use by the library.
by Joan Kingsbury
“It’s good to keep ac-
tive” says Judi Blase, this
year’s president of the
Back Mountain Jay-C-
ettes. For the past two
years Judi has been very
involved in the Jay-C-
ette’s many community
service projects.
Her first major respon-
sibility was chairing the
hobby and craft tent at the
Fall Fair. This is a
tremendous task
requiring hours of
volunteer work. Planning
the booth’s activities
begins in January for the
following September. Judi
jokingly said she felt like
moving into the tent
during the tenure of the
fair, the year she was
chairman. Although she is
not serving as chairman
this year, Judi is assisting
chairman Maryann
Popielarz.
The Back Mountain
Jay-C-ettes is an
organization of women
ages 18 to 35. According to
Judi, presently there are
about 22 active members.
The club meets the second
Monday of the month at
various places in the Back
Mountain. Open to all
women, the requirement
that a member have a
husband belonging to the
Jaycees has been
eliminated. Although the
club meets only once a
month Judi says that
between community ser-
vice work and committee
meetings she devotes at
least three nights a week
to Jay-C-ette activities.
Last year the club
brought Santa Claus to the
Back Mountain via
helicopter. Area children
had the opportunity to tell
Santa about , their
Christmas wishes and
have their pictures taken
at the nominal fee of $1
without their parents
having to take them into
Wilkes-Barre to do so.
This year Back Mountain
children will be able to
visit Santa at one of the
area schools. A small
Christmas store providing
inexpensive gifts is being ,
The children’s booth at
the Back Mountain
Memorial Library
Auction is maintained by
the Jay-C-ettes providing
lots of interesting items to
catch a youngster’s eye.
Upcoming club fund-
raisers include a car wash
to be held at McDonald’s,
a disco dance to be held in
September and a flea
market in October. At
Eastertime, the Jay-C-
ettes sell Gertrude Hawk
Belonging to the club is
not ‘“‘all work and no
spring, The Dallas Post
featured the Rev. W.
James Pall in the ‘Know
Your Neighbor’ column.
At that time he was
planning a summer in
Israel at an ar-
chaeological field school.
Pall has returned from
the ‘dig’ and related
travel and in the following
article tells about his
experiences as a volun-
teer archaeologist and
shares some impressions
of Israel.)
by the Rev. W. James Pall
“Did you find
anything?’ ‘Dig up
anything interesting?”
“Just what did you find
there?” ‘‘Could you keep
anything that you found?”’
These and questions
like them are what people
must often ask me about
my summer at the Lahav
Research Project.
Often, those asking
seem to wait for answers
about hidden treasures; a
cache of coins, a silver
chalice or perhaps a
Lately, archaeology has
received much public
attention, thanks to King
Tut. Unfortunately. The
average archaeologist is
lucky if in .an entire
lifetime, he finds one
object worthy of the kind
of attention that young
Tut received.
What we found was
something worthy of
museum exhibition--w-
hole or restorable pot-
tery; bronze bell, loom
weights, a tiny statue, a
scarab. More often our
discoveries’ were a mass
of pottery fragments,
bones, shells and flint
stone, known colectively
as material culture.
All of this was very
systematically excava-
ted, registered, collected,
and cleaned. Then it was
‘read’ and most of it was
discarded. :
Reading material
culture and soil layers is
the key to revealing in-
formation about life and
activities in a specific
area at a specific level.
Dating is one of the
most important aspects of
this process. I have
brought some of the
discarded objects home
for ‘show and tell’. Some
of the pieces are four to
five thousand years old.
‘For. the new corner in
Mid Eastern Archaeology
the romantic notion of
fade. Getting up at four
a.m., working in 100
degree .(and higher)
On July 14 the 4-H
members and leaders
from the Riding-Ho 4-H
Club volunteered their
time and equipment to
help the Wyoming Valley
Crippled Children’s
Association ‘prepare for
their first Horse Show
held at the Lehman Show
Grounds.
They all pitched-in in
the picking of rocks from
the show ring. Those who
helped are: Marci, Evan
and Mike Brown, Robin
and Jody Casterline,
Wendy, John, Linda and
Butch Grey, Terri Hislop,
Molly Hughes, Donna Sue
James, Butch Morgan,
David and Marty Sinnott,
Bobby, Chris, Kim and
Linda McLaughlin,
Myrtle Cook, Sandy
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This is onlye one of the
community projects the
Riding-Ho 4-H Club
participates in.
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temperatures, being
constantly on guard for
the dreaded scorpion and
pit viper, all became part
of the daily routine. I
wore out two pair of work
gloves and finished off a
pair of work shoes.
"It doesn’t take long until
volunteers are asking
themselves and each
other why they have
actually paid money to do
volunteer archaeology. Is
it worth it?
Each individual must,
of course, decide whether
archaeology is worth the
time and money it
demands in spite of the
instaking process by whi
living conditions that it
offers.
I found the summer to
be one of those valuable
learnng experiences that
no classroom experience
can rival.
The obvious area of
learning is archaeology. I
have a deeper ap-
preciation for the pain-
staking process by which
ancient sites are
unearthed. Our dig was in
its third season ' this
summer,
Based on the discovery
seasdon, theories are
being tested which, if
proved, would reveal our
site as the ancient city of
Sara Barakat
in junior year
at Dickinson
Sara B. Barakat of
Dallas will begin junior
year studies at Dickinson
College with the start of
the fall semester in
September.
A history major, Sara is
the daughter of Mr. &
Mrs. Anees B. Barakat of
Sterling Ave., Dallas. She
plans to graduate from
liberal arts college in
1981.
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Rimmon. This city is
mentioned in the Biblical
books of Joshua (15:32)
and Zecharian (14:10)
Or we may be slowly
uncovering the ancient
city of Ziklag. Only time
and the help of many
volunteers for many
seasons will reveal the
truth.
Before I went to Israel,
the mid-east situation was
very difficult for me to
understand. Now, I have
friends who are Israelis
and friends who are
Palestinian Arabs. They
have helped me not to
decide which side is right
but rather to understand
and appreciate how very
complex and urgent
solutions to political:
problems are.
A weekend field trip to
the north and one to the
south game me wider
exposure to the land and
Both
trips included many
archeological sites and
cities that played
prominent roles in the
histories of both the
Jewish and Christian
communities:
It is always good to
come home again and
share my experiences. I
suppose the second most
frequently asked question
is “Will you go again?”
I can’t answer that with
certainty. My new ap-
pointment as pastor of the
Wyalusing U.M. Church
has one drawback. My
summers are not as free
as they were when I was
in the teaching ministry.
Sameday I would like to
return when the Lahav
Research Project is
completed.
Brooks
return
Brooks and Noell and
R.J., Mrs. John Lopasky
of Lehman recently
returned from a vacation
in Houston, Texas, where
they visited Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Lopasky.
Daily ‘til 5:30
play’’. Various family
activities including a
Halloween party, picnic,
and campout are held for
members = and their
families.
To promote new
membership the group
recently held a wienie
roast at the Blase’s
commercial
works in the art depart-
ment of The Times-
Leader. She is also an
Avon representative.
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decorating, baking
special birthday cakes
and raising house plants
rate high on Judi’s list of
favorite pastimes.
She proudly related that
one of her most exciting
experiences this year was
becoming Kelly Aileen
Killeen’s godmother.
Judi is a member of the
Dallas United Methodist
Church.
Sister Martha Hanlon,
R.S.N., above, has been
named Acting Dean of
Students at College
Misericordia. ~The ap-
pointment was made by
Dr. Joseph R. Fink, new
president of the college.
Formerly the Assistant
Academic Dean of
Misericordia, Sister
Martha assumed the
responsibilities of the
chief administrator for
students this month. She
succeeded. Beatrice
Yeaglin in the position.
As Dean, Sister will be
responsible for
seeing all
administrative liaison
person with Student
Government, and will
direct all student service
functions at the college.
The -latter. will include
placement and career
sonnel.
Sister is an alumna of
College Misericordia with
a B.S. in elementary
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