Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 198, Greencastle, Putnam County, 19 April 1985 — Page 1

Grover Vaughan (seated), director of DePauw University Security, goes over plans with three of his 36-student force that assists the school's fulltime security staff.

Security fraternity DPU students let the force be with them

By LISA A. MALONEY Special to the Banner-Graphic The beam of the flashlight plays along the dark varnish of the heavy wooden door. Freshman John Skiba unlocks the double doors, pulls them open, and steps inside the darkened corridor of Asbury Hall, illuminated only by moonlight and the greenish glow of an exit sign near the stairs across the hall. His partner, Tom Galumbus, freshman, bearing a walkietalkie, follows and pulls the door to with a reverberating slam as oak meets metal, and pushes against it to make sure the door is secure. THEY MOVE THROUGH the warm darkness, checking classroom doors to make sure that they too, are locked, stepping heavily on the stone floors, arcing the flashlight beam around this corridor. They seem to try to make as much noise as they can, almost in defiance of the complacent silence of this old building. It’s 1 a.m. on a Sunday, and in all probability, they will find all doors locked, and no intruders in Asbury Hall. But they continue to rattle the doors, alerting whoever might be in there in the shadows with them, just in case. Skiba and Galumbus are just two of DePauw University’s 36 student Campus Security officers. Unlike many larger state universities, DePauw’s security force has only three full-time police officers, and both students and regular officers are unarmed. According to DePauw’s Director of Security Grover Vaughan, up until 1976, only state universities and colleges were allowed to set up police departments, although DePauw had a small security force run by a few armed full-time officers.

Spring cleaning also time for fire prevention precautions

Combine your spring cleaning with fire prevention, Greencastle Fire Department officials stress. With Clean-Up Week scheduled April 22-26 in Greencastle, spring cleaning is on almost everyone’s mind, Lt. Bill O’Brien said. WHEN DOING spring cleaning, O’Brien suggests, don’t forget about such things as cleaning the attic, garage and basement. Spring is an excellent time to inspect and clean chimneys and wood-burning stoves, as well as other heating and cooling

July lies Fair and mild overnight with low in the low 60s. Sunny, breezy and very warm Saturday. High Saturday in the mid 80s. Southerly winds at 10 mph throughout the period. Indiana Extended Forecast Very warm Sunday through Tuesday with a chance of thunderstorms on Tuesday. Highs in the 80s. Lows from the middle 50 to middle 60s.

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BUT VAUGHAN BELIEVED that private universities faced crime problems similar to those of state universities, so in 1975 he went to talk to State Rep. John Thomas about an amendment to the law that would include private universities. The amendment was passed by the House, Vaughan added, but because 1975 had a short legislative session, it did not make it to the Senate that year, and had to be reintroduced the following year. This time, it passed both houses, and in the spring of 1976, Robert Farber, then acting president of DePauw, administered the oath of office to the first officers, with the stipulation that they would no longer be allowed to carry firearms, Vaughan said. In the early 1980 s, the total number of full-time police officers had declined to three, and the university was looking for a way to create more jobs for work-study students. In accordance with the university’s policy, student security officers would also be unarmed. WORKING FROM 8 P.M. to 4 a m., every nine days, one student works as a dispatcher, answering the phone and keeping a log of the calls and reports. Another student rides car patrol with Crawford Smith and Ron McGuire, the other two full-time officers, and two other students patrol the campus on foot. During the day, Grover Vaughan is on duty, and another student may man the desk. On weekends, students who have had two to three years of experience man the desk alone. “We’re not paid to be policemen,” senior Joe Wrona said, “we’re there to help the regular officers; we’re more their eyes than anything.” Students are not sworn in as officers of

units, the fire prevention officer says. While doing spring cleaning, take time to check extension cords inside and outside the home. Inspect smoke alarms and fire extinguishers serviced, O’Brien added. “Remember,” he said, “a clean home seldom burns.” A fire saftey checklist is available at the local fire department. O’BRIEN URGED local residents to support the Greencastle Civic League in its spring clean-up effort. “Supporting them is protecting you.”

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Students serving include (from left), Cal Warner, John Skiba and Mike Corriveau. (Banner-Graphic photo by Bob Frazier).

the law, and during the academic year, their uniforms - light blue polo shirts and baseball caps with an insignia on each - are distinctly different from the regular officers’ uniforms. IN ADDITION TO patrolling the campus, the student security force provides an escort service for students who do not want to walk back to their living units alone, late at night. The demand for this service, according to Vaughan, fluctuates in direct proportion to when the last “scare” was. After the murder of a Greencastle woman (Martha Payne) in the fall of 1981, there was a sharp increase in the number of calls for this service, but today they receive few requests. Occasionally, the student security officers will escort students who have had a little too much to drink back to their living units. Freshman Rob Gardner recalled a time when he and Skiba saw a girl arguing with two friends in front of Bishop Roberts Hall. She had been drinking, Gardner said, and was trying to convince her friends that she could walk back to her living unit by herself, but “wasn’t doing a very good job of it.” Skiba and Gardner slung her arms over their shoulders, and carried her across campus, to her living unit. “Going up three flights of stairs was real fun,” Gardner noted. “She had trouble getting the key in the lock, but once she got inside the room, she thanked us for helping her home. We just dropped her off and continued on patrol. “BEING STUDENTS, WE RE more sympathetic to what other students are doing wrong,” Gardner said. “We don’t look the other way, but we tell them to stop Col. 1, back page, this section

Library anecdotes stack up well here

By ERIC BERNSEE Banner-Graphic Managing Editor All the stories in the public library aren’t bound and stamped with a Dewey Decimal number. Some are as lively as the clientele; some as cute as the three- and four-year-old Story Hour regulars. Others began as innocent requests, but evolved into anecdotes as cherished as a first-edition copy of “Gone With the Wind.” WITH NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK coming to a close, this is a perfect time for Putnam County Library Director Ellen Sedlack to open the card catalog of her mind and share with us. She prefers the wide-eyed innocence of children, it seems. “Some of the best stories are the remarks from children,” says Mrs. Sedlack, a fixture at the local library since September 1972. One of her favorite stories involves a Story Hour regular who picked Sunday school class (which happened to be taught by her mother) to pledge allegiance to the library. “When I grow up,” the youngster told the class, “I want to be either God or Mrs. Pierson.” MRS. PIERSON IS BRENDA Pierson, children’s librarian, who introduces many of Greencastle’s youngest readers to the library through Story Hour. Besides reading to preschool-age children, she conducts projects like planting marigold seeds as she did earlier this week with Ryan Bates, Sarah French, Tessa and Ashley Wildman, Heidi Ross and Amanda Patterson. From such care and companionship sprouts not only a love for the library, but apparently also a growing fondness for its friendly personnel. Mrs. Sedlack picks up our story again: “The same

Library Board selects old Ward's store location

By BECKYIGO Banner-Graphic Area News Editor As temperatures soared into the 80s, and a gentle breeze lapped at clouds in the sky, DePauw University literally increased the circulation of the Putnam County Library Board, when it helped to celebrate Christmas in April. DPU President Richard Rosser told board members Thursday evening the university will sell the former Montgomery Ward’s building, 18 S. Indiana St., Greencastle, to it for half of the appraised value. THAT GESTURE MORE than cleared the way for the Library Board to accept the offer, naming the former catalog and merchandise center (next to Horace Link furniture) as its future home. “We have been fascinated with the idea since it first came up,” Rosser told board members at the library’s present 102 E. Walnut St., Greencastle, site. “This is just an extension of our * commitment to recreate the downtown area of the community.” The university president said DPU officials attempted to secure a major business to take over ownership of the former Ward’s building, which it obtained as a gift. The building has sat empty since a major fire in June 1982 forced the Ward’s catalog center to relocate at 602 N. Jackson St., Greencastle. “I JUST DON’T THINK that’s in the cards,” Rosser said, refering to major commercial ownership and use. There was also the opportunity to “break up” the

Extra pay for extra-curriculars

By LARRY GIBBS Banner-Graphic Publisher A 1985-86 extra-curricular salary schedule, providing increases of 5M> per cent in most areas, was approved by the Greencastle School Board Thursday night as an addendum to the master contract already in force with the Greencastle Classroom Teachers Association. Supt. James Peck praised the work of a committee of teachers and principals who formulated the extra-curricular pay schedule, telling the board that compensation was reduced for some positions and increased for others. The Classroom Teachers Association approved the schedule Thursday afternoon. The present extra-curricular pay structure, which provides an hourly rate and specific number of hours for each position, was scrapped in favor of a fixed annual dollar amount. “WE HAVE DROPPED the hours and rates,” Peck told the board. “In regard to athletics, coaches are obligated from the first day a team is eligible for practice through the end of the championship series in that sport.” Extra-curricular pay next year, which is in addition to a teacher’s regular pay, will include $3,085 for the varsity boys’ basketball coach, $2,787 for the varsity football coach, $4,317 for the high school band director and $2,100 for the high school choral director. At the opposite end of the

little girl,’ she says, “got up one Story Hour morning and started to get ready to come to the library, telling her mother, ‘l’m going to go freshen up for Mrs. Pierson.’” Another children’s favorite comes to mind for Mrs. Sedlack when she was conducting the weekly Story Hour. “ONE LITTLE GIRL GOT to go to McDonald’s for lunch after Story Hour,” she recalled, “and her mother said she just kind of stared off into space over her hamburger, saying, ‘Mrs. Sedlack...what a beautiful name...’ “So those are three comments of adoration by children toward the library and the librarians.” Circulation figures, of course, show that adults use library resources more often than children. “Adult books go out more often,” Mrs. Sedlack said as proof. But then again, adults don’t read their books 12 times like they do “The Cat in the Hat.”

structure to serve as a mini-mall. But again, Rosser said DPU officials did not believe this to be the best and most productive utilization. “When we heard about this,” he noted of the possible library relocation, “we felt it was a marvelous idea. And, as our continued commitment to the downtown project, we will sell this building to you at half of the appraised value. If you obtain a lower appraisal, the university will also split that.” As an added attraction, Rosser noted the university earlier purchased the 30-space parking lot located directly behind the former Ward’s building. That too is part of the package DPU offered to Library Board members Thursday evening. “In effect,” Rosser pointed out, “this is an $83,000 gift. The building, when we had it appraised, was valued at $166,000.” ROSSER EMPHASIZED it’s DePauw University’s desire to be involved in the revitalization of Greencastle, especially the downtown area. “DePauw University is the largest, single contributor to Main Street Greencastle,” Rosser said. “We gave $7,500 to Main Street, which is unusual because we are a non-profit institution. “But we did this because we believe so strongly in improving the city, and particularly the downtown, which will benefit all of us,” Rosser noted. The Library Board did not make its decision without a first-hand look at the structure. Meeting the board Thursday for a tour of the three-floor facility were DPU

schedule, the supervisor of concession stands will be paid sls per game. All total, the extra-curricular pay structure provides for more than 75 different positions, both athletic and non-athletic, at the high school and middle school. THE MASTER CONTRACT, of which the extra-curricular schedule is a part, extends through June 30,1986. In other business, board members Dale Pierce, Patricia Hess, Bayard Allen and Richard Delp approved Peck’s recommendation that all present teachers ano administrators be rehired for the 1985-86 school year with two exceptions. Peck reported to the board that Roy Boling, principal at the middle school, had recommended that the contract of Mrs. Sylvia Boe, a health and physical education teacher, not be renewed for the next school year. After the superintendent added his support to the recommendation, the board voted 4-0 not to renew Mrs. Boe’s contract. IN WHAT HE DESCRIBED as “a technical thing,” Peck also recommended, and the board agreed, that a contract not be renewed for Mrs. Darlene Cox, who had been teaching business courses at the high school. Peck reminded board members that Mrs. Cox had been hired to teach only half of the day during the current school year while Stan Ward teaches computer classes to eighth-graders at IBM. Em-

Daze Work

Vice President for Finance Fred Silander and Main Street Greencastle Project Director Bill Dory. Relocating to the former Ward’s building is only one of three alternatives Library Board members were considering. The board was either going to relocate to the former catalog center, build a new structure, or remodel and update its present facility. DURING EARLIER MEETINGS, members determined building a new library would not be feasible. That left the other two alternatives. “What sort of reaction are you getting from the public as a whole?” board president Larry Wilson polled members. “Several people I have talked to felt (the former Ward’s building) should be a commercial building,” board member Bob Haymaker responded. “They like the library where it is.” Member Nancy Landes noted she had not heard any reactions, while Harriet Dobson related making sure adequate parking is available is a major concern. “I HEARD ONE they were just glad something is being done,” member D. Robert Nees pointed out. “That person is all for improvement, but there was no preference where the library is placed.” Dory, Main Street’s project director, has heard favorable comments toward the library retaining its downtown location. “A number of people like the library being downtown,” he told board members. Col. 3, back page, this section

phasizing that Mrs. Cox already was aware that her teaching assignment would be temporary, Peck said Ward will return to the high school fulltime next fall. On another 4-0 vote, the board approved a 5 per cent pay raise for administrators for the 1985-86 school year. The percentage increase is the same teachers will receive in the second year of their current contract. DURING THURSDAY night’s special session, board members also: Accepted the retirement of Mrs. Marsha Franklin, a teacher at the high school, effective at the end of the current school year. -Authorized use of the McAnally swimming pool by the USS swim program. After hearing an update on summer swim plans by patron Bob Haymaker, Peck said the corporation would cooperate with any group that might want to organize a summer swimming program for youngsters age 12 and under. So far, there has been no contact regarding use of the McAnally pool for any organized program for younger children. -Gave permission for the Babe Ruth Baseball program to use the high school diamond. BOARD PRESIDENT Ed Meyer was absent Thursday night. The board’s next scheduled meeting will be May 8 at the middle school.

But whether its Seuss or Steinbeck, there’s usually a story at the library. Even all the adult ones aren’t in paperback or hardback. “I DON’T WANT THE PUBLIC to think that we re laughing at their questions,” the librarian stressed when pressed for additional anecdotes. “We don’t.” But then some of them are downright funny. Like the man who came to the library one evening back when the Legal Services Organization offered periodic assistance at the local facility. “The message kind of got garbled with this one gentleman,” Mrs. Sedlack said, “and he came to the front desk and said, ‘I understand I can get a divorce in the basement.’” THE LIBRARY MARRIAGE has been a happy one between staff and patrons, Mrs. Sedlack assures, basking in the joy of Thursday night’s decision to relocate in the old Montgomery Ward building (see adjacent story). But one of the librarian’s favorite tales is an oldie from her Chicago Public Library days. Back then two of the most popular novels being requested were “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “Please Don’t Eat the Daisies.” “I was working at the third-floor desk where people would make their requests,” she explained. “This desk was up on kind of an elevated platform that made it seem almost altar-like. “ONE DAY THIS LITTLE, tiny Jewish woman came over and looked up to this altar-like area and asked, ‘Can I please have a copy of ‘Please Don’t Kill the Humingbird?”’ She got “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and the librarian has never forgotten.