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News Notes from ; Middle Township Alan Morris i

Kdmund B. Webb III received the unanimous endorsement of the New Jersey District of Key Club International for his candidacy for international trustee He had to present himself before three general sessions of the club's district convention and go before the House of Delegates prior to receiving the endowment. The convention was held at the Mount Airy Lodge in B the Poconos during the * weekend of April 19. Twenty-nine members from Middle Township were in attendance. Also in attendance were MTHS Key Club advisors Sam and Joan Brewer, Charles and Marion Cantz. and Harold and Robyn Cooper. Webb is currently the Key Club lieutenant governor for Division 1, a junior member of the Mayor's Advisory Council, and a honor student at Middle Township High School. He is the son of Kdmund and Patricia Webb of Court House. AS A SAl.l'TK to Middle Township's Fire and Rescue Squad Volunteers. Mayor Mike Voll declared the week of April 29 as Volunteers Week. The art classes at Elementary Schools l and :i are competing in a poster contest in conjunction with this event. The winners will each receive a United States Savings Bond,. to be awarded at the Ambulance Corps building's open house 2 p.m. Sunday

. Volunteers will distribute the "Vial of Life" containers at the Middle Township Ambulance Corp Building 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. ELEMENTARY School 1 third grade student Jennifer Schofleld has been selected as a state finalist in the Miss American PreTeen Pageant. Her selection was based on her grade average, awards she has received, and talent. Her hobbies are jazz dancing and gymnastics She is the daughter of Stephen and Ann Scholfield of Green Creek. Middle Township Middle School nurse Inge Laine is attempting to organize a support group for the county's approximately 20 juvenile diabetics and their families. Juvenile diabetes is a health problem that can be managed, but not cured The adjustments that families must make to combat this condition are numerous. Inge's goal is to have a social organizational get together for this group by June. If you know of any juvenile diabetics call Mrs. Laine at 465-9411. STUDENTS AT Elementary School 3 will be collecting pennies to contribute to the Statue of Liberty Restoration Fund during the week of May 6. During the same week students will be earning money to donate to this fund by doing

small chores around the house. This is the second year that Elementary 3 has participated in the "Penny A Patch" and "Hire A Kid Power" fund-raising projects These projects are being organized by the school's Statue of Liberty committee. The committee consists of teachers Jacqueline Stiles, Chris Gavula. Agnes Maroszek. and Michael Brown. Ann Sunhachawee. Monica Jackson, and Mike Mossbrooks are the student representatives on the committee. Henry J. Kobik is the school's principal. Audrey Spaulding's fifth grade class at Elementary 3 performed in the play, "The incredible Journey of Harriet Hamburger", in the school auditorium April 16 The play was actually a health lesson in which the children learned the function of many parts of the body through the digestion of a hamburger. The children made their own costumes consisting of the tongue, teeth, salivary glands, uvula, esophagus, stomach, pancreas, liver, duodenum, gallbladder, small and large intestines, and the villi. THE PLAY was such a success when performed before the student body of Elementary 3 that Spaulding's students were asked to perform the play for Elementary 1 the following day. Spaulding's students enjoyed this unique learning experience of creatively turning an ordinary health lesson into a teaching performance that was enjoyed by studenLs in kindergarten through fifth grade.

ANATOMICAL ACT — Some of principals in play, 'The Incredible Journey of Harriet Hamburger' presented by fifth graders at Elementary School 3, Middle Township, to illustrate health lesson, left to right, are: Holly Metz as Tiffany Tongue: Cheneen Daily as Greasy Gloria Gallbladder: Allsion Copson asjlarriet Hamburger, and Joseph Cohen as Mouie Liver. ^

Enid Pepper's evaluation of the educational system in American is that the American schools offer the students many more learning resources than the schools in England. Pepper was the foreign exchange teacher from the Wing Secondary School in England who spent one month in America along with 11 of her students who N were enrolled in the program. Pepper is a math teacher and also the deputy head (vice principal) of her school in England. Her duties also involve guidance counseling and many administrative functions in addition to teaching at least one math class in each grade of her secondary school She said that the host* families had been 'magnificently marvelous'' during the British studenLs' visit to America. She also enjoyed all the scenic trips that she took along with her students during her visit to America. Pepper stayed in the hom^ of MTHS English teachdr Wayne Jorgensen and Jifc wife, Diane, as their guest during her visit. They stayed in her home during the MTHS exchange studenLs' visit to England last autumn. Pepper and her /students departed for their native England April 75. THE CHILDREN'S Repertory Company of Dr.exel Hill, Pa., presented its children's show, "Bubbylonian Encounter", before the student body of Elementary 3 and about 40 adults from various organizations April 22. The play was also presented April 23 before the students at Elementary 1. The 50-minute presentation included a lively, sensitive and humorous play about good and bad touch. It was performed by professional adult actors. The Middle Township Police Department, with Capt Raymond Saunders, was instrumental in getting this group to perform at the local schools. Middle Township High School will begin its 17th year of offering summer

school classes July 2. The school will offer only makfeup courses in its monthlong program ending July 3l. v Both morning and evening courses will be offered to coincide with the students' work schedules. MTHS is the only high school in the county offering a summer school program Vice Principal Bob Penkethman is director of the high school summer program. The program is self-supporting, as all students excluding MTHS students must pay tuition. ABOUT 50 percent of the students enrolled in the program are from outside the school district. The program originated when Jack Fitzpatrick from the Stone Harbor Chamber of Commerce approached Penkethman about the school's holding classes in the summer - Area realtors were having a hard time renting summer homes and apartments because parents had no school in the county to send their children to during the summer Since the program was initiated by Penkethman. many students from outside the state have enrolled in it. It has also allowed their parents to spend their vacations at the shore and -has made the realtors happy by permitting them to rent their dwellings. The Middle School, also offers a summer school program for grades six, seven and eight. The school's vice principal, Russell Simon, is in charge of that program. RoBert Steck. district data processing coordinator of the kindergarten to 12th grade Computer Education Program recently conducted an inservice training program on the Apple II-e computer for all supplemental reading an9 math tutors in Elementary Schools 1 and 3. The training involved hands-on activities, software suggestions, and instructional expertise. These computer products were recently purchased with Federal Chapter 1 and State Compensatory Education funds. All reading and math lab

students in both schools will now be given computer-assisted instruction. All studnets enrolled in grades kindergarten through 12 were given the California Achievement Tests during the week of April 22. Tliis battery "of tests will provide Middle Township school administrators, teachers, and parents with vital evaluation, planning, and instructional information. Democratic incumbent Township Committeeman Charles L. Leusner filed nominating petitions containing 208 signatures Feb. 19. He is seeking reelection to another three-year term on township committee. Republican candidate Edward J. Rosenberg, Jr. filled nominating petitions containing 26 signatures V^April 1*1 . Both candidates will appare*r?Uy run unopposed in the primary election June 4. They will then oppose each other in the general election November 5. Nominating petitions for county committee have been filed by 24 Democrats and 17 Republicans. All candidates will be running unopposed in their respec- . tive elections. Middle Township Elementary School 3 will hold its annual spring concert in the school's auditorium May 7 at 7:30 p.m. Reenlists NORTH CAPE MAY - Senior Airman John E. Lonergan, son of Joseph W. and Anne Lonergan of 303 Suzanne Ave., has reenlisted in the U.S. Air Force after being selected for career status. Assigned at Carswell Air Force Base, Tx., Lonergan was approved for reenlistment by a board which con- • sidered character and performance. The airman is a base services specialist with the 7th I Bombardment Wing. He is a 1981 graduate of Wildwood Catholic High i School, North Wildwood. > •

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