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SUSOUEHANNA BULLETIN
Vol. 7S No. 3S September 10, 1975
Ted Greider is president
of the Donegal Education
Association whose repre-
sentatives just came to an
agreement on a new con-
tract for teachers in negoti-
ations with representatives
of the school board.
Ted has been chief
negotiator for the teachers
with the board for the past
few -years and was elected |
president of the teachers’ |
association mainly as a
result of his achievments as
a negotiator.
Unassuming and mild in
manner,- tall lean Ted
Greider does not at first
glance fit the stereotyped
mold of militant labor
leader. (He dosen’t look at
all like the late John L.
Lewis or the missing Jimmy
Hoffa.) Students in the
Donegal system know him
as their teacher of Pennsyl-
vania geography and history
at Beahm Junior High.
M.S. in Education
Until recently he seemed
to.be headed for a post in
school administration, rath-
er than to be spokesman for
teachers in their contests
with school administrators.
Nights, weekends, and
summers he spent taking
courses in graduate school
at Millersville and Temple
University, earning an M.S.
in education, plus 48 credits
beyond that degree.
Studies negotiating
But as negotiator for the
teachers and then as presi-
dent of their association, he
seems to have discovered a
new and previously hidden
aspect of his personality. He
spends much of his spare
time now attending work-
shops sponsored by the
National and Pennsylvania
Education Associations,
where he can perfect his
skills as a negotiator. He is
also an avid nightly reader
of Pennsylvania school laws.
At negotiating meetings he
is constantly quoting chap-
ter and verse of laws with a
knowledge surpassing that
of many lawyers. This
summer, as last, he plans to
attend meetings of the NEA
in Florida and take his
daughter Sharon along on
the trip as a graduation
present for her. Sharon will
graduate this coming June
from Hempfield High
School.
Bulletin: ‘‘How far away was that bear?’’ Greider:
Another side of Ted
Ted and his wife, the
former Wannette Wade of
Mount Joy, also have a son
Cliff, sophomore at Penn
State. The Greiders live in a
neat brick house on a hill
north of Columbia that
overlooks a splendid view of
the Susquehanna hills.
To visit Ted Greider at
home is to see still another
aspect of the man, besides
the social studies teacher
and the union leader.
His cozy den, which he
himself converted from a
garage where he studies
school law and plans his
strategies, contains a large
brick fireplace and trophies
of his many hunting expedi-
tions: the fur and head of a
black bear spread across a
wall and antlers of deer and
caribou above and beside
the fireplace.
Ted shot the bear and the
deer in Maine, the caribou
in the upper Artic reaches of
Quebec province in Canada.
Admits he was scared
To reach those remote
Canadian hunting grounds
that are frozen over until
June, Ted has to fly in by
chartered plane flown by a
bush-pilot. One time coming
back to civilization, the pilot
stayed between low-hanging
clouds and high tree-tops,
cutting off more than one
high branch. Ted, a season-
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ed pilot himself trained by
Wilbur Rogers of Marietta,
admits he was scared.
Ted had also hunted in
Idaho and Colorado, as well
as all the good hunting
territories of Pennsylvania.
Fishes too
He is also # fisherman and
has caught various species
of trout, salmon, and Great
Northern in Quebec.
This summer when he
heads up into the land of the
“Oh, about...” hi
permafrost (the hunters use
a hole in the ground for
refrigeration) he’ll take a
canoe along. Other modes of
transportation employed by
Ted on his expeditions are
trailbikes and snowmobiles.
In addition to all his other
activities, Ted is a member
of the zoning hearing board
of West Hempfield Town-
ship and is also an active
Mason.
Ten Cents
negotiators agree on contract
Negotiators for Donegal
Teachers and school board
finally came to an agree-
ment on the teacher's
contract late last Friday,
after the teachers had
returned to work last Tues-
day without accepting the
previous contract offered by
the board.
Details of the contract will
not be revealed until both
the teachers and the board
formally accept the new
contract.
The teachers were sched-
uled to meet yesterday after
noon to vote their approval,
recommended by their
negotiators. The school
board will vote on the new
contract at their regular
meeting, September 18.
Ted Greider, president of
the Donegal Education
Association, reported that
both the representatives of
the teachers and of the
board ‘‘left the meeting
satisfied with the outcome.’’
He said he considered the
agreement ‘‘fair to both
sides.’
Greider also stated that
the new contract puts
Donegal teachers ‘‘closer to
par for the rest of the
county.”
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Pritish are coming!
to Maytown Sunday
A skirmish between Ame-
rican Revolutionary soldiers
and British redcoats, a
gallery of old photographs, a
band concert, and an open
house tour of old homes and
churches will all be included
in a Bicentennial program
this Sunday afternoon.
Nine homes and six area
churches of Maytown will be
open for the first “‘Open
Doors to History’’ on Sun-
day, September 14, from
1:30 to 6 p.m. Sponsored by
the Maytown Bicentennial
Committee the benefit in-
cludes admission to a
gallery of local old photo-
graphs arranged by Mr. &
Sgt. Cohan of Donegal Rangers holds a friendly(?) conference with British officer.
Mrs. Henry Libhart in
Arnolds Pontiac-Oldsmobile
showroom, S. River St.
A free concert will be
presented in the square at 4
p-m. by the Bainbridge
Band preceeded by a half-
hour musical, with Keith
Smith at the organ in St.
John’s Lutheran Church at 3
p.m.
As part of the festivities,
the Donegal Rangers will
engage in a skirmish in the
square with a British con-
tingent (recruited in Wash-
ington D.C., Lancaster and
New Jersey). Also taking
part in the battle will be the
second company, fifth ba-
tallion of Pennsylvania Mili-
tia. A total of S0 troops
firing their authentic period
rifles, plus three cannons
will be in action.
Price of admission is $2
per adult; children under 12
must be accompanied by an
adult. Furthur information
may be obtained by contac-
ting Mrs. Hazel Crankshaw,
Maytown.
Among homes open for
the first time are pre-Revo-
lutionary War Era dwel-
lings; a former civic center;
the Donegal Presbyterian
Church where Scotch-Irish
settlers vowed their alle-
giance to this country; early
19th century structures:
replicas of earlier architec-
ture combining the charm of
the old with the comforts
and simplicity of country
living.
(continued on page 11)