Casey's Kids

For 22 years John L. Casey has led parties of New York school children through the State Museum in Albany's State Education Building, faithfully explained the prehistoric skeletons and the lifelike reproductions of Cayuga and Mohawk tribesmen, in which interest is perennially strongest. Last week Guide Casey declared that he was thoroughly tired of modern moppets who lead him a romping chase through the exhibits, make sport of his educational efforts. Said he: "Kids are worse than they ever were. They used to play tag around the mastodons and the paleozoic fossils. Now they're not content unless they carve their initials in the wood exhibits and the display cases. . . . I even used to try to figure out in advance what they were going to do and then try to prevent it. But do you think that helped? Not a bit. Every move I made they were 30 seconds ahead of me." Best-behaved, observed Guide Casey, are rural students. "I can pick them out every time. They take more interest in the displays, try to see everything and learn more than any of the others."

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