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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 28 Fages-No. 9
On June 13 at Grosh Field
c h o s e n f o r g r a d u a t i o n
Heidi Gardner Angela Forry
Four student speakers w i! I
highlight the 32nd annual
Warwick High School com­mencement
exercises on
June 13 at 6:30 p.m. on
Grosh Field.
Chosen as Speakers are
Angela Forry, Eric Flickin-ger,
Philip Marks and Heidi
Gardner. They will speak on
the topics, Curiosity,
Understanding, Responsi­bility
and Self-Awareness as
related to the theme The
Effects of Education.
The class of 1988 will
march onto the field to the
tune of Pomp and Circum­stance
played by the War­wick
High School band.
Included in the ceremo­nies
are a vocal presentation
by the Warwick Concert
Choir, presentation of the
class by Dr. John Bonfield,
superintendent of schools,
and a farewell presentation
by Randy Butson, president
of the class of 1988.
Diplomas will be pre­sented
by members of the
Warwick School Board of
Directors and the invocation
and benediction will be
given by the Rev. Roger
Knisely, pastor of ihe Lititz
Moravian Church.
Baccalaureate
Baccalaureate services
will be held on Sunday, June
12, in the Warwick High
School auditorium at 7 p.m.
The Rev. Douglas Winne,
pastor of the Lancaster
Evangelical Free Church,
will present the invocation
and benediction. The ser­mon
will be given by the
Rev. Keith Tyson, pastor of
the Speedwell Heights Bre­thren
in Christ Church.
The Warwick High
School Concert Choir, under
the direction of Debra Kline,
will perform several selec­tions,
accompanied by Jon
Peters, a junior, and Julie
Risser, a sophomore, at the
piano.
Graduation speakers
The first graduation
speaker, Angela Forry,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
David Forry, 103 Mayfield
Drive, will talk on Curiosity.
During Miss Forty's high
school career she was
involved in track, varsity
cheerleading, field hockey,
intramural volleyball, fresh­man
and junior class activi­ties
council, and yearbook
club. She is a member of the
Varsity Club and the Nation­al
Honor Society.
Miss Forry was the 1987
homecoming queen and the
1988 prom queen. She has
been chosen for the 1988
Queen of Candles court.
Last summer she attended
a program, “Women in
Engineering and Manage­ment”
at Stevens Institute of
Technology.
Miss Forry has been
awarded University of Pitts­burgh
merit and honors
engineering scholarships.
She will be attending the
University of Pittsburgh to
major in engineering.
Eric Flickinger, the sec­ond
student speaker, will
discuss Responsibility.
The son of Mr. and Mrs.
William Flickinger, 17
Longenecker Road, he has
been active in athletics and
student government during
high school.
He was co-captain of the
varsity soccer and varsity
basketball teams and served
as president of the Varsity
Club during his senior year.
Flickinger was freshman
class vice president and a
member of the sophomore
and junior class activities
council. He is a member of
the National Honor Society.
Flickinger will attend the
University of Richmond to
major in business and
economics.
The third student speaker
will be Philip Marks, son of
Mr. and Mrs. H. David
Marks, 122 Church Road.
He w i l l s p e a k on
Understanding.
During high school Marks
participated in football and
the National Honor Society.
He was the high school rep­resentative
to the recreation
center board.
Marks plans to attend
Worcester Polytechnic Insti-tu
t e a n d m a jo r in
engineering.
The fourth speaker, Heidi
Gardner, is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. G. William
Gardner, 100 Brusen Road.
She will speak on Self-
Awareness.
During her high school
career her extracurricular
and community activities
included music, drama,
Model U.N. Club, student
government, leadership
seminars, March of Dimes,
Contact and the National
Honor Society.
She won an honorable
mention in the 1987 Lancas­ter
Science and Engineering
Budget
meeting
The , 1988-89 War­wick
School district
budget will be presented
at a public meeting on
Tuesday, June 7, at 7:30
p.m. at the middle
school.
Persons in attendance
at this meeting will have
the opportunity to make
comments, suggestions,
and/or ask questions
regarding the budget.
Fair for testing water from a
Susquehanna River tributary
in the Brownstown area.
Miss Gardner was one of
500 students in the Presiden­tial
Classroom program held
in Washington, D.C., in
February where she inter­acted
with politicians, gov­ernment
officials and special
interest groups.
She plans to attend the
University of Pennsylvania
and major in law and inter­national
relations.
Class of 1988
The candidates for gradu­ation
from the class of 1988
are:
David S. Allwein, Tracey Virginia
Allwein, April Janeane Amand, Gre­gory
L. Amand, Kristi Lynn Anne, Eric
T. Arcudi, Eric T. Asdienbach, Vicki
Marie Asper, Michael D. Attick, and
Sara Katherine Bair.
James A. Barninger, Scott Matth­ew
Bauer, Jennifer Marie Bear, Philip
C. Beiter, James D. Bensinger, Mark
P. Berry, Carol Lynette Bollinger,
Ronald T. Bouder, Jr., Gregg Lynn
Bowman, and J. J. Bradley.
James Eric Brenner, Darin Neal
Brinkman, Andrew David Brubaker,
Doreen Lynn Brubaker, Peter Lynn
Brubaker, Shelly J. Brubaker, Dawn
M. Buchter, Bruce Burkhart, Randy J.
Butson, and Gretchen Joy Byler.
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Twp. police charge two
following fight, stabbing
An argument in Warwick
Township May 26 turned
Nolent, resulting in one man
eing stabbed and another
being severely beaten, and
both being charged by War­wick
Township police May
31.
Officer Ed Tobin charged
Donald Hess, 20,' of 1265
Sun Valley Road, Stevens,
with aggravated assault and
recklessly endangering
another person, and Gregory
Lee Shreiner, 22, of 905 E.
King St., Lancaster, with
simple assault, as a result of
a fight which occurred May
26 at 11:30p.m. at a party at
222 W. Newport Road.
Tobin said that Shreiner
was visiting his cousin,
Dean Bomberger, when
Hess and another man began
arguing in the kitchen and
Shreiner attempted to
intervene. The three went
outside where Hess is
alleged to have stabbed
Shreiner in the side and but­tocks
with a hunting knife.
Shreiner is alleged to have
hit Hess about the face with
his fists, causing serious
facial injuries.
Shreiner was transported
to Ephrata Community Hos­pital
where he was under
treatment for three days.
Hess was later treated at the
same hospital.
Officer Bill Fasnacht
received the initial report
from an emergency room
nurse at the hospital May 27
at 12:18 a.m. He notified
Tobin, who pursued the
investigation and filed the
charges.
BURGLARY/THEFT
DISSTON VIEW DR.:
John Gilbert Jr., 845 Disston
View Drive, notified Officer
A1 Olsen May 30 at 4:05
p.m. of a burglary/theft at his
home. He reported food
items were taken from a
freezer and a half-keg of
beer removed from the resi-
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Task force slates tour
of low income housing
by Linda A. Harris
Homelessness. It’s a con­cept
most equate with large
cities, with people who have
no families, with those who
have mental or drug
problems.
But, stereotypes are not
always accurate. Families in
the process of separation and
divorce, families whose
breadwinner has lost a job,
those with large medical
bills, and the elderly are just
a, few of those who find
themselves in need of either
efnergency shelter or low
income housing.
People with housing
needs exist in Lancaster
ounty, and in Lititz, as
well.
Patti Anonia, Rothsville,
who works for Tabor Com­munity
Services, notes that
“The homeless of Lancaster
are not on the street, they are
crowded into emergency
shelters desperately seeking
affordable rental units.
Waiting lists for such units
are one to five years long.”
In order to personalize the
need for more low income
and safe emergency housing
facilities, members of the
Low Income Housing Task
Force of HomeLink will
sponsor a No Room At The
inn tour of low income hous -
ing and emergency shelters
June 5 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
The tour is designed to
demonstrate housing needs
in Lancaster County and to
highlight present initiatives
in this area.
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Traditional ceremonies mark
local Memorial Day activities
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Memorial Day in Lititz is a family affair. Many families, like the Yoder family
above, from left, Elise, Sharon, ! ¡annali, Linda, Jackson (standing), Barnaby
and Jack, lined Main Street in s if: t" to view one of several local parades.
Scouts like Brianne Pieffer and Elena Weiss, lower left, brought flowers to
decorate thè graves in the Moravian Cemetery. Other children, like Joey Bren-ner,
3, lower right, got into the spirit of the day by carrying a kid-sized flag.
Alcoholics Anonymous
provides support
for recovering alcoholics
by Becky Collins
Editor’s Note: The follow­ing
article was written with
the cooperation o f four
members o f Alcoholics
Anonymous. Because o f
A A ’s basic precept o f
anonymity and in order to
protect the privacy o f those
involved, we have usedficti-tious
names.
Jane, Max, Greg and
Kevin are great friends.
They get together at least
once a week to rehash old
times and to reinforce each
other’s new lease on life.
They laugh aloud at jokes,
cry over the mistakes
they’ve made in their lives
and provide for each other
the crucial support needed to
face another day as sober
human beings.
They’re alcoholics.
They know how danger­ously
slim their chances of
remaining sober are. They
never assume that they’ll be
sober for another year Or
another month - or even
another day.
“Today is the most impor­tant
day in anybody’s life,”
Max said with a grin. “And if
I stay sober until July 14, I’ll
have been sober for four
years.”
Jane
Jane started drinking
when she was ¿8. She recalls
that at that time she really
didn’t like the taste of liquor.
“But I liked the effect,” she
said. “It made me something
special.”
An executive secretary
and a wife and mother, Jane
thought she was just being
sociable, even when she’d
had too much to drink.
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“We don’t have a secret handshake, we don’t
have membership cards and we don’t use last
names,” a member of the local chapter of Alco­holics
Anonymous said. Instead, members
spend their time reinforcing each others’ resolve
not to drink.
Then, “at some point,”
she recalls, “I crossed an
invisible line.”
Alcohol was no longer
something she drank for fun.
It ruled her life.
“You don’t know when
your body starts craving
alcohol. You think you’re
functioning and that nobody
knows how much you’re
drinking,” she said.
“I got to where I couldn’t
hold a position anymore. I
resigned from my job
because I knew they’d ask
me to leave.”
During the next two years,
Jane fell into the abyss of
alcoholism.
“I didn’t know if it was
day or night,” she recalled.
“I never left the house and
kept the drapes closed. I
wouldn’t answer the door,
and I was drinking around
the clock.”
Her paranoia led to
thoughts of “ending it all.”
“I thought I had nothing to
live for. I thought I was
crazy,” Jane said.
Fed up with her paranoia
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I n s i d e
Today's
R e c o rd
Business 27
Church 22,23
Classified 13,14,15
Editorial 4
Manheim 24,25
Out of the Past 26
Social 9,10,11
Sports section 6,7,8
Linden Hall graduation
Graduation at Lin­den
Hali always has an
international flair, and
this year was no diffe­rent.
The 35 young
women who graduated
Friday came from nine
states and Puerto Rico,
Mexico, Saudi Arabia,
Colombia and Italy.
Read about these
young women and the
senior awards on page
26.
ABWA scholarship winners
The Lititz Charter
Chapter of the Ameri-c
a n B u s i n e s s
Women’s Association
has awarded more
than $19.500 in scho­larships
in the past 10
years. This year four
young wmnen, ndud-mg
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F ar.i Lmi.'"! . mild
receive* I /’ R . *■* h<>
larships ‘L *■ * i’nr
11.
Insurance Person of the Year
Henry Gibbel, presi­dent
and chief execu­tive
officer of Lititz
Mutual Insurance
Company was recently
named “Insurance Per­son
of the Year” by the
Professional Insurance
Agents Association of
Pennsylvania, Mary­land
and Delaware.
Read this and other
business stories in the
Business Update sec­tion,
page 27. Henry H. Gibbel
In the news
•Old Zion undergo­ing
facelift, page 22.
•The Rev. Clarence
Ulrich leaving Brunner-ville
United Methodist
Church; the Rev. Erwin
Boettcher named to
succeed him, page 23.
•Warwick baseball
team finishes second in
section race, page 6.
•Bertha Evans hon­ored
by realtors, page
4.