Lititz Record Express

              THURSDAY, December 6, 2001
L i t i t z R e c o r d E x p r e s s
125TH YEAR 30 Pages - No. 33 LITITZ, PENNSYLVANIA Two sections 30 Cents
IN BRIEF
Post Office Hours Recruits prepare for wartime service
The Lititz Post Office has
extended hours available for
customers during the busy holi­day
season, will host a Cus­tomer
Appriciation Day this Fri­day.
The post office will be open for
business on Saturdays, Dec. 8,
15 and 22 from 8 a.m.-1 p.m.
The office will remain closed on
Sunday.
On Friday, Dec. 7 from 9 a.m.-3
p.m., the post office will host
Customer Appreciation Day,
providing refreshments, plus
“United We Stand” posters to
the first 100 customers.
INSIDE
Jewish families, including
the Gottlieb family of Lititz, pic­tured
here, will light the first
candle of the menora on Dec.
9. Find out more about Chanu­kah
and how it is celebrated on
Page 12.
Musings
Columnist Marian L. Shatto
recently returned from an en­lightening
conference on ho­mosexuality
and faith. Her mus­ings
on the matter can be
found on Page 12.
□ Business
Planning Ahead
Paul Brown, owner of Krea-dy’s
Country Store Museum,
has some great ideas for his
thriving business. See what he
has in store on Page 18.
Say Cheese!
Lititz’ newest business
owner is George Sayles, who
recently purchased Photogra­pher’s
Corner from the Myers
family. George is already mak­ing
some improvements, but
the Corner’s well known em­phasis
on customer service will
not change. Read more on
Page 19.
□ School
Learning Adventures
Warwick Middle School sci­ence
teacher Roy DeRemer re­cently
participated in a science
education workshop, courtesy
of a sponsorship by Pfizer. It
was just one of many educa­tional
adventures he has taken
to enhance the learning experi­ence
for his students. Page 6.
□ Also Inside
“Ornament” Author
Warwick graduate an author
Jull Althouse-Wood will sign
copies of her book “The Orna­ment”
this Saturday at the Lititz
Library. Her story is on Page
30.
Love Feast
What is the Moravian Love
Feast? Bub and Dorothy Good
will explore the tradition at a
program next Thursday, Dec.
13 at the Lititz Library. Page
17.
□ Sports
Strong Start
The Warwick girls basketball
team is off to a 2-0 start with
victories over Lower Dauphin
and Allentown-Dieruff this past
week. Page 21.
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Local high school recruiting numbers strong before and since September 11
KATHY RLANKENBILLER_________
Record Express S ta ff
LITITZ — Sixty years ago this week, the
Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, thrusting
America into center of a world at war. It
wasn’t long afterward that young men and
women volunteered their service to risk their
own lives to defend their country.
Two months ago this week, America expe­rienced
another attack againsts its citizens
on its own soil, and the peaceful life we so
often took for granted vanished. Our nation
wept and prayed; patriotic fervor swept
across the country. And once again, recruit­ing
stations were inundated with calls in­quiring
about the qualifications necessary to
enlist.
Did this attack have the same impact on
our country’s desire to defent its liberty as
that surprise attack on our Hawaiian territo­ry
did 60 years ago? The Lititz Record Ex­press
recently sat down with several new
local recruits — there are nine U.S. Army re­cruits
in the Warwick area who will begin
training shortly after they graduate next
June — to get their thoughts on what might
lie ahead.
Staff Sgt. Joseph Carruthers, a 12-year
veteran of the U.S. Army and recruiter for
the Warwick, Ephrata, Cocalico, Garden
Spot and Pickway Valley areas, is just one of
7,200 active and reserve recruiters in the
U.S. Army, helping daily to “provide the
strength” of our armed forces.
“The number of new recruits from War­wick
High School has increased this year,
even before the Sept. 11 attack,” Sgt. Car­ruthers
said. “Enlistment numbers nation­wide,
however, surprisingly have not in­creased
that dramatically. The kids have not
backed away — the parents have — and I
can understand that; I have two children
More RECRUITS on A-16
P h a s e t w o b e g i n s
a t L i n d e n H a l l
Arts complex should be done in 10 months
STEPHEN SEEBER_________
Record Express S ta ff
LITITZ — The new landscape
at Linden Hall is much more than
a new gym and fine arts center, it’s
insurance.
Attracting students is becoming
increasingly competitive for pri­vate
schools, and for a traditional
institution like Linden Hall, being
the oldest girls school in the nation
is no longer enough to guarantee
enrollment.
Fortunately, the Lititz school,
which has been operating since
1746, has enjoyed tremendous sup­port
from philanthropic organiza­tions
such as the James Frederick
Steinman Foundation and the
James Hale Steinman Foundation.
Representatives from both were on
hand for a milestone groundbreak­ing
ceremony at Linden Hall’s old
gym last Friday, Nov. 30, when the
renovation effort for a new Stein­man
Fine Arts Center was offi­cially
put in motion.
The complex will feature a the­ater
for performing arts, new class­rooms,
a photography department,
music practice rooms, a gallery for
the presentation of both student
and local art, and a handbell choir
area.
Ten months from now, the art
complex will join the recently com­pleted
Anne Brossman Sweigart
Sports and Fitness Center in defin­ing
Linden Hall’s entrance into the
21st Century.
“This is a very important part of
Linden Hall history,” Headmaster
Thomas Needham pointed out.
“We’re adding a very special place
to the campus.”
More LINDEN HALL on A-4
The Moravian Love Feast, shown here in a picture created
by Naomi Kauffman in Mrs. Kathy Young’s class at Lititz Ele­mentary,
is the fifth most significant event in Lititz.
Founding fir s t
4th graders say founding of Lititz
is town’s most significant event
RICHARD REITZ___________
Record Express Editor
LITITZ — Laying a solid foun­dation
is very important in the eyes
of the fourth graders in the War­wick
School District.
The Moravians certainly did that
when they settled here. So when
asked what event was the most im­portant
in the history of Lititz, the
top response by those students was the founding of the town by the
Moravians — from the journey they took with Count Nicholas von
Zinzendorf across the Atlantic Ocean, to their search for a new
home that ended with a gift of 491 acres from John George Kline in
1756 — land that became the foundation of the Lititz settlement.
But the second most popular response was an event many of the
students enjoy every year — the Fourth of July Celebration at Lititz
Springs Park — the oldest continuous celebration in America, hav­ing
been observed every year since 1818.
More LEARNING LITITZ on A-16
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Discovering our town through the eyes of ¥th Graders
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Wearing ifieir Celtic costumes for this weekend’s holiday concert are members of the Warwick
High School Production Company, which features (first row, left to right) Kate Barbato, AN Grafen-stine,
Nate Shockey, Brendan Walters, (second row, l-r) Julie Ludwig, Meghan Young, Allison Fund,
Brian Entz, Joey McGrath, Jared Bischoff, (third row, l-r) Alex Zerphy, Ahna Buckwalter, Laura
Jones, George Diabes, Ben Nissley, Derek Drum, (fourth row, l-r) Jessica Whitlock, Kelli Metzger, Jill
Newberry, Rick Delk, Keith Reifsnyder, Sergio Velarde, (fifth row, l-r) Sarah Hall, Adrienne Vigunas,
Meghan Carlton, Chris Maharg, Nate Winebarger, Brian Campbell, (sixth row, l-r) Nikole Kreiter,
Meredith Stone, Lauren Weit, Priscilla Parrett, Keely McGeehan, Brandy Jenkins, Phil Ludwig, Jared
Rinehimer, Scott Shuman, Dave Raiser, Zach Bailey, and Kyle Metzger.
A ‘Celtic Celebration’
WHS performers to
present two holiday
shows this weekend
LITITZ — This weekend, the
Warwick High School Music De­partment
is bringing the sounds of
the British Isles across the Atlantic
to celebrate a holiday season, Cel-tic-
style.
The first performance, on Satur­day,
Dec. 8, begins at 7:30 p.m.,
and the Sunday, Dec. 9 perform­ance
will begin at 3 p.m. Both
shows will be held in the Warwick
High School auditorium.
Under the direction of Ann Aid­ers,
the orchestra will perform four
beautiful pieces. “It’s Christmas
Time” will start off the instrumen­tal
selections, followed by the
string orchestra performing “A
Celtic Christmas.” The wonderful
sound of the handbells will high­light
“A Celtic Christmas Carol”
and the orchestra will finish re­sounding
with “The Lord of the
Dance.”
The Concert Choir, Production
Company, and Chamber singers,
led by Debra Kline-Smith, will fill
the air with the sounds of the sea­son.
Warwick’s entire Concert
Choir will follow the orchestra,
with “The Sound of Pipe and
Drum” and a beautiful Christmas
collage of music. The Production
Company and Chamber Singers
will present a series of spiritual
holiday songs like, “When Will
Messiah Come?” “Unto Us A Son
Is Given,” and “Hark the Herald
Angels Sing.”
More CELTIC on A-4
Making spirits bright
Lititz celebrates a Hometown Christmas wish for peace
TERRY LANE______________
Special to the Record
LITITZ — Rain threatened to
put a damper on a Hometown
Christmas last Friday. But by the
evening, the night was clear and
bright with a full moon and tem­peratures
in the 60s, as over 500
people gathered around the duck-filled
pond to sing Christmas car­ols
and get into the Christmas spir­it.
The annual Lititz Hometown
Christmas Celebration was held in
Lititz Springs Park on Friday,
Nov. 30, from 6:30-7:30 p.m., co­sponsored
by the Lititz Retailers
Association and the Lititz Springs
Park Board.
The shrubbery around the duck
pond was lit with small golden
lights which beautifully illuminat­ed
the area around the pond, and
the stone wall that surrounds the
pond was adorned with approxi--
mately sixty white candles set in
sand inside of white sacks, donated
by Stauffers of Kissel Hill.
The American flag waved in the
More HOMETOWN on A-9
Photo by Tara Liddell
On Saturday, Glatfelter’s Barber Shop provided horse and car­riage
rides for visitors to downtown Lititz for a Hometown Christ­mas.
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