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Susan Zorich seldom sits at her desk when she teaches.
Two new teachers in the Donegal
Teaching 9th grade Eng-
lish involves a lot of
physical exercise for Susan
Zorich, who is running a
classroom for the first time
at Donegal High School
this fall.
‘“I dance around the
room and do a lot of
theatrics,”’ she says. Susan
gets pretty tired by the end
of each class, but the’
breaks between bells let
her rest enough to put on
an energetic performance
for the next group of
students. After school, she
gets another workout while
serving as assistant cheer-
leading coach.
Susan comes from west-
ern PA. When Donegal
School District offered her
a job, she felt apprehensive
about leaving her old
friends and familiar sur-
roundings. However, once
she arrived here, the
D.H.S. teachers quickly
made her feel at home.
“The faculty has been just
great to me,”’ she says.
‘‘Everyone’s made me wel-
come. | came down know-
ing no one.”
The students were an-
other pleasant surprise.
“The kids are so well
behaved, it’s amazing,”’
she says.
Susan graduated from
college in December, 1975S.
She has worked as a wait-
ress at a MacDonald's and
as a doctor’s receptionist,
but her full-time teaching
career began when school
opened this fall.
When the Susquehanna Times photographer asked
September 15, 1976
High School English Department
Ha
for some students to pose with
their new teacher, all the girls in Steve McCartney's class rushed up to his desk.
What does she think of
her new profession? ‘It’s
fun,’’ she says.
The other new teacher at
DHS uses a more relaxed
classroom technique.
Steve McCartney, the
new 10th grade English
teacher, was asking his
students thought-provoking
questions about literature
when our reporter visited
his classroom.
Steve sat quietly at his
desk, giving the students
plenty of time to think
about their answers.
“Il spend the first days
trying to learn what level
Hard labor, deep mud and silent forests
by Hla Louise Altland
Thirty-eight tired, un-
shaven, forest fire fighters
from PA's District #17, hot
shot crew, stepped out of a
turbo prop, airliner at 12:40,
Saturday, at the Harrisburg
Airport.
With smiles on their
faces, the men stepped
onto PA soil for the first
time in 2 weeks.
Three of the men were
members of the Hizabeth-
town, Mount Joy Forest
Fire crew. Michael Boozer,
Jeff Becker, and A. Jay
Shank.
Members of the PA’s hot
shot crew were originally
ordered to go to Michigan,
but one half hour before
boarding the DC9 plane, on
August 31, the men were
told that they would be
going into Minnesota. After
arriving in Duluth, Minne-
sota, the men were trans-
ported to the Rice Lake
fire by bus.
By 6 o'clock they were
issued head lamps, pulaski,
and shovel. Working an
average of 13 hours each
night, the men put in a
mile and a half of fire line
around the fire. This fire
had been burning approx-
imately two weeks before
PA’s men arrived.
The men slept under the
stars by a fire camp. Not
even a chirp from a small
bird disturbed the silence
as the men lay in their
paper sleeping bags. The
forest was quiet, except for
the crackling of fire, which
destroyed all woodland and
much wildlife. Arizona in-
dians could be heard sing-
ing on some nights and the
men would like to think
they were doing some kind’
of rain dance. If they were,
it was to no avail.
Once the fire was under
control, the men worked
several days at the Federal
Ranger’s Station, before
they were bussed to the
Roy Lake fire.
Here the 19 men in PA
#2 crew were expected to
clear all timber from the
river in three days.
As well trained as our
local crew, they completed
this job in a day. Two men
fell in the lake but were
rescued and were none the
worse for the experience.
The crew travelled by
bus, boat, and canoe to
another fire zone where
they managed to re-roll 62
miles of hose in less than
13 hours. The hose was
single jacket, 1% inch.
The men hiked in knee-
deep swamp bogs. When
they first experienced this,
they thought it was quick-
sand and were a little
alarmed.
The most outstanding
experience for all the men
was the quietness of the
forest— no birds, no life at
all. Some had fled and
some burned. Several
burned animals were seen.
The men worked 138
hours— feverishly— to pre-
serve our precious wood-
lands and our wildlife.
We need to give thanks
to almighty God for bring-
ing them back home safely.
Mike Boozer said he wore
out his boots from so much
walking, and Jeff Becker
said his goat skin gloves
“just got burned up.” All
came back healthy with a
week and a half’s growth of
beard but the same smile,
as they landed on PA soil.
The Elizabethtown,
Mount Joy Forest Fire
Crew, the crew’s warden,
H. Eugene Altland, and the
families of the men all wish
to thank the employers for
letting the men have time
off their jobs, so they could
go to Minnesota. They are
especially grateful to Mr.
Russell Martin (Martin's
Hectric); Mr. Donald Engle
(Continental Press); and
Mr. M. O'Keefe, (Boro
Office, Elizabethtown).
They also thank the mem-
bers of the district office
and the Harrisburg Bureau
of Forestry for being on
hand at the airport. It was
nice for the men to know
they cared.
And now the men are
back home and our own
area is about to go into its
fall fire season. As the
days and weeks pass, the
crew asks that everyone be
careful, — it takes just a
small match to start fire
burning.
MYAA
Auxiliary
needs
workers
Parents and friends of
Little League and Girls
Baseball teams are urged
to attend the reorganiza-
tional meeting of the Aux-
iliary to the Marietta Youth
Athletic Association on
Monday, September 20, at
7:30 p.m., in the Marietta
Community House.
More personnel is need-
ed to man the concession
stand at War Memorial
Park and for the many jobs
that occur during the sum-
mer baseball program.
they’re on in reading, spel-
ling, and grammar,’ he
says. The way students
answer Steve's questions
tells him what they need to
learn.
Steve graduated from
Millersville in 1973. He
spent one year teaching
and one year substituting
before coming to D.H.S.
this September.
“Donegal is a big im-
provement over the private
school 1 taught at because
there was no discipline
there,”’ he says. ‘‘The kids
here are very well be-
haved.”
Steve will serve as var-
sity club advisor this year.
He hopes to get a chance
to help coach basketball or
baseball.
Paul Hipple’s corn is
tall as a giraffe’s eye
Photo shows 16 ft. high corn $talk grown by Mr. Paul
Hipple, Bainbridge R.D. 1. Mr. Hipple is showing the
corn stalk to his grandchildren Daryl, age 6 (on ladder)
and Edward, age 7. Daryl and Edward are the children
of Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Thomas, R.D. 1, Marietta.
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