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ACADEMY AT SWIFT RIVER AT 40 STUDENTS 
Brian A. Ray, Director of Admissions for the Academy at Swift River in Massachusetts, 800- 258-1770, sister school to Mount Bachelor Academy in Bend, Oregon, announced on November 30 they have grown to 40 students, with a staff of 34 professionals. He also announced their Passages program (Base Camp) is nearing completion of their 1,000 square foot winter cabin. Also, plans are coming together for first student trip to Costa Rica scheduled for March of this year. 

DEATHS FROM RESTRAINTS DOCUMENTED 
In a five-day series, under the title of Deadly Restraint, a Hartford Courant Investigative Report, published from October 11, 1998 to October 15, 1998, the results of their investigation on deaths from restraints of patients, mostly in hospitals and treatment centers. 

LIFE~DESIGNS AT FOUR STUDENTS 
Randy and Colleen Russell, owners of Life~Designs, a new program for 18 and older students, 509-445- 0185, located in Northeast Washington, reports they have four students and still have openings for January. LOVELAND FARMS EVALUATE WINTER COURSES Larry Culp, Director of Loveland Farms, in Noxon, Montana, 406-847-5518, announced that as usual this year, they had stopped running wilderness programs with the beginning of hunting season, and in January will evaluate the weather to determine when it will allow them to start again. Culp also announced they currently are at their capacity of eight girls in their year-round Family Living program. 

DESISTO APPROACHING MAXIMUM CAPACITY 
On December 2, 1998, Michael DeSisto, founder and owner of The DeSisto School in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 413-298-3776, announced “DeSisto School has reached a point that we are temporarily suspending new admissions. This has been done for two reasons: The first being that DeSisto is approaching its maximum capacity, and the second was that due to our zealous admissions department, we enrolled around forty kids in a few months. Thus, we elected to give our students and parents a chance to acclimate themselves to each other before adding more students. Within a week, however, I plan to have the school actively recruiting students again, as during our final terms, several groups will be away from the main campus.” 

TELECAMPUS ONLINE 
Telecampus Online is a database containing thousands of courses offered by institutions throughout the world for elementary, secondary, undergraduate and graduate students. It is divided into subject areas, with links to the credit granting institutions. 

FAMILY SCHOOL EXPECTATIONS 
Robin Ducey, Principal of the Family Foundation School, founded in 1977 at Hancock, New York, 914-887- 5213, announced in their July 1998 Newsletter that their long-term policy of requiring students to average ten points higher in each course than the New York state minimum standard “has produced phenomenal results.” He asserts that by raising expectations, the students have average twenty points higher than the state standard. 

PAUL SMITH’S FAMILY ADDITION 
Paul Smith, Director of the Catherine Freer Wilderness Therapy Expeditions (CFWTE), headquartered in Albany, Oregon, 541-926-7252, and his wife Diane celebrated the arrival of Libby Smith, born on August 24, 1998, weighing 7 lbs and 3 oz. 

CHARGES FILED AGAINST ARIZ. BOYS RANCH 
On March 2, 1998, a 16- year-old youth collapsed and died at the Arizona Boys Ranch in Oracle, Arizona, a bootcamp style program for adjucidated youth. Charges were filed against 5 staff on Oct. 23, 1998 HARE KRISHNA ADMISSIONS The Youth Today Newspaper, in their November 1998 edition, reported an admission by an official journal of the Hare Krishna movement that in the 1970s and 1980s there was “rampant beatings, sexual molestation, and various other forms of physical and psychological abuse In Hare Krishna boarding schools.” The report was written by Sociologist E. Burke Rockford Jr. of Middlebury College, Vermont. It reported that about 2,000 children went through those boarding schools. 

S.O.A.R. CAPS ENROLLMENT NEXT SUMMER 
Jonathan Jones, Ex. Dir. Of SOAR, Success Oriented Achievement Realized, headquartered in Balsam, North Carolina, 828-456-3435, announced that enrollment will be capped at 400 next summer. The purpose is to allow them “to focus on quality over quantity and remain effective risk managers in the field.” SOAR has been operating adventure programs for LD and ADD preteens, teens and adults since 1975. The 1998 summer season saw 400 students in 32 difference courses. 

CHANGES AT NEW DOMINION (VA & MD) 
Greg Coleman is the New Program Director at New Dominion in Virginia, 804-983-2051, replacing the previous Director Chris Yates who left to develop a new school called Discovery School with Al Jacobs and Don Williams. Al Romaine, who has been the Admissions Director for New Dominion in Maryland, 301-478-5721, has been appointed to be the new Director there, replacing Tim Snyder, who left to explore other options. 

ALTERNATIVE VIEW OF ADD(H) 
Teresa Gallagher, from Connecticut, has developed a web site devoted to exploring positive and alternative view of ADD/ADHD. 

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