Banner Graphic, Volume 16, Number 322, Greencastle, Putnam County, 23 August 1986 — Page 1

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Who's news

Compiled by ERIC BERNSEE Banner-Graphic Managing Editor Beverly Enterprises, the world’s largest owner of longterm care facilities, has announced the appointment of CLAUDE SHUEE as fulltime administrator of Greencastle Nursing Home, effective Aug. 3. As administrator, Shuee has multiple duties, the foremost being overall supervision of staff to assure excellence of resident care. Shuee completed his classes at Lockyear College in 1985 and subsequently did a sixmonth internship as an ad-ministrator-in-training and served as acting administrator until his official appointment was made by ARTHUR CARR, president of the Eastern Division of Beverly Enterprises. Active in civic and fraternal organizations locally, Shuee was a charter member of the former Greencastle Optimist Club. He served as president for one year and lieutenant governor of Zone 15 and was also named Optimist of the Year. Shuee is also a member of the Masonic Lodge at Roachdale, Greencastle Elks Club and has assisted with various youth activities and been chairman of the St. JUde Bike-a-thon. Shuee and his wife, Sandra, reside at 814 S. College Ave., with sons Tom, a senior at Greencastle High School, and Chuck, a freshman at GHS. He extends an invitation to members of the community to visit the facility at 815 E. Tacoma Drive and tour as desired. Also at Greencastle Nursing Home, KIMBERLY SMITH has been appointed bookkepper. A 1981 Mooresville High School graduate, Mrs. Smith furthered her education to become a QMA at Greencastle Vocational School in 1983, working at that vocation until 1985. Since hired at the facility, Mrs. Smith has attended intensive training with Beverly Enterprises and has been awarded a certificate for two business training programs. She resides at 9 Sunset Drive with husband Paul, an IBM employee, and daughter Meagan, 2Vfe. TODD GRAY, son of Tucker and Joann Gray, Route 5, Greencastle, is entering his senior year at Butler University this fall. This past spring, the radio/TV major was named to the dean’s list in the Jordan College of Fine Arts at Butler. This past summer, Gray has been student program director of Butler’s 48,000-watt FM radio station, WJAC (104.5 FM). He will continue as student program director through the fall. Todd is also one of the “voices of the Bulldogs,” serving as play-by-play announcer on many of Butler’s football and basketball broadcasts. Along with his activities at WJAC, Gray will be a fourth-year member of Butler’s varsity swim team, participating via his fourth swimming scholarship. He worked this past summer with his

Cooler and less humid

Tonight clearing by midnight and cooler. Low near 60. Wind becoming north 5 to 10 mph. Sunday sunny and warm but less humid. High in the lower 80s.

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college coach, Bob Waymouth, at Riveria Swim Club, Indianapolis. Gray participated in the White River Park State Games and came away with two gold medals and two White River records in the 100- and 200-meter breaststroke events, open division. He won the 100-meter event in 1:12.12, breaking the old mark by 2.5 seconds, and swam the 200-meter breaststroke in 2:37.79, breaking the existing standard by one second. A member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, Todd is serving as house manager, rush cochairman and IFC representative. He was elected last spring as president of Butler’s Alpha Phi Omega chapter. APO is the nation’s largest service fraternity and is affiliated with Boy Scouts of America. Four Putnam County women are among 32 students from Indiana Vocational Technical College-Terre Haute who have completed the one-year Practical Nursing Program. Participating in a ceremony in their honor Friday night (Aug. 22) at the Maple Avenue Methodist Church in Terre Haute were DANA BAS TIN, Greencastle, and SANDRA HAWKINS, CAROL MYERS and KIMBERLY TANNER, all of Cloverdale. Marine Sgt. DAVID A. SULT, son of David R. and Vera L. Suit, Route 4, Greencastle, recently returned from a deployment to Naval Air Station Oceana, Va. During the four-week exercise Suit participated in the Fleet Fighter Air Combat Maneurvering Readiness Program and the Fox-One Program. He is currently serving with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 333, Marine Corps Air Station, Beaufort, S.C. Suit is a 1979 graduate of Greencastle High School. His wife, Jennifer, is the daughter of Russell L. and Loretta J. Saathoff, also of Greencastle. Army Pvt. DARRIN J. COX, son of Franklin E. and Thelma J. Cox, Route 4, Greencastle, has arrived for duty with the 31st Field Artillery, Fort Campbell, Ky. Cox is a cannon crewman. Airman Ist Class DEBRA L. RINGLER, daughter of Earl F. and Annette M. Hubert, Route 3, Cloverdale, has graduated from Air Force basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. During the six weeks of training the airman studied Air Force organization and customs and received special training in human relations. He husband is Navy Seaman Brent N. Ringler, whose mother and stepfather are Ruth and Stan Sallier, Route 3, Cloverdale. Army Pvt. RONALD L. HAMMONS, son of Stella B. and Jasper J. Hammons, Route 3, Cloverdale, has completed basic training at Fort Jackson, S.C. Hammons received instruction in drill and ceremonies, weapons, map reading, tactics, military courtesy, military justice, first aid and Army history and traditions.

The forecast for Monday through Wednesday is fair with highs in the 80s, lows Monday in the mid 50s to mid 60s, warming to the 60s statewide Tuesday and Wednesday.

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19 corporations are WCIESC members

Second year of assisting area schools

By LARRY GIBBS Banner-Graphic Publisher The name is complex, but the mission is simple, according to David Archer, Director of the West Central Indiana Educational Service Center (WCIESC) office in Greencastle. “Our goal,” Archer explained, “is to help teachers, to enhance their ability to do their jobs to the fullest.” AS THE 1988-87 school year gets under way, 19 public school corporations in several area counties will be looking to Archer’s office for that teaching assistance and for help in the constant struggle to reduce expenses. The WCIESC office began its second year on July 1. Still operating out of a lower-level room at Greencastle Middle School, the office will move this fall to Greencastle’s Miller Education Center, 522 Anderson St. Organized by state statute to provide cooperative educational planning with member schools, WCIESC services include acquisition and distribution of equipment and materials to supplement classroom instruction. The center also organizes in-service seminars and training sessions for teachers on a variety of topics and offers a group-purchasing plan designed to save member schools money on some supplies. FOR THE YEAR that began July 1, the center will operate on a budget of about $150,000, of which SIOO,OOO is provided directly by the state. The remaining $50,000 is generated by the 19 participating school corporations, which pay an annual fee of $1.75 per student. The WCIESC serves about 28,000 students and 1,500 teachers at 80 elementary and secondary buildings. Membership is voluntary. All four of Putnam County’s public school systems - Cloverdale, Greencastle, North Putnam and South Putnam - have been members since the center’s inception in 1985. Other member corporations include Bloomfield, Brown County, Central of Greene County, Eminence, Linton-Stockton in Greene Coun-

Jordan, Allen, Blakemore to visit

Liberal arts focus Sept. 27 at

Black leader Vernon Jordan, former shuttle astronaut Joseph Allen and Family Circle Executive Editor Barbara Blakemore, all graduates of DePauw University, will be on campus Sept. 27 to talk about the importance of a liberal arts college education. THE DISCUSSION BY the trio, to be held at 10:30 a.m. in Kresge Auditorium on campus, is part of a series of events this year celebrating the school’s sesquicentennial. DePauw was founded in Greencastle by Methodists in 1837.

Putnam Patter School bus shakes morning routine

By DAVID BARR Banner-Graphic Civic Affairs Editor If the big yellow school bus doesn’t stop in front of your house, you must be either childless, in your declining years with educational responsibilities behind you, or you live within sight of the building. And if you don’t happen to be on the direct route taken by the bus, your school-age offspring may still get a lift to classes if you live close by where the bus does make a stated stop. The drivers will take most comers. DURING THE SCHOOL year for bus student families, the early morning routine is regulated by the schedule of this transportation monster whose arrival time can be computed on the kitchen clock. This need for instant readiness is a disturbing factor for the household. If all goes as planned, the tooting of the bus horn will be followed by as many separate bangs of the screen door as there are kids of school age rushing through it, most of them, hopefully, remembering most of

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Director David Archer and secretary Lora Tharp check a computer listing of video tapes in the West Central Indiana Educational Serivce Center office. The tapes, covering a variety of educational topics?.are made available to 19 area public school corporations who are members of the service center. Archer and Mrs. Tharp are

ty, Martinsville, Northeast of Sullivan County, North Vermillion, Richland-Bean Blossom in Monroe County, Rockville, Southwest Parke, South Vermillion, Spencer-Owen, Turkey Run and WorthingtonJefferson of Greene County. SUPERINTENDENTS of the 19 corporations comprise the center’s governing board. Five of those superintendents then are elected to an executive board to provide more direct supervision. Archer is assisted in the Greencastle office by two secretaries. This fall, two part-time van drivers will be hired so that the center can offer weekly distribution of loaned equipment and materials to schools throughout the 19 corporations. Films, video cassettes, slides and other teaching materials are stored

The three will discuss the importance and relevance of a liberal arts education in today’s world and how that education influenced their lives and careers. Jordan, DePauw class of ’57, one of the most prestigious of national black leaders, was the head of the National Urban League from 1972 to 1982 and is now a partner in a Washington D.C. law firm. Perhaps the incident most people remember in the life of Jordan was when he was severely wounded in a sniper attack

what they were supposed to take to classes. But long before this happens, the young bus travelers must be routed from their beds. Unless a kid can see some advantage to rise and shine, other than that he will be late for the bus and may be left out, to get both eyes open. AND HE WILL NEED both eyes wide open to find his school clothes and get each piece on in proper order. This must be a partly supervised procedure to keep the student from crawling into something worn earlier and overdue for the laundry bag. Then comes the time for breakfast and as the kid or kids dawdle over their cereal, there’s need for a second warning to eat up or the bus will leave without them. Such a threat doesn’t have much scare in it. At times when there is something more exciting at stake than a trip to classes the young can almost swallow their food whole or with the bare minimum of chewing. THOSE MOTHERS WHO must

developing a complete catalog listing of all available video tapes and hope to provide a copy to about 1,500 teachers this fall. The service center is located in the basement of the Greencastle Middle School, but will move to the old Miller School building late in the fall. (Banner-Graphic photo by Becky Igo)

at the center, where they may be ordered by any teacher employed by a member corporation. The WCIESC’s largest teaching aide, a SIO,OOO inflatable planetarium called “Starlab”, is rotated among schools on a fixed schedule. Although the center is becoming more widely known as it begins its second full year, Archer said building WCIESC’s identity continues to be a top priority. “MY MAIN CONCERN is that key staff members in the schools be aware of us,” said Archer, who served as director of the Putnam County Area Vocational School from its beginning in 1978 to his appointment as WCIESC director last year. “From my work with the four Putnam County public school corporations through vocational

in Fort Wayne, Ind., in 1980. ALLEN, A 1959 DePAUW grad, was selected as an astronautscientist in 1967 and flew on two space missions-the first fully operational flight of the shuttle in 1982 and the spectacular salvage mission of two $35 million satellites two years later. Blakemore, a 1946 graduate, is the executive editor of Family Circle Magazine and is a fomer editor of McCall’s Magazine and has worked

whip up a very early morning breakfast and get their kids groomed and dressed in time for the bus have earned the right to completely relax before tackling the dirty dishes, picking up cast off clothing from the floor and checking on what the young have left at home this time. But there are other rewards. For a good part of the remaining daylight hours after the bus leaves, she won’t have minor quarrels to referee, nor will she have to listen to incessant whining to go elsewhere. Neither will there be a need to prod her young to carry out this or carry in that. This will come when the bus unloads. This business of hauling kids to school to save their legs from heaven knows what is not as new as some of you may think. There were some forms of transportation in grandpa’s day. It pays to look the old man straight in the eye when he tells how deep the snow was when he waded through it on his way to the little country school house. Sometimes a dusting of snow can grow deeper when remembered later. And not

education, I know identity can be difficult. It really is a nightmare when you look at 19 corporations. I intend to spend even more time explaining who we are and what we do to school board members, legislators, the public. But most important, I want every teacher to know how we can help.” Some of that help will take the form of an inventory of about 500 films available for classroom use. Other assistance will be offered inservice training on implementation of guidance programs, teacher certification and computer education. STARLAB WON INSTANT popularity among pupils last year. Constructed of a heavy vinyl material, the unit inflates in about five minutes and can accommodate Col. 3, back page, this section

DePauw

on the staffs of Woman’s Home Companion, Collier’s and Red book. DePauw University has planned a full slate of events in honor of its 150th birthday, including symposiums on such topics as medical ethics, evolution, social protest and civic responsibility. Also slated during the sesquicentennial year will be the official opening of DePauw’s new Center for Contemporary Media, an institution designed to introduce liberal arts students to the workings of television, radio and print media.

everybody had to walk then. BEFORE THEY FOUND out how to motorize a bus, there were the horse drawn school hacks. The taxpayers groaned over the cost then, too. Maybe this was way back in a lesshurried age, but I recall there was still that morning pandemonium. The hack driver was a part-timer, and the sooner he delivered his load at the schoolhouse door, the sooner he could get back to his farm chores. Since the arrival time was a little uncertain, there was greater need for hurry, and kids were warned that if they didn’t pitch in and eat their oatmeal, the hack would leave without them. “THESE SAME “SCARE tactics’’ that are a waste of breath now were equally so back in school hack days. As someone has said, human nature never changes much. It may seem so since there are different generations of people doing whatever causes the older generations to raise questioning eyebrows.