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“My son, Alan Lord, owns the
company, Alan, my wife, and I
drive the cars and Alan’s wife is the
dispatcher. We're here 24 hours a
day, seven days a week for the
handicapped, elderly, or anyone
who needs us, for that matter. We
care.”
The Back Mountain Taxi Com-
pany isn’t the only form of transpor-
tation open to the handicapped
public.
The Luzerne County Transporta-
tion Authority has a unique pro-
gram for their physically and men-
tally handicapped customers. It’s
called the Step Program, and Joe
Authority,
“about.
“The Step Program is for those
who can’t board the buses. These
can be what we call ambulatory,
mentally handicapped, or perhaps
blind individuals. After conducting a
brief phone interview and having a
doctor fill out an eligibility applica-
tion, the board meets to determine
if the individual is in fact eligible. If
the person is accepted into the
program, he or she is issued a
script card. With this card, they can
purchase tickets for 75 cents each.
We then usually send out vans to
pick them up and take them to their
destination. We do ask however,
that the trips be planned in
advance, and that they let us know
by noon the day before the trip.”
According to Mainwaring, there is
also discount rates for those handi-
capped and elderly who can board
the buses. Once again, an eligibility
application must be accepted.
“If they are in this program they
can get half price fare on certain
runs,” he said. “That is on the
inbound runs from 9 a.m. to 3:30
p.m. and anytime after 6:30 p.m. on
weekdays, and all day Saturday. On
the out bound runs it’s 9 a.m. to 4
p.m. and anytime after 6:30 p.m. on
weexdays, and all day Saturday.”
explained what it’s
One thing a parent wants to know
before moving to a community is
how well the schools and colleges
are in. the area. A parent of a
handicapped child must take other
things about the school into consid-
eration.
Joseph Rogan, chairman of the
504 committee at College Misericor-
dia, which investigated these prob-
lems, claimed that the college is
well equipped for this type of stu-
dents.
“First there are architectural
barriers to be overcome,” he said.
“Several of the campus buildings
have been remodeled for this.
Ramps have been installed in the
science and administration build-
ings, and there are now elevators
for those students in wheel chairs.
Doorknobs and light switches have
been lowered, and the offices and
lavs have been totally done over.
‘“Attitudal barriers however, are
more difficult to overcome,” he
continued. ‘“We’ve begun a major
effort to convince both faculty and
students not to be afraid of handi-
capped students. Brochures that list
dozens of handicapped conditions
have been given to the faculty. The
brochure explains the conditions in
laymen’s terms so as to make the
faculty feel at ease with these stu-
dents, and it’s worked. We're
awfully proud of the people here.
We feel we have broken the bar-
riers.” ‘
A program at College Misericor-
dia entitled the Alternative
Learner’s Program (ALP) allows
various types of handicapped indi-
viduals, including the learning disa-
bled, to have individual programs
that helps them bypass obstacles.
All of this may seem small and
unimportant to us, but as Rogan put
it,” “one small step for a person in
a wheelchair is like climbing Mt.
Everest.
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ness,’ she told the students.
“Be proud of your high school and
its achievements. What is special
about Lake-Lehman are the teach-
ers. How many teachers and how
many school board members would
send their school band to Atlantic
City to parade down the boardwalk
behind a former graduate? How
many school teachers would walk
alongside of the car I was riding in?
Lake-Lehman did.”
She described how rigorous com-
petition is, but told the students not
to let the first defeat stop them. She
explaiind that when she was
herself together and worked harder
to succeed.
Following her 40-minute talk to
the student body, high school princi-
pal John Zaleskas excused the boys
from the assembly while the female
members of the student body were
allowed to remain to participate in
a quesfion and answer period.
The majority of the questions
asked pertained to Miss Major’s life
as Miss Pennsylvania. What was it
like to compete for Miss America?
What does she do now? Where does
she live? Why did she select
Drexel?
Miss Major answered the ques-
tions very candidly, explaining that
to compete for Miss America meant
a lot of training and a lot of
traveling to obtain the correct
clothes. She told them that, as Miss
Pennsylvania, she appears before
high school and college students, in
fashion shows, speaks or sings,
sometimes dances, and also appears
in parades or at other events as
requested and scheduled.
She also told them that she
doesn’t live in one particular place,
but actually “out of a suitcase.”
Miss Major reminded them that
she was just an average person and,
not too many years ago, was a high
school student just as they are
today. :
‘““The difference,’”’ Miss Major
said, ‘“is that I took advantage of
everything I could get out of high
school. Remember, the teachers are
doing it all for you so take advan-
tage of every opportunity offered.
You will be happy that you did in
the future.”
Yearbook staff
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
William Wagner, Dallas Senior
High School yearbook advisor, was
informed last week that the high
school’s 1984 yearbook has placed
second in a national critique and
review conducted by the American
Scholastic Press Association.
The Dallas High School was one of
1300 schools which submitted their
publication to the contest.
The 200-page yearbook was cited
for excellence in the five major
categories of content, presentation,
page design and layout, photogra-
phy, publication structure and crea-
tivity.
One of the most striking features
of the book’s construction is its use
of color photographs. Of more than
1,000 pictures in this year’s book, 16
pages are highlighted by full color
prints and enlargements. Since the
reproduction of the color photos was
one of the books’ greatest expenses,
this brought the total production
cost to $11,000.
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It was about a year ago that the
1984 yearbook staff headed by Wil-
liam Wagner, advisor, and Mark
Rosing, editor-in-chief, set their
goal to produce a yearbook which
would be different than all others
Dallas had seen.
The production staff was divided
into layout design and literary
people, who spent countless hours in
school, after school and weekends,
sifting through thousands of photo-
graphs to find and arrange those
which would tell the best story of
the year.
“It was a wonderful year — a
vintage year! We had everything
going for us,” said Wagner. ‘From
the moment the students raised an
incredible $4,000 in advertisements,
I knew we could produce a hit. In
addition, we had a particularly
gifted and dedicated editorial staff
led by Mark Rosing, an exemplary
editor in chief.
“The yearbook is unlike any other
sport or activity,” Wagner added.
“It’s tough to work behind the
scenes with no incentive, but to
capture all the memories you can in
photographs and print. Anyone can
put pictures in a scrapbook but it
takes talent, determination and
enthusiasm to create what the 1984
staff did.”
Rosing, who is now a student at
Cornell University said, “We are
very proud of our accomplishments.
We knew we had all of the neces-
sary ingredients, a dedicated advi-
sor, an excellent staff, an activity
program that worked and the
money to produce a book of this
magnitude. Our high marks, our
picture clarity, is a credit to our
' professional photographer, Bert
Husband Studio. I have seen other
yearbooks at college and they don’t
compare to ours.”
Perhaps the busiest and most
important time of year for the
yearbook staff is during the adver-
tising campaign which runs from
October to December. Staff mem-
bers visit local businesses for ads to
help pay the cost of production.
Prices for the ads range from $84
for a full page to $20 for a 1/16 pag
ad. The staff members value their
advertisers for without them the
yearbook staff couldn’t produce a
top quality book.
Advertising and patrons, however,
cover only about 36 percent of the
book’s cost. The remaining 64 per-
cent of the cost comes from the sale
of the book itself. No money is
allocated from the school district’s
budget.
The Dallas yearbook, at $17, is
still the least expensive in the
Valley considering what the publica-
tion contains. Wagner said he does
not believe that the quality of the
book or anything should be sacri-
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