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
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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.
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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.
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