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8 Monday, Dec. 5, 1983 Philadelphia Daily News Staff Photography by G. Lole Grossmann Judith Eaton shares laugh with Joshua Smith, president of Manhattan Community College A New Community Voice Judith Eaton Takes Over as College's 2nd President By GENE SEYMOUR It would, she said, "be nice, but fanciful" to say that Daily News Staff Writer she sensed then the potential of the budding communiA fast-talking, quick-witted 41-year-old Trenton na- ty college movement the way Brigham Young immeditive whose career has taken her from the suburbs of ately grasped the potential of Utah. Detroit to the streets of Las Vegas was formally in- "I simply looking," she said, a teaching aswas "for stalled yesterday as president of Community College of signment that would suit my needs." Philadelphia. By the early 1970s, she was "looking for new worlds The inauguration of Judith S.

Eaton was held at to conquer" and took several posts at administrative Congregation Rodeph Shalom on N. Broad Street, not Oakland, becoming dean of instruction in By that 1975. far from the sprawling, year-old campus on Spring time she had earned a doctorate in education from Garden Street near 17th. About 850 people attended, Wayne State. including government officials, college staff members In 1976, she left Michigan for Missouri to become a and representatives of other area colleges.

vice president of Johnson County Community College She is the second president in the college's 19-year in Kansas City. Her predecessor, Allen T. Bonnell, retired four "That was a big adjustment for me, because Kansas history. months ago at age 72. City is truly in the Midwest," she a stronsaid.

"It had Eaton enters office as enrollment has risen to some ger agribusiness base (than Detroit). Very, very students, an 11 percent increase from a year ago. Less ethnic diversity. I used to one vative. live in of the Five days before yesterday's pomp and circum- buildings that got destroyed in the 'Day she spent a few minutes in the relative quiet of Wasn't it a little eerie watching it to bits on blown stance, her new office talking about where she came from and television? where she and the college are going.

A smile. A shrug. "I kind of got a kick out of it." So, she was asked, what kind of people go to commu- The Clark County Community College presidency came three years later. During her interview, she nity college in Las Vegas, anyway? "Same kind of people who go to a place like this," she scanned a catalog and noticed that the Las Vegas said wryly, noting that when she left the Midwest in school, with an of about 10,000, had no enrollment 1979 to become president of Clark County Community gaming curriculum. College the transition seemed eased by the fact that in "There was a resort program where you taught food some Las Vegas, "everybody's from someplace else." people about management and serhotel-motel "Mostly Las Vegas is known for the Strip," she said, vice.

But no gaming. And I asked why." that's an important place. It's the mainstay of the The right people on the board trustees of heard the there's a typical mid-sized town question and a program was established. She had been economy. Beyond that, of half-a-million people with schools and churches, there less than a year.

businesses, civic organizations, politics and power. "I was real excited," she recalled, adding, "It doesn't The same thing you find here. And it's hard for people make me a heroine, by the way." to understand that unless you're living there." Her road to Philly by way of Vegas began in earnest So now she is presiding over the third-largest dein the mid-1960s, shortly after she received master's gree-granting institution in an area that boasts more a in history from the University of Michigan, than 70 such places. What strikes her most about her degree from which she also had received a bachelor's degree new environment? in philosophy. She taught philosophy of science "on "I see the city at a turning point," she said.

"About to and off" at Wayne State University in Detroit. have a new administration. It appears to be the case Since she wasn't interested then in pursuing a doc- that we've bottomed out with economically bad times Eaton, who is single, decided to take a teaching and that we can start on some kind of upswing. It's a torate, job at Oakland Community College outside Detroit. See EATON Page 15 DA's Summons Brings Dismissal By DAVE RACHER and GLORIA CAMPISI Daily News Staff Writers Theft charges against the Glen Mills Schools have been dismissed by a Philadelphia judge who ruled that the district attorney's office used the wrong method to prosecute.

DA Edward G. Rendell had charged the non-profit private institution in Delaware County had billed the city $260,000 for services to delinquent youths that it never provided. The DA's office issued a summons citing the institution, located in Glen Mills, near Media, and a preliminary hearing was scheduled this week. But a defense lawyer quietly went into court recently with a motion to quash the summons and last week was successful, the Daily News has learned. The lawyer, Bruce L.

Thall, argued that since conviction on the charges carried prison terms of more than one year, a warrant, rather than a summons, should have been issued. Municipal Judge Mitchell S. Lipschutz agreed and granted Thall's motion to dimiss the charges, the Daily News learned. Lipschutz also ruled the summons had not provided enough evidence to establish probable cause. As Rendell made his charges Oct.

24, the city controller's office announced that it would withhold the disputed amount from the next invoice submitted by Glen Mills. Thall said that as a result of the dismissal the city has released the disputed funds. Rendell said a summons was issued instead of a warrant because the action was against an institution rather than an individual. In such cases, issuing a summons is the proper procedure, he said. Rendell now is considering one of three actions: issuing a warrant for Glen Mills officials, negotiating a settlement of the billing complaint, or taking the case, along with others involving private agencies providing services to children through the city's Department of Public Welfare, to an investigating grand jury.

Thall called issuance of the summons "outrageous." The proper course of action in a dispute over billing should have been "a civil suit," he said. The DA's office charged the school had been paid $41.73 per day for each of 48 delinquent youths to provide educational and rehabilitation programs, job-placement and counseling. The payments were made during the first six months of this year. What the youngsters got was "one brief contact every 10 to 15 days" from a Glen Mills staff member, Rendell said. In some instances, the agency had lost contact altogether with clients, but continued to bill the city, he said.

In addition, the agency had returned all 48 youths to their homes without court approval, he said. Twenty-one of the youths were later arrested on new charges. Glen Mills had a contract with the city through March. City Councilman John F. White Jr.

has called for the creation of a task force, aided by the grand jury, to investigate payments to private agencies by the welfare department. White said he would seek $150,000 from Council to finance the study. NE Porno Shop Owners Given Year's Probation By DAVE RACHER and GLORIA CAMPISI Daily News Staff Writers The judge didn't think he was "that naive," but admitted he wasn't sure just what went on at the Center City adult bookstores he passed where "movies" were advertised for 25 cents. Since he'd never been in one, "I don't know what's going on inside," Common Pleas Judge Jacob Kalish. said at a sentencing hearing last week in a pornography case.

"Your honor must be the only one in the city that doesn't," defense attorney Joseph McLaughlin replied. He argued that Bernard D'Angelo, 41, and his wife, Kelli, 37, operators of the neighborhood-opposed Fantasy Island Adult Bookstore, State Road near Cottman Avenue, were the victims of "selective" prosecution. McLaughlin said Center City adult bookstores seemed to be operating without restraint. One Arch Street bookstore is only "two doors away from the clergy," he said. "I've never been there," the judge said.

"They sell the same things," McLaughlin replied, and said City Council had passed an ordinance allowing the sale of erotic material, but specifying guidelines as to location. Kalish told McLaughlin his argument was with Council and the district attorney's office. Then he imposed sentences of a year's probation apiece on the D'Angelos, plus fines of $1,000. "Apparently what Council did several years ago was pass an ordinance that said on certain streets, like Arch Street and Market Street, they can have these adult bookstores," the judge said later. He said the ordinance permitted sale of certain "erotic" material.

"I felt the ordinance was kind of a stupid ordinance," Kalish said. "There's a state law that says you're not supposed to sell material that is obscene." He himself had previously convicted the D'Angelos of selling obscene material in a non-jury trial, he said. "The things I saw were absolutely obscene, absolutely with no redeeming social value," he added..