Cooper Graduate Has Artwork on Display at Houston Holocaust Museum - Inspired by human courage and survival, Sarah Wiernicki’s artwork depicting her grandfather’s experiences as a Holocaust survivor and World
War II resistance fighter are on display at the Holocaust Museum Houston. Sarah
recently graduated from The John Cooper School.
The drawings, penciled for her Advanced Placement art concentration, weave in
details of her grandfather's life from an orphaned boy to a Polish Home Army
resistance fighter, to his time in a concentration camp and eventual freedom.
The six pieces center on John Wiernicki’s experiences. One shows a blue-tinged forest scene of the woods he used to hide
in to escape German soldiers, overlaid with a pencil drawing of a native plant
called sidesaddle, a reference to John
’s code name, Stirrups. Another piece shows
the railroad tracks leading to Auschwitz, splattered with red. Another is a
charcoal drawing of a pile of shoes, the notorious death camp remains, with
John
’s tattooed prisoner number in the background.
Sarah hopes that her work, which won second place and a $1,500 scholarship at
The Woodlands Waterway Art Festival, will transcend generations to keep the
story of the Holocaust alive. Sarah will attend Carnegie-Mellon University in
Pittsburgh this fall.
Carlin Speech Pathology Mentors Two Summer Interns - Carlin Speech Pathology & Associates awarded summer internships to Angela Gauronskas from the University of Texas at Austin and Rachel Parker from Louisiana State University. Internships are offered each summer to junior
and senior college students studying communication disorders.
Ellen Carlin, M.S. CCC/SLP, director of Carlin Speech Pathology & Associates, said, “We are providing these college students an opportunity to learn language
facilitation techniques first hand within our language nursery program. Speech
pathology is an exciting field and leads to wonderful and fulfilling career. We
are delighted to have these students work with us this summer to observe the
therapy sessions and interact with the children in order to gain field
experience at an intern level.
”
The interns participated in garden activities and storytime along with other
activities for children aged 16-24 months.
College interns Rachel Parker (center) from Louisiana State University and
Angela Gauronskas (right) from The University of Texas at Austin, observe story
time during a group language techniques session facilitated by Ellen Carlin,
M.S. CCC/SLP (left).
Roslynn, 2, points to a character in the book to practice telling it what to do
and say, while Helen, 2, looks on.
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