February 28, 1979
DID
YOU
HEAR?
George Jenkins of Mari-
etta was named to the
honors list at Lancaster
Bible College. George is
the son of Mrs. Jean M.
Becton of 128 N. Gay
Street. He is majoring in
Bible and Christian educa-
tion.
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Scott Baker
Airman Scott Baker, the
son of Mr. and Mrs.
Vaughn Baker of 129 8.
Market St., Mount Joy, has
completed basic training
and been assigned to
Lowry AFB in Colorado. He
will now study munitions
and weapons maintenance.
§§§
Navy operations special-
ist Tom Olson, the son of
Carl. E. and Barbara A.B.
Olson of RDI Bainbridge,
has reported for duty on
the aircraft carrier USS
Nimitz.
§§8§
Mrs. John (Dora) Wittle
of Mount Joy will celebrate
her birthday on February
25,
§§§
Mrs. Helen Wealand of
Mount Joy will celebrate
her birthday on February
28.
Marine 2nd Lt. Dennis
Werner, the son of Paul
and Betty Werner of RD2
Mount Joy, recently gradu-
ated from The Basic School
at Quantico, Va. The school
prepared him to command
a rifle platoon.
He studied land naviga-
tion, communications, and
military instruction
methods.
Dennis is a 1974 gradu-
ate of Donegal High and a
1978 graduate of Delaware
Valley College.
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Dr. Jay Lehman, former-
ly of Mount Joy, has been
promoted in his job as a
research scientist for Nor-
wich-Eaton in Norwich,
NY. He graduated from
Donegal High School in
1960.
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Pvt. James Messersmith,
the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Steven Messersmith of 940
W. Church Street, Mount
Joy, recently completed his
training as an armor
crewman in the U.S. Army.
§§§
Mr. Lew Libhart, who lives on Colebrook Road near Marietta, is shown above with one of
his six birdfeeders. So far this year he has bought 435 pounds of bird food. He fills every
feeder each morning. He has been feeding birds for decades.
Deborah Herman, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Donald L. Risberg of 218
Ziegler Street, Mount Joy,
has been promoted to
senior airman in the Air
Force. She is a radiology
specialist and is stationed
in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Deborah is a 1972 DHS
graduate.
§§§
Joel D. Heisey, of RD2
Mount Joy, will study in
Germany this spring.
Joel will go under Penn
State's Foreign * Studies
Program. He will carry a
full course load at the
German school.
Ashes to ashes,
ashes to concrete
PP&L has a lot more
ashes than anyone else
around here, because they
burn a lot of coal to make
electricity. Up ’til now, the
ash has been worthless.
But PP&L is planning to
change its ash collection
methods and thereby make
a profit on the coal’s waste.
Dry ash has many uses.
It can be spread on icy
roads, used in ’’'sand-
blasting’’ gear, as an
ingredient in concrete and
plaster, and in making
fireproof materials and
tape.
Right now PP&L is
selling its ‘‘bottom ash”
(the heavy ash that collects
in the bottom of power
plant furnaces) for some of
these purposes. However,
the lighter ‘‘fly ash’’ that
goes up the chimneys is
not collected in useable
form, since it is washed out
of the chimney collectors.
Only dry ash is useful.
A vacumm collector,
scheduled to be installed in
1982 at one plant, will
collect the fly ash dry.
Fly ash is a sort of
cement. The ancient
Romans used it to make
roads. They got the ash
from volcanoes.
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ALPHABET SOUP
The Susquehanna Times
recently received a copy of
a list of acronyms—words
formed from the initial
letters of phrases—drawn
up for the personnel of the
Donegal School District.
The list is remarkable
mainly for its length—no
less than 259 pseudo-words
are listed on ten pages.
The acronyms start with
“AA,” standing for ‘‘Ath-
letic Association,’’ and end
with ‘‘3M,’”” which is
Minnesota Mining and
Manufacturing.
Most of the acronyms
translate into gibberish
words—AAHPER, HSM,
JA, and MENC—but there
are quite a few that form
words from initials. ABLE,
for instance, stands for
Adult Basic Literacy Edu-
cation; the next entry,
ABLEST, stands for Adult
Basic Literacy Education
Skills Text. These seem to
have been named this way
on purpose, to aid memory
and, perhaps, to stand out
among the other 258
acronyms.
Others of this type are:
CALM (Competent Assist-
ance in Labor Manage-
ment), CHILD (Children
with Hearing Impairment
and/or Language Delay),
DITTO (Donegal Indian
Teenage Tutor Organiza-
tion), ESTEEM (Encourag-
ing School Transportation
Effective Energy Manage-
ment), GRASP (Grandview
Reading Adventure for
Supportive Parents), IDEA
(Institute for Development
of Education Activites),
RISE (Research and Infor-
mation Services for Educa-
tion), SHOP (Sharing
Helpful Operating Prac-
tices), SLAP (Student Li-
brary Assistant Program),
TIME (Teacher Inservice
for Mainstreaming Educa-
tion), VEIN (Vocational
Education Information Net-
work), and WORK (Widen-
ing Occupational Roles
Kit).
Some of the acronyms
listed for the school
employees are familiar to
all. VD stands for Venereal
Disease, IBM for Inter-
national Business Machines
—but USSR stands for
Uninterrupted Sustained
Silent Reading, not Union
of Soviet Socialist Repub-
lics. Other familiars (with
the usual meanings) are
UFO, t UN, CPR, DIG,
HACC, HEW, PSAT, PTO,
TM, and UNICEF.
The majority of the
acronyms in the list are of
the unfamiliar gibberish
type. It’s no wonder that
some who name programs
and organizations, knowing
their names will be reduced
to alphabet soup, seek to
work out a short, punchy,
easily remembered set of
capitals.
The use of acronyms is
increasing—and posing a
danger to communication.
If the trend keeps growing,
confusion will result: every
ordinary word will have a
matching acronym, and
only context will prevent -
confusion in speech. There
is no threat to written
meaning, because the acro-
nyms are always written in
capitals.
As people in the com-
munications business, we
at the Susquehanna Times
hope that our educators
—and others, who are
equally at fault—will re-
frain from drowning us in a
deluge of words that are,
like detergent names, un-
related in any way to their
usage.
If it goes on much
longer, people will be
crying for HELP (Help
Eliminate Lumpy People).
And if their outcries lead to
organizational names that
actually mean something in
themselves, we will be the
first to say, YEA!”
(Youth Education Associa-
tion!).
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