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Dallas Post/Charlot M. Denmon
Following three days of observing
classes, faculty members, students,
student activities, interviewing
department heads, administrators,
and secretarial staff, the Middle
States Evaluation Committee mem-
bers commended the Dallas School
District on its overall senior high
school program and facilities.
In a meeting with faculty, admin-
istrators, board members and non-
| professional employees, Committee
chairman Ralph Rizzolo assured all
| that Dallas Senior High School was
| most worthy of continued accredita-
tion.
In his oral report to the members
of the high school, Rizzolo stated
that the committee had many com-
mendations for the various depart-
ments as well as some recommen-
| dations for each category.
| “These will follow in our detailed,
| written report which administration
officials will receive in the near
future,” said Rizzolo. ‘‘Generally
speaking, the committee recognizes
the outstanding work and the
progress made in the district’s
senior high school.”
Rizzolo, vice principal of Pequan-
nock High School, Pompton Plains,
N.J., has served on countless evalu-
ation committees during the past
several years and, with his commit-
tee members, does a thorough
review of all categories within the
school program.
Working with him this year were
administration officials from
throughout the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, as well as New
Jersey and New York.
Included on the committee were
William Linnane, Susquehanna High
School, Glen Rock, Pa., assistant
chairman; Robert Blanchard, art
chairman; Allen DiMarco, business
education; William Below, English;
Sr. Nancy Hawkins, foreign "lan-
guage; Raymond A. Coleman,
health, phys. ed, and drivers educa-
tion; Dr. Nancy Sterner, home eco-
nomics.
Also, Bruce Covillard, industrial
arts; Marwin cummings, mathe-
matics; Sr. Jan Marie Kalyan; Ms.
Joyce Brobst, science; J. Rodger
Lewis, social studies; Mrs. Melanie
Sutphin, special education; Mrs.
Marion Saul, learning media sery-
ices; and Ms. Norman Jean Rogers,
student services.
Committee members spent three
days touring the school facilities,
evaluating media services, discuss-
ing student services with guidance
personnel, talking with students,
visiting ‘each classroom, evaluating
department heads and reviewing
programs with principals and
administrative staff.
On the final day, Oct. 27, they
made their reports to Rizzolo, who
gave the oral report to the assem-
bly.
Kingston Township Police Chief
Paul Sabol has officially thanked
the kids in the area for the vandal-
ism they didn’t do on Halloween. He
expressed the appreciation of the
men in his department for the
| sy pranks that were kept at a bare
b 4 4+ minimum this year.
In the ofie’ Halloween related inci-
. dent reported, Chief Sabol stated
that a mailbox, valued at $50,
belonging to Helen Zukosky, Manor
Drive, was destroyed by a pumpkin.
| A case of Criminal Mischief is
under investigation with police
reporting damage to a pool cover at
the home of Robert Steiner, RD 3,
Box 209, Carverton.
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A bomb scare at the Dallas Junior
High School last week proved to be
just that ‘‘a scare.” A phone call
was placed at 11:45 a.m. claiming
that a bomb had been placed in the
building.
All students and teachers were
immediately evacuated from the
school and a search was conducted
by members of the Dallas Fire
Company, Dallas Police and State
Police. An investigation of the
matter is" continuing with “several
good leads reported by police.
While police were at the Junior
High School, three juveniles were
seen walking down the hall and
were identified as trespassers by
school officials. Police identified the
trio as students from West Side Vo-
Tech School who had not attended
their own school for 18 days prior to
this incident.
Dallas Township Patrolman Clark
Van Orden arrested the youths, two
of whom were brothers and charged
them with Defiant Trespassing
when not licensed or privileged to
do so. Citations on the charges are
being processed by District Magis-
trate Earl Gregory.
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A burglary at the Acme Market in
Shavertown and another at the
Eugene Gilmartin home at 116
Doran Drive, Trucksville are under
investigation by the Kingston Town-
ship Police Departiient 2 An undis-
‘closed amount of cash was appar-
ently stolen from the supermarket
office early last Wednesday after-
noon: while customers -shepped.
Police reportentrance to thé office
area was made by removing a glass
panel, the burglary was reported by
Fred Leaf, Security Manager for
the Acme chain.
Police report the burglary at the
Gilmartin home took place later the
same afternoon while family mem-
bers were out for a short period of
time. Entry to the home was gained
by smashing a glass panel in a door,
stolen was a quantity of cash, ster-
ling silver and jewelry.
State Police arrested an Edwards-
ville youth last week and charged
him with selling hashish to an
undercover agent in front of the
El Westmoreland Elementary School
last December.
' Douglas Walter Van Keuren, 22,
of 3 Hilltop Apartments was
arraigned before District Magis-
| trate Earl Gregory on information
i received from Cpl. Thomas P. Bag-
gett, Pa. State Police, Wyoming
Barracks.
It was alleged that Van Keuren
sold 10 grams of hashish for $85 to
the agent in front of the school on
South Lehigh Street in Trucksville.
He was charged with Possession
of A Controlled Substance, Deliver-
ing A Controlled Substance and
Conspiracy. He was released under
$2,500 bail pending a hearing
November 10.
A reported house fire at the Roe
home at 59 Grandview Avenue, New
Goss Manor, Dallas proved to be
only a case of well done lamb chops.
The alarm, which came in on fire
and pclice phones one day last
week, was relayed via automatic
dialing equipment from Chicago
when a smoke alarm in the home
activated the system. Four pieces of
equipment from the Dallas Fire
Company, Dallas Police and Dallas
Ambulance Company responded to
the call.
Dallas Fire Company was also
called out last week to battle a
reported brush fire on Circle Drive
in College Manor.
Assistant Fire Chief Robert
Besecker reported that the blaze
was confined to the back yard of a
new home under construction, but
had appeared larger because of the
darkness.
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“Thirty days in jail” was the
sentence passed on’ Charles F.
Goodrich, 57, of Harveys Lake who
pleaded guilty to Driving Under the
Influence before District Magistrate
Earl Gregory. The jail sentence is
mandatory under the new Drunken
Driving Law according to the mag-
istrate because it is Goodrich’s
second offense.
Goodrich, who was represented at
the hearing by Atty. John Thomas,
was arrested in September by
Dallas Township Police Chief Carl
Miers at the scene of the two car
accident at the intersection of Route
309 and Alderson Road.
In addition to the jail sentence to
be served at Luzerne County Prison,
Goodrich was fined $300 and court
costs and is directed to attend the
Court Advocates Drug and Alcohol
Program.
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HARDWARE STORES
SISTER CINDY MARCH
Sister March
named to post
Rev. George Jeffrey, pastor of
Our Lady of Victory Church, Har-
veys Lake, has announced the
appointment of Sister Cindy March
to the newly created position of
Parish Youth Minister.
A Sister of Mercy from Dallas, Sr.
Cindy will work with the youth of
the parish assisting them to be
more fully involved in the life of the
church.
In her new post, Sr. Cindy will
help interested youth of the parish
become involved in social justice
issues. Students will have an oppor-
tunity to participate in a leadership
workshop, which is planned for
early December.
A graduate of College Misericor-
dia, Sr. Cindy resides in Dallas.
Program lauded
The Dallas Junior High School has
been informed that its submission of
a project based on its new curricu-
lum in drug and alcohol education
has been named a finalist in the
Pocono Northeast Awards Program
sponsored. by the Economic Devel-
opment Council of Northeastern
Pennsylvania.
The innovative curriculum, enti-
tled ‘“‘Here’s Looking at You Two!”
involves the students in active and
creative activities designed to
improve their general self-images,
as well as to enhance their under-
standing of the proper and improper
uses of drugs and alcohol in contem-
porary society.
The instructor responsible for
implementing the program is Ms.
Robyn Jones.
Births
The following area residents have
announced births during the past
week: +: BF
A son to LORI AND DAVID
PETTIT,-95 N. Lehigh St., Shaver-
town, on Nov. 2'in Mercy Hospital,
Wilkes-Barre.
A son to SUSAN AND ROBERT
KLEINER, 15 Evergreen Estates,
on Nov. 2 in Nesbitt Memorial
Hospital, Kingston.
A son to MAUREEN ' AND
ELMER YALE, RD 3, Box 288-10,
Dallas, on Oct. 31 in Wilkes-Barre
General Hospital.
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Sr. Maureen McCann, Administra-
tive Director of the Mercy Consulta-
tion Center in Dallas, has
announced the appointment of Rev.
James J. Jacobs as part-time thera-
pist.
Father Jacobs attended King’s
College, Wilkes-Barre, University of
Scranton, ‘and St. Pius X Seminary
in Dalton. He completed a Master of
Divinity in Theology-Pastoral Minis-
try at Christ the King Seminary,
East Aurora, New York. He also
has an M.S. in Counseling Educa-
tion from St. John’s University,
New York and has done additional
graduate study at Villanova Univer-
sity, Marywood College and Gallau-
det College where he worked in the
psychology and education of hearing
impaired.
Father Jacobs did an internship
at St. Catherine’s Academy in the
Bronx, N.Y., in individual and
group counseling with students and
staff. He attended seminars at the
Center for Family Learning in‘New
Rochelle, N.Y., and on-going work-
shops at the House of Affirmation in
Boston, Mass.
Father Jacobs serves as Dean of
Students for the -college-seminary
program and Facilitator for the
Groups Process for Seminary For-
mation. He is Diocesan Director of
Pastoral Ministry to Deaf Persons
and conduct workships and retreats
for Religious personnel on diocesan
and inter-diocesan levels on topics
related to psycho-theological
process, human growth and devel-
opment, and lectures on ‘‘Conscious-
ness Raising on Human Needs of
Deaf and Hearing Impaired Per-
sons.”
The Mercy Consultation Center is
a private psychological counseling
center sponsored by the Scranton
Province of the Sisters of Mercy.
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clinical services for priests, minis-
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