QUOTE: Education Is a Progressive Discovery of Our Own Ignorance

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July28, 2015

MARCA INDUSTRIES

Today Cheryl Plaster will bring us up-to-date on MARCA, /the Marion Area Retarded Children and Adults, which became known by its acronym, MARCA. The organization began the first school for the developmentally disabled in a single room at the Children’s Home. There were 12 students in the original class and the first teacher was Charlotte Lister. In 1967 with the passage of Ohio House Bill 169, each of Ohio’s 88 counties was required to form a county board of mental retardation and developmental disabilities, a separate board was formed to oversee a sheltered workshop and MARCA Industries was born. The name MARCA Industries is actually a salute to the founders of Marion County’s original school for children with disabilities.

MARCA Industries today is designed, implemented and evaluated with active involvement from the individuals being served and work in different areas of production at the Main, Mac Building, and Beilder Center. They also place individuals on jobs in the community in the form of lawn maintenance and janitorial services. Each job provides meaningful work, responsibility, and independence for people with developmental disabilities

The invocation will be given by Bill Probst and Julie Prettymanwill greet you.

QUOTE: "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

Will Durant

"Service Above Self”

Past Presidents

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Past District Governors