The Dallas Post Dallas, PA
Thursday, June 13, 2002
Dallas
(continued from page 1)
the entire evening with many
smiles, laughter, or tears ex-
pressed on every face.
When the Dallas High School
band, under the direction of Todd
Hunter, played the first chords of
“Pomp and Circumstance,” the
audience, parents, administra-
tion, and faculty stood to see the
blue caps and gowns march into
the stadium as cameras flashed.
Several of the onlookers sitting on
the bleachers had blue and white
balloons and bouquets of flowers
in their hands prepared to con-
gratulate the new graduates at
the end of the ceremony.
After being seated, Nancy
Dregant Levinson, senior class
secretary, welcomed the crowd,
and Dr. Gilbert Griffiths, the su-
perintendent, gave his proud re-
marks on the success of the stu-
dents who were about to gradu-
ate.
Before speeches from the se-
nior class president, salutatorian,
and valedictorian were presented,
the chorus performed the musi-
cal selection, “For Just a Little
While” with their director, Cassie
Palfey. They also sang “There
You'll Be” later in the program.
Laura Cecilia Vodzak, senior
class president, reflected on the
past 13 years of school with a top
10 list of things she has learned
at Dallas High School. Some of
her comments included how to
beat traffic by running to your
car in order to get out of the
parking lot first and which class-
rooms at Dallas have air condi-
tioning.
However, the most important
thing she feels she learned in
high school was to appreciate
“the people, the ones who truly
know us. Whether they are our
parents, family, or our fellow stu-
dents. They are the ones who
have impacted each one of us on
individual and group levels.”
Fellow class officer and saluta-
torian, Jeffrey Albert Jumper,
shared some similar memories
and chose to speak to his class-
mates “as a representative of the
friendship we have shared as a
class.” He used a quote to tell his
classmates to never pass any op-
portunity that knocks on their
doors, and he feels it has had a
significant impact on his life. “It
is that an ‘Oh well’ is better than
a ‘What if?’ If the opportunity you
take up doesn’t work out, you
can always say, ‘Oh well.” But if
you miss out on an opportunity
of a lifetime, you can never an-
swer the question ‘What if?’ “ Af-
ter Jumper concluded his re-
marks, he introduced his friend,
senior class treasurer and vale-
dictorian, Ryan Eric Morgan.
Morgan admitted that when he
first thought about giving a
speech, he did not know what di-
rection to take it. He asked class-
mates and teachers for counsel
and incorporated some of the ad-
vice into his speech light-hearted-
ly. He chose to speak about the
“dynamic personalities” in his
class and was able to engage the
audience with humor. More gen-
uinely, he spoke about the in-
credible strength of friendship
and close bonds he feels that his
class possesses and their “unfor-
gettable senior class outings.”
The graduation ceremony end-
ed with a farewell speech by
Levinson, who decided to break
tradition. “I was asked to give a
farewell speech tonight, but I am
changing the title from ‘Farewell’
to ‘See You Soon.” We have been
through too much together to say
goodbye now; I know that one
day our paths will cross again.”
Dallas High School's gradua-
tion was a magnificent success.
Congratulations on achievement,
accomplishments, and best wish-
es on future endeavors and
dreams to the Class of 2002.
Lake-Lehman
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lieve in their dreams.”
After more music performed
by the band, Dr. James Hurley,
a 1980 Lake-Lehman graduate,
came to the podium. Dr. Hur-
ley’'s speech revolved around a
mirror. He told the class of 2002
that to parents, friends, and
teachers they are mirrors —
“When they look at you they see
the best in themselves.” He con-
tinued that when each of them
looks into a mirror they should
see the faces of the people that
have impacted their lives —
coaches, grandparents, teach-
ers, and parents. He reminded
them that their “actions, deci-
sions, and attitude effects oth-
ers.” Dr. Hurley concluded his
speech by asking the graduates
simply to be true to themselves,
and to measure success by their
own standards.
The Honor Oration followed,
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and was given by Valedictorian
Alyson Piatt. She shared lessons
learned throughout high school
and requested that the class of
2002 “...never forget what you
learned here as you openly em-
brace the future.” Next came
Lindsay Boris, class Salutatori-
an and Student Council Presi-
dent.
Assistant Secondary Principal
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Assistant Principal Mr. Freder-
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roll of seniors with Christopher
Scott Albee and as the weather
began to cool down the class
dwindled to its last members,
then finally to the conclusion of
the 140 graduates with Kurt Bri-
an Yuhas. After Principal Oliv-
er's last farewell the graduates
left the field for the final time to-
gether as a class. They met their
parents and friends for pictures,
gifts, and goodbyes as Lake-
Lehman's graduation of 2002
drew to its close and slowly the
graduates left in small groups;
eventually leaving the Lake-
Lehman High School grounds
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Developer plans to buy water company
A Questions why
Windsor Farms not ap-
proved with contingencies
BY TIMOTHY J. RAUB
Post Staff
Editor's note: This article was
written prior to Wednesday's reg-
ular voting meeting ' of the
Kingston Township Board of Su-
pervisors, at which discussion on
the Windsor Farms subdivision
was expected. That meeting took
place too late for this article.
KINGSTON TWP.— Developer
John Halbing, whose prelimi-
nary plan for the Windsor Farms
subdivision was shot down at a
special meeting of the Board of
Supervisors last month, has tak-
en another step towards making
the development a reality.
Halbing said he has an agree-
ment with the Sunrise Estates
Water Company to purchase the
water provider, and connect
Windsor Farms to the company.
“I have wanted to hook up to
Sunrise Estates since January,”
said Halbing. “At the last minute
they changed their mind.”
Halbing had received a 40-day
extension for review of the plan,
after the board voted it down for
lack of a second entrance into
the development, lack of a do-
mestic water company and the
position of its Manor Drive en-
trance.
Since then Halbing has moved
the entrance 450 feet up Manor
Drive, agreed to install an emer-
gency access road off Tamanini
Drive in Sunrise Estates and
now with the purchase of the
water company, Halbing will be
able to address concerns from
surrounding residents about his
former intentions to install 44
individual wells in the develop-
ment.
Halbing’s preliminary plan
was again shot down following ®
the 40-day extension. Halbing
said the Supervisors rejected the
plan because he did not have a
Highway Occupancy Permit from
PennDOT and a Department of
Environmental Protection permit
because the new entrance will
travel partly through a wetland
area.
But it is common for plans to
be approved contingent upon re-
ceiving permits.
A month earlier, the board ap-
proved the preliminary plan for
the Back Mountain Harvest As-
sembly’s Recreation Building.
Township Manager Ed O'Neill
said that preliminary plan was
accepted with contingencies
concerning a PennDOT driveway
permit and a DEP permit.
“It's been a little dishearten-
ing,” said Halbing. “We have
tried to be patient. I realize there
are four new supervisors on the
board who never really have
dealt with this stuff before.”
Woman beaten by intruder in Dallas Twp.
DALLAS TWP.— An Over-
brook Estates home invasion re-
sulted in a severe beating for a
township woman.
Police said the woman, whose
name was withheld by police,
was taken to Wilkes-Barre Gen-
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