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By CHARLOT M. DENMON
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By JOAN KINGSBURY
8 Correspondent
Lively toe-tapping music sung by
peppy individuals. Sounds like a
group of teenagers, doesn’t it? Not
quite! The Meadow Larks and their
Kitchen Band are comprised of T-
agers, 60, 70, and 80 year olds who
really love to sing and entertain.
The group was organized as a
result of an amateur night held at
the Meadows Apartments, where all
the musical members live. Laura
Watkins and Clair Troxell came up
The Postal Service is cooperating
with the business community -of
Dallas in urging customers-to shop
early and mail early for the holi-
days.
Postmaster Robert Ruddy asks
holiday shoppers to mail early this
year and to make certain that mail
is addressed correctly (including zip
codes) and packages are wrapped
correctly so that cards and parcels
reach their destinations in plenty of
time for the holidays.
“We in the Postal Service take
pride in carrying your messages of
love and joy,” said Ruddy. “Mailing
early helps us deliver the messages
on time.”
\The key to successful holiday
‘mailing is to mail early and cor-
rectly, Postmaster Ruddy says that
includes planning now for gifts that
must travel long distances for
Christmas.
“Many overseas mailing dates -
including those for the Armed
Forces stationed overseas - occur
this month. Mailers can get specific
information on the international
dates by calling us here at 675-
0131,” Ruddy said.
Customers should also take care
to write legible zip coded addresses
for both the address and the return
address. And remember that the
use of zip codes following the name
of a particular city and state will
aid us on processing the mail.
“Last year our customers helped
us tremendously. They mailed early
in the season and early in the day.
We hope they will choose to cooper-
ate with us again this year, so we
both will have an enjoyable holiday
mailing season.”
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office at 676-5211.
with the idea of playing a wash-
board and other items, and the
Kitchen Band was born. Don Wil-
liams, the founder of the group,
serves as its director.
Singing a melody of old time
songs like Daisy, Daisy; Won’t You
Come Home Bill Bailey; Sheik of
Araby; and My Gal Sal, the
Meadow Larks and their Kitchen
Band perform at churches, nursing
homes, businesses and apartment
buildings. The Kitchen Band, using
kazoos, washboards, pots and pans,
drums, pipes and bells, adds just
the right pizazz to the performance.
Originally organizing the Meadow
Larks and Kitchen Band for their
own enjoyment, the group found
they liked to entertain and began
offering their services to the com-
munity. The members give a tre-
mendous amount of credit to Wil-
liams, who they all agree “is a
wonderful director who they
couldn’t get along without.”
The Meadow Larks and Kitchen
Band are currently practicing for
their Christmas program. They will
be appearing Dec. 4 at the Sheraton
Crossgates; Dec. 6 at College Miser-
icordia; Dec. 7 for the Nesbitt
Auxiliary, Shavertown; Dec. 11 at
the Sheraton Crossgates; Dec. 16 at
St. Clement’s Church and Dec. 18 at
Luzerne Towers Apartments.
Rehearsals are held once a week,
cial seasons. Williams is the pianist
for the group and is assisted by
Bessie Pelton who also plays the
harmonica.
Members of the organization, in
addition to Williams and Mrs.
Pelton, are Betty Kunkle, Harriette
Frederick, Theta Dickson, Helen
Parsons, Florence Shively, Pauline
Gosser, Wilbur Hoyt, Jean Wheeler,
Eleanor Cragle, Dorothy Adamski,
Ethel Osborne, Ann Hall, Dorothy
Pope, Dorothy Valent, Ann
Dymond, Claire Wesley, Laura Wat-
kins, Clara Troxell, Eleanor Mon-
tross, Irene Tribender.
Story Hour
It fook five months and a special
meeting of the Lake-Lehman School
Board before Thomas A. Williams
received the majority of votes
needed to appoint him as a perma-
nent elementary teacher in the Dis-
trict,
Williams, who is the son of school
director Tom Williams, has been a
subglitute teacher in the Lehiran/
Jackson Elementary School since
September. For the past five
months, the motion to appoint him
as a permanent member of the
faculty has ended in a 4-4 tie with
the older Williams abstaining.
In past meetings voting in favor
for the appointment were Joseph
Jones, Donald Jones, Gilbert Tough
and Daniel Hudzik. Voting against
the appointment in the past were
Bing Wolfe, Martin Noon, Edward
Mark and Allen Keiper.
At the special meeting held Tues-
day, Nov. 20, Director Keiper
changed his vote to ‘yes,’ stating
that he does not always agree with
the hiring methods of the board, but
he believes that since the adminis-
tration recommended Williams for
the position, the administrators
were better qualified than he since
they deal with these situations
every day. Keiper also stated that
some very ‘ugly situations had
occurred 'during the past five
months and spitefulness was
directed toward the younger Wil-
liams because his father was a
board member.
District school director Bing
Wolfe made a motion to change a
part of the original motion so Wil-
liams would not receive his salary
retroactive to the beginning of the
year, but the motion failed due to a
lack of a second. ‘As a result,
Williams will receive an annual
salary of $12,600 retroactive to the
beginning of the school year, which
THOMAS A. WILLIAMS
goes back to September.
Wolfe went on record to the effect
that he objects to Williams’ appoint-
ment because he believes there are
others - more qualified than Wil
liams.
Directors Edward Mark and
Martin Noon were not present at the
special meeting.
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
With the Christmas holidays rap-
idly approaching, there are many
people who feel threatened or
depressed with the thought of facing
the Yuletide Season. Even more so,
they dread the thoughts of the pre-
season preparation. :
These people are not alone for
there are many who have lost loved
ones, who feel the heavy blanket of
depression setting over them and
they don’t know how to cope with it
and the problems that come with it.
Dr. Constance Kozel, RSM, who
teaches philosophy at College Miser-
icordia on a part-time basis, is the
person to whom to turn for those
persons with such problems.
Dr. Kozel makes it a point to try
to help people go beyond coping
with Christmas. Rushing, holiday
spending, over-indulgence in food
and beverage, Christmas commer-
cialism, holiday blues and loneliness
are common problems in today’s
fast moving society.
For those individuals caught up in
these depressing holiday patterns,
Dr. Kozel uses techniques and
projects to help them overcome
their problems in order to have a
more relaxed, joyous and spiritually
enriched holiday season.
A native of Freeland, a small coal
mining town near White Haven, Dr.
Constance Kozel, RSM, taught phi-
losophy at College Misericordia sev-
eral years ago, then went to Pitts-
burgh where she taught and also
conducted several workshops deal-
ing with coping with the holiday
season.
Approximately five years ago, Dr.
Kozel and Rebecca Osborne con-
ducted a workshop at St. Paul’s
Lutheran Church, Shavertown,
which Dr. Kozel said proved fo be
very successful.
Dr. Kozel said she recommends
that two people from the same
family or at least two close friends
help each other to cope with holiday
depression. “They can relate to one
another and work out problems with
one another,” she said.
There are three parts to the work-
shops Dr. Kozel conducts. Those
DR. CONSTANCE KOZEL, RSM
the rush of the holidays, spending
money and too much eating.
In the first part, Dr. Kozel helps
persons get in touch with them-
selves and gives techniques for the
management of stress. In the
second part, she devotes time to
gift-giving patterns and the deeper
meaning of gift-giving and how to
isolate the spirit of giving to their
personal lives. The third part of the
workshop deals with loneliness and
depression experienced by many
people during the holiday season.
“The holidays are difficult for
many of those individuals who have
lost loved ones near the holidays,”
said Dr. Kozel. “Often when the
next year’s holiday season
approaches, a sense of depression
or despair descends upon them. In
my workshops I try to use methods
which helps them help themselves
or help others.
“I don’t want to give away the
projects we do, but we have fun in
our workshops,” she added. ‘We
work with various materials and the
people attending become involved.
We also have a prayer service.”
Dr. Kozel told about a young
woman with two children, who had
been a widow for two years. The
young woman could not overcome
the loneliness brought about by the
death of her husband and found the
holidays to be very depressing.
Finally, she attended one of Dr.
Kozel’s workshops and, there, found
the solution to her problem.
Dr. Kozel has been conducting
workshops for the past five years
and, for those people who find the
Christmas rush too much, the com-
mercialism of Christmas closing in
or for those who realize the Spirit of
Advent is becoming lost, they may
well find solutions in the ‘Beyond
Coping With Christmas” workshops.
There they may find the answer to
the true meaning of the celebration
of Christmas.
Anyone interested in Dr. Kozel’s
workshops should call the College
Misericordia Department of Contin-
uing Education at 675-2181, exten-
sion 331.
Volunteers needed
Nesbitt Memorial Hospital is in
need of volunteers to donate their
time and service to several of the
hospital departments. The Volun-
teer Services Program is an impor-
tant component of patient care at
the hospital. Nesbitt volunteers pro-
vide many services that supplement
the basic essential functions of the
professional staff adding to the
quality care provided in area resi-
dents.
Volunteers must possess basic
skills for each individual position
and enjoy working with people.
They are provided with a general
orientation of the hospital and spe-
cific instruction in. each department.
Inside The Post
Calendar .............. 11
Classifieds ....... 14,15
Commentart .......... 4
Cookbook .............. 5
Obituaries: ............. 2
People ............... 6,7
School ................ 12
Sports .............. 9,10