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Bluebirds have returned to the Back
Mountain area and ecology students at
Dallas Senior High School are reasona-
bly certain it is becaue of the bluebird
houses they made in class and distrib-
uted to area farmers and other resi-
dents two years ago.
The students, under the direction of
Wayne Hughes, their ecology instruc-
tor, constructed and delivered bluebird
houses in the hopes that these soft blue
birds would make their homes in the
houses and once more become a
common sight in the Back Mountain.
It appears that the project was suc-
successful - since within the last two or
three weeks area residents have seen
these birds. The male bird has a blue
top coat and rusty red breast while the
female is much duller than her male
At least four different residents have
called Wayne Hughes to report that
they had bluebirds nesting in the spe-
cial houses. Only two weeks ago, a
birdhouse attached to a pole in George
Dombek’s yard. Just before the Fourth
of July, the Dombeks were pleasantly
surprised to see two young bluebirds.
“They were adorable,” said Mrs.
Janice Dombek. ‘But before too many
days, the parents were nudging their
two babies out of the nest. They taught
them to fly and, within several days,
both young ones left to seek another
home.”
Hughes went to the Dombek resi-
dence and he and Dombek watched for
several hours until they saw the mother
and father return to the nest with food
(insects, of course) for the young ones.
Each day the two men watched the
birds progress until the birds took off to
seek new territory.
“That’s not the only time bluebirds
have been spotted in the area this
year,” said Hughes. “Over the week-
end, we were at a picnic at Frances
Slocum Park when I saw a bluebird.
Then, friends of mine from Harveys
f.ake called to tell me they saw blue-
birds near their home. Other residents
from Lehman also saw some in their
area.
“1 really believe it is because of the
houses which were made especially for
them. I plan to make this an annual
project with my students.
“This year in the advanced ecology
class we will study the osprey and the
otter. They are also in need of help
from people.”
Hughes, who is very interested in
ecology, did not plan things to happen
this way.
A native of Kingston, Hughes gradu-
ated from Kingston High School then
went to Bryan College in Dayton,
Tenn., where he received his degree
with a major in Agricultural Science.
He planned to work for Dupont in 1964
Br
but there was a critical shortage of
teachers at that time, He had a friend
to’ ‘80 ‘into’ “the
educational field.
Hughes took a position in the Knox
County School District in Knoxville,
Tenn. and, while teaching there, also
attended the University of Tennessee to
ob*ain his teaching and science credits.
In 1964, he moved to Montgomery
County, Maryland, where he taught
general science, physics and chemistry
for eight years. Hughes then came to
Dallas where he teachers biology,
chemistry and ecology.
He implemented the ecology class at
Dallas with the aid of Joseph O’Donnell
and began with 21 students.
The second year, 50 students signed
for the class and Hughes taught three
classes daily each semester. The course
was worth only half a credit to students
until 1980 when it was elevated to a full
credit course. In 1980, there were So
many students registered for ecology
that the district had to split the classes.
In 1975 Hughes’ students entered the
Environment Science Contest sponsored
by chiropodists. They recycled dis-
carded old glass jars cleaned them up,
did sandscapes, then put cacti in them.
At Easter, the students took them to
area nursing homes and named their
project, “Terra Joy’.
In 1976, members of the class went to
the ocean to study ocean ecology and in
1978, class members took their first
overnight hike.
In 1979, ecology students entered the
Environmental Olympics where they
took first place. Their entry included
wildlife identification, maps and com-
pass readings, stream ecology, geology,
The students entered the same contest
and 1980 and garnered second place.
They also won an environmental con-
test sponsored by the Pa. Game and
Fish Commissions.
In 1982-83, the students went on their
first survival but after two days were
rained out, and had to return home.
Hughes, who is married to the former
Ellen Jean Harris of Idetown, has three
children, Holly, age 10; and twins, Erin
and Stacy, age seven.
During the summer, he does a lot of
tree work in pruning and cutting down
trees. He and his family also go camp-
ing and backpacking in late July or
August.
This spring, Hughes went canoeing
down the Susquehanna River. Later
this season he will camp in either North
Central Pennsylvania or in the Pocono
area.
Most of Hughes’ leisure time will be
spent planning for his advanced ecology
class where he plans to have students
study the otter and osprey working with
the Game Commission and Penn State
University.
In his beginning ecology class,
Hughes plans to continue the bluebird
project, hoping that his students will be
successful in making this area part of
the bluebird trail which runs from
Canada down into Iowa. d
Playwright
Award winning play-
coming to Wilkes College
For Playwrights,” offered
through the Division of
Continuing Education, on
Saturday, Aug. 6 from 8:30
a.m.-3:30 p.m. at the
Farley Library.
In. 1977, Kelly then
editor, public relations
account executive, wife
and ‘ mother, moved with
her family from Chicago
to New York. She decided
to ‘‘stop working for
money and to start work-
ing for life.” Translated,
she became a playwright.
In the last six years,
that labor of live has
proven fruitful. She has
had six productions of four
plays, three more are
projected for Fall of 1983,
a screen play is in the
working stage, two pilots
have been picked up by
CBS, and another pilot is
commissioned by NBC.
Ms. Kelly will join local
playwrights June Nelson
and Jan Kubicki to present
the seminar. Ms. Nelson’s
play ‘‘Shadows in the
Sun,” won the new play-
wright’s award in Mary-
land, and was a Sergel
Drama Prize semi-finalist
selection at the University
of Chicago. Kubicki’s play
‘Popcorn’ was recently
selected by the Writers
Guild of America for the
Paddy Chayefsky Memo-
rial Award. He is cur-
rently working on two
plays about anthracite
miners at the turn of the
century.
The seminar program
includes a film entitled,
‘““Tennessee Williams:
Theater in Process,” a
documentary featuring
Williams as he sees his
play evolve from the
printed page to live thea-
ter. Discussion will follow
the film.
LCCC
Offers
Course
A revised two-year asso-
ciate degree program in
Journalism at Luzerne
County Community Col-
lege will be offered in the
Fall for students who
desire to prepare for entry
level positions in the news-
paper or other print media
areas.
This was announced by
Thomas J. Moran, presi-
former veteran newspa-
perman for 20 years before
he began a career as an
administrator in higher
education in 1970.
The new program will
use a system of instruction
patterned after the method
of teaching at the Colum-
bia University Graduate
School of Journalism -
using ‘‘working newspaper
personnel” to teach the
courses.
Dallas Post/Rod Kaye
GAY MEYERS
College Misericordia will hold its
annual hockey camp for grades five
j
The camp will teach basic condition-
ing, basic, advanced and newly devel-
oped skills, offensive and defensive
strategies, and special instruction for
goal keepers.
Directing the camp will be Gay
Meyers, women’s field hockey coach at
Wilkes College. Staff members will
include Marge Garinger, manager of
the U.S. National Field Hockey Team;
Jan Hutchinson, field hockey coach at
Bloomsburg State College; Gerry Wall,
athletic director at College Misericor-
dia; and Ann Marie Ade, athletic coach
at Wyoming Seminary Lower School.
The camp will be held Monday-
Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
College Misericordia will also sponsor
a soccer camp for ages 6 through 14,
Aug. 8-12. The camp will be directed by
Steve Klingman, varsity soccer coach
at the University of Scranton.
Klingman is an American Soccer
League player and a U.S. Soccer Feder-
ation licensed coach. Serving on Kling-
man’s camp staff at Misericordia will
be Dennis Guida, soccercoach at Holy
Cross High School, Del Ran, New
For more information on either of the
College Misericordia campus camps,
contact the continuing education office
at College Misericordia, 675-2181.
executive officer.
N.Y., where he served as
Over 300 students who
graduated from high
school this year will par-
ticipate in a freshman
counseling and advising
program at the Wilkes-
Barre Campus of the
Pennsylvania State Uni-
versity during the last two
weeks of July. 7
Diane Hunt, advisor-con-
sultant for the Division of
Undergraduate Studies at
Penn State-Wilkes-Barre,
said the program is the
first stage of academic
advising for entering stu-
dents and attempts to pro-
academic abilities, educa-
tional and career interests.
The students have
already completed a com-
prehensive series of tests.
‘The results of the tests,
together with high school
average and SAT scores,
have been developed into
an individualized Profile of
Academic Abilities. Stu-
dents will be given a
detailed interpretation of
assigned to an academic
advisor who will discuss
spouses of the students
ticipate. in the counseling
and advising days. They
will be helped to under-
stand the students’ abili-
ties and how these relate
to the academic programs
and requirements of Penn
State.
SIANT’S
CLEANERS
will be closed for
Scholastica College in Duluth, Minn. and taught classics
and history at both Williams College and Davidson
College. :
He received his undergraduate education at Boston
College and his Master’s and Doctoral Degrees in
Classics from Yale University. He has authored numer-
ous articles on classical studeies and edited and
translated the book, Sources for Greek Religion, which
was published by Scholars Press in 1980.
Dr. Rice was named Outstanding Young Man of
America in 1981, and received the Administrator of the
Year Award at D’Youville College in 1982.
He and his wife, Pat, reside in Shavertown.
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