SUSO
Vol. 80, No. 13, March 26, 1980
A group of students at Riverview Elementary School last week had the
Susquehanna Times & The Mount Joy Bulletin
MARIETTA & MOUNT JOY, PA.
opportunity to learn what it is like to be blind. Here Miss Debbie Warble, right,
shows her seeing-eye dog Sadie to, from left to right, Corrinna Ebersole, Becky
Morlanen and Willy Wolf.
Riverview students find new values
in various workshops. . .on death,
assertiveness, ancestors, nutrition
Students at Riverview
Elementary School are
learning about some unusu-
al topics while participating
in workshops dealing with
personal values. The pro-
gram is under the direction
of Mrs. Carol Lambert is
supervised by teachers
working in conjunction with
START (Students and
Teachers Accepting Re-
sponsibility Together).
There are 25 separate
workshops, each dealing
with a different topic.
Pupils select the topics
that interest them most.
Each workshop has from 10
to 20 students participating
in it, with about 2 or 3
students in the same
workshop who are from the
same class.
A great variety of topics
are covered.
In the workshop having
the topic, ‘‘What is it like to
be blind?’’ the workshop is
visited by a blind person
accompanied by his seeing
eye dog.
In “Living with Grand-
parents,”’ senior citizens
participated and told it ‘like
it was.”’
In ‘“My Town’’ the pupils
visited the Marietta Muse-
um and the Borough Hall.
In ‘‘Death and Dying’’ the
pupils visted a local funeral
parlor and found out about
the work of a funeral
director.
In ‘‘Assertiveness’’ the
students learned how to
come out of their shells and
take charge of their lives.
Anti-Nuke Rally
set for Saturday
The big anti-nuclear rally
at Harrisburg will take place
this Saturday, March 29.
Among the performers that
will appear at the rear of the
Pennsylvania State Capital
Building are Linda Ronstadt
and Pete Seeger.
In addition to the music-
ians, the rally will feature
prominent speakers and
displays showing alternate
means of energy.
Other events scheduled
for the week include a
concert to be held at the
Forum this evening.
A vigil will be held near
the sight of the TMI plant
Firday, March 28. Local
residents will be included in
the group of speakers at the
vigil.
In ‘‘Nutritious Snacks’’
students learned how to
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In the above photo Cathy
Flowers models an outfit
she will wear in Thursday
nights Fashion Show/Card
Party. The Show is spon-
sored by the Mount Joy
Welcome Wagon. Tickets
will be available at the door
for the Show which begins at
8:00 pm in the American
Legion Hall. Clothes for the
Fashion Show are provided
by the Orange Owl, Mount
Joy. In this photo Cathy is
wearing a two-piece jade
colored dress accented with
white contrasting trim.
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seniors request alternate method
The Donegal School
Board voted last Thursday
night to move graduation
exercises back one day to
Thursday, June S. This was
because of the day lost to
snow Friday, March 14.
Ken' Henry and Rodney
Arndt, seniors at DHS,
presented the board with a
petition signed by 122
seniors. The petition re-
quested that the graduation
date be left the same, and
the snow day be made up on
some vacation day. Henry
and Arndt suggested Mon-
day, April 7.
The board replied by
reminding the seniors that
others - would... have: plans
already made for the Easter
holiday, and it would not be
fair to ruin these plans.
President Jere Duke also
reminded all present that
the board had already
agreed to add days on at the
end of the year. There were
problems caused by last
year’s TMI crisis and
seniors did not attend the
required 180 days. The
board had made the decision
to add days at the end of the
school year at the beginning
of the term.
Henry and Arndt told the on
board that they would like to
attend the April meeting
with alternate plans for
meeting the 180 day re-
quirement.
In other action, a con-
cerned parent questioned
the board on proceedings in
the event of another TMI
incident.
“lI do not feel the
evacuation plan that would
have been used last year is
effective. Students would
have been bused to locations
in Lebanon County. The
trouble is that Lebanon
County would have evacu-
ated also.”
District superintendent
Ragnar Hallgren assured
the concerned parent that a
new plan was ready for use
in case of any similar
incident. Students would be
bused to their homes in the
event of another TMI
accident.
There was also concern
expressed over conditions in
the junior high. It seems
that students have mis-used
and vandalised the five
bathrooms in the building.
As of the board meeting
there was a strict enforce-
ment policy being im-
plemented at Beahm.
Toilet tissue, towels and
soap have been removed
from the bathrooms. Teach-
ers will supply the toilet
paper to students who need
to use the bathrooms.
‘“When the students show
me that they know how to
use the facilities they will
get their bathroom priv-
ileges back,” said junior
high principal P. Philip
Bollenbacher. ‘‘But they
must realize that using the
bathrooms is a privilege
they must earn.”
In other action; the board
voted to give Johnson Bus
Service the 7-cents per mile
increase on buses that was
requested. Johnson will also
get S-cents per mile for
station wagons. These in-
creases are due to the
inflationary price of gas-
oline, and they are retro-
active to March 1.
The board awarded bids
for lawn mowing to Paul
Brochures promoting His-
toric Marietta Day on May
17 go to press next week.
The Marietta Restoration
Associates will publicize
your business special or
activity for that day if you
get the information to P.O.
Erb, Mount Joy. Erb was
the lowest bidder meeting
all the requirements of the
bid specifications.
The board awarded the
bid for a lawn mower to the
Lawn and Golf Supply Co.,
Inc., Phoenixville, PA. The
bid for an 84’ engine-
driven reel-type mower was
$3,795.00. It was the only
bid received.
Jeffrey Bryant, tax col-
lector from Marietta Bo-
rough, notified the board of
his intent to resign. Super-
intendent Hallgren noted
that Bryant had done an
excellent job and would be
sent a letter of appreciation.
The board voted to
purchase 9 new Olympia
manual typewriters from
the Engle Company, Eliza-
bethtown, at a cost of $264
each. The would buy nine
additional typewriters, to be
put in next year’s budget, in
order to save $22 on each
machine.
The board will review the
1980-81 budget Tuesday,
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Advertising opportunity
Hist. Marietta Day
Box 3, Marietta, by Satur-
day, March 29.
These brochures will be
dist-ibuted over a wide
geographic area, so here is a
chance for extensive free
advertising compliments of
the Associates.
This Week’s Calendar
Thursday thru Sunday,
March 27 to 30, Calvary
Bible Church, Donegal
Heights, will be hosting its
annual missionary confer-
ence. For information, call
Rev. Douglas Hallman, 653-
1987 or Tim Suloff, 653-
8637.
Saturday, March 29, Rev.
Ronald Sparks will speak on
the Shroud of Turin at the
First United Methodist
Church of Marietta. He will
begin at 6:30 pm.
Saturday, March 29, a
rally at the rear of the
Pennsylvania State Capital
Building, featuring such
singers as Linda Ronstadt.
Sunday, March 30, St.
Luke’s Episcopal Church,
Mount Joy, will begin Holy
Week with the Liturgy of the
Palms. Times are 8:30 and
10:30 am.
Sunday, March 30, the
Senior Choir of the Florin
Church of the Brethren will
present the Cantata ‘On the
Passion of Christ’. Time is
10:00 am.