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Coach Freund looks for
improvement during Season
Last week Donegal’s
basketball team lost its
opening game to Cedar
Crest. This Tuesday they
play Octoraro there, and
Friday Columbia at home.
Jayvees play at 6:30, varsity
at 8. :
Only one player from last
year’s varsity is back this
year: Mitch Johnson. Mitch,
at 6’ 3", is a good rebounder
and a good inside and
outside shooter. He was
selected for the all-section
team last year.
The other starters are
Gordon Brightbill, who at 6’
1”’ is a strong player and a
good shooter; Matt Swope,
who is a good ball handler
and is excellent defensively;
Chris Swope, 6'3"", a good\
rebounder and good shoot-
er; and Tom Hatt, an
excellent outside shooter.
Other members of the
squad are: Dwayne Truett,
an excellent ball handler;
Scott Peters, 6° 6”, a
sophomore; Mike Frey, a
hustler, who will probably
play a lot; Greg Laughlin;
and Darin Kolp.
Coach Freund expects the
team to improve during the
season, as it acquires
experience. ‘‘lI think we’ll
surprise some teams toward
the end of the season,” he
said.
DHS girls basketball team
off to devastating start
Donegal’s girls basketball
team got off to a tremendous
start by walloping Eastern
79-18 and Northeastern
80-23 last week.
This week they face
Manheim Central on Tues-
dav and Ephrata on Thurs-
Both games will be
plaved at Donegal, Jayvees
at 6:30 and varsity at 8:00
i
day.
I
viter the two lop-sided
victories last week Coach
Earhart felt compelled to
caution the girls against
getting a ‘false sense of
security.” He wants to have
them up for Ephrata, which
he figures will be one of the
tougher teams they will play
thy vear.
During the Christmas
tournament at Ephrata. the
Donegal team will also meet
two other tough teams:
Lebanon and York Suburb-
an.
The team that was
a champion last year is all
back this vear. Coach
Earhart says they're 3S per
cent better than last year.
They practiced hard last
summer. ‘‘The potential is
unlimited,’’ says Earhart...
“but we still have a long
way to go.”
Donegal alumni game
Fhe annual Donegal
alumm basketball game will
be plaved at the high school
on Saturday. Dec. 1st.
i he first game. beginning
at 0:30pm. will match the
Doncgil faculty, women
against the alumna women.
The second game will be
plaved between the alumni
men.
Alumni interested in play-
ing should contact Don
Germer: 633-1622 or Jim
Johnson, 6353-2363.
Heads Up winner
The winner of the **Heads
Up!" contest which ran in
this paper several weeks ago
is Linda Anderson, of S561
W. Market Street, Marietta.
Linda correctly guessed that
the drawing was of Farmers
First Bank at Market and
Mulberry Streets. She won
the $5 prize offered by the
Marietta Restoration Asso-
ciates for her correct guess.
Some tired Trini-Teens finish up their rocking
$15000 raised for hungry
at Rock-a-thon
The Trini-Teens of Trinity
rocked last Friday night, all
night, to ease world hunger.
Twenty-nine people rocked;
18 rocked for 24 hours, from
1 p.m., Friday to 1 p.m.,
Saturday.
Fifteen hundred dollars
was raised to help feed the
hungry of the world.
The 18 who rocked
continuously for 24 hours
are: Mary Ruhl, Lisa Ruhl,
Stacey Germer, Missy
Wetzel, Wendy Weller,
Melody Weller, David
Klepper, Barbara Ney, Jeff
Meckley, Sarah Harnish,
Robin Pfleiger, David Lin-
ton, Sue Klepper, Jeff
Duke, Maxine Maxwell,
Denny Hershey, Sue Minich
(adult), and Judy Weller’
(adult).
Samuel Stehman Haldeman
November 28, 1979
Prof. S'S Haldeman,
geologist, zoologist, philologist
Perhaps the most brilliant
man ever to live in the
Donegal area was Samuel
Stehman Haldeman.
He was born in 1812 in
Locust Grove near Bain-
bridge. His father, Henry
Haldeman, gave all his
children the best possible
education. The house itself
was well supplied with
books and maps.
His mother, born Frances
Stehman, was musical.
Although she died when
Samuel was only twelve, it is
possible that he got from her
an interest in analyzing the
sounds of the human voice,
an interest that would
become dominant late in his
life.
Samuel’s first school was
a log house on the Conoy
Creek. He could already
read before he attended this
school. A schoolmate re-
membered that little Samu-
el, in addition to studying
the regular school subjects,
got the schoolmate to teach
him German.
Young Haldeman was not
only a good scholar, but an
active outdoorsman too, who
hunted, fished, trapped,
rode horseback, and swam
in the nearby Susquehanna.
When he was still a boy
he began collecting all kinds
of items from nature: shells
from the river bank and
small animals which he
stuffed himself.
He was a keen observer of
nature, discovering for
himself that the peregrine
falcon nests in rocks and
that the eagle, when it
cannot rob the fish-hawk,
will itself dive for prey.
When Samuel was 14
years old in 1826 he was
sent to a classical academy
of a Dr. /Keagy in
Harrisburg. After two years
with Dr. Keagy, Samuel
went to Dickinson College in
Carlisle, but college was
boring to young Haldeman,
who was eager to explore
and discover new things for
himself. After two years at
Dickinson he left without
getting a degree and took
charge of his own education
at age 18. Home at Locust
Grove again he continued
adding to his natural history
collections and also now
began his library on
classical and linguistic
subjects. During the winters
of 1833 and 1834 he took
courses at the University of
Pennsylvania in chemistry
and anatomy. His father
wanted Samuel to be a
lawyer, but this profession
did not appeal to him. His
vocation was as yet
undefined; so he came home
and helped to run a sawmill
owned by his father. Young
Samuel was glad when it
rained; the roads were
muddy then, and there
would be few customers at
the sawmill; he could get his
books out and study them.
In 1835 he married Mary
Hough of Bainbridge, and
the couple began house-
keeping in a handsome
mansion which Samuel’s
father had built for them.
Samuel also became a
‘silent partner’’ in the iron
business with his brothers
Edwin and Paris. This same
year his first article was
published in the Lancaster
Journal. It was typical of his
writing, spare. He was
opposed to using any words
or sentences that could be
avoided. ‘‘Style is the
man,’’ he used to say, or
‘‘Spare you adjectives,’”’ or
‘‘Eloquence is fraud.”
From 1835S on Samuel
Haldeman'’s life was devot-
ed to science. His workroom
was in his mansion near
Chiques Rock, overlooking
the river and the canal.
Often, he would spend 16
hours a day in this
workroom.
His first work was in
geology. In 1836 he became
an assistant in the state
geological survey of New
Jersey. The next year he
had a similar position in
Pennsylvania. While con-
ducting the survey he
discovered a new fossil
plant.
He was still collecting
shells and in 1845S published
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