A ¥ i i a —————————l by the Rev. Charles H. Gilbert Nothing like good neighbors! When I had to get a new ' gasoline roto-tiller machine from downtoyyn the men there helped load#ie thing into our car trunk. Now in my mind I have often figured how by man- ipulating with blocks I could ' hoist a heavy load a bit at a time up.and a little higher and then over the edge on to waiting blocks/below. And then cause no strain nor damage. But when someone is around I can no longer show ‘off my super- strength! So when Cathy and I got home with our purchase Cathy would not let me do any bit-by-bit hoisting business. We called on Walter Placek'who willingly did the big man sgiff as I looked on. And the prefdy red chug-chug has learned how to behave on these premises. Cathy is a good plough-man again. The lawn has to be mowed all around and Cathy does not approve of my doing that. So she knows how ‘to do part by part and then do something to rest her lawn-mowing muscles. Such as, for instance, picking up wheelbarrow loads of stone from the lawn and wheeling them over to & pile of dirt and stone adorninys the end of our driveway. We are little by little doing things with that pile. So that is the way to rest from mowing. (Reminds me of how I used to rest my horse in the old days on the road--when we came to a hill I let my horse walk up the hill to rest instead of trotting as I always wanted him to do the rest of the time!) It’s nice to know how to rest without wasting too much time doing nothing! Desk work can be awfully tiring and so I some- times rest by fussing and tinkering around. For instance, one of my new projects I began while getting the place ready for the recent evacuation that took place just ahead of the flood. I knew some of that machine digging ‘would be outside our kit¢®en window, and the bird feeder which was on a tall pipe to which I had pulleys rigged to convey a box of seeds from the window to the feeder. But that hadg% come down so ditches coul®Ybe dug from the cellar wall to the enormous pit which was to receive the enormous tank. I figured I would erect the same feeder and pole over to the left side instead of straight out front from the window. That would give Cathy a chance to see and identify the birds at their meals while we are having ours. And so I rebuilt the feeder house from its roof down! And set the pole firmly in the ground between the mulberry tree and the forsythia bush, leaving us a view of the birds that come to the evergreen before hunting up their cafeteria. I put a new plate on the bottom of the floor of the feeding station all ready to have the pipe screw into-that plate. All of these doings took several times of doing as rests before going back t®tlesk-work. Desk work of one kind or another is a nice occupation for a man in his ‘eighties! But one can get tired at that and that is why little tinkering jobs come in for helping a rest period from becoming a bore! Well, the f@uding station was all ready; "tad hefted it to know how much of a job it would be to set it up on that pipe. In my mind I could see myself steering the placement of the feeder house od fastening it top of that pole. I thought it would be easier to screw the plate on the floor base and then set the house on the plate and fasten that with the screws that fitted it. Easier than trying to juggle the house while trying to make the pipe thread into the plate. So I thought! At any rate that job was gc’ 3 to have more than just Cathy mentation! have to have a neighbor or wo. Now just for the fun of it and to keep herself from boredom after her own work was done, and also just because she was a good neighbor, Mrs. Harris from across the road had been king a hand at picking up Fone from the grassland and The Early Bird Gets the Space! If you are planning a social event and wish to submit copy and-or a picture to the news- paper, please call us and let us know in advance. We'll save a space for your news, thereby assuring you of a slot on our women’s page. throwing them into Cathy's wheelbarrow. The two girls to- gether had been making our new lawn where the excavation had finally been finished look like a real country estate. She saw what I had done with the bird feeder project. I suggested to her that when her husband came home perhaps he would help Cathy and me put the feeder housing-development (that is a good and common term - around our country recently!) together. So she told him. And like the good neighbor they both are he came over and got under the bird cafeteria and with Cathy also helping to steer the building into place and get a bolt in place to steady it we finally achieved the purpose for which the birds and some squirrels had been watching and waiting. How could we get along without that kind of neighbors? I got some seeds on the floor of the feeder so the blessed ent. © ament po “would know they were .. < their restaurant in business again. It would be some later time before I would get figured out how to rig up the line and pulleys to supply the business from the kitchen window. Well, I could work my brains out at that part of the project while resting from physical activity. And of course I get me an afternoon nap while waiting for the mail to come, and while digesting my lunch! First of all I got a new length of nylon clothes line. That is really tough stuff (should have written ‘‘tough stough” for my English to be consistent.) I got 30 feet of it. When I got my first line several years ago I was told to singe the ends to prevent ravelling. So that is what I did this time. Then I began rigging up the pulleys and the feeding station and figuring how to arrange the dumping mech- anism, and mounting the pully at the window end for loading. It was an easy matter to install a hook on a board along the back of the feeder platform to hang the outer pully on. At the win- dow end I wanted something different from the usual hook on the side of the window frame for the loading pully. I thought it might be better if somehow the pully could be mounted a little more in front of the window itself. A rod across the window to be fastened at both ends to the window frames. Always I have alot of junk stuff on hand that is kept for use ‘sometime, some way.” I rummaged around and found the rod which apparently had something to do with heating the water in our old electric water heater long dis- carded. Incidentally, if you enameled tank-like thing out at the edge of the garden, that is our mulch silo. We’ve put our garbage, anything that would decay into soil stuff, with a cover on it. We’ve dumped lawn clippings as well as garbage stuff settles down and hasn’t been full yet! Meant to say that this silo is the outer enameled casing of the water heater. Which brings me to the point of finding the rod to go across the window opening. The heating element was crusted over with mineral deposits, and the metal had never rusted. I mounted that on two hooks and then from a threaded rod I bent a yoke to hold the pully at this end and bolted it to the rod and hung the pully. It works, takes seeds out, dumps them there and is pulled back home to the window for refill. The birds agree! (Photo by James Kozemchak) Lake-Lehman will participate in four educational assistance programs this year, including S.P.E.E.D., the Vocational Education Act, E.S.E.A. Title I and N.D.E.A. Title III. The S.P.E.E.D. program, operated under the auspices of the Bureau of Labor and In- dustry, Bureau of Employment Security, has provided em- ployment for 17 persons at the Scholarship Applications Ready for Flood Victims Special flood applications are now available throughout Penn- sylvania for students who are seeking scholarship assistance to attend college or trade, tech- nical or nursing school this fall, it was announced today by Kenneth R. Reeher, executive director of the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency. The agency made the special forms available effective today to provide the means for students, = whose parents sustained financial or ‘other losses during the flood to attend classes during the upcoming scholastic year. Mr. Reeher, speaking for the PHEAA Board of Directors, urged prospective students not to drop out of school for financial reasons without at least exploring the possibility of state scholarship aid. “PHEAA and the General Assembly want to do everything possible to prevent interruption of the student’s education,” Mt. Reeher explained. Many students who had planned to attend school had not previously applied for state scholarship aid. Since the flood, their status may have changed, and to encourage them to file the special applications, the forms were prepared specially and placed in numerous locations throughout the state. Applications may be obtained from any state legislator, or from any of the Regional Of- fices of PHEAA, which are located in Philadelphia, Pitt- sburgh, Greensburg, Sharon, Millersville, Scranton, Williamsport, Doylestown, Pottsville, and the Agency office in Harrisburg. Those students who already had applied for state scholar- ships will automatically receive through the mail a form to submit showing flood-related losses. The special forms now available at the aforementioned locations are for those who have not yet applied for state aid. high school building to assist in cleaning the buildings and grounds which were used to house and feed flood evacuees. The maintenance program suffered this summer in that custodians were devoting their time to duties related to the evacuees. Consequently, time was lost in preparing the building for the opening of school. Under the National Defense Education Act, Title III, badly needed materials and equip- ment will be purchased for use in the industrial arts depart- ment. A drafting laboratory will provide a facility to offer a variety of drafting courses on an elective basis. This laboratory will be the foun- dation for a visual com- munications area that will become a permanent part of the industrial arts curriculum. This new equipment will enlarge students’ visual concepts and allow for more experimentation and discovery. An E.S.E.A. Title I Program for reading improvement services for students in K-9 has been submitted to the Depart- ment of Education in the amount of $58,838.00. This program will supplement the educational process for those students in the Lake-Lehman School District who are eligible. The program consists of assisting students in new and tried methods and techniques. Staff members involved will be: Linda Baker, Gerilyn Pawloski, Michael Toole, Marianne Blessner, Susan Baer and Gail Serfass. Equipment has been ordered under the Vocational Education Act to help business education students improve their typing and shorthand skills, and allow them to have experiences and develop proficiencies with machines that are being used in the modern business world. The acquisition of a shorthand laboratory will assist educationally disadvantaged students who cannot acquire the necessary skill and speed in shorthand by providing them with an opportunity to become proficient in transcription. Plywood p Exterior 1 3%’ Thick and up Page 7 Students enrolled in the business administration program at Wilkes-Barre sity are given an opportunity to put into practice the theory they learn in class during their first two terms. During the spring term of each academic year, associate degree students in the class of marketing 801 taught by in- structor John P. Cancro are permitted to contract with the instructor for any grade they wish to receive. According to Mr. Cancro, each student signs a written contract spelling out exactly the terms of the agree- ment. “I first tried this idea two years ago,’ said Mr. Cancro, ‘and it worked so well that I have used it every spring.” The concept is to allow the student to work as hard as he desires. Minimum require- ments of the contract in order to achieve a ““C” grade are daily readiness for case discussion, five or six written cases, and a final written case. It follows that the higher the grade the more rigid the requirements and in order to achieve an “A” plete the above and, in addition, present several reading ar- ticles, complete an original paper in market research, give oral presentations of research papers in class, lead discussion of Business Week articles, be prepared daily for discussion of readings or articles, and submit a term paper in marketing on an approved topic. Most of the associate degree students con- tract for an “A” grade and agree to the completing of an original project in marketing research. Mr. Cancro stated that the signing of the contract does not automatically assure the student of the grade he wants. ‘Performance of the agreement by the student must be academically acceptable to me or I consider it a breach of the contract and do not feel obligated to assign the grade originally agreed upon.” An example of the work these students are able to complete as they are wrapping up their studies in the business program at the local campus is the marketing research project undertaken by two students working together-Harry J. Galletly, Dallas, and Michael Shea, Brooklyn, N.Y. They elected to do some research into the buying habits of local supermarker shoppers. After determining their objec- tives, the two students designed a method by which they could analyze the traits of these shoppers. They decided upon a questionnaire containing ques- tions related to their project. When they had completed their questionnaire, it contained 23 questions dealing with such topics as: special promotions of the supermarket; price levels; quality perception of the con- sumer; satisfaction of the con- sumer; and preference of store brands versus name brands, ete. Many of this paper’s readers probably saw and cooperated with these students in their course work. With the permis- sion of supermarket personnel in the Back Mountain area, the boys distributed on a pre-deter- mined basis, nearly 500: ques- tionnaires. To allow the study to reach a crosssection of shop- pers, the forms were distributed for a limited time each day over a period of one week. Shoppers were selected at random to fill in the questionnaires in the privacy of their own homes. Approximately 44 percent of the survey forms were returned in the postage-free envelopes supplied by the university to the students. The results, after careful compilation by the two stu- dents, were then distributed to each of the stores that parti- cipated in the research project. The outcomes were coded so that each store did not know what data applied to any other store but its own. (That is, store A was aware of what data ap- plied to it but could not identify what data applied to stores B, C, D, etc.). This procedure was possible because the students had color-coded the returns so that they knew which store, what day, and what time of day the questionnaires were distri- buted. Class discussion of the project proved to be both interesting and lively and the students learned a great deal about mar- keting, research, and people. Many of the other topics were equally interesting especially from an academic standpoint as the students learned to go out on their own to research a theory they might have. Some of their theories and proved to be valid while others were contradicted by their re- search. “Allin all, I was well pleased with this year’s class,” said Mr. Cancro, ‘‘and I expect that this year’s students will also per- form excellently when their turn for Marketing 801 arrives.” campus confirm Mr. Cancro’s theory that their classwork used in practical application proves to be most helpful upon com- pleting their associate degree and applying for positions in the business world. ANNOUNCING BOOK ® Roy E. Morgan ® John C. Bush ® John Kachurick ® William Wagner ® Anthony J. Mussari ® Earl Watson ® Daniel Stadulis ® Howard Biederman AS iN wn a ES
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