It all started when Maude Frumpter, widow of the millionaire shoelace king, visited Summerhill. A skeptical interviewer gets the story from Freedom Hill's director, Dr. Ivan Insight. (Editor)

Studies the effects of a group leader's use of disparaging humor (defined in terms of the target: self-disparaging, superior-targeted, subordinate-targeted, and no humor) on perceptions of that leader. (SR)

Identified nine forms of gerontological humor in literature from classical times to the present: the foibles of frustrating age sui generis, expressions of what it means to grow old, relativity of age, physical decline, mental decline, social relationships, youth and age, black humor, and the shattering of old age stereotypes. (Author/BL)

Records an interview with Joel Goodman, founder and director of the HUMOR Project at Saratoga Institute. Offers counselors suggestions for using humor as a tool in counseling situations. (ABB)

In three experiments boys and girls, aged 7 to 9, were played humorous recordings through headphones in dyadic and solitary conditions to investigate companion influences on humorous laughter and smiling. Interaction data discussed. (JH)

In keeping with a model of intelligence that identifies at least 12 intelligence "talents," formal and informal intelligence or talent assessments have been developed. This paper presents some of these informal instruments that can be used to assess convergent and divergent forms of intelligence. These nontraditional instruments have been designed…

A classroom teacher's whimsical approach to what the Black Revolution hath wrought." (Author)

This satirical essay proposes an institution of higher learning that would prepare students to become swimmers" and swimming instructors. Curriculum, teaching methods, student selection and evaluation are modelled on certain contemporary teacher-training institutes. (PD)

Three papers facetiously dealing with college administration. These papers are part of a book by the above named author, a professor at New York University. (MF)

So that children will understand the habits, attitudes and mores of educational researchers, author paraphrases and quotes from B. F. Beebe's African Elephants. (RY)

Humorous essay recounts a mythical relevant curriculum. (MF)

Three incidents which elucidate the limits of laughter are described. Most persons enjoy humor as comic relief, but when humor strikes a blow at something they hold dear, they find it very hard to laugh. People are upset by an irreverent attitude toward things they hold in esteem. (RM)

This humorous sketch contains speculation about what teacher education programs might be like if they were conducted in heaven. (PP)