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■ WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 22 Pages-No. 20
New Principals
Now At Their Desks
Dr. Gail Ekstrand :'Don’t Make
Your Goals In A Vacuum’
by Kathleen King
Dr. Gail Ekstrand,
new principal at the
Lititz Elem en tary
School, doesn’t believe
in “making goals in a
vacuum.”
For that reason she
eyes her initial role as a
principal in the War­wick
School District as
that of a learner.
“A good leader has to
listen first,” she said in
a recent interview.
But it’s not as though
the field of education or
administration is new to
her.
Ekstrand has worked
in education 23 years -
first as an elementary
teacher, then as a
reading specialist and
re a d in g re s o u rc e
teacher, next as an
elementary principal
and finally as an
assistant middle school
principal.
“I always wanted to
be a teacher,” she
recalls. “I had a sister
five years younger...she
was my first student,”
she added with a laugh.
Ekstrand said she was
in te re ste d in the
position at Warwick (to
replace retiring prin­cipal
George Remetz)
because she was in­terested
in becoming an
elementary principal
again.
She had been an
elementary principal in
the Muhlenberg School
District at a school that
was closed due to
declining enrollments.
Then she moved into a
position as a middle
Dr. Gail Ekstrand is the new principal of Lititz
Elementary School.
school assistant prin­cipal
in the same school
district.
She held that position
for a year. Then the job
at Warwick became
available.
Ekstrand said her
year in middle school
administration was
valuable because she
could “see where the
children go...what’s
ahead for the children.”
Born in New Jersey,
the new principal grew
up in Bethlehem and
graduated from Liberty
High 'School. Her
parents then moved to
the Reading area, but
she attended Moravian
College and a fte r
graduation taught for a
year in the Allentown
School District.
Over the years she
obtained a master’s
degree, a certificate as
a reading specialist, and
a doctorate, all from
Temple.
She also did her work
in administration at
Temple, as well.
Ekstrand said she
views her function as a
principal as “an in­structional
leader.”
What that involves is
o v e rs e e in g the
“management func­tions...
which come
along naturally” with
the job, such as
scheduling.
Other dates include
working with the
teachers, assisting them
in their job, and, of
c o u rs e , b ein g a
disciplinarian,
Ekstrand is hoping to
do some teaching - “one
subject here or there.”
She said as a principal
at her former school she
sometimes filled in a
morning or afternoon
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Stephen George recently assumed his position
as assistant principal at Warwick High School.
Stephen George: Following
'Inner Rhythm’ To New Job
Many people respond
to a kind of inner voice
or clock that “tells”
them when it’s time to
move on in their careers
or when it’s time to
change jobs.
For Stephen George,
the new assistant
Warwick High School
principal, it’s more of
an internal rhythm
which he says has told
him throughout his life
“it’s time now to do
this.” ,
Which is why, after 16
years at Conrad Weiser
High School as an
English teacher and
counselor, he decided to
pursue his doctorate in
administration and take
a position as a high
school assistant prin­cipal.
Besides, George
believes, “it’s an ex­citing
time now for
education.”
“ Education is on
people’s minds...they
want to support public
education and are
willing to pay for it, if
we in public education
are willing to do the
job,” the new assistant
principal says.
George believes that
the major goal of
education, at the high
school level, at least, “is
to prepare students for
their role in society.”
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Dale Weller Is Back
Dale Weller, the Warwick
High School band director
who led the marching band
to the state championship in
1978, is again part of the
school d is tr ic t’s in­strumental
music depart­ment.
Weller, who resigned from
the district in August 1983 to
take a position as band
director with his alma
mater, the Valley Forge
Military Academy, said
Tuesday, “It’s great to be
back.”
“ The fam ily was
homesick, including me,”
Weller admitted, adding, “It
just didn’t work out the way
I’d expected.”
What Weller apparently
had expected was to become
an instrumental music
teacher and band director in
the school where he’d spent
his senior year of high school
and where he’d attended and
graduated from junior
college.
Instead, said Weller,
“Seventy-five percent of my
time was spent in work
outside music.”
“I was guidance coun­selor,
mother, father and
psychiatrist. The music part
of the job took a secondary
position.”
Weller’s election, ap­proved
by the school board
T u e sd ay n ig h t, was
re com m en d ed as
replacement for Ralph
Lehman, who resigned this
year to devote full time to
music composition.
Weller will teach middle
school and elementary in-
Dale Weller
strumental music and will
direct the middle school
band and the high school
orchestra.
He has been rehired by the
district at a salary of $22,795.
The school board approved
the election of Dennis
Sterner, Spokane, Wash., as
supervisor for the high
school science department,
replacing Stanley Shoen-berger,
who retired at the
end of the 1984-85 school
year.
Dr. Sterner has been hired
at a salary of $27,290 and a
supplemental contract of
$2,210 for supervisory
responsibilities.
According to John Bon-field,
district superin­tendent,
Dr. Sterner has 17
years experience in public
and u n iv e rsity level
teaching. He has been an
instructor in the areas of
teacher training and teacher
effectiveness, with par­ticular
emphasis on science
education.
Dr. Sterner, whose doc­torate
is in earth science,
has acted as a consultant to
the Spokane schools and has
coordinated programs for
accelerated learners.
He was an associate
professor a t E a ste rn
Washington University in
Spokane before accepting
his new position with the
Warwick School District.
Six other teachers have
been given approval by the
board for the 1985-86 school
year.
Elected was Sue Ann
Hoffman, Womelsdorf, as
high school/middle school
Spanish and French teacher.
She is replacing Patricia
Imes, who retired at the end
of last year.
Carol L. Bean, Ben-dersville,
has been elected
as a vocal and instrumental
music teacher in the senior
high school for one semester
at a salary of $7,379. She is
replacing Jane Pippart, on
sabbatical leave for the first
semester of the 1985-86
school year.
Marjorie A. Keener,
Manheim R5, has been
elected as an elementary
teacher at the John Beck
school, at a salary of $15,275.
She will replace Jeannette
Huber, who retired at the
end of the last school year.
Due to increased student
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Township Supervisors Okay New Well Test Site
In This Issue
Editorial 4
Sports Section 6,7,8
Social 12,13
Church 16
Business Directory 18
Business Update 19
Warwick Township will
once again be drilling for
water near Rothsville for a
potential water system for
that community. At their
Aug. 14 meeting, the
township supervisors
ratified, a right of entry
agreement for land located
along Rothsville Station
Road.
Chairman of the Board of
Supervisors, Robert Smith,
said at the meeting that
drilling will be done “within
the next two to four weeks. ’ ’
The supervisors have at
this point appropriated
money to find a well site, but
have not approved an actual
water system or determined
the specific area the system
would serve.
Also at Wednesday’s
Irish Youth Find A Summer Home In Penryn
by Kathleen King
It was Monday afternoon,
and 15-year-old Raymond
Todd and David Kearney of
Belfast, Northern Ireland
were restless.
It was the last day of their
seven-week stay in the
United States.
They were edgy, tired and
tense.
Tomorrow they would get
on a plane and go back
home. They would say
goodbye to new friends, their
host family, and each other.
Later, out of their hearing,
their host Peggy Barrett of
Penryn would say the last
day is always the worst.
“The younger ones, they
blubber and cry. But these
15-year-olds, they just get
quiet.”
Before July 3, Raymond
and David had never met
and probably wouldn’t have
met. One is Catholic and the
other Protestant.
Which one is which doesn’t
matter here. In their
homeland it might.
The boys were here on a
program sponsored , by The
Children’s Committee 10,
Inc. The idea is to get
children, one Catholic and
one Protestant, to live in a
neutral American family for
seven weeks away from the
turmoil of their homeland.
Both boys admitted that
their desire to come on the
program had little to do with
the program’s goals.
Rather, they both knew it
was the chance of a lifetime
to see America.
Surprizingly, the rural
Penryn area around the
Barrett home reminded both
boys of home.
“It looks a lot like Ireland
to me,” David said in his
lilting Irish brogue that is so
delightful to listen to.
Neither of the boys was
concerned about spending
nearly two months in the
company of “the other side.”
“ I wasn’t concerned,”
Raymond said. David
agreed. “I never really
thought of it.”
The image portrayed in
the press and on television of
their homeland is distorted,
both of the boys felt.
“ It’s not like that,”
Raymond said. “A Catholic
can walk through a
Protestant area and vice
versa,” he said.
But Raymond agreed
there were “were places
where you try not to
go...places where there is
more violence.”
What you do is to maintain
a low profile.
They told of a Catholic boy
who went to a Protestant
disco. He was advised to
take his St. Christopher
medal off before “ the
rowdies” noticed and made
trouble.
Part of the problem is
“there is always somebody -
some rowdies” to make
trouble, they said.
Neither boy had friends or
family injured or killed in
the violence, and neither
expressed fear of walking in
the streets or leaving their
school.
But they live in separate
areas and mostly among
people of their own religion.
If they cross into a
predominately Catholic or
Protestant section they
would be searched. But
then, they said, everybody
is. The army and the police
did it.
Most of what they found
different about America is
what most Europeans find as
different -- the food, the
climate, the larger variety of
consumer goods.
Back home Raymond is a
moto-cross champion. He is
fifth in his age category for
all of Northern Ireland.
While he was here he par­ticipated
in a race at the
Lititz Rec Center BMX
track, with the help of the
Village Pedaler Shop, which
helped outfit him.
He won a trophy.
David enjoys more passive
persuits, like watching
television, especially what
he calls the “TV funnies” or
comedies.
So he would relax in front
of the television while
Raymond would restlessly
chatter, according to Mrs.
Barrett.
Much to David’s distress.
“They’re two different
personalities,” Mrs. Barrett
said. “Religion didn’t have a
thing to do with ainy of their
disagreements,” she added
with a chuckle.
But it still, unfortunately,
has something to do with the
situation in Northern
Ireland.
Neither of the boys seemed
to have a solution for it,
either.
“I think it’ll always be that
way,” David mused.
Raymond agreed.
“There’s not much you can
do,” he said.
“But it has to stop some
time...but when?” he added,
rhetorically.
Vincent Lavery: One Person
Can Make A Difference
There seems to be a
prevalent philosophy these
days that one individual can
do little, if anything, to end
the violence that one reads
ab o u t d a ily in the
newspapers or sees con­stantly
on the television.
“What can I do about it,”
is the shoulder-shrugging
comment most people make
after reading, once again,
about a car bombing in
Beirut or Johannesburg...or
Belfast.
But following a visit to
Ireland in 1981, Vincent
Lavery, a naturalized
American citizen born in
Dublin, Ireland, decided that
he had heard that statement
one too many times.
With the help of volunteers
in Northern Ireland and the
United States; Lavery, an
American government
teacher from Fresno, Calif.,
organized The Children’s
Committee 10, Inc.
The concept of the
program is to give
youngsters, one Protestant
and one Catholic, a seven-week
respite from violence
by living with a neutral
American host family.
By spending the time
together, the children will
hopefully come to know it is
possible for people of dif­ferent
faiths to live together
in peace.
This sum m e r 364
youngsters from Northern
Ireland spent seven weeks in
the United States. Eight-four
of them stayed in
central Pennsylvania, in­cluding
two in Penryn.
Lavery himself was in
Penryn earlier this month to
meet some of the host
families, to do some
promotion of his concept,
and to greet the young
people from his native land.
The Record-Express in­terviewed
him at that time.
The following comments are
taken from that interview.
“It’s what might happen
down the road because of the
program that makes it in­teresting,”
Lavery said,
pacing up and down the
kitchen in Peggy Barrett’s
Penryn home.
Lavery still speaks with a
bit a an Irish brogue. Just a
bit.“
Some day they might be
sitting down on opposite
sides of the bargaining
table.”
Close to a thousand
youngsters have enjoyed a
summer holiday in America
through his program,
Lavery said. And have
hopefully learned that,
Catholic or Protestant, they
have much in common.
It’s a program devoid of
bureaucracy, according to
Lavery.
“Everyone’s a committee
of one.”
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meeting the supervisors
approved an ordinance to
regulate the storage and
construction of storage
facilities for animal wastes.
Supervisor Irel Buck-waiter
said at the meeting
that “our intent is not to
place an undue hardship on
the farmers of Warwick
Township...but to protect
township residents and
farmers.”
Buckwalter said the
township wants to “protect
the integrity of the water.”
He added that the town­ship
is “in the forefront in
this.. .I’m proud we are. ”
Supervisor Pat Herr
agreed with Buckwalter.
“After listening to Jay
Irwin (Lancaster County
Extension Director),” she
said, “We have no choice.”
Supervisor Roy Irvin said
the supervisors were “not
putting any new regulations
on...you just have to get a
permit.”
The new ordinance
requires that design stan­dards
for animal waste
Storage facilities be ap­proved
by the Lancaster
County C o n se rv a tio n
District, and that a permit
be obtain from the township
for its construction.
Although there were
several residents present at
the meeting, no one spoke in
opposition to it.
Karen Koncle, township
administrator, said the
ordinance mentions a
publication which she said
will be available to the
public in the township office.
The animal waste or­dinance
was one of two the
township supervisors had
introduced at their July 10
meeting. The second or­dinance
which would have
imposed fines on the owners
of stray farm animals “is no
longer being considered,”
according to Smith.
In other business, the
supervisors:
•Awarded a $12,509 contract
for road materials for Or­chard
Road to Kurtz & Sons.
•Ratified the updated in­te
rm u n ic ip a l p o lic e
cooperation agreement.
•Authorized the payment of
20 percent of the cost of
bridge inspections to be done
by the Pennsylvania
Department of Tran­sportation.
•Discussed the airport ex­pansion
plans with township
resident Scott Cummings
who expressed concern that
the proposed expansion
would take up Warwick
Township farmland.
The supervisors told
Cummings that they had not
been formally approached
by anyone - either the
residents or the airport
authorities.
“Our input has not been
requested by anybody.”
The supervisors said they
have no control over the
airport because the airport
authorities can use the right
of eminent domain to obtain
land for expansion.
Cummings responded that
the supervisors are elected
by the citizens and thus the
supervisors should be
responsive to the citizens
concerns.
•Approved the following
subdivisions actions:
-Letter of credit drawdown
of $31,049.82 for Cross winds,
Section II.
-Letters of credit drawdown
of $300 and $3,025 for Picnic
Woods.
David Kearney and Raymond Todd spent seven
weeks this summer visiting the John Barrett family
of Penryn through a program that places one
Catholic and one Protestant youth from Northern
Ireland in a neutral American home.
Twp. Zoning Hearing
On Tap Tonight
The Warwick
Township Planning
Commission will con­duct
a public hearing
on the revised zoning
ordinance and' map
tonight (. hursday) at
6:30 p.m. in the War­wick
Middle School
auditorium.
Copies of the revisions
and map are available
a t th e Warwick
Township municipal
office at a cost of $2.50.
Copies will also be
available at the hearing.
No vote will be . taken
a t th e h e a rin g .
Following Thursday’s
hearing, the planning
commission will make
its fin a l re c om ­mendation
to the
supervisors who will in
turn hear public com-meht
on the ordinance
before voting on it.