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Friend Family Say Good-Bye To Ann Harmeier pW" -g -ri I1 j. x. sff, A 111 ifriMlMIWIIwA I II J-rig honestly can't see how her life could have been any more beautiful Noting that there is a verse, "God is love," in the Bible, the Rev. Miss Taul added that "God surely did show His love through Ann. She loved her Mom so much.

After Ann had' been home from I.U. on a weekend, she'd always leave her Mom little notes hidden under her pillow saying, 'Thanks for a good weekend' or 'I love "GOD CREATES His world and His1 people with great care," the minister said. "Didn't God do a magnificent job on Ann? The first time I heard Ann's beautiful voice, tears came to my eyes. You'll never hear many voices that beautiful or one used with so much talent. "The most beautiful aspect of Ann's talent was that she always took the time to use it for God's glory when she sang in church.

The voice itself was gorgeous, but the thing which made her songs so beautiful was the loving spirit of Ann -herself." There was another side to Ann she loved fun, playing ball with neighbor See GOOD-BYE Page 2 But their hope was shattered when her body was found Tuesday in a Morgan County cornfield, the victim of a senseless murder. AFTER THE SINGING of "The Lord's Prayer," Emily Jane Hersberger, one of Ann's friends from high school days and a fellow I.U. student, set the theme of the funeral service by reading from the Psalm 100: "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord Serve the Lord with gladness: come before His presence with singing." The Psalm was read from a Bible that was a recent gift to Ann from her minister, the Rev. Rose Carol Taul of the United Presbyterian Church. In keeping with Ann's life of love for others, a neighbor, the Rev.

Joseph Kam-man of the United Methodist Church here, read from John I that "God is love." WRITTEN ON Ann's bedroom door at home are these words, "My friend, I want your life to be as beautiful as it was in the mind of God when He first thought of you." In quoting this message, the Rev. Miss Taul said, "As one very close to Ann, I By ERNEST A. WILKINSON Star State Editor Cambridge City, Ind. Ann Louise Harmeier was buried Saturday orf a peaceful hillside beneath golden-leafed boughs in a ceremony that was in stark contrast to the terror in a cornfield that marked the last moments of her life. Her soul was commended to God's care in Westside Cemetery at Milton.

She was buried next to her father who once sang joyously in the United Presbyterian Church here where she also sang and sought inspiration for her goal of improving "the Kingdom of God on Earth." THE SIMPLE, impressive funeral service in the church was held before the old and the young of Cambridge City who knew and loved her. They included her teachers and her classmates here and at Indiana University where she was a junior and drama major. These were the people who had hope that 20-year-old Ann would be found alive after she. disappeared Sept. 12 after her car stalled near Martinsville.

She was returning to classes at I.U. after a weekend at home with her mother, Mrs. Marjorie Ruth Harmeier. THE REV. ROSE C.

TAUL (RIGHT), MRS. MARJORIE HARMEIER (FRONT LEFT) Burial Service For Ann Louise Harmeier In Cemetery At Milton raii I km Section The Indianapolis Star SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1977 Features And Obituaries Want Ads Begin In This Section ANALYSIS OF SCHOOL DISPUTE No Solomon To En By THOMAS E. KETCHUM Picture Indianapolis' public schools and the teachers who serve them trying to stretch an unstretchable dollar bill. The struggle between the schools and the Indianapolis Education Association is fundamentally a pocketbook issue which reaches from the bargaining table to the Statehouse. MONEY, OR the lack of it, is at the XUBk5 iff 3vTK let 11 vl "'vtr--j i-, IH' i Irritating the issue is the teachers' association complaint that the Indianapolis Board of School Commissioners has refused to negotiate in good faith.

The IEA points out that it has made numerous proposals and received none in return. The school board counters that it has made no proposals because it has none to make. IPS negotiators say it is the IEA, not the school board, which is dragging matters out. The IEA retorts that, in an effort to settle the contract, it has "given up" many things it wanted. The board counters that the association could not "give up" what it did not have in the first place.

AND SO, AS they have since Public Law 217 mandated collective bargaining for public school teachers in 1973, the dispute lumbered into a process called fact-finding a neutral party hearing both sides. Professional mediator Michael I. Swygert, a professor at the DePaul University Law School at Chicago, had no luck, giving up brief mediation attempts last month after finding a lack of good-faith bargaining. So arbitrator J. C.

Fogelburg was brought in by the Indiana Education Employment Relations Board, and his findings were encompassed in a 24-page report submitted Oct. 3. Fogelburg also found that both sides had been less than honest. But the board accepted his recommendations, although it contended some of his findings were severe disappointments heart of the dispute, not just in the question of teacher pay and whether more cash is available, but also as an exacerbating factor in many other unresolved issues. In Indianapolis and other school systems around the state, the cold truth is that statewide frozen property-tax levies simply do not supply enough money for increases to meet the cost of living, let alone flat pay hikes.

The Indianapolis Public Schools are only one of 79 school corporations in the state which do not have teachers under contract for the 1977-78 academic year. Here, salaries are not the only issue, but they overshadow about 50 other matters. And many of the other matters split classes and class sizes which would require hiring more personnel, for example are tied to the frozen tax levies the legislature enacted under the aegis of Gov. Otis R. Bowen.

WHEN ABOUT 80 per cent of the city's public school teachers took a personal leave day Thursday, it underscored the fact that contract talks are in the ninth month. much taxes a person should pay and ends with the issue of what is, for a teacher, reasonable pay for reasonable work. IEA says the 1977-78 base pay for beginning teachers should be increased from $8,967 to $9,600, with a general increase in the pay schedule at 6.8 per cent plus increment. (Increments, about 3.2 per cent a year, are automatic increases for each year of added teaching experience or additional college degrees). THE BOARD proposes that the base salary be hiked to about $9,080 effective See BATTLE Page 14 and represented significant collective bargaining concessions on the board's part.

THIS ACCEPTANCE, however, was keyed to having the IEA drop 55 other issues unresolved at the time. The IEA said no. Further, it labeled the report "incomplete" and colored Fogelburg "incompetent." This has left, for the time being anyway, a Mexican standoff in which issues and emotions can only smoulder and perhaps seem more untenable for lack of movement. The question of stretching the dollar, of course, begins with the issue of how IFell, Ben II ur It Isn't "Pergerete!" charioteer Michelle Shady shouts to her "horses" during Saturday's recreation of the Circus Maximus at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where Pompeiiana a national organization for the promotion of classical studies, sponsored the First National Chariathon for Latin. Responding to the command (it means "go are Dee Stevens (left) and Lisa Ellen, who, along with Miss Shady, are students of Latin at Hamilton Heights High School.

Nearly 500 young scholars of Latin joined the festivities, the first phase of a nationwide drive to raise $2 million for the construction of a classical heritage museum in Indianapolis. (Star Photo by Greg Griffo) Desegregation Plan May Result In New Methods Of Education For Local Schools the tion will be accomplished whether Teachers9 Bargaining Session 'Tough Going'' By DANIEL L. CARPENTER Less than a year from now, Indianapolis may own a brand-new elementary school system, studded with innovative learning centers bearing such exotic names as "continuous progress," "behavior modification" and "classroom without walls." On the other hand, the city may keep Bargaining between the Indianapolis Public Schools and the Indianapolis Education Association continues to be "very tough going," a professional mediator attempting to settle the dispute between the two parties said Saturday night. But he expressed guarded optimism that progress is being made in the nine-month-old dispute. "It's been a useful day," said the Tnediator, Michael I.

Swygert, after nearly 12 hours of bargaining. In a related development. The Indianapolis Star learned Saturday that the Board of School Commissioners is not likely to punish about 3,000 teachers who stayed off their jobs Thursday in a protest over the board's stance in the contract talks. IT WAS LEARNED that an informal consensus of board members favors taking no action against the teachers, though Public Law 217 prohibits teachers from making "a concerted failure to report for duty." A bargaining session between school See TEACHERS Page 17 has a ratio of blacks to whites close to the 45 per cent to 55 per cent in the whole school system. Second, the board is inviting the parents of every elementary school pupil (excluding those in kindergarten and special education) to select the type of schooling their children will receive.

THIS IS THE OPTIONS education program, a technique similar to those used in other cities to make desegregation more palatable. Option schools, magnet schools, specialty schools and the like aim at promoting voluntary re-arrangement of the races by increasing educational quality and variety and giving parents a say concerning the kind of school their children will attend but not the location of those schools. Usually, the new attractions are situated in black neighborhoods to beckon whites from across town. Indianapolis' version is unique in at least two respects: the options program is citywide, instead of being limited to strategic neighborhoods; and desegrega- options succeed or fail. As Dr.

Mary E. Busch, school board president, puts it, "Parents can choose options, not buildings." THE SCOPE OF THE program has school officials speaking in superlatives. Options education, they say, is the most ambitious redesign of a metropolitan school system ever attempted in the United States. It is too ambitious to suit some skeptics, among them the presidents of the Indianapolis Education Association and the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. While she is enthusiastic about options as a concept, says Billie Breaux, IEA president, "it has too many ifs.

I don't think IPS is prepared for it. "I think it's ridiculous to drop a system this size into an optional education program in one year and expect parents See PLAN Page 15 pretty much the same system it has now, with very few of the 101 elementary schools offering different kinds of teaching. BY PARTICIPATION or lack of it in the Indianapolis Public Schools' "options education program," parents will decide whether and how the schools will change. But whatever happens to the schools, the faces in them are certain to change. The Board of School Commissioners has assured the Federal Court it intends to desegregate all of them by September 1978.

(High schools, with a few exceptions, will be dealt with later. In hopes of correcting the elementary schools' racial imbalance with minimal educational disruption and "forced busing," the board is taking two major steps, both of which await the approval of Federal Judge S. Hugh Dillin, who found IPS guilty of deliberate segregation six years ago. First, the school system is being redesigned into four districts, each of which A PARTIAL LIST Tickets Available Tickets for "Shakespeare's People," the dramatic program to be presented at 7:30 tonight in Clowes Hall, are available at the Clowes box office. It is reported erroneously in the entertainment section of The Indianapolis Star that the show is a sellout.

mmmmsmmmmmmmmmmmmrnmmmk PUBLISHER'S MEMO Front Page, Then And Now educated, much better paid and have a wide range of interests beyond their own particular areas of newspaper coverage. Several have earned law degrees, several do teaching in their spare time, others do magazine and book writing. Their personal lives are their own, but the guess is that they are about as good or bad as the average professional man or woman. The legend of heavy drinking continues but is true of only a few. And those who do drink seldom let it interfere with their work.

Which brings to mind the late Joe Shepard, one of the better writers and rewritemen who ever labored at The Star. In his heyday, Joe was known to enjoy a drink now and then and, occasionally, again and again. Although it seldom affected his work, he always kept pasted on his typewriter, as a reminder, a story from the West Coast, where a judge had ruled that every honest working man was entitled to one binge a month without risking being fired. E.S.P. "I recently finished reading a biography of the legendary reporter, Gene Fowler, and was struck with an idea for a Publisher's Memo.

"You might find it interesting to explore the difference between the reporter of yesterday, perpetuated by the Fowler types and productions such as 'The Front and the latter-day variety. Has the stereotype cigar-chomping, hard-drinking, hard-loving reporter of yesteryear really been replaced by the college-bred, non-smoking and generally polite man or woman?" Signed Tom O'Neil Star Copy Desk To start with, not all editors of Gene Fowler's era smoked cigars, and not all reporters were "hard-drinking" andor "hard-loving." And, as of today, not all reporters are college-bred, some smoke, some drink and occasionally they're anything but polite. By and large, though, the breed has changed and changed for the better. Reporters are better Elementary Education Options i Nobody knows yet what kinds of new educational programs CONTINUOUS PROGRESS With this method, the student is will be offered next fall in the Indianapolis Public Schools under allowed to progress at his own pace and is neither detained nor the options education plan. Parents themselves will have a lot to promoted according to how fast he moves.

All the first graders say about that. go to second grade together, with the instruction there being But here, in very simplified terms, is a review of a few of the tailored to fit their different levels of achievement. more popular options now being tried in American schools. BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION This method is not as scary 1 The descripUons given are far from complete. So the hst.

as jt seems BasicallVi it teaches through a "lclal strf.ss at Pnts could pick from these or a recognition" system, giving the student credits for getting work a dne either demerits or no credit for coming up short. Most 5 SCHOLS The definiUon of "convenUon- teacners do ta one form or mMier but vat modifica- al" differs from place to place. But for most parents, it refers to tion more explicit more systematic. the type of instruction their children presently receive. In Indianapolis, that means sitting at a desk most of the time, being CLASSROOM WITHOUT WALLS This method makes use af taught a variety of subjects and progressing from grade to grade the community outside the school as a teaching resource.

Field if the subject matter is mastered. The teacher sets the standards, trips are taken to acquaint youngsters with the world of business, I BACK TO BASICS This method is similar to that of the for example, and to show how their education might help them conventional school, but is more rigid in discipline and more cope with that world. restricted in subject matter. Whereas the conventional school OPEN CLASSROOM Pupils are not restricted to certain may teach a wide variety of subjects including social studies and areas of the classroom nor to certain learning exercises or health, the basics school concentrates on the "3Rs" reading, schedules. They are free to move about and select what they writing and 'rithmetic.

wish to study, for how long and with whom. i.