The Dallas Post ‘Guest column In memory of a father and a generation 9 ANTHONY L. LIUZZO, J.D., PhD. . It has been a year now since we lost" him. He was a part of a transitional generation, one which had its roots both in the old and new worlds. ‘Like his father before him, he had first hand experience with hard work. The forty hour week was yet tobe born, and Saturdays and Sundays meant half days of toil. 'Yet, he never complained about the hours, and quality time was ‘a Sunday dinner with his family, and a subsequent nap in front of the nine inch black and white ‘television screen with the baseball game on. “Back then, crime, alcoholism, drug addiction, and family vio- g lence were forms of shameful conduct; not diseases, as they are today. He offered no apologies for spanking his children, for they suffered no scars or victimization, but simply learned the lesson of the day. ‘He survived a war, where the victor was not ascertained until its end, and a depression, that had effects far greater than infla- tion and interest rate adjustments. Abad day at work was worse than simply being unable to retrieve data from a computer diskette. His hands had callouses and he drank his coffee black, with just a nip of whiskey to warm his weary body on those frigid mornings before the sun rose. Unlike his father before him, he lived through great technologi- cal change, the washing machine, the air conditioner, the innumer- able kitchen gadgets. When the second wave came, the home computer, the camcorder, and the fax machine, he did his best to conquer these, and was embar- rassed that he could not. More recently, he became un- comfortable with the world. From his perspective, his frontier had disappeared. He could not com- prehend the violence, the aggres- sion, the hatred. He squirmed at the thought of diversity, the so- called mosaic, for his world had been that of a melting pot. He never wished his government to take care of him, and he struggled against the loss of his privacy. Unemployment benefits, aid to families with dependent children, public assistance - these were last resorts for the truly needy. He spoke not of rights, to health care, to equality of financial suc- cess, to the information highway; but of obligations, to his family, to his culture, and to his religion. And, finally, when his time came, he went gently into that good night, accepting the pain that preceded his departure as simply a necessary part of his life. He was a part of a transitional generation - a generation that we will miss dearly. Dallas resident Anthony L. Liuzzo, J.D., Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Business and Eco- nomics at Wilkes University. This column was inspired by Dr. Liuzzo’s father, who passed away a year ago. Library news The library remembers Miriam Lathrop By.NANCY KOZEMCHAK The Back Mountain Memorial Library will be 49 years old in October this year. The opening day celebration was held on Octo- gpber 12; 1945 in the library build- ing on-Main Street in Dallas. The first librarian of the library was Miriam Lathrop, serving from 1945 through 1961. A plaque was presented to her on October 3,,1961 tocommemorate her dedi- cationand devotion, from the Back Mountain Community. The sum of $1,000 was received by the library at the time of her death on April 19, 1990, which has been pinvested in a Certificate of De- posit for the library. A special commemorative oc- casion’is being planned regarding Miss Lathrop and we are cur- rently looking for a photograph of her to be used in the publicity. If there is anyone in the community who has a picture of her, we would love to borrow it forthe newspa- pers. Contact the library if you Nils such a picture. New books at the library: “Something In The Water” by Charlotte MacLeod is a Peter Shandy mystery. Although real murder is never a laughing mat- ter, this author makes the fic- tional kind more fun than anyone else. Her latest outing with Pro- fessor Shandy, takes us to the Maine coast, a world of stormy seas and verdant gardens where dark and bright are strangely mixed...and where secrets abound. An intriguing enigma; with love, hate, greed and lies. “K" Is For Killer” by Sue Grafton is the 11th book in the series that has won her readers around the world. Lorna Kepler was beauti- fuland willful, aloner who couldn't resist flirting with danger. Maybe that's what killed her. Her death had raised a host of tough ques- tions. The cops suspected homi- cide, but they could find neither motive nor suspect.’ Even the means were mysterious. The story pitches us into a shadow land of pain and grief. “A Superior Death” by Nevada Barr is the story of Park ranger Anna Pigeon’s return in a mystery that unfolds in and around Lake Superior, in whose chilling depths sunken treasure comes with a deadly price. The ranger goes to a new post amid the cold, deserted, and isolated beauty of Isle Royale National Park off the coast of Michigan known for fantastic deep-water dives of wrecked sail- ing vessels. A routine permit reveals a grisly underwater mur- der. “Light Sister, Dark Sister” by Lee Walmsley is a stunning novel about two sisters, bonded to each other in the net of a family, and how each of them finds a way to break free. Gray always believed her sister, Bobbie, was the bril- - liant one; their father, Max, con- firmed it. It Bobbie was the light sister, Gray saw herself as the dark one: invisible, depressed, in Bobbie's shadow. Real charac- ters, unconventional wisdom and special insights from pain. Kingston Twp. The supervisors adopted a set of ordinances regulating construc- tion and demolition of buildings, proper maintenance of utilities, ‘ plumbing, storage and use of hazardous materials, prevention of fire hazards and setting fees for pérmits at its April 13 meeting. The first reading of an amend- ment to the vegetation ordinance, requiring that residents keep their lawns cut to at least six inches, adopts, amends ordinances was approved. The supervisors awarded bids of $5,605 to Confer Construction to replace the pavilion at the Center Street Park which caved in during the winter and $394.73 to Danella Environmental Technolo- gies for containers for the town- ship's spring cleanup.. The supervisors also awarded bids to various suppliers of road materials for the Back Mountain Road Materials Cooperative Pur- chasing Program, formed by King- ston, Dallas, Franklin and Lehman townships and Dallas and Harveys Lake boroughs. 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Dr. Paul Niezgoda, Andy Kasko and Fred Murray have seen a drawdown of their wells, which they believe is directly related to the amount of water used by the prison, Glogowski wrote. Niezgoda also submitted writ- ten testimony, in which he said that he doesn't favor the prison increasing its well water usage because his well has already gone dry once. “Back in about 1979, two of our three wells went dry,” said Mrs. Harold Ray of Kasko Road. “One was a shallow well and the other. a deep drilled well. We had to drill down 435 feet, which seemed rather extreme at the time.” = Mrs. Ray said that two neigh- bors have wells more than 500 feet deep. “We're already into the second: aquifer,” she said. “I think that* our water table must be on ‘the same level as the prison's.” She said that residents wonder how deep they can drill wells and still find usable water. “We are a small community;” she said. “Jackson Township lost. a great amount of tax revenues from the properties that were taken for the prison. The least they could do is not to cost us any : additional expenses.” Hydrogeologist Larry Taylor’, said that the commission expects toannounce a decision on whether to approve ordeny the application at its July 14 meeting, after re- viewing testimony and reports of water problems. 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