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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 30 Pages-No. 11
278 graduate at Warwick H.S.
by Becky Collins
It was standing room only
Monday night at Grosh Field
when 278 Warwick High
School seniors received
their diplomas.
The 32nd annual com­mencement
was highlighted
by four students who deliv­ered
orations on the topics,
Curiosity, Understanding,
Responsibility and Self-
Awareness as related to the
theme, The Effec.ts of
Eric Flickinger, the evening’s top award win­ner,
receives the Dr. Joseph Grosh Scholarship.
Flickinger won four awards at Monday night’s
commencement exercises.
Education.
Angela Forry called cur­iosity
“the impetus of educa­tion.
Once one has stopped
being curious, he has
stopped living,” she added.
Phillip Marks warned that
understanding is not found
in accumulation of the facts.
“Rather,” said Marks, “the
essence of understanding...is
to know and to believe.”
On the topic of responsi­bility,
Eric Flickinger
quoted John F. Kennedy,
saying, “we need a new gen­eration
of leadership to cope
with new challenges and
responsibilities...for there is
a new world out there to be
won.”
Self-awareness is found
in the pursuit of education,
commented Heidi Gardner.
“Education is not just prepa­ration
for life; education is
life itself,” she added.”
Principal Steven A. Iovi-no
then led the graduates on
a trip down memory lane,
commenting that in 1970,
when the majority of the gra­duates
were bom, the aver­age
automobile cost $2,500.
“Also that year, Richard M.
Nixon was president, an
attempt to quell an anti-war
demonstration at Kent State
took the lives of four stu­dents
and Sesame Street was
bom,” he told the graduates.
“Somehow, with the help
of Big Bird and Oscar the
Grouch, you made it to this
night.” lovino said.
Following his address to
the graduates and a brief
salute to the graduates’
parents and district faculty
members by Dr. John R.
Bonfield, lovino presented
awards to the class of 1988.
Eric R. Flickinger, son of
Mr. and Mrs. William Flick­inger,
17 Longenecker
Road, was the top award
recipient. Flickinger won
four awards: a Lititz Lions
Club Academic Award, $50
and a plaque given to an out­standing
social studies stu-
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Lititz Mutual marks
“Century of Caring”
Smiles and hugs marked the graduation of the
Warwick Class of ‘88. Timothy Whitmyer and an
en th u s ia s tic s u p p o rte r c e le b ra te a fte r
commencement.
by Becky Collins
Lititz Mutual Insurance
Company welcomes the
public to join in a once-in-a-lifetime
celebration as the
company, founded in Lititz
in 1888, marks its 100th
anniversary Saturday in
Lititz Springs Park.
According to Henry H.
Gibbel, president of Lititz
Mutual, over 1350 people
from all across the country
have responded to invita­tions
to share in the
celebration.
A huge picnic dinner
begining at 4:45 p.m. will
toast those who work within
the company. The climax of
the day comes at 7 p.m.,
when the company opens the
celebration to include the
entire community.
A two-hour program of
musical entertainment in the
newly-refurbished band-shell
area is planned to suit
the entire family, including
Henry H. Gibbel
an ice cream treat.
“We are thrilled about the
prospect of sharing this spe­cial
program with our Lititz
Mutual agents, policyhol­ders,
friends and especially
the Lititz community,” Gib­bel
said. “Lititz was our
birthplace. We could not be
more proud of a community
than we are of this pictur­esque
town.”
Added Gibbel, “There is
nowhere else we would
rather call home.”
Gibble heads committee
by Bonnie Szymanski
Special to the Record
Despite his youthful age
of 32, Lititz attorney Ste­phen
Gibble has been a force
to be reckoned with in the
Republican party for at least
a decade.
Ever since his days as
chairman of the Ford for
President campaign at Oral
Roberts University, through
his tenure as chairman of the
College Republican Nation­al
Committee, 1979-81,
Gibble has rarely seen a
week when he wasn’t work­ing
to foster the cause of the
GOP.
This week, Gibble was
appointed to the chairman­ship
of a transition team
formed recently by county
Republican Party chairman
H. Byron Showers to study
and consolidate the party’s
future direction in the light
of its past.
According to Gibble, the
13 local residents who will
serve as members of the
team have been chosen for
their past Republican activi­ties
as well as for the special
talents and knowledge they
bring to the project.
Gibble notes that Showers
is seeking to form an “idea
pool” made up of people
with a wide range of ideas
about the direction of Repu­blicanism
locally.
“Sometimes we Republi­cans
-- when someone
leaves office — we write
them off,” he explains,
almost apologetically. But,
adds the attorney, the Show­ers
administration realizes
that these people are “a won­derful
resource group.”
As a result, the transition
team will be consulting
some of the grand old mem­bers
of the county’s Grand
Old Party for some pointers
on interpreting and putting
into practice the Republican
philosophy.
In addition, says Gibble,
the team also will be forming
an “education arm” to train
new Republican committee
people and provide continu­ing
education for existing
committee people. Training
will consist of new tech­niques
in “electioneering,”
he explained, and will help
party workers “portray the
Republican message...in a
dynamic way, as opposed to
being unprepared,” he
asserted.
Gibble acknowledges that
because the Republican Par­ty
is the party of choice
among the majorty of Lan­caster
countians, it is easy
for party workers to become
complacent. But, he stresses,
“no one’s support is taken
for granted,” and notes that it
is always necessary “to
maintain the good will of the
people.”
Famous for his positive
attitude even in the face of
disappointment, Gibble sees
George Bush’s recent dip in
voter polls as a challenge to
Republicans to work harder
and pass along a clear party
message. And this can be
best accomplished paying
attention to the “bread and
butter issues,” says Gibble,
the kind that “hit people
hard,” such as local taxes,
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Knox Box:
new solution to old problem
Stephen Gibble
new ordinances and regula­tions,
he says.
Finally, there will be a
renewed effort on the part of
team members and the party
as a whole to identify people
with leadership potential,
says Gibble, referring to his
own long-ago selection by
former county party head
George Morgan who “got
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by Linda A. Harris
A fire siren pierces the
night air and minutes later
equipment and firefighters
are on the way.
It’s a scene played out
time and again. In 1987,
L ititz F ire Company
responded to 198 calls, 55 of
them involved fires. Another
12 calls were responses to
false automatic fire alarms,
four others involved fire
alarms activated by smoke
or fire, and one fire alarm
was activated by a broken
water pipe.
Most the automatic
alarms involved businesses,
industries and nursing
homes. Until recently fire­fig
h te rs a r rriv in g in
response to an automatic
alarm were faced with deci­sions
they preferred not to
have to make.
Options Available
If no one was available to
New officer sworn-in
by Linda A. Harris
Delene Rollman, 28,
Lititz, was sworn in as a
member of the Warwick
Township Police Depart­ment
during the June 8 meet­ing
of the township supervi­sors.
District Justice James
Garrett officiated at the
ceremony.
Delene Rollman, center, is sworn-in as a mem­bers
of Warwick Township Police Department by
District Justice James Garrett. Holding the Bible
is Rollman’s mother. Photo by Warwick Town­ship
P.D. Officer Gary Hutchinson.
A 1978 graduate of Con­estoga
Valley High School,
Rollman was hired by the
department May 11. She
began the 480-hour Act 120
required of all municipal
police officers at Harrisburg
Area Community College
May 31. She will officially
begin her duties with the
d ep a rtm en t fo llow in g
graduation.
Prior to accepting the
appointment to the township
police department, she
worked as a clerk/supervisor
at the office of District Jus­tice
James Garrett. She had
worked for various district
justices since her high
school graduation.
Rollman said in a recent
interview that she thought
after working with officers
through the district justice
offices that being a police
officer “seemed like an
interesting job” and decided
to apply when she heard
there was an opening at War-
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let them into a structure
where no smoke or fire was
visible from the outside,
should they assume the
worst? Should they use the
tools at their disposal to
break into the building caus­ing
damage and a security
problem for the owner?
Should they wait for some­one
with a key and risk hav­ing
a fire get more of a
headstart?
The only other option was
to ask each businessman,
nursing home administrator
and owner of other buildings
equipped with automatic
alarms to give keys to the
fire department.
That option had draw­backs
also. It placed the
department in a situation in
which it assumed some
responsibility for the build­ing’s
security because it had
a key. Someone had to be
designated to make sure the
proper key was on the first
arriving engine.
The owners, on the other
hand, had to make sure that
if they changed locks the fire
company received a new
one. It was a situation no one
liked.
New System
In November 1987, Yer-ger
Brothers became the first
of three local buildings
(Erb’s Mennonite Church
and United Zion Home are
the others) to install a new
system recommended by the
fire company.
Eight more systems are on
order for area businesses and
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Joe Texter shows the
relatively small size and
unobtrusive appear­ance
of the vault as he
opens it.
Lititz Borough Council
approved vaults for borough
hall, the borough garage, the
wastewater treatment plant
and the water treatment
plant at its June 14 meeting.
The Lititz Zoning Hearing
Board historical committee
has approved council’s
plans to install a recessed
vault on the side of the bor­ough
hall. The cost to the
borough will be approxi­mately
$500 for the four
buildings.
A number of other
businesses and Warwick
School District are consider­ing
such systems.
Known as the Knox Rapid
Entry System, it is a decep­tively
simple, yet virtually
indestructible and secure
method of making sure fire­fighters
have quick access to
buildings. It involves install­ing
a Knox-Vault on the
exterior of the building.
Security Emphasized
The vaults come in a vari­ety
of sizes and can be
recessed into the wall or
surface-mounted. Each is
secured by a UL-tested lock­ing
mechanism with hard­ened
steel pins to resist any
attempt to pick or drill the
lock open. The recom­mended
installation height
of 8-10 feet discourages
vandalism, yet it is easily
accessible to firefighters.
In addition, the vaults are
wired into existing or newly-installed
burglar alarm sys­tems
so that any attempt to
open them, including the use
of a key by an authorized fire
chief, brings police to the
scene.
Special Order
The system may only be
ordered using special forms
provided by the The Knox
Company to the fire com­pany.
The fire company, in
turn, provides them to inter­ested
businessmen and
others. The form is filled.out
by the interested party and
returned to the fire chief for
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Lititz Fire Chief Joe Texter opens the Knox vault
installed by Yergers Brothers as L-R Jeff Siegrist,
John Yerger and Fred Bear look on.
Council approves
rapid entry system
by Bonnie Szymanski
Special to the Record
Approval was granted
June 14 by Lititz Borough
Council, authorizing instal­lation
of Knox rapid entry
systems for fire emergencies
on four municipal buildings.
Buildings designated to
receive the vaults are bor­ough
hall, the public works
building, the water treatment
plant and the borough
garage.
On the verge of approving
an abandoned vehicle ordi­nance
for the borough, mem­bers
of Lititz Borough
Council voted down the
ordinance Tuesday night in
favor of readvertising the
same ordinance including a
clause giving residents 60
days from date of passage to
comply with the new
regulations.
Under the new ordinance,
no junked vehicles or vehi­cles
without current inspec­tion
will be permitted in the
borough unless they are kept
inside a garage or other
closed building.
Exceptions include repair
shops, junkyards and other
authorized businesses.
Park commission
Council is seeking resi­dents
who would be inter-
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I n s i d e
T o d a y ’s
R e c o r d
Young volunteers Utitz is “just Ducky”
Editorial
Sports
Classified
4
6,7,8
13,14,15
Out of the Past 21
Manheim
Social
Church
Business
22,23
24,25
26,27
29
Volunteers tradition­ally
come from all walks
of life - and in Lititz, they
come from a variety of
age groups. Find out
how a group of teen­agers
are making their
spare time count as
Volunteens and how
you can get involved
during the summer
months on page 30.
Lititz is just “ducky”
over its fine feathered
friends. Find out how
your neighbors have
pulled tog e th e r to
assist the local duck
population in Off The
Record on page 4 and
how schoolchildren are
witnessing the miracle
of creation with the aid
of ducks on page 16.
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Honors
and awards
Graduation is a time
fo r r ef l ect ion on
achievements of the
year past and this year
is no exception. Find
out who the top stu­dents
in each subject
area are, who received
designation as a War­wick
Scholar and which
students won acclaim
in the national art com­petition.
It’s all on page
17.
Canine
marathoner
Discover the daring
exploits of K.C. the
canine biker and her
owner, Barbara Beck­er,
as they they prepare
to ride in a 150-mile
marathon to benefit the
National Multiple Scler­osis
Society. Then find
out how the Society
has helped a local
attorney stricken with
the nerve-degerating
disease once again
take charge of his life.
Their story is on page
16.