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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 24 Pages-No. 52
Linden Hall headmaster
finds Saudi Arabia
’ land of many contradictions’
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by Kathleen King
If David Wachter were a
Moslem, his recent trip to
Saudi Arabia would have
been the fulfillment of a
lifelong dream.
Because there in that
Middle Eastern country lies
the holiest of holy sites to the
world’s adherents of Islam -
Mecca.
But as it was, Wachter, a
Christian and a westerner,
could not even set foot inside
the city.
And if he had been a
woman on a recruiting trip
for a private school, such as
Wachter was, he wouldn’t
have been allowed in the
country at all.
To Wachter, the Arab oil-producing
country is a
country of many con­tradictions.
And one of them was the
reason he was there.
Oil-rich nation
When oil was discovered in
the desert kingdom in the
1930’s, the country needed
western technology to reap
its harvest of black gold.
Such technology has been
imported from the United
States for years through
ARAMCO (A ra b ia n
American Oil Company).
The technicians took along
their families and the oil
company set up American-style
schools for them.
But in spite of Saudi’s
d e s ir e fo r W e ste rn
technology the people have
definite opinions about
Western “ decadance,”
Wachter explained.
For that reason, the Saudi
government has put a ceiling
of ninth grade on the
American schools run by
ARAMCO, Wachter said.
Boarding schools needed
“After ninth grade the kids
have to go elsewhere,” he
explained. That way, he
says, the Saudi government
deports the potential trouble
of American teenagers
living in a strict Arab
country.
That’s where schools like
Linden Hall come into the
picture.
“For a number of years,
maybe even 15, Linden Hall
has had girls whose families
live and work in Saudi
Arabia,” he said. This year
there are 10 students at
Linden Hall in that situation.
To aid its employees in
finding a suitable school for
their teenagers, ARAMCO
brings in people such as
Wachter who make a
presentation on their school.
In addition, the company
pays 80 percent of the
s tu d e n ts ’ tuition and
provides plane tickets for
several trips back home.
For Wachter, this was his
first trip to Saudi Arabia.
American compounds
It was one he doesn’t tire
of talking about.
“ARAMCO has been
nationalized by the Saudi
government over the last
five years,” Wachter said,
‘‘but its a gradual process.”
He said the Saudi
government is gradually
replacing foreign nationals,
such as the Americans or
Europeans, with their own
people.
As a result ARAMCO has
already closed one of its four
schools in the country and
the student population from
kindergarten to grade nine
has decreased from 3600 to
2400.
That population is ex­pected
to shrink further to
1200 students within the next
two years, he said.
Americans in Saudi
Arabia live in well secured
compounds, for the most
part, Wachter explained.
And their lives are usually
very separate from the
Saudi people.
Women very restricted
“In Saudi Arabia women
are not permitted to work, so
it is very hard for an
American woman to get a
job,” he said.
Therefore American
women are restricted to
working in positions on the
oil compound.
Not only can’t they work
outside the compounds, but
they are forbidden to drive
as well, he elaborated.
At the center of the
Moslem world, Saudi Arabia
believes it should set the
example for Muslims in
other countries, Wachter
said. And, for that reason,
they are often much more
rigid in their .. rules . and.
lifestyles than other Arab
countries.
“When you’re on the
compound,” Wachter said,
“you don’t have the sense
you’re out in the desert. It
could be West Palm Beach
or Tucson, Arizona.”
“But when you leave the
compound,” he added, “you
know you’re somewhere
different.”
American women cautioned
Wachter said American
women are continually
cautioned not to “dress
suggestively” and not to
leave the compound alone,
he said.
Of course “suggestive” to
Westerners is quite different
than “suggestive” to Arabs,
he pointed out.
Rules for behavior bet­ween
men and women are so
totally different there as
well, that there are “war
stories” of American men
and women who went off the
compounds on a date and
were arrested.
“Saudi women aren’t even
allowed to be in the same
room as men in public,”
Wachter said.
All the service jobs, in
hotels or restaurants, for
instance, are filled by men,
many of them from other
countries, such as India or
Sri Lanka.
Lifestyle different
The Saudi view or lifestyle
is so completely different
from an American’s that it is
sometimes hard to com-
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Elaine Good spent the month of February in
Africa as part of a 12-member team studying the
hunger situation.
She is dressed in an outfit made for her in Zaire
and holds a poster depicting women as the
backbone of farming.
Lititz woman returns
from hunger study
in African nations
David Wachter, headmaster at Linden hall, talks
about his recent recruiting trip to Saudi Arabia.
by Kathleen King
Fact-finding missions
often conjure up images of
politicians or scientists or
even journalists probing
some part of the world to
find out the whys and
w h e re fo re s of some
currently debated issue.
Elaine Good doesn’t
exactly fit that image.
She is neither a scientist,
politician nor journalist.
But she is a trained home
economics teacher, a farm
wife, a former missionary to
Somalia, East Africa, and a
person committed to finding
answers to the problem of
world hunger.
Food study
These were the factors
which contributed to her
placement on a team of 12
who recently went on a
month-long food study to the
African continent.
It meant a long separation
from her husband, Leon W.
Good, and her four children.
It meant the family would
have to work hard to take
her place in the home and on
the farm on Buch Mill Road
outside of Lititz.
But there was no doubt in
Elaine’s mind that she
wanted to go.
The 12-member team
consisted of six Americans
and six Canadians. Three
were women, eight of them
were farmers, three were
teachers and one an editor.
MCC sponsored
All members of the
Mennonite Church, they
went under the auspices of
the Mennonite Central
CQmmitte,
Of the Americans, all Were
from the Midwest except for
Elaine.
Although all had had
overseas experiences, she
was the only one who had
been to Africa before. None
of the team had ever met
prior to their first encounter
in Amsterdam.
The team then flew to
Nairobi, the capital of
Kenya. After several days
there they split into groups
of two to go to several
African nations: Ethiopia,
Zimbabwe, Zambia, Kenya
and Zaire.
Elaine went to Zaire.
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by Bonnie Szymanski
The magic number was
100. On Thursday (today), Ron
Metzler - who left home just
days before Christmas 1985
to undergo a bone marrow
transplant - arrives home
after spending 100 days in or
near the Montefiore Hospital
in Pittsburgh.
Home is 614 Snyder Hill
Road, where Ron will move
back with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Metzler.
U n fo r tu n a te ly , th e
pleasure of returning home
is qualified by the need to
make the 500-mile weekly
round-trip to Pittsburgh for
the critical exam and blood
tests which allow doctors to
follow his progress from
aplastic anemia to health.
Ron is not looking forward
to that long drive week after
week.
He revealed Tuesday that
plans are underway to
schedule testing at the
Lancaster General Hospital
every other week, which
means he could cut his trips
to Pittsburgh in half.
In the meantime, he said,
he’s thinking about moving
back to the Pittsburgh area
for the summer to make the
testing procedure easier.
The husband of the woman
who drives him to the
hospital owns a wood­working
shop.
And as Ron studied
woodworking at Brownstown
vo-tech, the man offered him
a position in the shop, an
offer Ron is still considering.
During a recent call to Ron
in Pittsburgh, we asked him
if the doctors had placed any
major restrictions on him.
“I can do anything I want
to,” he answered, “but I’ve
got to stay away from
crowds.”
With a knowledge bom of
need, Ron began: “The way
they explained it to me is,
my old bone marrow died,
and now it thinks I’m a little
kid.”
He reiterated: “The inside
of my body thinks I’m a little
kid,” and acknowledged
that, like a child, he is more
susceptible to colds and
other diseases than most
young men of 18.
“By the end of next year
(1987) I should be back to
close to normal.”
Drag-racing!!?
Asked how he felt about all
he’s experienced during the
past few months, Ron
responded with a surprising
calm.
“I take things as they
come,” he said. “I’m easy­going.”
He reported that he in­tends
to start drag-racing
again as soon as the season
starts.
Concerned that such a
diversion might be a bit
strenuous for an 18-year-old
who’s only recently been
saved from the dire results
of aplastic anemia, we asked
Ron what the doctors had to
say about those plans.
He repeated that they had
warned him only against
being in crowded enclosures.
“I can’t go to any con­certs,”
he added, but, ap­parently,
he will be able to
work on cars and even race
them again.
The only restriction in this
area is that he stay away
from chemicals, including
vapors from starter fluids
and paints.
After taking his history,
the doctors at Montefiore
speculated on what might
have caused his bone
marrow to stop functioning.
Ron told a story about a
hot August day in 1985.
“I worked for Risser’s
Poultry,” he began.
“We were down in
Maryland loading brown
chickens (onto a truck). I
was working on top of the
truck most of the time, ’ ’
He slowed to explain that
the man working on top of
the stacked coops, about 10
stacks high, would naturally
get all the heat and smell
coming off the entire load as
well as from the deisel
exhaust.
He continued: “We had
done three trucks, and I was
in the sun all day.”
The doctors theorized the
possibility that the mixture
of chemicals from the truck
and the chicken droppings
plus Ron’s own particular
chemical make-up could
have precipitated the
problem.
Ron was quick to note that
this is only speculation and
that doctors admit they
really don’t know what
caused his illness.
But they’re pleased with
their “first success,” said
Ron and treat him ac-
Ronald Metzler
cordingly. Doing a little
speculating of his own, he
added, “I think it’s kind of a
big deal to them.”
A long way
Ron insists that he just
doesn’t remember the early
part of his ordeal.
“I had very few platelets,
almost no white blood cells,
and my hemoglobin count
was 3.3.” “Normal is 14,”
he inserted professidnally.
“I just don’t remember.”
he answered again when
asked if the marrow tran­splant
procedure was
painful.
He said he knows it hurts
when a bone graft is taken
out of the hip because he’s
had it done many times for
testing.
But, as he reminded us, his
sister, Shirley, who was
marrow donor for him, was
the one who faced the
greatest pain, as she was
subjected to 100 grafts at one
time.
For this procedure, she
had to be given anesthesia,
said Ron.
Ron and his 22-year-old
sister don’t discuss the or­deal
much anymore, said the
brother, but he did admit
without hestation that “I get
along with her about the best
in the family.”
Shirley is already insisting
he do something he doesn’t
want to do when he gets
home.
That is to be in her wed­ding,
tentatively planned for
August.
Ron says “No way! I’m
not the kind to wear those
kind of clothes.”
But we’re betting on
Shirley.
We’re betting that, when
the time comes, Ron will bite
the bullet and do something
nice for his sister...too.
Lititz police cite two
in alcohol offenses
DUI: District Attorney offers insights
In this issue
Editorial 4
Sports Section 6,7,8,9
Classified 21,22,23
Social 10,11
Manheim 17,18
Church 15,16
Business Directory 19,20
Retailers
Meeting
Set April 9th
The monthly meeting
of the Lititz Retailer’s
Association has been
scheduled for the second
Wednesday of this
month. The April
meeting will be held
next Wednesday, April
9th at 7:30 P.M. at Wells
Warwick House.
All area businessmen
are welcome and invited
to attend._____________
Lititz police have cited an
18-year-old man with minor
and alcohol offenses and a
60-year-old man with public
drunkeness.
O ffic e rs C h a rle s
Shenenberger and Douglas
Shertzer were on patrol
March 24 at 8:20 p.m. when
they observed a man sitting
on the loading dock of the
Alsam Shoe Company on
Maple Lane. Upon in­vestigating
they found that
James Lee Knier, 18, of 203
C an aan Grove R d .,
Newmanstown, was in
possession of two quarts of
beer. He was taken to the
police station where he was
issued a citation for minor
and alcohol offenses.
Officer Kevin Meil was on
foot patrol March 25 at 8:30
p.m. when he observed a
man staggering south on
Pine Lane, near Orange
Street. Donald Singer, 60, of
408 S. Broad St., was found to
be visibly intoxicated and
taken to the police station
where he was cited and
released to relatives.
Joseph D. Zeyak III, 18, of
528 Hummingbird Dr., has
been cited for disorderly
conduct as a result of an
incident at Locust and Main
Streets on March 28 at 3:26
p.m. Officer William Seace
was on patrol when he
spotted the accused man
pointing a pistol out of the
window of his vehicle. Seace
stopped the vehicle and
found the pistol was a B.B.-
type air pistol. He con­fiscated
the pistol and took
Zeyak to the police station
where he was issued a
disorderly conduct citation.
David Frederick Shaub,
25, of 71 E. Main St., has
been charged with criminal
mischief and theft as a result
of incidents which occurred
between 9:30 p.m. March 24
and 7 a.m. on March 25.
Officer Shertzer, assisted
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Look! He likes me!
First graders at Lititz
Elementary School, along
with students in Rena King’s
hearing impaired class
recently got an opportunity
to h an d le some of
fascinating creatures - like
Chotty Ault’s black snake.
Ault, a naturalist from
Muddy Run Recreation
area, brought the snake and
other live reptiles to school
last week.
By Linda A. Harris
This is the third in a series
of articles focusing in on the
problem of drinking and
driving in Lancaster County.
This week, we look at the
problem from the point of
view of the Lancaster
County District Attorney,
Henry Kenderdine.
Talk with Lancaster
County D.A. Henry Ken­derdine
and he’ll tell you
drivers who drink have
never been coddled in
Lancaster County. “It has
never been treated as a
social aberration to be
tolerated. Repeat offenses
especially have always been
treated very seriously and
the offender often found
himself facing three or more
months in jail even before
the new law took effect,” he
asserted.
But, Kenderdine is also
quick to point out that
Pennsylvania’s new law,
adopted in 1983, made
sentencing guidelines more
stringent.
Under the old law, a first
time offender might get
probation and there was no
statutory way to suspend a
driver’s license although
some counties did suspend
licenses in a hodge podge
fashion which was never
very effective, according to
Kenderdine.
Under the new law, a first
time offender who is con­victed
of driving under the
influence(DUI) faces a
mandatory minimum 48-
hour jail sentence and a one
year suspension of his
license.
Even those first time of­fenders
who are accepted
into the ARD (Accelerated
Rehabilitative Disposition)
program have their licenses
suspended, but only for six
months in L an c a ste r
County(this varies by
county...the minimum is 30
days). They, however, also
must satisfactorily complete
50 hours of community
service, attend the Alcohol
Impaired Driver(AID)
program, and pay the
various costs associated
with ARD, AID and the court
process. “It’s not cheap by
any means,” the D.A.
asserted.
Second Offense
A second DUI offense
means an automatic
minimum 30 day jail sen­tence.
“Judges here often
remind defendants that the
sentence is a minimum one if
convicted...it can’t be less
under the law, but it can be
more based on the judge’s
decision after reviewing the
facts of the case. Recently
the trend here has been
toward two or three months
for a repeat offense rather
than the minimum sen­tence,”
he explained.
License suspension is also
a mandatory part of the
penalty...no exceptions, no
restricted use of the license
such as driving to work but
not for pleasure.
Stiff Penalty
Kenderdine is especially
pleased that the new law also
makes a stiff provision for
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Henry S. Kenderdine
than they would have
originally,” he noted.
He personally feels that
public pressure in regard to
DUI has made getting
convictions much easier.
“In the 1970’s, it was very
difficult to get a jury to
Pittsburgh and without
consulting district attorneys,
the civil arm of the state
attorney general’s office
sent out directives to
departments not to use that
particular model.
Two things about this
convict in a drunk driving frustrate him...PennDot still
case. It seemed that many has this particular model on
felt ‘there but for the grace its approved list and
of God go I’and thus held the secondly, Pennsylvania
police to a higher standard of
proof. Today, I find juries
are much less tolerant of
those charged with driving
under the influence,” he
declared.
Technicality Problems
doesn’t test machines such
as these so departments are
banned from using them
based on results of someone
else’s tests.
New Regulations
PennDot then issued
Kenderdine is disturbed by r e g u ia tio n s th a t
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people who have taken the
chance and driven end up
spending more time in jail
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