The Fayette

County Civitan Club presented a check for $7,118 to Lana Carr, executive

director of the Joseph Sams School in Fayetteville.

The amount

represented $3,618 from the Fayette Civitans and $3,500 from the Georgia

District North Civitans.

Carr thanked

the local group for being the first community club in the county to support

the school, which began in 1984. She said that she was a special education

teacher at Booth Middle School and was Joseph Sams' last teacher before

his death. He was the son of Dr. Jim and Marie Sams, Fayetteville.

Carr became

interested in working with the school and now serves as its executive

director.

She conducted

a slide presentation of the various children and their activities at the

school, to the tune of "Because You Love Me."

"It will

take $500,000," she said, "to pay off the existing loan"

on the new building the school moved into last fall. Thoughts are being

given to finishing the basement for more space and to adding a modified

challenge course in the rear. A capital campaign will be underway shortly.

Special computers

have been acquired and those students who do not have dexterity in their

fingers to type can control it by placing their hands on the screen.

"Our next

goal," Carr added, "is to begin taking babies at 18 months.

It is important to begin training those with physical disabilities as

soon as possible."