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Wi Park nter car Home Edition An Edition Of The Orlando Evening Star WINTER PARK 1 20 Eait Mors Blvd. 647-5 1 1 0 Wednesday, January 26, 1972 Gets Morat orium urney 4 Wf VL Sal Of Park On and acquire the land for a city park Saturday following a special meeting with Winter Park city commissioners Tom Ivey nd Dick Stevens. "The city is extremely appreciative of the work Sen. Gurney has given this matter," said Harris, who admitted city officials had become "pessimistic" about stopping the sale. "IT IS certainly a tribute to Sen.

Gurney that he has been able to delay the sale on such short notice," the city manager said. The triangular piece of land is located immediately east of the Winter Park Swim Club and Showalter Field on the north side just east of the current city limits. The city investigated purchasing the land about a year ago, but since then the law has been amended to allow the donating of such property to a city through the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation for a park. HOWEVER, UNTIL Sen. Gur- ney's announcement Tuesday, GSA regional officials in Atlanta had given the city little hope of, acquiring the land.

The city commission held a special meeting last week to pass a resolution announcing its intent to seek the donation of the land, formerly under the Naval Training Center. It has not been determined how long it will take for the city's application to be processed and acted upon. U.S. Sen. Ed Gurney succeeded Tuesday in delaying the proposed sale of 10 acres of federal land adjacent to Showalter Field until the U.

S. Bureau of Outdoor Recreation has an opportunity to process an application from Winter Park to obtain the land free for a park. Gurney notified city officials by telephone that the U.S. General Service Administration in Washington agreed to postpone the scheduled Wednesday sale of the property by the GSA office in Atlanta. WINTER PARK City Manager Jim Harris said the delay will allow the U.S.

Bureau of Outdoor Recreation of the Department of Interior to process an application from the city's parks and recrea- I AM A -V I)' i P. I t. ''f ED GURNEY Delays sale tion department. Gurney jumped into the fight to YMCA Programs iff tifKlfcfcwwjx. memf' 1 4 I ytrS 9W 2 I 1 1 it 2 -v A- 1, i tf Standing Tall ill i rifni 'i 'iT fi iT iif hdC ii i iii ii Standing Monument Rollins College cheerleaders practice for upcoming Tar basketball contests.

From top, leading cheers, are Janet Hogan, Pam Benjamin, Celeste Corbitt, Mary Gilbert, Susan Bean, Windy Clough, and Gartaua Auastasia. been monument is still reminder of what had planned. (Staff Photo by Greg Carpenter) No new plans have been announced for previous site of Combanks building on corner of New York Avenue and Morse Boulevard, but this cement Rollins College Trustee To Get CHIEF Award Facing 'Critical7 Space Shortage In spite of the facilities which opened only a few years ago, the Orange County YMCA and the Winter Park branch in particular face a "critical" space shortage for their programs, according to John Morgan, director. Max Morgan, who works at the Winter Park Branch was talking to the members of the Maitland Rotary, and said when the facilities opened there were 13,000 members. There are now 27,000.

BECAUSE OF the lack of space, the demands for service cannot be met, and there is a long waiting list for some programs, while others cannot be started because there are no activity areas for them. Although many people still think the organization is for men and boys, it is now family oriented, and whole families join as a unit with the mothers and daughters making just as much use of the facility as their menfolk. Dr. Rex Brown, a vice (president at Florida Technological University, and president of the Winter Park YMCA board of directors, said the philosphy of the reflects a relationship between the mind, body and spirit. "THE is grandiose or evangelistic, but thinks in terms of the individual and his needs," said Brown.

As a member of the university family, Brown said he comes in contact with all kinds of persons, "radicals, misfits, and many with problems." "The 'Y is one of the very places where youngsters can be in an environment of conservative intellect and receive counselling and service which they desperately need," he said, BROWN EMPHASIZED that the is not confined to the younger generation though. He said there were many "oldsters" who enjoyed the benefit of the organization. "It is a fact," he said, "that less than one per cent of the older generation get out of their chairs and move around to build up their energy." There is an extensive program at the for men, which gives them an opportunity to keep fit. "Age is no factor, just a clean Ibill of health," said Brown. "SCHOOLS AND churches have influence on Individuals, as well as the home, tout in some cases the home environment is not enough," Brown continued.

Business, Finance Students Preparing For Third Rollins European Seminar Sams, Somerset, Brian Smith, Casselberry, and Douglas Wolff, Orlando. Rollins College trustee John Meyer Tiedtke is one of eight distinguished Floridians to receive "C.H.I.E.F." awards as "Champions of Higher Independent Education in Florida" at the annual Independent Colleges and Universities of Florida (ICUF) banquet, to be held at Walt Disney World's Contemporary Hotel, Thursday. Some 450 trustees and business leaders will join the 15 presidents of Florida's four-year, degree-granting private colleges and universities in saluting the eight award recipients. Rollins College president and chairman of ICUF, Dr. Jack B.

Critch-field, will present the awards. TIEDTKE WAS born In Toledo, Ohio and attended Culver Military Academy. He received his AB degree from Dartmouth College and an MCS degree from the Dartmouth Amos Tuck School of Business Administration. He was an instructor at Rollins College from 1936-1940, professor of business administration from 1946-1949 and elected trreasurer and business manager in 1948. In 1951, he was vice president, and financial vice president in 1969.

He became dean of Rollins graduate program 1960-1965, and a trustee in 1970, serving on the finance committee of the board. He also serves as a trustee of Wooster College in Ohio, A longtime benefactor of Rollins College, Tiedtke is especially interested in building and enhancing the college's expressive arts programs. HE IS the president of the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park, director of the Florida Symphony Society, and chairman of the Board of Governors of the Florida Charities Foundation. Tiedtke is owner and operator of Shawnee Farms, Clewiston, chairman of the Sugar Committee of Florida; director of the Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida; director of Florida Fruit and Vegetable Association; and director of Orlando Federal Savings and Loan Association. The featured speaker at the award banquet will be Jack M.

Eckerd, whose recent commitment of $12.5 million to Florida Presbyterian College has prompted the school to rename the institution Eckerd College," to become July 1. Members of the graduating class of the Rollins College Roy E. Crummer School of Finance and Business Administration leave this week for the school's third annual European seminar. During the 30-day tour the young business students will meet with top officials of international organizations in Geneva and Brussels. ACCORDING TO Crummer School Dean Charles Welsh, the class will have a unique opportunity this year to research an international concern the devaluation of the U.S.

dollar. "Our boys will have a chance to question some of the world's top businessmen concerning the issue," Welsh said. "I hope they will have something valuable to report on our return." More than 80 hours of seminars have been scheduled with many American blue chip companies operating abroad, and with several international agencies and foreign business firms. Included are the Bank for International Settle ments, Hoffman-La Roche, Du-pont, Caterpillar, Nestle, Monsanto, General Motors, Westminster Foreign Bank, and secretariats of various international organizations. The 17 students who are making the trip will be directed by Dr.

Rufus Burr Smith, Rollins College Kenan Professor of Economics and retired career diplomat, THE GROUP will leave for Luxembourg on Saturday, returning to the United States on March 3. Students making the trip are Mark Aspinwall, Lake Wales; Brizzio N. Biondi-Morra, Milano, Italy; James Brook am, New Smyrna Beach; Ravi Singh Chaw-la, Bangkok, Thailand; Robert Christie, New York; Timothy Gibbons, Ashland, Ohio; Mary S. Holmes, Whitinsville, Eppa Hunton, Richmond, Va. Also Howard Kane, Winter Park; John L.

Kennedy, Baltimore, Gary Kilmer, Sarasota; G. Geoffrey Longstaff, Baltimore, James Metcalfe, Johnston, Rhode Island; John Osmer, Maplewood, N.J.; Robert Flu Bug Hits Winter Park Area 'With Vengeance' Flu has hit the Winter Park area "with a vengeance" and one doctor has gone as far as saying it is an epidemic. Both Winter Park Memorial Hospital and Florida Hospital are filled and at Winter Park only emergencies are being admitted. ASSI STANT ADMINISTRATOR John Turner said this is expected at this time of year, but the emergency is usually cleared within a few days. The emergency room is treating many more patients, and most of these are those who do not have family doctors.

A few employes have been hit, but this has not affected the service in any way, Turner said. Ron Reese, assistant administrator at Florida Hospital said last week more patients were admitted than any week during the hospital's history. THE MAXIMUM capacity Is 465 patients, one day there were 463. "Of course there are always beds in the obstetrics and psychiatric wings but we would not use these for respiratory conditions," said Reese. There also have been several staff absences, and although these have presented a few problems nothing that could not be coped with, Reese said.

Both administrators said it was mostly the elderly who had been hit, but there were also young adults and children being admitted. Group Obtains Option On 230 Acres In Maitland A group of Central Florida businessmen announced Tuesday that they had obtained options on 230 acres recently annexed to Maitland for an estimated $2.3 million. Dean Downs, a real estate broker and spokesman for said the group purchased 150 acres for $1.5 million and obtained an option on the remaining 80 acres. IT WAS indicated that a multimillion dollar development is planned for the area when the property was annexed by Maitland in December. The 150-acre tract is located at the planned Maitland-Boulevard interchange at Interstate 4 between Lee Road and Semoran Boulevard, The area was zoned commercial and will be supplied with city water and seweri.

DOWNS SAID specific plans for developing the land will be announced later. The seller is the S. C. Battaglia interests. The purchasers include Downs, contractor Gene Stickland, Winter Park architect John Dye and Robert E.

Battaglia. has four other projects either under construction or in the design stage. These include two 48-unit condominiums in New Smyrna Beach (the Seaward and Ocean Reef Villas), a ISO-unit Federal Housing Authority 235 project in Largo and a 20-unit apartment complex on Interlachen Road in Winter Park. DOWNS, OWNER of Downs Realty, has handled several large sales In recent years including the 4.500 acra tract purchased by Martin Marietta Co. and 5,000 acres purchased by GAC Properties In the Bahamas.

Dye is a graduate of the University of Florida and has designed several major buildings in the area including the Orange County Health Department building and the Altamonte Springs Professional building. Stickland built and owns several complexes including Executive Square in Winter Park, and the Winter Park Professional Building. He moved to Orlando in 1961 and has completed the masonry work on about 20 motels for Holiday Inns of America in various Southeastern states. Battaglia, who will act as project coordinator for is vice-president and secretary for Battaglia Fruit of Winter Garden,.