The Pocono Record from Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania • Page 3

County school board OK's special classes STROUDSBURG The Monroe County School Board yesterday voted to improve the county's special education pro- gram by offering more courses fur emotionally disturbed children, a summer speach program, and an extra elementary class. The board also appointed Joseph L. Stark, a guidance counselor at Stroud Union High School, as the county school psychologist at a salary of $9,200 a year. He replaces Dr. John Abbruz- zcse, who resigned yesterday education class was also added for the Pocono Mountain School District.

This boosts the number of such classes to eight in county. The new classes for emotionally disturbed children created two vacancies for teachers in this category. Miss Janet Worrell of Saylorsburg was hired at $5,400 a year, and Alan Ruschman was hired at $5,000 a year to fill til yKitr 10 1111 to assume his new duties these positions. Miss Worrell is assistant county superintendent fully certified and Ruschman is Bernard Oppel Oppel gets doctorate from Duke EAST STROUDSBURG--Bernard F. Oppel, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Adolph A. Oppel of 92 Elk East Stroudsburg has been awarded a Ph.D. in Russian History from Duke University at commencement exercises held June 6. Oppel is a graduate of East Stroudsburg Area Joint Area High School, Lehigh University, Phi Beta Kappa, and Duke University Graduate School.

He is married to the former Joyce M. Prange of Durham, North Carolina and is presently a 1st Lt. with the USAF at Maxwell AFB, Alabama. Obituaries Frank Bush, Pocono Lake POCONO LAKE Frank R. Bush, 73, of Pocono Lake, died Thursday night in the Argot Nursing Home, Pocono Lake.

He is the son of the late George and Lucinda Herd Bush of Mehoopany. He was a carpenter and a veteran of World War I. Bush was a member of Wilson-Fisher chapter 413 of the American Legion, the Pocono Lake Methodist Church, and the Tobyhanna Volunteer Fire Co. He was a member of the Carpenters' Union in Slrouds- burg. Surviving in addition to his wife, Mrs.

George Smith Bush of Pocono Lake, are two daughters, Mrs. Lloyd Manter of Stroudsburg and Miss Clara Bush of New York. Three sisters, Mrs. Francis Plumly of Doylestown, Mrs. Grace B.

Jeffreys, also of Doylestown, and Mrs. William Duncan of Sufferin, N.Y. of schools. His resignation is effective July 1, when Stark will take over the job of psychologist. Dr.

Abbruzzese said Stark who was the only applicant for the job, is fully certified for the position. Stark has another advantage, in that he has worked with John Hadden, the new county superintendent of special education, Dr. Abbruzzese pointed out. Dr. Abbruzzese then presented a revised county plan for education calling for increased courses, that was unanimously approved by the three of five county board members present.

They were James Bunnell, president, David Hutchinson and Clarence Majer. The revised county plan calls for five full-time classes for emotionally disturbed children starting this year. Only one such class is presently being offered for elementary students. Two other classes will be offered for elementary and two for secondary students. The revised plan also calls for a speech program starting in Ihe summer of 1967.

The program now ends with each school year. Another elementary special working toward his certification. He is a 1966 graduate of East Stroudsburg State College. The board also accepted the resignations of Frank DiSimoni as a speech therapist and Mrs. Lorna Bowman as a special education teacher at East Stroudsburg.

Mrs. Bowman's position is no longer under the county board. Mrs. Bonnie Lugg was granted a leave of absence from September through December, 1966. She is also a speech therapist.

Robert McNulty was hired at $5,700 a year to replace DiSim- oni as a speech therapist. Walter Sebring, county super- intent of schools, noted McNulty lacks a few credits of being qualified as a speech therapist, but said, "Certified people are just not available." Dr. Abbruzzese noted that both the appointments of Stark and McNulty must also be approved by Pike County. Ruth Eyer was hired at $5,400 a year as a teacher of the physically handicapped. She has been working at the job temporarily.

The county board signed a lease with the East Stroudsburg School District for $2,500 a year, for four rooms. Eastburg band to represent state at Va. competition Tlie 1'wonci Record, The Stroudsburgs. Pa. June 11 1-966 Ejburg summer approved EAST STROUDSBURG -The from other area schools to at- proposed summer school sched- tend the summer sessions at ule for the East Stroudsburg East Stroudsburg.

Junior-Senior High School was approved Thursday night at a Mrs ullne Pelcr son, assis- A STROUDSBURG -When the East Stroudsburg Area Junior Senior High School band travels to Virginia Beach, next week, to enter competition with bands from as far away as Wisconsin, they won't only be representing the Poconos but the entire state of Pennsylvania. The competition is being sponsored by the Virginia Beach Chamber of Commerce and is by invitation only. Fourteen high school bands are expected to participate in the event to be held June 13 through 16. Car rolls into wall STROUDSBURG A parked car belonging to Bertha Keller of 3 Elm Stroudsburg, rolled out of the shopping center parking lot at Third and McConnell Streets, crossed Third St. and hit a retaining wall Thursday dren.

Funeral services will be held Monday at 2 p.m. in the Gantzhorn Funeral Home, Tannersville with the Rev. Kenneth R. Gay officiating. Burial will be in the Locust Ridge Cemetery, Pocono Lake.

Friends and relatives may call at the funeral home Sunday after 7 p.m. ed. The retaining wall was on the property of Frank Margretta of 34 N. Third St. Police said the car, a 1966 Chrysler sedan, rolled over a concrete bumper block into the street after Mrs.

Keller had parked it and gone shopping. Damage to the front of the vehicle was estimated at $50 by police. Mrs. Anna Stepp of Virginia HARRISONBURG, Anna Lee Bowman Stepp, 73, widow of Albert Stepp and a resident of the Singers Glen community, died at the Rockingham Memorial Hospital Wednesday. A daughter of the late Eli and Amanda Hollar Bowman, she was born in Rockingham County.

Surviving are 10 children: Mrs. Charles T. McMenony, San Francisco, Mrs. Duane Fairweather, Harrisonburg; Mrs. John H.

Doebling, Huntington, Mrs. Richard Oben- shine, Royersford, Mrs. Harold Lifts, Marshalls Creek; Mrs. C. E.

Atchison and Mrs. Ray Carr, bolh of Linville, Robert B. Stepp, Silver City, New Mexico; Albert Stepp, and Isaac Stepp, both at home. Also surviving are five sisters: Miss Emma Bowman Mrs. Bertha Richie, and Mrs 0.

W. Vance, all of Harrisonburg; Miss Gallic Bowman, Silver City, New Mexico; Mrs Walker May, Linville; two brothers, Dewey Bowman, Weyers Cave, G. Vernon Bowman, Linville, and 22 grandchildren. Funeral services were held Friday. Pallbearers were David Bowman, Uoy Bowman, Bowman, Joe Ritchie, Robert May and Walker May, Jr.

bands are to be judged in all phases of performance, including parade, a football show, concert, and a sight reading competition using music the band members have never seen or rehearsed. Ifl5 band members and majorettes under the direction of Robert Zellner, director, and Albert DeRenzis, assistant director, will make the trip. The money needed to enter the competition was raised by the band members themselves, many of whom took part-time jobs to earn money for the trip. A donation of an additional $3,000 was presented by mothers of the band members. Another $200 was donated by the Exchange Club of the Stroudsburgs.

A number of local resorts and fraternal groups also contributed to the cast of the trip. Watches diner, hits pole STROUDSBURG A car driven by Donald Kishpaugh of 424 a Terrace, Stroudsburg, crashed into a utility pole on Park Ave. near the Motel Inn Towne Friday afternoon. Kishpaugh and a passenger in the car, Leroy D. Swartwood of 504 Sarah Stroudsburg, were taken to Monroe County General Hospital, where they were treated and released.

Borough police said the attention of the driver was diverted by the sight of the ruins of the Park Ave. diner near the scene of the accident. The diner was destroyed by a gas explosion early on Memorial Day. Kishpaugh's car was a total loss, police said. Surprise party Michael DeMorris of East Bangor accepts a piece of birthday cake from Mrs.

Nancy Hotchkiss, an employe of Rene's Luncheonette in Portland De- Morris, who is celebrating his 72nd birthday and 45 years as a shoemaker, was given a surprise party by employes of the luncheonette. (Staff Photo by MacLeod) SU students go outdoors POCONO CREEK-The first all-day program at Stroud Union's Pocono Creek outdoor laboratory was held recently by the fourth grade class of Arlington Heights School. Thomas Knepp, chairman of Stroud Union High School's science department, conducted a six-acre tour of the land adjacent to Pocono Creek. James Hall and Jacob Kintz, service foresters from the Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters and members of the Pocono Creek Outdoor Learning Laboratory advisory board gave a talk on trees. Further development of the outdoor teaching program is being encouraged under the guidance of the Pinchot Institute for Conservation Studies.

Rivalry is a way of life among the village headmen of the East African Anuak tribe. The chiefs are so insecure that they spend frequent nights prowling about to eavesdrop for plots against them. Hospital Notes Admissions Miss Naomi Dailey, East Stroudsburg, RD Miss Patricia Ann Smith, Long Pond; LeRoy E. Swartwood Stroudsburg; Theodore Whittaker, Bushkill; Duane Jensen, Pocono Pines; Victor Cramer, East Stroudsiburg, RD William R. Williams, East Stroudsburg; and James Hahn, Bangor.

Discharged Mrs. Christine Ziolkowski and daughter, Stroudsburg; Mrs. Janet Edwards and daughter, East Stroudsburg, RD Raymond Davies Stroudsburg- William Woodhouse, Elmira' N.Y.; Mrs. Rebecca Wiberg, Delaware Water Gap; Walter Stevens, Stroudsburg. Clyde Hillyerd, Columbia, RD Thomas Pettit.

Pittsburgh; Mrs. Olga Suhar, Wilkes-Barre; Jack Detriek. East Stroudsburg, RD Dennis Butsch, Stroudsburg, RD LeRoy Swartwood Stroudsburg: William F. Heller, Stroudsburg, RD Jo Marie Pederson, Stroudsburg; Herman Phillips, Stroudsburg; Miss Joycelynn Slutter, a Stroudsburg, RD Francisco Copia, Bushkill; Raymond Keiper, Pocono Pines. ai a meeting of the East Stroudsburg Interim Board.

Summer sessions are set to run six weeks, from July 1 to August 12, 8 to 10 a.m. daily. The board approved a salary of $7.50 per hour, equaling a $75-a-week salary per teacher. The following teachers were approved by the board for summer school, Mrs. Sandra Marozzi, reading, grades 1, 2, Mrs.

Helena Bowman, reading, grades 4, 5, Mrs. Dorothy Lighttiser, mathematics, grades 1, 2, Glen Wallingford, mathematics, grades 4, 5, 6. Lester Dimmick, mathematics, junior senior high school; Mrs. Kathleen Butz, English and reading, junior-senior high school; Mrs. Gertrude Piatt typing.

A 7-1 vote approved the driver education program for the summer schedule and elected Marlin Martz as a driver training instructor at a salary of $630. A controversy arose on the question of allowing students E-burg school district olc's 2 new taxes EAST iTROUDSBURG-Even though the 1966-67 budget adopted by the East Stroudsburg Interim Board is up $262,149 from last year, residents of East Stroudsburg and Smithfield townships have a 20 mill reduction in occupational taxes. Last year the tax was 100 mills. But it is certain the reduction will be offset by the adoption of two new taxes. An occupational privilege tax of $10 on all persons over 21 working in the school district making more than $100, is one tax.

The tax is to be collected by employers at a fee of 2 per cent. A second new tax is a one per cent realty transfer tax to 'become effective July 9. The tax is to be collected by the register and recorder at a fee of five per cent. Visiting Nurse Assn. to meet STROUDSBURG Mrs.

T. I. Metzgar, president of the Visiting Nurses Assn. of Monroe County, has called a special meeting for Monday at 4:30 p.m. at the YMCA to discuss how Medicare will affect the organization.

We hare found from experience that a complete efficient service makes for reasonable prices without any sacrifice In quality or workmanship. Stroudsburg Granite Co. Trunuu Burnett, Owner SUltt St. Drriur Are. CE1-3JW1 tant to the supervising principal, said there is no room for tuition students on the elementary level but children would be admitted to the secondary courses on a first-come-first- served basis until quotas were filled.

After discussing the matter at some length the board decided to study the matter of tuition costs and release the rate at the June 16 meeting. In other business the board approved a maternity leave to Mrs. Kathleen Branyan for a period of one year. Mrs. Shirley Workman was hired as a teacher with a starting salary of $5,000.

A request by Dr. John Abbruzzese for two classrooms for emotionally disturbed classes was approved by the board. Rental for the rooms will be approximately $1,000 from the state, subject to approval by the Department of Public Instruction. Ronald Tomasch, representative for Nationwide Insurance, presented a school accident policy from his company. Harry Mullins represented the Bell Insurance Co.

Warren Mikels offered a car from Mikels Motors to be used by the school for driver education classes. After some discussion the board decided to retain the present car through summer school and contact the County Car Dealers Assn. before deciding on a car for the fall term. The rental of the auditorium to the Corps of Engineers at a cost of $65 was approved by the board. The Corps will use the auditorium at a June 22 meeting to explain the land acquisition program for Tocks Island.

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