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Vol. 95, No. 34
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For third time
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By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
A resolution to appoint Thomas A.
Williams as elementary teacher and
‘Dwight Barbacci as physical educa-
Qe) instructor failed for the third
‘Wonsecutive month at the Sept. 4
meeting of the Lake-Lehman School
Board, when five board members
abstained from voting.
Directors Bing Wolfe, Martin
Noon, Edward Mark and Alan
Keiper abstained from voting after
an amended motion by Mark to vote
on teh applicants separately failed
to pass. The fifth member, Thomas
Williams, father of Thomas A. Wil-
liams, abstained from voting for a
relative.
A motion to vote on the appoint-
ments was tabled in July when
Wolfe, chairman of the education
committee, objected to the order in
which the names of appointees were
listed on the agenda. At that meet-
ing, the motion to approve other
applicants for positions within the
district was approved and only the
names. of Williams and Barbacci
were tabled until August.
At the August meeting, the names
were voted on individually, but
again the motions failed with each
@: ending in a 4-4 tie, with Wil-
ams abstaining. At the September
4 meeting, chairman Wolfe again
bjected to reading the motion
‘which was then made by board
member Donald Jones. Keiper
asked Chairman Joseph ‘‘Red”’
Jones if he (Keiper) could move to
recall the motion and Jones
answered he would grant Keiper’s
request. Keiper asked to delay the
recall until later on the agenda.
Keiper did this prior to the
adjournment of the meeting but
again the motion failed. Both Bar-
bacci and Williams were in the
audience as was Atty. Blythe
Evans, representing Williams.
Before the vote was taken, Evans
addressed the board stating that his
client (Williams) was well qualified
for the position and highly recom-
mended by the administration.
Evans said that his client was being
discriminated because his father
was a member of the board, and
that according to the Civil Rights
Action, Williams has been battered
about and treated unfairly and will
seek action against board members,
th individually and collectively.
Wining more than one hour of
heated discussion over the appoint-
ments of the two young men, Dr.
David Preston addressed .the board
and the members of the audience,
wo
explaining that both young men
were highly qualified for the posi-
tions and both were caught between
political and personal differences
among the board members.
Preston stated that Williams is a
graduate of Lake-Lehman High
School and Bloomsburg State Col-
lege where he had a cumulative
average of 3.8, had two majors, one
in elementary education and ong in
secondary; taught as a long term
substitute at Northwest last year;
was assistant track coach; and also
served as junior high wrestling
coach at Dallas Junior High last
year. Preston also explained that
Williams is endorsed by the elemen-
tary principals, secondary princi-
pals and members of the Lake-
Lehman faculty and would also be
able to assist band director John
Miliauskas in the future, if neces-
sary.
Preston said Barbacci is equally
qualified in his field and taught as a
part-time substitute since 1981 and
was highly recommended by both
principals Jay Zaleskas and John
Oliver. He continued that Barbacci
is certified in health and physical
education and had taken additional
courses through the LIU, helped the
district in various fund-raisings,
assisted in football and was most
cooperative with all members of the
district.
Preston appealed to the board
members to appoint the two young
men who had been selected through
the school board policy which
defines the specific requirements
for the appointment of teachers.
They were the final two from the
preliminary list of 11 candidates
interviewed for the job. Williams
and Barbacci were selected from
four candidates who were called
(See LEHMAN, page 12)
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Donna Greger, Joan Segrave-Daly.
Dallas Post/Dotty Martin
All the world will be watching a.
all the Back Mountain will have its
fingers crossed as our very own
Gina Major competes against 50
other contestants for the Miss
America 1985 title.
Gina, whose family lives in Hunts-
ville, is representing the state of
Pennsylvania, having been crowned
Miss Pennsylvania on June 16 at the
Joffa Mosque in Altoona, Pa.
The pageant, ‘which actually
began yesterday with the annual
Miss America Parade on the Board-
walk in Atlantic City, will conclude
Saturday evening with the national
telecast. (The 1984 Miss America
Pageant will be broadcast locally by
WBRE-TV Channel 28 on Saturday,
Sept. 15, at 10 p.m.)
The 51 contestants, however, will
be busy all this week as competition
will begin this evening in Atlantic
City and continue through the
national telecast. By the time the
rest of the world gets a glimpse at
the soon-to-be announced Miss
America 1985 and her court, the
judges will already have selected
the Top 10 finishers. It will be these
10 girls who will compete for the
title on Saturday during the national
telecast. All of the contestants, how-
ever, will be present and each and
every one of them will introduce
themselves on camera. .
Miss Majors, 25, who will have as
her biggest fans Saturday night, her
niGeher, Mrs. Virginia Major," her
sister, Judy, and her brother, Mark,
has been kept busy since her selec-
tion as Miss Pennsylvania on June
16.
A 1976 graduate of Lake-Lehman
High School and 1980 graduate of
Drexel University where she
majored in marketing, Gina was
employed as a public relations man-
ager for Strawbridge and Clothier
department store chain prior to her
acceptance of the Miss’ Pennsyl-
vania title. She resided in Armore, a
suburb of Philadelphia.
Gina, whose love for music was
evident even during her high school
days at Lake-Lehman, will sing in
the talent portion of the Miss Amer-
ica contest.
Miss Major’s high school band,
the Lake-Lehman marching band,
under the direction of John Miliaus-
kas, accompanied Miss Pennsyl-
vania Tuesday night during the
annual Miss America Parade. Four
buses of band personnel as well as
two buses of Gina Major fans were
on hand to wish our very own Miss
Pennsylvania well in her endeavors
of this week.
The staff of The Dallas Post, as
well as the entire Back Mountain
Community, extends the best of luck
to Gina Major as she vies for the
title of a lifetime — that of Miss.
America 1985!
Dallas Post/Dotty Martin
Beniquez.
Wycallis
named
By PAMELA AARON
Staff Correspondent
Gerald Wycallis has been
approved by the Dallas School
Board as the new Superintendent of
Schools of the Dallas School Dis-
trict.
Wyecallis, whose contract will
begin on July 1, 1985 and will span a
four-year team, was elected to the
position by a 5-4 vote at the school
board’s regular monthly meeting
Monday evening.
Currently serving as ‘‘acting’’
Superintendent of Schools at Dallas,
Wycallis will be paid a salary of
$42,000 per year in his new capacity.
Voting in favor of Wyecallis’
appointment were School Directors
Barbara Mead, Ernest Ashbridge,
John George, Albert Pisaneschi and
Attorney Benjamin Jones. Voting
the appointment down were Tex
Wilson, Dr. William D. Camp,
Donald Jones and Harry Sickler.
Dr. Camp, chairman of the educa-
tion committee, suggested a further
search be made prior to hiring
Wycallis. Director John George,
negotiations committee, raised an
objection, citing the dollar cost of
the board’s availing itself of this
procedure and Dr. Camp empha-
sized the importance of the superin-
tendent’s position justifies that type
of expenditure. Ashbridge suggested
that Wyecallis’ experience was
extensive and “hands on’’ and that
hs direct experience with this ‘par-
ticular school: system makes him
the best candidate.
In other business, the board
reached a decision as to the con-
tract status of David P. Jiunta, a
Social Studies teacher within the
Dallas School District for the past
two years. The board declined to
tender a contract and also declined
a temporary contract status. The
motion was made by Donald Jones
and seconded by Dr. Camp. Jiunta
will continue in his coaching posi-
tion.
Ronald Moran of the Citizen’s
Advisory Codmmittee requested the
board to see fit to continue the in-
school suspension program, follow-
ing it up with current data as to the
efficacy of the program. Benjamin
Jones state that data is currently
being reviewed.
It was also announced at the
meeting that all students from the
district who took part in the profi-
ciency tests in calculus received full
college credit. Other testing pro-
grams to be sponsored were also
announced and, of particular impor-
tant, the TELLS, a state proficiency
test of reading and math skills, was
discussed. This test will be given to
all third, fifth and eighth graders in
the district.
Donald Hopkins, an English and
Drama teacher at the Dallas Senior
High School, was announced as the
new president of the Dallas Educa-
tion Association.
Paul Warchel was elected as
assistant football coach at Dallas
Senior High School, Donald Jones
was named as cross-country coach
(See SUPER, page 12)
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Dallas Post/Dotty Martin
lader, Sandy Dicton.
The Dallas Post, in its effort to
involve the entire Back Mountain
Community, has embarked on yet
another effort this week with the
naming of the first-ever Dallas Post
school correspondents.
Students from Dallas High School,
Lake-Lehman High School and Gate
‘of Heaven School will now have
their own columns within The
Dallas Post and will, every week,
bring to the public news of what’s
happening in their respective
schools.
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The correspondents, who will be
introduced to our readers this week
prior to writing their first columns
for publication in our September 19
issue, have been selected by mem-
bers of the faculty at their respec-
tive schools and will be relied upon
by the editorial staff of The Dallas
every week.
Every week, these school corre-
spondents ‘will introduce to our
readers members of the senior class
at both Dallas and Lake-Lehman
High Schools, and at Gate of
Heaven, members of the seventh
and eighth grade classes. They will
also keep you informed of what's
happening in the schools, what dif-
ferent clubs and organizations are
doing, what students are being hon-
ored and for what, who's going on to
college and who’s receiving scholar-
ships.
We at The Dallas Post are excited
about this new venture and are
sincerely looking forward to work-
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correspondents. We feel it will be a
great way to inform the community
of what goes on in the schools on a
weekly basis and we’d like to wish
the best of luck to this year’s seven
school correspondents as they begin
their new responsibilities.
At Dallas, Lorena Beniquez and
Kim Rollman will serve as Dallas
Post correspondents.
Lorena is the daughter of Sandra
Beniquez of Shavertown and Jose
Beniquez of Plainfield, New Jersey.
At Dallas, she is co-editor-in-chief of
“The Mountaineer,”” the school
newspaper, a strutter, a member of
the yearbook staff and the steering
committee. Lorena hopes to attend
college to major in communications.
Kim, the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Rollman of Jackson
Street in Dallas, also hopes to
pursue a career in communications
or advertising following her high
school graduation. At Dallas, she is
sports editor of the school newspa-
(See SCHOOL, page 12)
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Inside The Post
Births ................. “3
Calendar............... 24
Classified ...... 21,22,23
Cookbook ..... fiend
Obituaries .............. 3
People ................. 6,7
Perspective avis vied
School . enviie 8
Sports ..... 9, 10, 11,12