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Mr. and Mrs. James R. Brace Jr.
announce the engagement and
approaching marriage of their
daughter, Cynthia Ann to James L.
Gosart, son of Mr. and Mrs. John S.
Gosart of 113 East Overbrook Ave.,
Shavertown.
Miss Brace is a graduate of Wyo-
ming Valley West High School and
is presently employed at Offset
Paperback Co., Dallas.
Mr. Gosart is a graduate of Dallas
High School and is also employed at
Offset Paperback as a bindery jour-
neyman.
A September,
1984 wedding is
planned.
Engagement
Mrs. Richard T. Donelan of Jack-
sonville, Fla., announces the
approaching marriage of her daugh-
ter, Therese Victoria, to Jeffrey L.
Odell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey
Odell, Dallas. Miss Donelan is the
daughter of the late Dr. Donelan.
Miss Donelan is a graduate of
Mary Washington College with a
degree in Spanish. She. attended
graduate school at Virginia Tech
pursuing a.degree in Urban Affairs.
announced
Presently she is employed by the
Department of Labor under the
Presidential Management Intern
Program in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Odell is a graduate of Dallas
High School and Penn State Univer-
sity with degree in Computer Sci-
ence. He is employed by Coopers
and Lybrand in Washington, D.C.
The wedding will take place June
2, in Christ the King Church, Jack-
sonville, Fla.
Award received
Young Engineer Award to
Richard B. Sheldon, former
Schenectady, N.Y.
Laboratory in
Richard B. Sheldon, -Engineer-
Radiological Assessment at General
Electric Company’s Knolls Atomic
Power Laboratory, (KAPL) has
received General Electric's 1984
Young Engineer Award.
The announcement was made
Executive Vice President and
Power Systems Sector Executive
during a ceremony in Fairfield, CT.
Sheldon, a nuclear plant and envi-
ronmental engineer, has developed
state-of-the-art deep ocean radiolog-
ical monitoring equipment and pro-
cedures in collaboration with lead-
ing oceanographic laboratories. He
also tested the new equipment and
procedures with two research ships
and a deep diving submersible.
The Young Engineer Award is
given to an engineer no older than
30 in the year preceeding the award,
for outstanding technical achieve-
ment in the areas of creativity,
technolgical advances or product
preeminence representing lasting
contributions to engineering knowl-
edge.
Sheldon joined General Electric's
KAPL in 1976 as an instructor in
Chemistry and Radiological Con-
trols. He was then an engineer in
Prototype Operations in 1978, and a
Nuclear Plant Engineer from 1980-
1981.
Sheldon was an engineer in
Radiological Assessments from 1981
to 1983 and was named lead engi-
neer for Radioactive Waste Technol-
ogy in 1984.
Born and raised in Shavertown,
Sheldon graduated from Dallas
Senior High School in- 1970 then
attended Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute (RPI) in Troy, N.Y. where
he obtained a Bachelor’s degree in
Science. He received his Master’s
degree in Science in Environmental
Engineering in 1975 also from RPI.
Sheldton currently resides in
Ballston Lake, N.Y. with his wife
the former Laura Menzel of Dallas
and their two daughters Jessica and
Marita. ,
By WALLY KOCHER
Staff Correspondent
No one treasures the thought of
a needle being inserted into their
vein and having a pint of blood
drawn from their body. Face it.
Your skin is probably breaking
out with millions of goose bumps
already, as you read this article.
That’s just normal.
The fact, however, is that,
donating blood is much less
scary than most people think,
and is also very important to
those who need the blood.
The first recorded blood trans-
fusion took place in the 17th
century, and ever since then,
trying to convince people to
donate blood has been an uphill
battle.
Jeff Townsend, Chairman of
the Back Mountain Blood Coun-
cil, the first such council in the
United States, explained what
steps are being taken to make
the residents of the Back Moun-
tain more aware of the problems
they face.
“Actually, there are two prob-
lems the Blood Council faces,”
Townsend said. “The first one,
and most important is that only
two percent of those who are
eligible actually donate blood,”
he said.
Anyone who weighs at least 110
pounds, is between the ages of 17
and 65, in general good health
and doesn’t have any blood com-
municable diseases, is eligible. If
someone is older than 65 years,
they can still donate blood as
long as they have their doctor’s
permission.
“Since the Blood Council first
began about two and a half years
Council members
Dallas Post/Ed Campbell
seated, Donna McCall, Jeff
Paculavich.
ago, we've made the expansion
of new donors one of our highest
priorities,” said Townsend.
“We've been working with the
local high schools, trying to edu-
cate the students about the need
for blood. 7
“If we can get young people
‘used to the idea of donating
blood, it will be much easier for
them when they get older,” he
added.
It’s obvious that what the
Blood Council is doing is work-
ing. During its short time of
operation, the number of pints
donated each year has tripled.
Where they they were receiving
approximately 500 units a year,
they now receive anywhere from
1,000 to 1,500 pints.
As Paul Hodges of the Red
blood is needed.
“We serve 43 hospitals in our
region,” Hodges said, ‘“‘and we
need 410 units a day. This comes
to about 105,000 units a year. But
we're only getting about 95,000
units throughout the whole
region.” x
The second problem the Blood
Council faces is a lack of volun-
teers.
“Every 10 weeks that we have
a blood drive, we need at least 50
to 60 volunteers to help make
phone calls to past donors,” said
Townsend. ‘This works out to
approximately 25 calls for each
volunteer. :
“We also need volunteers for
our executive committee,” he
added. “We could really use
some help with publicity and
record keeping.”
About 98 percent of the work
done by the Blood Council and
Red Cross is done by volunteers. -
If you would like to donate
your time or your blood to this
extremely worthy cause, call
Paul Hodges at 675-3317.
Search is
on for 1985
teacher
Education Secretary Robert C.
Wilburn recently announced the
state Department of Education has
begun its search for Pennsylvania’s
1985 Teacher of the Year.
Ten finalists will be chosen from
among Pennsylvania's 104,000 eligi-
ble teachers who teach the Com-
monwealth’s 1.7 million elementary
and secondary students. They will
be announced in- September, with
the winner to be selected in Novem-
ber.
“The vast majority of Pennsyl-
vania’s teachers are dedicated,
hard-working men and women who
do a good job and are deeply
committed to the young people they
teach,” Wilburn said. “Selecting a
Teacher of the Year is one way we
can recognize the importance of
teaching as a profession and a
career, and pay tribute to the
accomplishment of inspired teach-
ers everywhere.”
He said he is asking citizens to
help him locate ‘‘the one outstand-
ing teacher who can serve as a
symbol for excellence for 1985.”
The department will co-sponsor
the awards competition in coopera-
tion with Good Housekeeping, Ency-
clopedia Britannica and the Council
of Chief State School Officers.
In addition to serving as Pennsyl-
vania’s Teacher of the Year, the
winner will become the Common-
wealth’s representative in competi-
tion for the National Teacher of the
Year, to be announced next spring.
Nominations must be postmarked
by July 1 and persons interested in
making nominations should contact
the Citation and Awards Committee,
State Department of Education,
P.O. Box 911, 333 Market Street,
Fifth Floor, Harrisburg, PA 17108 or
call 717-783-6614 for application pro-
cedures.
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three-day event will be presented in
the Grand Ballroom of the High
Rise Howard Johnson Hotel on July
20, 21, and 22, 1984. That is correct,
the 1985 Pageant will be held in July
of this year. The Miss Pennsylvania
Teen U.S.A. Pageant is an Official
Miss Teen U.S.A. Contest.
Applicants who qualify must be 15
years of age by January 1, 1985 and
under 18 years of age by May 1,
1985, never married, and at least six
month residents of Pennsylvania.
All girls interested in competing for
the title must write to: Miss Penn-
sylvania Teen U.S.A. Pageant Tri-
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