank-you goes to Joe
Gregory of 1328 West Colfax Ave.
who has delivered the WEST
SIDE RECORDER in North Lincoln Park Homes the last five
years. Mr. Gregory, who ha^
been very faithful in his taskj
is giving up his route due to hi$
doctor's  orders.
Many West Siders Attend
- j School Board Meet at WHS
Five of the seven Denver school board members and
nearly 300 other persons, mainly West Siders, attended a
board-community meeting May 6 at West High School. Superintendent Robert Gilberts and several of his staff members also were present.
Bal Chavez, chairman of the Concerned Citizens and
Parents Committee of West High School, presided at the
meeting and also took panNin the questions addressed to
/   the school board and to Superintendent Gilberts.
SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS
FOR THIS ISSUE OF
THE WEST SIDE RECORDER
Germaine Aragon    5
Catholic Archdiocese
of Denver $200
Colorado Printers    10
First Avenue Presbyterian
Church         10
[ First Mennonite
Church        10
Inner City Parish     10
St. Elizabeth's
Catholic Church __    10
St. Joseph's
Catholic Church __    10
Wesley United
Methodist Church      10
NO GIFTS UNDER $5
West   Side   pictures:   BUI
Baker.
And a  special  thank-you
I to Adolph Coors Co.
Summer   Courses,
Dates Announced
By Metro State
Metropolitan State College will
offer 136 courses this summer
during a ten-week session June
16 to August 22 and two five-week
sessions during the same period.
Included in the offerings are
remedial courses in mathematics,
English and reading for high
school graduates who need this
type of preparation in order to
qualify for registration in the
fall at Metro or at other institutions of higher education.
There are also courses for
average and well-qualified individuals, both beginning students
and those who have previously
attended college.
The standard application for
admission form must be turned
in by June 2 for the ten-week
and first five-week sessions, and
by July 7 for the second five-
week session.
Additional information on the
summer program may be obtained by calling 292-5190 or visiting
the Office of Admissions and
Records, 250 West 14th Ave.
Improvement Assn. Works
On Safety, Grocery Stores
Four West Side grocery stores
were inspected by neighborhood
residents and representatives of
the Denver Department of Health
and Hospitals April 16, to see if
conditions in the stores have
changed in recent months.
Stores visited were American
Way at 1115 West llth Ave.,
K & M Market, 1044 West Colfax
Ave., DeHart's Grocery at the
intersection of West Seventh
Ave. and Santa Fe Drive; and
Lincoln Park Grocery at 1244
Mariposa St.
The visitors found conditions
"greatly improved" as compared
with the way they were several
months ago. All stores were being painted and fixed up in April.
Those who made the inspection
tour were Dr. Howard Larson
and George Barela of the Department of Health and Hospitals,
and four members of the West
Side Improvement Association-
Mrs. Frank Dabrowski, Mrs. Forrest Swanson, Mrs. Clifford Partney  and Manual Garcia.
So far nine West Side grocery
stores have been inspected by
representatives of the Improvement Association in the last six
months.
Residents of District 3 of the
West Side Improvement Association, which is from Speer
Boulevard to Santa Fe Drive between West Eighth and Twelfth
Avenues, are working on traffic safety measures in their
neighborhood.
They met at Inner City Parish
with John Burg of the city traffic department and drew up the
following  proposals:
• Remove parking on west
side of Galapago Street between
West Ninth and 12th Avenues.
• Trim bushes, trees, etc.,
at intersection of West llth
Avenue and Galapago Street
and put in more and larger
stop signs.
• Study the possibility of
placing speed limit signs on
West llth Avenue from Speer
Boulevard  to  Osage Street.
• Put a traffic signal light
at the corner of West llth Avenue and Galapago Street.
Thirty-three persons in one
block alone in the immediate
area signed the petition to get
action on these proposals.
Since the meeting, Richard
Thomas, chief traffic engineer
for the city, has informed Mrs.
Wilma Dabrowski, District 3
director, that the requested
traffic light can not be put in
AMONG      THE      SPEAKERS
^rom the West Side and from
lispano groups were John Ventura, Mrs. Wilma Dabrowski,
State Senator Roger Cisneros,
Bernard Valdez of the Welfare
Department, Fred Arguello of the
State Department of Education,
and Carlos Santisteven of the
Crusade for Justice.
All spoke in support of demands made by parents and other concerned citizens relative to
improvement of education for
West Side children.
Superintendent Gilberts and
his staff reported that $8,000
worth of material on Hispano
culture has been purchased for
the West High Library. The number of books and other items this
included was not known.
IT WAS ANNOUNCED that
there will be a summer school at
West High School "if possible,"
and that if it cannot be aranged
the city school administration
will try to provide free transportation from the West Side to summer school somewhere else -—
probably North High School.
It also was announced that
there has been a start at bilingual education, in Spanish as well
as in English, on the kindergarten and first grade levels in
some Denver schools.
SUPERINTENDE NT GILBERTS said that to date 20 Hispano teachers have been added
to the city teacher list for next
year. He said they will be placed in schools where there is an
opening for their special teaching talents. He made it clear
that he will not transfer any
West Side teacher to another
school unless the teacher asks
for a transfer. None of the new
Hispano teachers will be placed
on the West Side unless an opening develops.
It seemed that the superintendent of schools did not appreciate
some of the questions asked by
Mr. Chavez and did not want to
answer them. However, the
West Side audience was courteous and attentive, and there
were few outbreaks in the long
meeting.
JAMES   D.   VOORHEES,   JR.,
chairman of the board, thanked
the many who attended on the
cold, rainy night for their cooperation and willingness to work
on the problems of the schools.
He said he hoped the board could
have more community meetings
with West Siders in the future.
Other board members present
were A. Edgar Benton, William
G. Berge, Mrs. Rachel B. Noel
and Dr. John H. Amesse.
immediately but that it will
be  considered for next year.
Mrs. Dabrowski, who also is
president of the Improvement
Association, called the district
meeting because of the number
of accidents in the area of Galapago Street and West llth Ave-
nues