The Pittsburgh Press from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania • Page 12

A-12 Pittsburgh Press, Aug. 25, 1983 North Side School Changes Boggle Mind Advertisement MORRISON KITCHEN BATH, INC. RECEIVES OUTSTANDING DEALER AWARD If jj'. "11 when the cafeteria was closed and students had to eat in the auditorium. The building will be ready for classes next week, but some final items such as installing some of the carpeting and some grating will be finished after school starts.

Part of the work was aimed at developing a setting that fits the team teaching concepts used in the city's middle schools. About 125 to 150 students are assigned to five teachers so they can feel a part of a smaller group, Dr. Faison said. Each grade level sixth, seventh and eighth will be assigned to a floor of the main building. A vertical open space, which used to extend several stories, has been partitioned with floors so students will have a commons'area on each floor for gathering.

Allegheny was built in 1904. Annexes and renovation followed. But with declining enrollment, the district needed to eliminate a high school. "It's an excellent building," said Dr. Faison.

"This seemed to be a natural." Dr. Faison expects to see a new enthusiasm for learning when the 875 students report next week. "The environment raises expectations not only of youngsters but of the parents. I think teachers carry the same enthusiasm," she said. "It's almost the same as when you move into a new house.

You expect life to be different." academy this fall, but a budget cut resulted in the program being at least postponed. Yesterday the board voted on the fate of McNaugher. It decided to close the Halls Grove Education Center, also on the North Side, and move the program to McNaugher. The program serves students who are socially and emotionally disturbed. While Halls Grove was built 17 years later than McNaugher, McNaugher is in better condition and has more space, Helen Faison, associate superintendent, said.

The board hasn't decided what to do with the Halls Grove building. The only other city school which has changed roles this fall is Dilworth in Highland Park. It was an elementary school and now is a foreign language magnet for middle school students. Some of the changes didn't require massive renovations. No work was done at Columbus.

At McNaugher the heating system was renovated and the exterior painted. Dilworth's roof was repaired. At Allegheny, however, $2.4 million has been spent to change the floor plan, expand the library, replace the main roof and make other changes. This year 62 of the district's 89 buildings received a total of more than $6 million in major maintenance, repairs and improvements. The largest sum went to Allegheny.

The work at Allegheny began in the spring, By ELEANOR CHUTE Press Education Writer You need a scorecard to keep track of the school changes on the North Side this fall. Allegheny High School has become Allegheny Middle School. High school students have been assigned to Langley and Oliver. Middle school students will use the main building and the nearby annex. The vocational education building on Ridge Avenue, which used to be part of Allegheny High 'School, will be considered part of South Vocational High School on the South Side even though it i will, of course, still be on the North Side.

As in past years, high school students from throughout the city will come to the Ridge Avenue building for specialized classes. Allegheny has become the only standard mid-. die school on the North Side, so the change left rthe Columbus Middle School building available. The district moved McNaugher Traditional which is a middle school magnet program, to Columbus. McNaugher was built in U-J908; Columbus in 1967.

i. The North Side used to have another middle i school Latimer which was closed a year ago and later sold. Those students spent last year in the former Schiller Elementary School, also on the North Side. This year their classes will be at Allegheny. Schiller was supposed to become a classical CO it A I in 1 WM fi.at Ir" Morrison Kitchen Bath.

5121 Clairton Pittsburgh, has been honored with an Outstanding Dealer -Award for 1983 by Rutt Custom Kitchens, Goodville, PA, a leading national producer of high quality custom kitchen cabinetry. These national awards recognize exceptional design, merchandising and installation skills, and are presented annually by Rutt to a select group of its dealers throughout the United States. Rutt Custom Kitchens is one of the nation's largest producers of fine custom cabinetry, manufacturing both contemporary and traditional designs. Shown above are Clayton Morrison (left), president of Morrison Kitchen Bath, and Phil Horn, Rutt's district sales manager in Western Pennsylvania. This is the sixth such award presented to the store by Rutt.

Morrison Kitchen Bath, Inc. has served this area for more than 26 years. Homeowners are invited to visit the showroom, inspect the award winning display of Rutt cabinetry, and discuss their kitchen planning requirements with the firm's experienced design staff. Attrition Permits Recall Of 29 City Teachers In addition, about two dozen school employees are temporarily laid off because the Head Start program will begin late. The board approved one other group of job cuts yesterday: 103 positions for cafeteria aides were eliminated.

These workers monitored lunch periods for an hour and a half daily, mainly in elementary schools. The positions cut represent about a third of the cafeteria aides. Because they are hourly workers, the district doesn't include them in the total number of regular jobs eliminated. By Eleanor Chute six to be cut from the central office. The other jobs are in food service.

The workers are being transferred to other vacancies, however, so no one is expected to lose a job. The board is expected to consider more cuts next month, including formally eliminating the post of director of program funding. Al Fascetti, who previously filled that post, already has been transferred to another position. In all, about 490 positions have been eliminated this year, but because some other jobs have been created, the net number cut is 288. School Superintendent Richard Wallace said the total package of job cuts will save about $6 million during the remainder of this year and next.

The biggest group to be affected is the para-professionals, who also are negotiating a contract. The board yesterday named 117 paraprofessionals who have been laid off and likely will not be called back. TRUCK LOAD PLANT SALE 2 Last-minute resignations, retirements and leaves are cushioning the blow of layoffs for city teachers. The district sent layoff notices to 94 teachers, but Robert Galligan, executive director of personnel, yesterday said the number may be cut in half by the time classes start on Monday. Already, 29 teachers about a third of those laid off have been called back.

The board yesterday approved a layoff list naming 91 teachers, but the list was out of date when they were voting. The teachers who were called back joined the rest of the district's more than 3,000 teachers on the job today. While classes begin next week, teachers have preparation days today and tomorrow. Teacher layoffs are a critical issue in contract negotiations. The Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers has demanded the school district lay off no teachers who are paid by the regular budget this year.

In the last three-year contract, the school district met that demand for one year. Al Fondy, president of the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers, said he was pleased to hear about the reduction in layoffs. "That's obviously positive," he said, adding it also showed the layoffs were excessive. The city teachers are scheduled to meet at 6 p.m. Sunday to vote on whether to authorize a strike.

Regardless of the result of the vote, the teachers will be on the job next week because the contract doesn't expire until Sept. 4. The teachers will meet again then to determine whether they have an acceptable contract or will go on strike. Both sides are negotiating every day this week. In addition to voting on the teacher layoffs, the board eliminated 16 more jobs, including the first City Man Arrested In Drug Sale Killing Fresno, detectives, acting on a tip from Pittsburgh police, have arrested a suspect in a drug-related shotgun slaying here July 12.

John E. Staubitz, 39, and his girlfriend, Christine Braun, were arrested yesterday. Police say Staubitz fired a shotgun into the face of Ronald Ritz, 39 of Beechview instead of selling him a quantity of the drug Dilaudid, the apparent reason for the meeting of the two in the Earking lot of the Warner Cable Co. in the Strip district. Detectives believe Staubitz stole around $3,000 from the victim.

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