from as far away as Kentucky.
through December 9.
coaches.
An open house and a visit by
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~ ident Bryce Jordan will highlight
activities scheduled at the Penn
‘State Wilkes-Barre campus at
Lehman when its new Commons
Annex is dedicated on Tuesday,
Nov. 6.
The community is invited to visit
‘the campus from 3 to 5:30 p.m.
‘tions and a slide show will be
- ‘nies will be held.
- The facility has already been
_enjoyed by one community group.
for a gathering place and its giant
‘television screen and video games
“welcome to inquire about future use
-of the building, which will comple-
‘ment the recently refurbished Com-
munity Room of the Hayfield House.
‘square foot addition to the building
which was once a 19 car garage on
the estate of Mr. and Mrs. John N.
Conyngham 2nd and which has
housed the campus cafeteria in
recent years, is primarily a student
center.
It houses student lounges and
activity areas, student organization
offices, and the largest bookstore on
any Penn State commonwealth
campus, specially designed by the
same firm which designed the book-
store at University Park. The Annex
now offers students a comfortable
center to socialize, relax and
exchange ideas and has provided
what one campus publication calls
‘‘a new sense of home.”
Groundbreaking for the building
was held in October, 1983, and the
building became operational when
classes resumed for the fall semes-
ter, September 1984.
Information on planned activities
and opportunities for community
participation is available from the
campus university relations office.
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© Kevin M. Covert of Dallas, has
been notified that he recently
passed an examination given by The
American Board of Opticianry and
is now a Certified Optician regis-
tered with The American Board of
Opticianry. He is a also a Fellow of
the National Academy of Opti-
cianry.
© Covert is a graduate of Dallas
his current profession for the last 10
years. During the past five years he
has operated his own business on
East Overbrook Road in Shaver-
town.
Covert is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Alexander J. Covert of Shavertown.
He resides in Dallas with his wife,
the former Mary Kay Yuhas, and
their son, Kevin Jr.
KEVIN M. COVERT
Births
The following Back Mountain cou-
ples have announced births
recently:
A daughter to ELIZABETH AND
EDWARD BESSMER, 66 Park St.,
Dallas on October 23 in Wilkes-
Barre General Hospital.
A son to RHONDA AND RONALD
ertown, on October 24 in Nesbitt
Memorial Hospital, Kingston.
A son to EVELYN AND KEN-
NETH WEAVER, RD 1, Box 131-B,
Sweet Valley, on October 23 in
Wilkes-Barre General Hospital.
A son to MARY AND JOSEPH
YENASON, 315 Old Carverton
Road, Trucksville, on October 24, in
NPW Medical Center, Plains Town-
ship.
A daughter to BETTY GIVEN
AND SCOTT STONIER, RD 1, Box
279, Sweet Valley on October 23 in
Nesbitt Memorial Hospital, Kings-
ton.
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High School, will explain the
““Here’s Looking at You, Two’ pro-
alcohol abuse adopted by the junior
~ high school, to parents attending the
meeting.
counselor and a recovering alco-
holic from Clearbrook Lodge in
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~ while Tom Cesarini, director of the
Alcohol Program, will present a
film entitled “Sons and Daughters,
Drugs and Booze.” Cesarini will
also display some drug parphenalia
his office has confiscated right here
in the Back Mountain.
Mrs. Wagner explained that the
idea of a Home-School Association
came after some parents expressed
interest for such an organization
and following a study conducted by
a steering committee. With encour-
agement from Leon Trager, assist-
ant principal at the Dallas Junior
Four-part program
Drug
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When it became a national curricu-
lum, the program, actually a sequel
to the original idea, became known
as ‘‘Here’s Looking at You, Two’’,
thus the reason for the “Two” as
opposed to a Roman numeral 2.
Jones explains the program is
divided into four segments for
teaching purposes:
1. Information — What do I know
about drugs?
2. Self concept — What do I know
about me?
3. Decision making — Using what
I know to make choices.
4. Coping — Using what I know to
feel better.
Jones feels the 1980’s approach to
drug education is far more effective
than prohibition, which didn’t work
at all, and scare tactics which, at
one point, actually became humor-
ous. She feels students can relate to
the ideas set forth in the ‘‘Here’s
Looking at You, Two’’ program.
Jones, who works very closely
formed Dallas Junior High Home-
School Association, claims the drug
problem within the Dallas School
District is no worse than it is in any
other school district, but neither is
it any better than in any other
school district.
The health teacher feels children
“raid liquor cabinets” for a variety
of reasons, but feels one of the most
serious reasons is the ‘‘weakened
family unit” explaining that with a
higher divorce rate these days,
there are more broken homes and
children are now required to spend
a lot more time on their own than
ever before.
“The extended family unit is
gone,”’ Jones explained. ‘‘There
isn’t always an Aunt Louise or an
Uncle Andy to look after the kids
and even Grandma and Grandpa
can’t always be there. Thus, there is
a lack of supervision, which the
children relate as a lack of caring.
There is no viable role model there
anymore.”
Jones feels students need to have
more alternatives to drugs and alco-
hol, such as skiing, whitewater raft-
ing, etc. She feels the need for
alternatives is even greater during
the summer months when the stu-
dents are not in school.
“They need to have natural
highs,” she said. For this reason,
Jones has prepared to propose the
idea of the formation of a club to
her students — a club that would be
geared toward finding alternatives
to drugs and alcohol.
‘“There are no guarantees,” Jones
said of school-age children. ‘No
matter what you’ve done, you never
know what they’re going to do.”
But, in the meantime, the institu-
tion of the ‘‘Here’s Looking at You,
Two’ program, the help of Parents
and Kids and the Home-School Asso-
ciation, the concern of parents and
the dedication of health teachers
like Robyn Jones make the problem
just a little easier to cope with.
High School, and Jack Wega, a
teacher at the junior high school,
the Home-School Association was
born.
Wagner reported that some of the
early accomplishments of the young
group include:
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— A quarterly newsletter which is
mailed to parents, listing both asso-
ciation news and school news.
— A parent-teacher conference
which will be held during American
Education Week (November 15) for
the first time at the junior high
school.
— The institution of a volunteer
program for students at the Mead-
ows Nursing Home in Dallas.
— An established time of between
10 and 11 a.m. on the first Monday
of each month for any person to
meet with Leon Trager, assistant
principal, regarding any questions
or problems concerning the junior
high.
Mrs. Wagner encourages Dallas
Junior High School students and
their parents to attend the Novem-
ber 6 meeting.
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Challenger
Election
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He has been a member of the
Wyoming Borough Council for
five years, serving as council
chairman for two of those years.
DiPietro was a Republican until
Februray of this year when he
changed his registration to Dem-
ocrat because of a difference in
philosophy with that of the
Republican Party.
He considers himself a con-
servative with liberal undertones
and is upset with the present
Harrisburg administration pro-
gram and feels Luzerne County
is being ignored.
If elected to the House,
DiPietro will sponsor legislation
to elect a Public Utilities Com-
mission instead of their positions
being appointed. He will also
sponsor legislation to create a
Citizens Public Utilities Board
which should sit in on all rate
increase studies. He would also
work toward the $190,000,000
bond issue money being used
annually in areas where there
was nine percent or more unem-
ployment. Luzerne County would
benefit under these terms.
DiPietro maintains he will also
sponsor legislation to give tax
incentives to those employers
who hire workers 50 years of age
or over. He said a majority of
the unemployed in this area are
50 years of age or over.
Back Mountain Democratic
Chairman Mrs. Barbara Pitca-
vage is a native of the Back
Mountain. The former Barbara
Youngblood. she is a graduate of
Dallas High School and is a
former employee of The Dallas
Post.
Always a registered Democrat,
Barbara was a committee
woman for 12 years prior to
being elected Back Mountain
chairwoman in 1982. Barbara
recently was elected secretary of
the District which includes
Kingston Township, Dallas Bor-
ough, Dallas Township, part of
Lake and Lehman Townships,
Franklin Township, most of the
West Side, except Swoyersville.
Barbara said that, in the Back
Mountain, Republican registra-
tions outnumber Democrat regis-
trations approximately 2 to 1 but
that each year the number of
Democrat registrations increase.
In her opinion, more of the
senior citizens will support Mon-
dale because they have been
around long enough to know that
President Reagan will not help
the Social Security program. She
also has very little confidence in
polls because she believes one
can do anything with figures. She
believes the young people realize
that following graduation from
college, there will be no jobs for
them if there is a Republican
administration.
“The Democrats have always
supported the blue collar work-
ers,’ said Barbara.
She believes the local election
is about the same and that the
candidates running want to bring
jobs to the area. Barbara said
she feels DiPietro has a rough
road ahead, but he is young
enough to give 100 percent.
Thomas Reese of Dallas. the
local Republican committee
chairperson, was born and raised
in Dallas and graduated from
Dallas High School and Wilkes
College. With the exception of
three years he spent with the
U.S. Navy in the South Pacific,
Reese was affiliated with his
father, Thomas, who owned
Glenview Coal Company until it
was closed.
Although the only political
office he has held is that of
Dallas Borough Tax Collector, an
office he first ran for 20 years
ago following the late Art
Dungey’s retirment, Reese has
always been involved in the polit-
ical world through helping cam-
paign for his friends.
Reese became more deeply
involved when his wife, the
former Martha Hadsall, was
Jury Commissioner and pres-
ently Dallas Borough Committee
Woman. Martha is also recording
secretary for the county organi-
zation.
Reese is now District Chair-
man of the 5th District of Luz-
Party. He is an ardent Reagan
and Coslett supporter. He
believes President Reagan has
done a good job during his term
of office.
According to Reese, he
believes Reagan has guaranteed
Social Security will be available,
he is advocating a stronger
defense program, cut taxes and
would have had a strong pro-
gram if he had full cooperation.
Reese also said that Rep. Cos-
lett has done a good job while in
office helping senior citizens with
lottery money: working for the
PACE program; working for the
continuance of the Cross Valley
Expressway: increased grants
for schools: donating his
increase in salary to four
libraries in his district-Back
Mountain, Wyoming, West Pitts-
ton and Hoyt Library: helping
obtain funding for volunteer fire
companies; co-sponsoring the
Agent Orange Bill for Veterans
and voting to reduce personal
and corporate taxes.
If re-elected, Coslett’s goal is
to continue helping the people of
his district.
In the 11th Congressional Dis-
trict covering all of Luzerne
County, Montour, Columbia and
Sullivan Counties and parts of
Carbon, Monroe and Northum-
berland Counties Democratic
candidate Paul E. Kanjorski had
approximately 20 percent more
support than Republican candi-
date Robert P. Hudock several
weeks before the election,
according to various media
reports.
Kanjorski is a 47-year old
attorney, who resides in Nanti-
coke. He defeated incumbent
Congressman Frank Harrison in
the general election. Hudock is a
46-year old attorney who is a
native of Hazleton and, has lived
in Virginia.
Employment, senior citizen
problems, taxes and toxic wastes
are among the campaign issues
both candidates have been $peak-
In the 119th District, which
includes areas surrounding the
Back Mountain, incumbent Stan-
ley Jarolin is the Democratic
candidate and John J. Cicero is
the Republican candidate.
Franz Kafka’s “The Trial’ will be
the subject of discussion when
Great Books at Hayfield, a Penn
State Wilkes-Barre organization
which is open to the public, inaugu-
rates its annual series of discussions
on major works of literature. Area
residents are invited to attend the
session on Friday, Nov. 2 from 11
a.m. to 1 p.m. in room 212 of the
Lehman campus’ Hayfield House.
The Penn State Film Society will
be presenting the film version of
The Trial on Wednesday, Nov. 14 at
7 p.m. and on Friday, Nov. 16 at 11
a.m.
A total of eight discussions have
seen scheduled from fall through
spring, with the next session to be
on Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice,
on Monday, Dec. 3 at 7 p.m. in
Hayfield House, room 309. Many of
the books are the subject of films in
the campus film series.
The film version of Death in
Venice will be presented by the
Film Society on Wednesday, Dec. 5
at 7 p.m. and on Friday, Dec. 7 at 11
a.m,
Details on membership in Great
Books are available from Dr. Fred-
erick Stefon, assistant professor of
Dr. Robert Merrill, assistant profes-
sor of English.
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JOHN J.
RA 119th DISTRICT
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