"Personal growth"
Barnstable Patriot, June 10, 1965
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Homemaker Service Meeting Saturday
Getting together for the first time since their formal training courses Ilontcniakcrs of the Mill Cape and Outer Cape will assemble from 4 to 8 p.m., on Saturday, June 12, at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth F. Cole, Mayflower Heights in Provincetown, for a June Jamboree.
Dr. Samuel Klauber of Provincetown will be guest speaker and discussion leader.
Homemakers will meet with their director, Mrs. Harriet Cameron, and Outer Cap.1 Supervisor, Mrs. Elizabeth Cole, to participate in an informal sharing of on-the-job extMsvlonpod
Homemakers are assigned to a Wide variety ot home health aid casos, ranging from help with the newborn to the assistance needed to keep the eltleiiy In their homes.
Their daily challenges have put to the test their seminar style training received In 0> leans in February and in Hyannis in April of this year.
Since the first Homemaker was placed on a case all others available for service in this season have Ljotie to work.
Hours of service have quadrupled in the month of May over the Hirst ?nonth of operations.
Dr. Klauber, radiologist and genera] practitioner, will gear his remarks to Homemakers and their many possibilities for personal growth through their work experiences.
A Pot Luck supper will be served at 8 p.m.
Amalia's Story, Chapter Sixty-Two
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
1000 Characters About My Mother #15:
"What happened after the Cub Scout Banquet?"
"That would have been in March of 1965 . . . "
"Here's something! First published April 1965 -- "
"Louis Jacobucci, Casework Treatment of the Neglectful Mother."
"Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services, Volume 46, Issue 4."
"Oh, look! They had references!"
“The Protective Service Caseworker: How Does He Survive Job Pressures?”
“Use of Homemaker Service in Families That Neglect Their Children."
“The Team Approach in Protective Service.”
"Character Disorders in Parents of Delinquents."
"There's more."
"That's OK."
Presently . . .
"Loneliness and Isolation in Child Neglect."
"Dispositional Empathy in Neglectful Mothers and Mothers at High Risk for Child Physical Abuse."
"The Training of Neglectful and Unsatisfactory Mothers."
"The Socialization of Emotional Understanding: A Comparison of Neglectful and Nonneglectful Mothers and Their Children."
"In ...
"What?!"
"I didn't say anything."
"How can you say such a thing?"
"I'm not going through this again."
"What do you mean?"
"All this -- denial. I'm done. I'm just going to say exactly what happened as I remember it."
"It never happened!"
"The reason I know it happened is that I renember it. I was eight years old. My brother was twelve years old. I was able to recover the date because I remember at some point in the week preceding the event, our father for some reason had told us, I'm going to be speaking at the Unitarian Church this Sunday at 11:00. It did not seem weird to me at the time, because he was always out of the house anyway. Plus all he used to when he was home was harangue me, so good."
"You lie."
"In fact, I remember thinking, it made sense that he would get something going on Sundays, because that was the only time he was ever even around anymore. Weekdays he was working, of course, and weeknights he was always at one of his many, many important community activities."
"You are delusional."
"Then, I found this article, and it all ...
"I have a thesis. My thesis is: In any woman's life, having children would have to be the most significant event. So, in my mother's story -- "
"Her family wasn't really any different from any of the other families."
"Yes."
"In what way?"
"She and her husband were both very active in community affairs. Both her children went to school."
"What else?"
"They were both boys?"
"Anything else?"
"No. That's it."
"So you said, that one way in which your mother's family wasn't really any different from any of the other families, was that she and her husband were both very active in community affairs. Can you tell me a little more about that?"
"Oh, sure. There was always something going on. Cub Scouts, she was like Den Mother of her older son's Cub Scout Pack. Pack 54. Plus the Comedy Club. Plus I'm pretty sure, she was involved in the kindergarten. She and her husband both. And politics. It was the Sixties."
"Just normal 60's Mom stuff."
"In any case, it's time to forget the past."
