By JOHN HOINSKI
Staff Writer
Although conditions outside the Dallas Admin-
istration building Monday night were stormy,
such was not the case inside as newly-elected
Dallas School Board president James Richard-
son presided over a peaceful session at the
Board’s monthly meeting.
Clarence J. Michael, of Dallas, questioned why
the Board held a secret ballot in electing
Richardson as president at a reorganizational
meeting a few weeks back. Superintendent
Gerald Wycallis explained that is the method the
board has been using for years. Richardson was
elected by a 54 vote and replaced former
president Donald Jones who still remains as a
member of the board.
Bill Bachman, another Back Mountain resi-
dent, also thanked Wyecallis for his cooperation
as well of that of elementary principal Samuel
Barbose, in meeting with parents to discuss the
conditions existing at the Westmoreland Ele-
mentary School. Wycallis and Barbose plan to
meet again with parents in the near future.
- Because of the overcrowding issue that has
been a main topic at board meetings and some
of the possible solutions accompanying it, Bach-
man asked for reassurance that the Westmore-
land Elementary School would not be closed.
Wycallis and other board members said there
are absolutely no plans to close down that
facility, and that if spacing conditions ever
became a problem at the school, the district
could always add classrooms onto the building,
a point Wycallis also made at last month’s
meeting.
dollars into that school a few ‘years. ago,”
Wyecallis said. “There are no plans to close it
down.” :
In other business the Board:
— Accepted the resignation of Henry Hill as
custodian, effective October 29, 1986 with
regrets. Hill will be on a disability retirement
leave.
— Approved a request from Nancy Campbell,
elementary music teacher, for a sabbatical
leave of absence for the second semester of the
1987-88 year for travel pruposes.
— Accepted the resignation of Mrs. Julia
Conologue as a member of the Citizens’ Advis-
ory Council, with regrets.
— Appointed Mrs. Karen Miller, 21 Circle
Drive, College Manor, Dallas, as a member of
the Citizens’ Advisory Concil,
— Recommended that a resolution be adopted
to permit Robyn Jones to attend the U.S. All-
Star Field Hockey Clinic on January 23 and 24,
1987 in Atlantic City, N.J.
James Richardson, newly-
elected president of the Dallas
School board, says he doesn’t
have any particular plans for
the Board, but does hope to
bring about harmony among its
members.
“We have been getting away,
somewhat, from items that we,
as a Board, should be involved
in,” Richardson said. “It’s our
job to make school policy and to
look out for things the district
will need sometime down the
road, not necessarily to get
involved in daily happenings.
“We have been getting away
from that a little and I would
like to see more harmony
among the members to benefit
the kids,”” the new director
added.
Richardson was elected presi-
dent at a reorganizational meet-
ing last week, receiving five
votes for the position.
The operator of the L.L. Rich-
ardson car dealership in Dallas,
Richardson, 40, who also served
as chairman of the cafeteria
committee, resides in Pheasant
Run with his wife Cheryl, and
children, Tracy, 16; and Wil-
liam, 12.
Tex Wilson was also elected
as vice-president of the Board
and Harry Sickler was elected
to a three-year term on the
West Side Vo-Tech board.
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riculum of those participating
school districts and determined
what courses would be taught
by teleteaching.
The project sites will send
only one course and receive
only one course. The Senior
High will be receiving a course
called Computer Aided Draft-
ing.
“It’s a state-of-the-art hi-tech
course,’”’ said Dan Williams,
Industrial Arts teacher. ‘We
teach communication and archi-
tectural drafting. This course
will involve the technical area
that is being used today.”
Williams says the school
already offers 15 different
courses in industrial arts and
that the teleteaching course,
which will also be taught in
January to six to 10 students,
will be of real benefit.
“It will help those students
who are thinking of going into
- engineering,’ Williams said.
The School district will also
receive $10,000 to $12,000 in
equipment, including IBM and
Apple II computers, printers,
phones and other special mate-
rial. .
The project will be funded by
a $500,000 grant from the Penn-
sylvania Department of Educa-
tion, believed to be the largest
sum ever issued by the PDE.
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past and that there is really
nothing to lose by forming a
COG.
“It depends on what you want
to make of it,”’ Williams noted.
“It’s really a tool, a vehicle,
that you can use to your advan-
tage. But it has to be utilized to
be of any benefit. If there isn’t
much cooperation, then you
could just let it go by the
wayside until it eventually goes
dormant.”
Williams said the concept was
particularly popular in the early
70s, but has slowed down consid-
erably since.
“We have helped some towns
by giving them a little guid-
ance,” he said. ‘But it can be
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Presented the Hugh O’Brien
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By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Writer
Edward Mark, newly-elected
president of the Lake-Lehman
School Board, was expected to
discuss the process of negotia-
tions with employees of the
district at last night’s regularly
scheduled meeting of the Lake-
Lehman Board of Directors held
in the music room of the
Lehman-Jackson Elementary
School. :
Athletics committee chairman
Martin Noon was expected to
present a motion to hire Cheryl
Travis as an additional assist-
ant girls’ basketball coach as
requested by junior high basket-
ball coach Susan James.
Charles Nafus, building and
grounds committee chairman,
was expected to present a
request that the board acknowl-
edge receipt of approval for
insultation of piping and breech-
ing. This approval would have
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By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Writer
Newly-elected president of the
Lake-Lehman School Board
Edward Mark. foresees the new
Sunshine Law as making a dif-
ference in the way meetings will
be conducted and in the amount
of input the school board
receives.
Mark, of Chase, was named
president of the board during a
special reorganization meeting
held December 2. He is in his
third year as a member of the
Lake-Lehman School Board and
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year.
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