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Linda Annable Counselor at New England Home for Little Wanderers
Class of 1960
Falmouth Enterprise, Tuesday, April 24, 1962, Page 7
Young Pocasset Woman Finds Rewarding Career
Miss Linda Annable, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Annable of Pocasset is a counselor at the New England Home for Little Wanderers in Boston.
The home, a United Fund agency, was established In 1865 as a refuge for homeless waifs. It has kept pace with the times, however, and Its services now Include foster home care, diagnostic study, temporary shelter, camp programs, scholarship programs and placement of children in adoptive homes.
Linda is engaged In the diagnostic study program. Thirty emotionally disturbed or maladjusted children from 4 to 14 are at the Home to be "tested, observed, studied and diagnosed, in other words, "understood". It is the job of the counselors, working with psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers, to determine what each child's problem is and then to decide how best it should be treated.
The children remain at the Home about six weeks for the study during which time they eat, sleep, play, talk, laugh, fight and generally act like children. Often the most relevant diagnosing of a little girl takes place while she is skipping rope with the other girls or perhaps not skipping rope with the others.
Linda has also found it surprising how much one can learn about children while playing baseball with them.
Linda said she finds the work challenging and rewarding, and that she can think of nothing more satisfying than playing a part in rehabilitation of young people. She plans to make social work her career.
Linda was graduated from Bourne High School and has always been active in church work.
During her summer vacation when a junior she was chosen as one of 16 girls from the United States to do volunteer work for six weeks at a camp in Vermont for retarded children, a program of the Congregational Church to which she belonged at that time.
After graduation from high school she worked for a year and a half in a volunteer service program through the United Church of Christ, which includes the Congregational churches, at the Caroline Mission, a settlement house in the slum area of St. Louis.
Linda has been accepted at the Illinois college at Jackson, Illinois where she plans to major in social work.
Young Pocasset Woman Finds Rewarding Career
Miss Linda Annable, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Annable of Pocasset is a counselor at the New England Home for Little Wanderers in Boston.
The home, a United Fund agency, was established In 1865 as a refuge for homeless waifs. It has kept pace with the times, however, and Its services now Include foster home care, diagnostic study, temporary shelter, camp programs, scholarship programs and placement of children in adoptive homes.
Linda is engaged In the diagnostic study program. Thirty emotionally disturbed or maladjusted children from 4 to 14 are at the Home to be "tested, observed, studied and diagnosed, in other words, "understood". It is the job of the counselors, working with psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers, to determine what each child's problem is and then to decide how best it should be treated.
The children remain at the Home about six weeks for the study during which time they eat, sleep, play, talk, laugh, fight and generally act like children. Often the most relevant diagnosing of a little girl takes place while she is skipping rope with the other girls or perhaps not skipping rope with the others.
Linda has also found it surprising how much one can learn about children while playing baseball with them.
Linda said she finds the work challenging and rewarding, and that she can think of nothing more satisfying than playing a part in rehabilitation of young people. She plans to make social work her career.
Linda was graduated from Bourne High School and has always been active in church work.
During her summer vacation when a junior she was chosen as one of 16 girls from the United States to do volunteer work for six weeks at a camp in Vermont for retarded children, a program of the Congregational Church to which she belonged at that time.
After graduation from high school she worked for a year and a half in a volunteer service program through the United Church of Christ, which includes the Congregational churches, at the Caroline Mission, a settlement house in the slum area of St. Louis.
Linda has been accepted at the Illinois college at Jackson, Illinois where she plans to major in social work.
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