UT Lab School turns 91, looking forward to 100
A letter from the chair of the Department of Human Development & Family Sciences, Stephen T. Russell, and the director of the Priscilla Pond Flawn Child & Family Laboratory, Amy Bryan.
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A 90-Year Milestone at the Priscilla Pond Flawn Child and Family Laboratory
Young children play on the porch of the original UT Lab School in 1928
On this morning, newspaper headlines herald Ma Ferguson's last days in the Texas capitol, Charles Lindbergh's plans to bypass the Atlantic by air, and Charlie Chaplin's divorce and tax evasion woes.
Who Learns at the Lab School?
Reading to children at the UT Lab School. Image credited to Vivian Abagiu
Everyone's engaged in the Lab School's Pecan Room. Fledgling engineers debate the construction of a block tower. Bookworms explore bright pictures unfolded on laps. Clothing tie-dyers fiddle with the gigantic plastic mitts covering hands. Artists converse while snipping florescent straws with blunt scissors.
