Vol. 75 No. 36 September 17, 1975 Dr. Robert F. Eshleman Donegal teachers voted last Tuesday to accept the contract agreed upon by their negotiators and the negotiators for the school board. The board, however will not vote on the contract until tomorrow night. Dr. Robert F. Eshleman, a former president of the school board and Professor of Sociology at Franklin and Marshall College, is the chairman of the board’s negotiating committee and will bring the committee’s recommendations to the board for their vote tomor- row night. Dr. Ralph Coleman acted as chief negotiator for the board this past summer. Members of the school administration and at least one member of the board attended each meeting with the teachers’ negotiators, headed by Ted Greider, president of the Donegal Education Association. Dr. Eshleman describes the function of the school board’s negotiating com- mittee as twofold. The committee had the responsibility of ‘‘negotiat- ing with the Education - Association, salaries, wages A plea for Graybills Lasr week John Dillinger, 110 N. Barbara Street, asked the Mount Joy Boro Council not to evict Elva Graybill and her son Gary from the boro owned pro- perty at the corner of Barbara and Manheim Streets. Council took no action on Dillinger’s re- and conditions of employ- ment within the guidelines established by the board.”’ In addition, the commit- tee had to determine ‘‘with the board, policy decisions, mandates legislated by the state assembly, and budget constraints for which the board is responsible to the taxpayers as elected board members.”’ Dr. Eshleman believes, ‘‘the board has a responsi- bility to periodically com- municate with the public, progress reports in the negotiating process.” He feels that such communica- tions would be in keeping with ‘‘the intent of Act 195: The Public Employee Rela- tions Act, in working to protect the rights of the public employees, public employer, and the public at large.” (Dr. William B. Landis, president of the Donegal School Board, made a recent similar statement, that he was opposed to ‘‘secrecy’’ in negotiations involving tax payers’ money.) Dr. Eshleman has been interested in the subject of collective bargaining for a long time. As a student at Elizabethtown College he quest. A letter from the Histori- cal Society was read to the boro council stating that the council had approached the Mount Joy Historical Socie- ty offering the boro owned house to them for rental, and that the Society had not (continued on page 3) hk. efi - ony do | 44 R . i» “ i ~ nt Toy, ben . Susquehanna Times & The Mount Joy Bulletin : MARIETTA & MOUNT JOY, PA. Eshleman describes negotiations was on a winning team in a debate at Mount Joy High, in which he argued against enforced arbitration in labor disputes. Before going to Eliza- bethtown, Eshleman was graduated from Maytown High School. After college he received a master’s degree from the University of Illinois and his Ph.D. from Cornell. In addition to his local duties on the Donegal School Board, Dr. Eshleman is the representative of the board to the Legislative Council of the Pennsylvania School Board Association, chairman of the Legislative Council of the School Boards of Lancaster and Lebanon Counties and a member of the Commission for Local Control of Public Education of the Pennsylvania School Board Association. He has just returned from a trip to Europe. At the University of Glasgow, Scotland, he consulted with colleagues with whom he is conducting research on so- cial change and health. His research also took him to the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Ten Cents Maytown Skirmish When a British officer (left) tried to nail a recruiting poster in May- town Square, local Patriots got angry. Brandishing Pennsylvania Rifles and naked swords, the rebels ran the officer out of town (below). ‘“Traitors!’’ the British officer shouted. “We'll burn your town to the ground.” To find out what happen- ed next, see page 2. ‘We like D.H.S.,” Vietnamese students say There are five Vietnamese co-eds at Donegal High School this fall, and none of them can speak English. In the entire Donegal School District there are 21 Vietnamese children. The five Vietnamese girls at Donegal enjoy their art class, but can’t understand a word in history. Some of the Vietnamese girls can read and write fairly well in English, so the Susquehanna Bulletin was able to interview them. The Bulletin wrote the questions and the girls wrote the answers. ‘“We like Donegal High School very much’, Hang- Nguyen wrote. “*Everyone is so nice here. We would like to study here in the day and study English at night.” Although the school dis- trict probably won’t be able to arrange night lessons for these enthusiastic students, officials are hoping to keep the Vietnamese in regular classes part of the day. Because of the economic advantages of a centrally located language center, all the Vietnamese children in Lancaster and Lebanon Counties will probably be bused to a special English New co-eds at Donegal. a w Back row, from le class for part of the day. The rest of the day will be spent at the regular schools. Mr. Gene Newcomer is Donegal School District's liason to Intermediate Unit 13, the Lancaster-Lebanon organization of school dis- od to right: Vi-Nguyen and Hang-Nguyen. tricts. He is meeting with representatives of the other districts to try to organize a language centgr. Mr. Newcomer said, ‘“The goal is to get them into regular school on a full-time basis as soon as possible. ’ Front row, from left to ‘right: Giang- Nham, Van-Nguyen and Dung-Nham. 2
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