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Warehouse To Rec Center:
An Option With A Lot Of If’s
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The Lititz Recreation Center is looking into
purchasing the former Wilbur Chocolate Company
Record Express photos/ Ksthleen Kin^
warehouse on Water Street for conversion into a
recreation center complex.
Clyde Tshudy, owner of the Sturgis Pretzel
Company, has an agreement of sale on half of the
Wilbur property, which he bought to enable huge
vehicles
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like this motor home to park near his
business. He is willing to sell the brick building in
the background to the Rec Center.
Schools To Open September 7
The Warwick schools will
open to students on Wed­nesday,
September 7th, and
the following schedules will
be in effect on that day:
High School 8 a.m.
At 8 a.m. all students are
to r e p o r t to th e ir
homerooms. Each student’s
homeroom assignment for
the 1983-1984 school year was
listed on his/her schedule.
Students who did not secure
their 1983-1984 schedules can
obtain their homeroom
assignments from lists
posted in either the cafeteria
or auditorium lobby areas.
The cafeteria lobby area will
contain homeroom lists for
seniors and juniors while the
auditorium lobby area will
contain homeroom lists for
sophomores and freshmen.
During homeroom period,
these students will receive
their 1983-1984 schedules of
classes.
Middle School-7:45 a.m.
Grade 6 - Report to the
cafeteria; grade 7 - Report to
auditorium; grade 8 - report
to gym; walkers should not
arrive prior to 7:45 a.m.
Elementary Assignments
Classroom assignments
for all Warwick School
District elementary students
have been completed and
will be posted on August 22 in
each elementary building.
Parents who desire this
information prior to the
beginning of the school year
are encouraged to visit their
child’s school. The class lists
will remain posted through
the opening of school and
may be seen daily 8 a.m. to
4:30 p.m.
John Beck Elementary
School-8:05-8:15 a.m.
All grades report
auditorium.
Kissel Hill Elementary
School-8:05-8:15 a.m.
Grade 1 - Follow
structions as indicated in the
letter sent home; grades 2-3 -
report to gym; grades 4-5 -
Report to cafeteria.
Lititz Elementary School-
8:05-8:15 a.m.
First grade students will
receive a postcard from
their teachers telling them
where to report. Parents are
asked to pin the card on the
child’s dress or shirt. Grades
2-3 - Report to cafeteria;
grades 4-5 - report to gym.
Kindergarten Bus Orien­tation
On Wednesday, Aug. 31,
the Warwick School District
will conduct a kindergarten
bus orientation program for
all kindergarten children
and their parents.
The orientation program
will be held in the
auditorium of the Warwick
Middle School beginning at 9
a.m. The program will in­clude
the viewing of a short
bus safety film, as well as a
brief bus ride for the kin­d
e rg a rten youngsters.
Members of the ad­ministrative
staff will be
present to answer parent
questions.
Middle School Orientation
An orientation program
for all prospective Middle
School students who have
moved into the school
district during the summer
will be held at 9 a.m. on
September 1, in the Warwick
Middle School. New 6th
grade students who missed
the spring middle school
orientation program are also
welcome. Students should
report to the gym.
By Kathleen King
If" is a big word in spite
of the fact that it only has
two letters.
And “if” is exactly the
situation that the Lititz
Recreation Center is in right
at this moment.
Somewhat,discouraged by
their search for a site for a
new recreation center, the
Rec Board has nonetheless
not given up looking for
other options. And one option
they are now considering, in
the very early states, is the
possibility of converting an
existing building or
buildings into a recreation
complex.
If they can find one.
They have.
It seems that Wilbur
Chocolate Company has
property and buildings along
Water Street and North Lane
which they had been using as
i a storage facility and
warehouse until they pur­chased
the former Travis
Mills plant on West Lincoln
Ave. The Chocolate com­pany
has decided to sell the
property. To facilitate that
sale they are seeking ap­proval
from Borough
Council to subdivide the two-acre
property into two one-acre
lots. The Lititz Plan­ning
Commission has
a lre ad y recommended
approval of the subdivision
plan to the Borough Council.
On the front lot are a huge,
brick th re e -sto ry
building, on the back lot is a
smaller green wood and
metal building.
To make the facility
complete, the Rec Center
would need both the green
building and the brick
building plus land for
parking. But the front lot
with the former Stiffle-
Freeman Lock Company
building is already under
agreement of sale.
So if the buyer of the front
Warwick School
Superintendent John Bon-field
told school board
members at Tuesday’s
meeting that parents of
students without proper
immunization will be asked
to take their children home
until they can present
v e r if ic a tio n of im ­munizations.
"Our intention is to follow
the state requirements
regarding immunizations,
come the first day of
school,” Bonfield said,
noting that although efforts
have been made to inform
parents and students of the
im p o rta n c e of im-munization,
district records
show there is no verification
of immunization for about
200 students.
About 900 students were
immunized during a clinic
last year.
Previous sta te law
required only students en-
In This Issue
Editorial 4
Sports Section 6,7,8,9
Classified 10,11
Social 13
Church 16
Business Directory 18
tering school for the first
time to show proof of im­munization.
Under new state
requirements, which went
into effect August 1, all
students g rad e s Kin­dergarten
through 12 are
required to be immunized
against diptheria, tetanus,
measles, mumps, rubella,
and polio.
In voting action Tuesday
the board elected to approve
1983-84 district goals to
direct staff members in
planning activities for the
coming school year. These
goals, which will be
evaluated for effectiveness
at the end of the year, in-
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elude: improvement of in­struction
with an emphasis
on language arts, writing
skills, and mathematics;
implementation of the
second year of a plan for
using of microcomputers in
the instructional program;
e s ta b lis hm e n t of a
business/industry/school
partnership program in each
school and department;
improvement of curriculum
coordination and a r ­ticulation
across grade and
subject areas; completion of
the long range plan for
school improvement; and
improvement of efficiency of
district operations.
In other action the board
voted to:
• Retain Donald Butcher,
an engineer, to prepare
specifications for an energy
management system for the
district’s three elementary
schools so that the board
may solicit bids for the
project. The board voted to
retain Butcher at a fee not to
exceed $1500.
• Approve interim' tran­sportation
contracts for the
coming school year at the
rates of $534.81 plus gasoline
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Class Schedules
Ready Monday
The 1983-84 class
schedules for Warwick
High School students
will be available in the
guidance office beginn­ing
Monday, Aug. 22.
All school obligations
will have to be settled
before students can
receive their schedules. '
This year, homeroom
assignments have been
designated on the
schedules.
Report cards, senior
pictures and prom pic­tures
are still available
in the high school office.
lot would be willing to sell
the building to the Rec
Center, the matter could be
pursued. If not, the one acre
back lot and green building
would not be sufficient for
the project.
He is willing to sell.
The buyer is Clyde
Tshudy, owner of the Sturgis
Pretzel Company who said
he bought the property only
to have additional parking
for his tourists.
“I didn’t really know what
I’d do with a brick building,”
Tshudy siad. But he said he
is more than willing to sell it
to the Rec Center if they’d
want it, and for the same
price that he got it for. “Dirt
cheap,” Tshudy said,
“$60,000.”
Tshudy said Wilbur would
not sell him the land alone
and that is why he bought the
building too. He’s only in­terested
in additional
parking spaces, although he
said if the Rec Center pur­chase
wouldn’t go through,
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Police Say Car Fire Was Arson
Board Hears Immunization Plan, Approves Goals
Police are investigating a
car fire, determined to be
arson, which occurred at
9:21 p.m. on Aug. 11 in Pine
Lane, just off Second
Avenue. Officer Douglas
Shertzer said a lit 30-minute
flare was placed inside the
unlocked car which burned
21 minutes before a passing
motorist spotted the fire and
called the fire department.
The car is owned by
Kathleen King, 316 S. Broad
St., who said neither she nor
her husband had any flares
in the car, nor did either of
them smoke.
Shertzer and State Police
Fire Marshal David Fisher
are investigating the matter.
Rape
Police charged John
Richard Maekley, 3 W.
Second Ave., with in­voluntary
deviate sexual
in te rco u rse , indecent
assault, corruption of minors
and furnishing liquor or malt
or brewed beverages to
certain persons after
Maekley allegedly raped a
15-year-old female in the
garage of his home. The
incident took place between
11:30 p.m. and 2 a.m. on Aug.
12-13.
Maekley was taken in
front of a justice of the peace
and committed to Lancaster
County Prison on $15,000
bail.
Accident
No one was charged in an
accident which occurred on
Aug. 15 at 7:20 a.m. when a
driver traveling east on
Oxford Drive collided with a
parked car.
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For a short time, this car was the hottest one in
town, that is until the Lititz Fire Company put out a
fire which has been deemed aarson. Lititz Police
Officer Douglas Shertzer and State Police Fire
Marshal David Fisher are investigating the fire.
The car is owned by Lititz Record-Express News
Editor Kathleen King.
A t J e ru s a le m U n ite d C h u r c h O f C h r is t
The Rev. Mary Summy:
Remaining True To The Call
By Julia Marshall
Editor’s note: This is the
third in a series on business
and professional women in
the Lititz area.
Even as a child in rural
Lebanon County she felt it.
As she grew into young
womanhood she knew there
was no denying it.
She had a calling to the
ministry.
But when she graduated
high school in 1950 not much
encouragement was offered
to young women who felt
called to preach, so she set
aside her idea of seminary
studies and contented
herself with extensive
church work.
That contentment was
incomplete, though, and 15
years later she quit her
factory job to answer her
calling.
The Rev. Ruth Mary
Summy, pastor of Penryn’s
Jerusalem United Church of
Christ, said her 1965 decision
to e n te r L a n c a s te r
Theological Seminary came
after years of thought.
"After (high school)
graduation I worked, kept
myself busy, worked in the
church constantly. I thought
each year is passing by and
I’m not doing what 1 want to
do’ so I finally thought ‘I’m
just going to stop and pursue
it,” ’ she said.
She pursued it with vigor,
and in 1968 gained her
Jerusalem congregation. It
was there that she met her
future husband, John.
The fact that the pair were
th only singles in the church
makes it appear that fate
lent a hand, but actually,
Rev. Summy said, the
b eg in n in g of th e ir
relationship was on less than
romantic terms.
The J e r u s a lem
congregation, in need of a
new pastor, had spent time
listening to the sermons of
several candidates, in­cluding
the Rev. Summy.
For a number of reasons
John Summy, though a
Jerusalem member, had
been regularly attending a
church in Harrisburg.
On the day the Jersalem
congregation was to vote for
the new pastor, however, he
made it a point to be there so
he could cast his vote against
the woman who would
eventually become his wife.
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The Rev. Mary Summy stands before the doors
of Penryn’s Jerusalem United Church of Christ,
where she has served as pastor for the past 15
years.