DAILY NEWS PEOPLE JUDY BRANDLIN.Byline: - Mike Chmielecki Stone Soup
The name might sound like a particularly indigestible in·di·gest·i·ble adj. Difficult or impossible to digest: an indigestible meal. in appetizer, but it's actually a child-care program started by Judy Brandlin close to 14 years ago. The name comes from a fairy tale A Fairy Tale (AKA A Magic Tale) - Fantastic ballet in 1 Act, with choreography by Marius Petipa, and music by (?) Richter. First presented by students of the Imperial Ballet School on April 4/16 (Julian/Gregorian calendar dates), 1891 in the in which a village, close to starvation, is visited by three soldiers Three Soldiers is a 1920[1] novel by the American writer and critic John Dos Passos. It is one of the key American war novels of the First World War, and remains a classic of the realist war novel genre. H.L. . The soldiers ask the people to contribute one item each to a large pot, and - because the soldiers have nothing to offer - proceed to place stones in the pot. The townspeople then add celery, carrots and other ingredients, and soon enough soup is made to feed everyone in the village. Stone Soup took on the name because, with the help of school districts, community contributions and low fees to parents, varied child-care programs were able to operate in communities where none were feasible before. In honor of Brandlin's long-running achievement, the YWCA YWCA abbr. Young Women's Christian Association YWCA n abbr (= Young Women's Christian Association) → Asociación f de Jóvenes Cristianas YWCA of Greater Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. presented her with a 2000 Silver Achievement Award in Education at its recent Leadership Luncheon. RESIDENCE: Bel-Air. BORN AND RAISED IN: Minnesota. Brandlin went to college in Iowa and also lived in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden before moving to Los Angeles in 1978. OCCUPATION: Brandlin is founder and president of Encino-based Stone Soup Child Care Program, which offers services to low-income families in 16 school districts throughout California. The programs, held before and after school and during the summer, focus on the arts - including dance, theater and brush painting. MARITAL STATUS marital status, n the legal standing of a person in regard to his or her marriage state. : Married. CHILDREN: Eight stepchildren, 13 grandchildren. HOW DID YOU GET INVOLVED?: Before Brandlin started Stone Soup, she was a volunteer for the United Way. She co-chaired a child-care committee, and while there, saw a video about high school dropouts. From that video, she learned that ``the kids already have formed in their minds by the third grade whether or not they're going to succeed. It made me realize so many do not have a positive experience in school,'' she says. ``Child care has been on the lips of every politician,'' she adds, ``but they adopt a Band-Aid approach. Latchkey kids certainly should be treated better; we could prevent a lot of the failures.'' WHY DO YOU VOLUNTEER?: ``We all want to give back if we can.'' MOST DIFFICULT DAILY TASK: `'The administrative part of my job is not that exciting. I'd much rather be out with the children, but sometimes I'm office-bound - signing checks, doing reports, that kind of thing.'' HOW DO YOU DEFINE SUCCESS?: ``I define it as enjoying what you're doing, no matter where you're doing it or what you're doing it in.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: no caption (Judy Brandlin) |
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