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CECIL The News Journal, Wilmington, Del. Wednesday, May 1,1991 Section DELAWARE NEWS LUS EXPANDED CECIL COUNTY COVERAGE rx New commuter lime mnakes debet i in mi uiiiinmni Links Cecil to Baltimore, D.G. on which the trains will operate. Amtrak will supply additional trains, if needed. Extended weekday service begins today, when the first of three morning trains leaves Ferryville at 5:30 a.m.

The second train departs at 6:15, and the last one leaves at (5:50. Four returning trains are expected to arrive in Ferryville at 5:4,1, 6:45, 7:45 and 8:20 p.m. The commuter service is expected to carry about 400 people each weekday to southerly destinations, including Aber- See TRAIN B2 mission (MARC) also planned for the festivities to honor completion of renovations at the station, delays have pushed the job's completion back two months to July 1. But the new MARC line opened anyway, with tickets being sold from a trailer next to the station. The new train service was named "The Susquehanna Flyer," a suggestion from a Harford County school student who entered a contest to pick its title.

Engineers and crew members will be supplied by Amtrak, which owns the rails governor arrived in the first car. Tuesday's celebration marked the opening of the state's new commuter line, extending to points north of Baltimore. The station opened in 1905 as a stop for the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad stood vacant for nearly two decades before work on the new commuter line got under way. Although the Maryland Railroad Com By R. EDWARD TURNER Special to The News Journal PERRYVILLE.

Md. The railroad came to town Tuesday, with the hubbub of an old-time celebration. Dignitaries and politicians gave speeches, townsfolk came out to watch, schoolchildren were let out of class, foreign businessmen showed up, and the Perryville Middle School teacher on top in Cecil County W7 Cecil adds 30 cents to phone bills Surcharge to help fund 911 system hm mmml ff I ft i I S. I xr 1. -rr-L I SALLIE K.

STABLER photo Martin Haberl, an English teacher at Perryville Middle School, Is Cecil Counts Teacher of the Year. Educator gives colleagues credit By STEVEN CHRZANOWSKI Cecil Bureau reporter ELKTON, Md. Cecil County residents will pay $3.60 more a year on their phone bills for what county commissioners called a life insurance policy. The officials Tuesday approved a monthly surcharge on telephone customers' bills to pay for Cecil's 911 emergency response system, which will soon provide operators with the origin of a call. The new Automatic Line Identification System provides emergency operators access via computer to the address, phone number and name of the customer from whose house a 911 call has been made.

County officials said the system could save the lives of callers unable to give their location. Harbour View to ask public works to run waste water treatment plant B4 The collection from Cecil's 28,152 phone customers $101,347 a year will pay operating costs and 85 percent of the county's 911 dispatchers' salaries. Until Jan. 1, the county had charged phone owners 10 cents a month for 911 service a fraction of the program's cost. Since then, the state began imposing the levy on all 23 counties to help pay for enhanced emergency service in the state's poorer regions.

Two of the six citizens who turned out for a hearing on the surcharge agreed that 911 service is necessary, but differed on the amount of information the system should provide. Ronald A. Rae of Elkton said the systems pose a threat as "an invasion of privacy." He said the surcharge was "a tax increase in an indirect sense, which you people said you were against." George F. Wbiteley of Marys-ville said that the more information a dispatcher has to locate a sick or injured person, the better. "One of the problems with living in the country is people say, 'Everybody knows where I he said.

"But what happens if you have to bring an ambulance up from Havre de Grace?" In other business, the commissioners voted to form a three-member committee to help formulate a long-term county capital improvements plan and coinciding budget. They also agreed to apply for in state grant money for drug education, prevention and interdiction. BERLIN DA BRUCE Strangers help family find hope amid the ashes Caution-turned-to-cynicism has a way of invading our lives like a disease. Some say it's because this is the. me-generation.

And about the only time generosity flourishes is at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Well, here's a story that breaks from that notion. It's all about what you've done for the Thomas Crumbley family. 1 wish you could see exactly what you've done for them. They were burned out of their Bear-area trailer home more than six weeks ago with only the clothes on their backs.

Now order has been restored to their lives. And they have a home that's furnished and well-stocked. It's because of benevolence and generosity shown by strangers, like you. The kitchen cabinets are filled with dishes, pots and pans, flatware, appliances almost anything you can think of to put in a kitchen. In the linen closet, shelves are stacked with enough towels, sheets, pillow1 cases and blankets to last for many years to come.

You gave practically-new color television sets, toys for the kids, beds, dressers, wall hangings. One of you even gave a king-size wa-terbed. The cash you contributed totaled about $3,000. One of you helped them get into a suburban home between Bear and Newark with an option to buy. They fully intend to capitalize on that option.

And with some of the cash, they've bought fire insurance and set up a fund to maintain it. Roberta Crumbley, Thomas Crumbley's wife, showed me a sack full of cards and letters you wrote. For all of them that had addresses on checks and envelopes, she's written thank you notes. Heart-tugging letters I started to read some of them but after the fourth or fifth one, my eyes started to glaze over and I pushed them away. The ones I read were filled with prayers, supportive messages and well-wishes.

Few of you know the faniiily and they don't know you. That's what makes this so heart-warming. Letters came from as far away as Lewes, Dover and Kehoboth. Here we had a humble family two working parents, two young children and a working teen-ager. Their home was stricken by a fire and they lost everything from furniture and clothes to birth certificates, family portraits and wallets.

By the time the fire was out, everything was gone; nothing was salvageable. Nothing was insured. The Crumbleys were destitute, and the future looked bjeak. For nearly two weeks, the five of them lived in a cramped, two-room, motel efficiency apartment. What they needed was a hand up; you gave it.

You gave it without strings. Despite the tragedy, it's a sweeter life. This all came about after the wife of one of Crumbley's co-workers at Delaware Brick, without telling the Crumbleys, called asking if I would write about their plight and a drive to help them recover. The Crumbleys don't know this woman and she doesn't know them. They didn't even know she was going to make that telephone call.

She was moved by her husband who came home one day sad about what had happened to his co-worker. "I knew just one person out of all the people who responded," said Roberta Crumbley. "If it wasn't for people giving us that head start That's what helped us. If we had to start over with just our paychecks, I don't know what would have happened. Brotherly love may have dwindled over the years but it isn't dead.

I thank you and the Crumbleys thank you. If only you could see what you've done. Berlinda Bruce's column appears Monday, Wednesday and Friday. exemplary manner," said Principal David Rudolph. Doug McDowell, a Rising High School senior, was the only student on the selection committee.

"You get a gut feeling," McDowell said, "and there were a handful of nominees that did that. Different things brought him to life. A good teacher- has to be more than a teacher. You learn about life from a teacher." Marianne Falini, the 1990 Cecil teacher of the year, also served on the committee. "What was most important to me was that he said all children can learn, will learn and want to learn if the proper approach is used," said Falini, who teaches at Thomson Estates Elementary School.

He's very conscientious, admired by his peers and he keeps current. He's always taking courses, way beyond the requirement. When my children are middle-school age, I'd love for him to teach them." Other nominees included: Barbara Camp, Cecilton Elementary; Nancy Czar-nota, Conowingo Elementary; Connie Davis, Calvert Elementary; Mary Grushecky, Bay View Elementary; Andrea Keen, North East Elementary; Raymond Kirk, North East Middle; Sherry Lewis, Cecil Manor; Lawrence Lupoli, Perryville Middle; Kathleen Morton, Rising Sun Elementary; Paula Ramirez, Elkton Middle; Barbara Romspert, Holly Hall Elementary; Claire Seibert, North East Middle; and Kenneth Wohner, North East Middle. have him as a teacher. "I can't think of anyone I'd rather work with," said Ceresini, who teaches eighth-grade English at Perryville Middle.

"He's so easy to work with very flexible, very understanding; nothing's ever too much." And, Ceresini said, some of HabeiTs biggest fans are his students. "The kids like him, and that's got to say something," Ceresini said. "And they like him not because he's easy or because they can get away with things. They like him because they're actually learning things." Robert Giraldi of the Perryville PTA vouched for that. His daughter, Betsy, had Haberl last year.

"He motivated her, which was a pleasure for me to see as a parent," Giraldi said. "She came home from school and wanted to start right in on her homework. Haberl has been a teacher for 13 years all at Perryville Middle School. He was raised in Latrobe, and earned a degree in speech communications from California (Pa.) State College in 1978. He earned a master's degree in English from Washington College in Chestertown.

Haberl has been working on a presentation he will make Friday at the Maryland State Middle School Association Conference in Denton. And he served on the committee that drew state and national recognition to the school this spring. He regularly does more than his job requires, according to his colleagues. "When he gets involved, it's done in an By BETH MILLER Cecil Bureau reporter PERRYVILLE, Md. It was a drizzly, foggy morning, and Martin Haberl said he "didn't have the foggiest idea" that anything special was going to happen.

But just before the sixth-grade English teacher began classes at Perryville Middle School, something special did happen: Haberl was named Cecil County Teacher of the Year. Haberl, 35, of Conowingo, got the news from Jerry L. Kunkle, superintendent of schools, at an informal fruit-and-pastry breakfast gathering of about two dozen people in the school cafeteria. A more formal salute and a $500 cash award will be presented at the next meeting of the Cecil County Board of Education, May 13 at Kenmore Elementary School. "This is a shock," said Haberl, one of 14 nominees for the honor.

But it took him only a moment to pass on the credit. "One thing that has made me the teacher I am today is the standards that were set for me," he said. "Principals and colleagues have set standards for me." Haberl's wife, Sally, had known of her husband's selection for a week. But that didn't diminish her thrill when the announcement was made. She shrieked, rushed to him, pounded on his shoulders and hugged him.

Rick Ceresini, in nominating Haberl for the award, wrote that he respected Haberl so much that he'd want his own kids to UD counting on Md. bill to obtain cadavers Physical Education, Athletics and Recreation. Fifteen to 30 students per semester use the cadavers. David A. Barlow, chairman of the college's physical education department, said securing cadavers for the university has been "enormously difficult" because Delaware has no state anatomy board to which citizens can will their bodies.

Delaware also has no dental or medical outside the state. Ronald S. Wade, director of Maryland's State Anatomy Board, said that prohibition ran counter to the board's mission to serve as many interests as it can with donated bodies. "I'm a donor To me it doesn't make any difference if I'm in Maryland, Delaware or Washington, D.C.," because bodies should be shipped wherever they are needed, Wade said. Last year, about 800 bodies were donated to the anatomy "All the sudden we went from having our minimal needs met to zero," Mettler said.

Cheryl Blumenthal, public relations coordinator for Human Gifts Registry of Pennsylvania, said the state's body donor shortage continues. Blumenthal said 500-600 donations are made annually, while needs exceed 700. Mettler said the university had been relying on donations through local funeral homes, but that the number of bodies available has fallen from the 18 needed to six this year. Mettler said with Maryland's help, the university's needs should be met. He said the anatomy board will provide the bodies to Delaware for the cost of preparing, processing and transporting them, roughly "We're extremely appreciative of the state legislature," Barlow said.

"The teaching component is very vital to students. You can ti ll Mjimone in a lecture format. They forget most of it If you involve them in the learning process with human biological materials they don't forget it." By TOM CURLEY Newark reporter NEWARK The University of Delaware takes the use of cadavers in anatomy courses very seriously. Physical therapy program director Paul Mettler called cadavers for dissection "incredibly important." "We just have to understand Ibody relationships. You can't get that out of a picture.

You can't get that off of a lower animal or a cat." The Maryland General Assembly passed a bili April 3 allowing its state anatomy board to provide cadavers to other states once Maryland's needs are met. The bill, expected to be signed by Gov. William Donald Schaefer this week, will go into effect July 1. J. Richard Armitage, university director of state and local government relations, led lobbying for the bill.

He said the university will pay for transporting the cadavers and will return them to Maryland for cremation. Maryland law had prohibited transfer-ing bodies donated to the anatomy board At Delaware, cadavers are used in anatomy courses in the two-year master's program in physical therapy. schools, which run donor programs. Delawareans who wish to donate their bodies usually do so through Maryland or Pennsylvania, Mettler said. "I never have been anywhere where it's as hard to deal with," Mettler said.

The university once relied on Pennsylvania for cadavers, hut four years ago, Pennsylvania body donations fell below in-state needs. board, Wade said. Wade said he expected Maryland to be able to provide the university with the 16-18 cadavers it requires annually, although, "It's not like we have bodies that we don't know what to do with." At Delaware, cadavers are used in anatomy courses in the two-year master's program in physical therapy and in athletic training programs in the College of FOR CECIL COUNTY CUSTOMER SERVICE CALL (800 2 3 5 9 1 QO.