“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(On Friday, November 4, Jane called about a job teaching nursery school at the JCC. She was given an appointment with Mr. Miller for Tuesday, November 8, by Gladys Austin. On November 8, Gladys wrote out the memo slip used as object, bearing the name of Mrs. Methinitus, another teacher with whom Jane would work. The name is written in ordinary black pencil. Jane met Nancy Methinitus on Wednesday, November 9, and began teaching Monday, November 14 at the JCC. Sometime after Gladys Austin wrote out the memo slip on Nov. 8, the folded slip found its way into my jacket pocket.

(“and an initial explosion, or first-time happening.” Jane said this refers either to her trial run on November 9, or her first formal day at school on November 14. The explosion reference is amusing, and quite possibly refers to the blast of sound coming from 18 children under the age of five. Jane said the children are very noisy. A tape recording she has made confirms this amply.

(The object does have to do with group accomplishment, since it introduced Jane to Nancy Methinitus, and the two women work together teaching nursery school.

(The head and silhouette mentioned here reminded Jane that one of the projects she and Nancy planned for the nursery school class involved the students making silhouette drawings of their heads, as Christmas gifts for their respective parents. The plan was for Jane and Nancy to do the actual tracing of profile, with the students filling them in, etc.