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As part of a nationwide Public
Broadcasting Service Adult Learn-
ing Program, Luzerne County Com-
munity College wil Iresume its regu-
lar schedule of telecourse offerings
for the Fall semester.
The community college will offer
five telecourses on WVIA-TV, Chan-
nel 44, and seven independent study
telecourses which are available for
viewing by appointment at the stu-
dent’s convenience at the LCCC
Library on the main campus in
Nanticoke.
Among the telecourses to be
offered on WVIA-TV are Introduc-
tion to Data Processing, an up-to-
date survey of electronic data
processing, computer hardware and
software systems, and develop-
ments that will provide the basis for
further advancements in informa-
tion processing. This telecourse will
air on Sundays, from 7 to 8 a.m.
beginning September 8 through
December 1.
The forces which have shaped our
earth will be examined in the Intro-
duction to Physical Geology tele-
course which will be shown on
Wednesday mornings, from 7 to
beginning September 11
through December 11. The course
will include a review of (fissils,
volcanoes, water, geothermal
energy, glaciers, deserts, reefs,
rocks and minerals.
Principles of Sociology will offer
clues to understanding the myriad
of sociological events of our time
through interviews with renowned
social scientists and examinations
of portions of society experiencing
change. This telecourse will be
offered on Tuesdays and Thursdays,
from 7 to .7:30 a.m., beginning
September 10 through Decmeber 19.
Contemporary marketing environ-
ment, identification of consumer
offerings
needs, production strategy and dis-
tribution strategy are some of the
topics to be discussed in the Princi-
ples of Marketing I telecourse to be
offered on Saturdays, from 7 to 8
a.m., beginning September 14
through December 7. Also to be
reviewed are promotional strategy,
pricing strategy and international
marketing.
American Government will be
offered on Mondays and Fridays,
from 7 to 7:30 a.m., beginning
September 9 through December 16,
with the last program airing on
Wednesday, December 18, at 7 a.m.
This telecourse will discuss the
theories and principles of constitu-
tional government and will feature
up-to-date information on govern-
ment policies, current political
issues and the 1985 presidential
campaign.
The independent study telecourses
to be offered include the Brain:
Mind and Behavior, English Com-
position I, Introduction to Business,
Vietnam, World War II: Part I,
World War II: Part II, and The
Constitution.
Post public add 1
By registering for one or more
telecourses, students can learn at
home, without the necessity of regu-
lar classroom attendance. The
courses combine television lessons,
reading assignments, one or more
on-campus sessions for discussion,
review for exams, or alternate
assignments. The instructor will be
available by telephone at convenient
hours each week for assistance at
times to be announced to regis-
trants.
For further information, or to
register for a telecourse, contact
Eleanor Miller at Luzerne County
Community College, 829-7423.
All types of records will be broken
this Fall when the doors open for
classes at Luzerne County Commu-
nity College where an anticipated
1,600 newly enrolled freshmen will
begin their studies for either one-
year certificate or two-year degree
programs.
At the same time college presi-
dent Thomas J. Moran announced
that there would be no tuition
increase for the fourth consecutive
year. Students are able to complete
a one-year certificate program for
approximately $1,000, and a two-
year degree program for a total
academic cost of $2,000.
Thomas P. Leary, associate dean
of admissions and student services
at the community college, noted,
“We are anticipating this record
enrollment due to the increase of
applications at this time compared
to last year, and that applications
are still being accepted and will
continue to be accepted from inter-
ested students.”
College officials will welcome the
new freshman class at the annual
orientation program to be held on
Monday, August 26, at the college
gymnasium on the main campus in
Nanticoke, beginning at 9:30 a.m.
With the increased - enrollement
figures, the college staff is readying
itself for the registration period
scheduled for Tuesday and Wednes-
day, Aug. 27 and 28, from 9 a.m. to
8:30 p.m.; and Thursday, Aug. 29,
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., on the main
campus.
Evening classes will also be
offered on the main campus and at
six off-campus locations including
Dallas, Hazleton, Pittston, Berwick,
Kingston and Wilkes-Barre.
SUNDAY
AUGUST 11
407 P.M.
ENTERTAINMENT
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Directors
attend
workshop
Three school board members and
administrators of the Lake-Lehman
School District recently returned
from a three-day education work-
shop held at Bucknell University,
Lewisburg.
Local attendees included Martin
F. Noon, 2nd Vice President; Ray-
mond C. Bowersox, Board Secre-
tary-Business Manager; and DR. M.
David Preston, Superintendent of
Schools.
Five state school management
organizations sponsored the annual
workshop which offered comprehen-
sive training sessions for superin-
tendents, principals, school board
secretaries, school business officials
and school board members. Spon-
sors of the event were the Pennsyl-
vania Association of School Admin-
istrators, the Pennsylvania
Association of School Business Offi-
cials, the Pennsylvania Association
of Secondary Principals, the Penn-
sylvania Association of Elementary
School Principals and the Pennsyl-
vania School Boards Association.
Special training was provided on
the opening day for new administra-
tors and assistants (or new to their
positions) by the Pennsylvania
Department of Education Executive
Academy.
Seven broad topics coreisting of
three components each comprised
the Friday workshop offerings.
Topics discussed were boardman-
ship, school finance, personnel rela-
tions, community involvement,
management, instruction, and stu-
dents.
Saturday’s highlights featured
eight miniclinics on the following
topics: vocational education, small
and rural districts, remediation,
rumor control, school insurance,
board policy, controlling conflict,
and legislative update.
Speakers included Dr. Thomas L.
McGreal, University of Illinois, and
Dr. Gary Sojka, Bucknell University
president.
McGreal delivered the keynote
address on how the management
team can help teachers keep sharp
instructional tools. He specializes in
the supervision and evaluation of
educational personnel.
Sojka, who assumed the presi-
dency of Bucknell in August 1984,
addressed the participants at the
closing luncheon. He provided some
thoughts about the challenges facing
public schols and the professionals
who will lead the educational enter-
prise in the decades ahead.
Course available
For quick shade try climbing
vines. They are attractive and effec-
tive and can be used for shade
faster than any of the trees or
shrubs.
James E. Brewer, associate pro-
fessor of ornamental horticulture,
points out that new and existing
vines need periodic management to
remain attractive and effective.
These amangement tips are given in
a correspondence course on Vines,
Ground Covers, and Esapliers
offered by The Pennsylvania State
University.
The lessons explain the hardiness,
foliage color, fruiting habits, plant-
ing, general maintenance, and
spray schedules for over 110 vines
and ground covers. The last lesson
describes the methods and tech-
niques used in training trees and
shrubs in a geometrical pattern
against a building, wall or fance.
With the help of this course, you
may be able to eliminate tedious
mowing around trees, close to walls
or down a steep slope by planting a
ground cover. If the blank side of
the garage needs landscaping, con-
sider espaliering a plant or shrub
suited to the site and soil. Morning
glories or scarlet runner beans may
hide the unsightly storage shed.
These are just a few of the sugges-
tions given in this course to improve
home grounds.
To order, write for VINES, Dept.
5000, University Park, PA. 16802.
Make your check for $4.50, including
handling, payable to PENN STATE.
Organization meets
Smith, realtor.
Wilkes Collee has been awarded a
$300,000 grant from the J.N. Pew
Trust of Philadelphia to fund a
comprehensive program of profes-
sional development for the College’s
entire faculty, it was announced this
week.
The grant will fund the initial
three years of a planned five-year
program. The Pew Trust is adminis-
tered by the Glenmede Trust Com-
pany.
Describing the project, Wilkes
President Christopher N. Breiseth
stated, “This important grant from
the Pew Trust will enable each
member of the faculty to grow
professionally by enriching profes-
sional capabilities and at the same
time improving the quality of
Wilkes’ overall educational mission.
Faculty development was
described by Breiseth as a variety
of projects that will encourage fac-
ulty to explore new teaching-learn-
ing theories designed to improve
and broaden individual knowledge
as well as course quality and con-
tent. It will also enable them to
evaluate and adjust the College’s
curriculum to respond to the chang-
ing needs of today’s students.
Through an on-going series of
professional seminars both on and
off campus, and through the intro-
duction of new team-teaching tech-
niques, the faculty will be given the
opportunity to contribute to rede-
signing a curriculum to reflect the
newly defined mission of Wilkes
College. Various other methods,
such as sabbatical study, scholarly
colloquia, and pedogogical research,
will also be used in the faculty
development program.
According to Breiseth the recent
tendency of too many colleges has
been to train students in a particu-
lar area of specialization, rather
than to give students a basis of
liberal arts knowledge and skills
needed to articulate those fields of
specialization.
“We are looking for curriculum
reform and faculty development
that will work well for that majority
of students who may be changing
careers four or five times in their
professional lives.”
The program is also designed to
blend science and technology
courses with the liberal arts so that
students in all dsiciplines are
equipped to follow a wide variety of
career choices.
Dr. Gerald E. Hartdagen, Dean of
Academic Affairs, said that the
faculty at Wilkes is very supportive
of the five-year plan, “We are
institution which pursues profes-
sional development as an integral
part of its mission while assuring
that each graduate has a strong
basic core of liberal learning.
Wilkes will soon become a college of
even greater value to its students
and the communities it serves.”
Phonathon
The Executive Committee of the
Wilkes College Wyoming Valley
Chapter Alumni Association has vol-
unteered to lead the 1985 Alumni
Phonathon, scheduled to begin Sep-
tember 3. The Phonathon will be
conducted every Monday through
Thursday evening, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.,
gham Student Center, according to
Ann Thompson, Director of Annual
Giving.
The 15 member Executive Com-
mittee will act as co-chairmen and
will recruit volunteers. Thompson
said 350 volunteers are needed in
order to operate 20 phones per night
for the! duration of the Phonathon.
The target audience is approxi-
mately 10,000 alumni nationwide.
Both alumni and students will be
soughtas volunteers, according to
Thompson.
The goal for alumni support in
1985 is $150,000 and the total Annual
Giving goal is $400,000.
Volunteers may contact Anthony
Shipula, Director of Alumni Rela-
tions, 824-4651, ext. 325.
Misericordia
College Misericordia is sponsoring
four adult non-credit programs
during August.
“Study Skill for the Returning
Adult Student,” will be held August
6 and 8, from 6 to 9 p.m. Instructor
Barb Killian will address the needs
of the adult student returning to the
college environment. The primary
focus will be on developing basic
academic and management skills.
A jewelry making workshop is
scheduled under the direction of
Sister Regina Kiel, RSM, on August
13 and 14, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Participants will create a silver
ring using the lost wax casting
method.
“Soccer Rules for Parents” will
be held on August 14 and 21, from 7
to 9 p.m. Co-sponsored by the Back
Mountain Youth Soccer Association,
it is designed by instructor Ray
Dennis to help parents understand
the fundamentals of soccer.
Depression is the subject that will
be discussed on August 19, 6:30 to
8:30 p.m. Instructors Madeline
Branas and Candice Mamary, are
employed at the Luzerne-Wyoming
Mental Health and Mental Retarda-
tion Center I. They will provide
knowledge about various aspects of
depression and explore coping tech-
niques.
For registration information and
a free brochure detailing non-credit
summer courses for adults and chil-
dren, contact the College Misericor-
dia Office of Special Programs at
675-2181, ext. 331.
Bees would produce little honey
without the highly organized, close-
knit society in the beehive.
More structured than human
society, bees have a queen mother,
a few loitering drones, and hundred
or workers. Drones who success-
fully mate die. Other drones fly
about humming and taking food
from the mouths of nursing workers
and comb from cells. So, it is not
surprising that before winter
arrives, the workers throw the
“gentlemen” out to die in the cold
rather than feed them.
The queen, mother to all the bees
in the hive, has no authority to rule.
Her family feeds and cares for her
while the older workers nurse the
babies and make family decisions,
according to a correspondence
To get a copy of this course, send
$9.25, including handling, to BEE-
KEEPING, Dept. 5000, University
Park, PA. 16802. Make ‘check paya-
ble to PENN STATE.
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