Herald - Lantern - Dispatch 31 July '85

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Community College Study Group Named

By JOE ZELNIK COURT HOUSE - Each of the county's five freeholders has designated a college-educated person — one of them an educator — to the 15-member committee to study community college proposals. They will join two freeholders — one a lawyer, one a teacher — one mayor, and seven persons either in education or named by educationrelated associations. Although proposals from Atlantic Community College and Cumberland County College were received June 17, the comHaberman, Feise Wed In Avalon AVALON - Stacie L. Haberman. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Rothenberg of Burlington and Scott A. Feise. son of Mr. and Mrs. George* W. Feise Jr. of this borough were married April 13 by Father John C. Loveland at Maris Stella Roman Catholic Church of Avalon. Ginene Alicea, aunt of the bride, was matron of honor, and the attendants were Kelli Feise and Gail Adamczak. George W. Feise III, brother of the groom, was best man, and the ushers were Daniel Fox and Russell Evans. The reception was held at the Golden Inn, Avalon. The bride is a medical secretary for Dr. Nirmala Basavanand of Ocean City, and the groom is an Associate Realtor for Century 21, Stone Harbor Realty Co., in Avalon. The couple now resides in Avalon.

mittee isn't expected to meet and organize until at least next week. And freeholders have indicated they feel a branch campus can't start until the fall of 1987. FOLLOWING ARE the citizen designees of each freeholder. Freeholder-Director Gerald M. Thornton: Rev. Charles Rowe, 61, pastor of Wildwood Crest Community Church and parent of five children, four married, one a student at East Carolina University. Rev. Rowe has been a county resident for 15 years. He has a B.S. from American University in Washington, D.C. and BS and MA from Eastern Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. Freeholder Herbert Frederick, also a committee member and an industrial arts teacher at Wildwood High School: Wildwood High School Principal Ernest Harper, 41, who has six children, the oldest an Atlantic Community College student. Harper has a BA in Rrench from LaSalle College in Philadelphia plus other degrees in foreign language education and secondary school administration. Born in Mississippi, he has been a county resident since 1977 when he came to the city school system. He became vice principal in 1977 and principal in 1982. FREEHOLDER James S. Kilpatrick Jr., an attorney, a committee member and the freeholders' higher education liaison: Ruth Millward, 60, retired from a supervising position with Midlantic Bank in North Jersey. She is a graduate of the American Institute of Bankipg and has lived in the county for 10 years. She has one daughter, a college graduate. Millward is Republican committeewoman and assistant leader in Upper

MR. AND MRS. SCOTT FEISE

Township, where she was an unsuccessful candidate for Township Committee in 1983. She is chairman of the township zoning board and • a member of the county's I Health Advisory Board. Freeholder Ralph j Evans: Audrey Hardy, 57, ; of Stone Harbor, an interior t designer and co-owner, with her daughter. Amy, of i Olive Tree jewelry and home accessories in the borough. Haniy is a graduate of i Lake Erie College for | Women and Michigan State University. With her husband, Norman B., she was co-founder of the 84 Lumber Co. chain. Her daughter is a graduate of the University of Maryland, Wharton Business School and Delaware Law School. A county resident since 1970, Hardy lost a Republican Party primary race for borough council by 12 votes this spring. It was her first run for political office. FREEHOLDER William E. Sturm Jr.: Gene DeGenova, 47, one of the owners of the Bellevue Tavern in Court House. He has a BS in English from Mount St. Mary's in Emmitsburg, Md„ and taught English for 10 years in the Middle Township School District. He has five children, the oldest a sophomore at Rutgers, State University. He is a county native, born in Woodbine and reared in Court House. The freeholders left it up to several county organizations to select their own appointees. as follows: Administrators' Association, Wildwood Schools Supt. Arthur Motz; Association of PTAs, its president, Carol Bruno of Ocean City; School Board Association. Lower Township Elementary School Board member Diane Hevener; League of Municipalities. Avalon Mayor Rachel Sloan; and Education Association. Dr. William Lauer. head of the business department at Ocean City High School. The freeholders also named three county educators: County Schools Supt Robert G Bongart. Vo-Tech Schools Supt Wilbur J Kistler Jr., and Special Services School Supt. George Bailey Amico Hits School Tax VINELAND - At a recent meeting with members of the N.J. Educational Association. Peter Amico, Democratic candidate for the Assembly, said he believes qualified teachers should receive higher pay. but decried the state's dependence on property taxes to fund the schools. The program of property tax rebates should be expanded to eliminate property taxes as a source of revenue for the schools. Amico declared. He called for consideration of other tax sources containing more of an element of "fairness."

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. County May Buy CofC Site-

(From Page 1) terest, Thornton said he and his colleagues authorized Delventhal to begin acquisition talks during a closed meeting of the freeholders on May 23. THORNTON SAID chamber officials "approached us" about buying the building. But Millard recalled Friday that "Gerry (Thornton) called me one day and said, I understand you want to sell the building.'" That would have followed Millard's proposal earlier this year that Lower Township take over the facility so the chamber could divert mortgage payments maintenance and other building costs to fundraising projects like its fishing tournament. Reportedly unwilling to assume the liability, council never actedj on the chamber request. Millard said he told Thornton the chamber just wanted "to get rid of" the building, "and he (Thornton) said, 'Well. 1 think the county might be interested.'" Township tax assessor Sandra J. Sharpley said the land would be valued at $7,100 if it were taxed and the tax-exempt building would be valued at $41,600. but Millard said the chamber's willing to sell its headquarters for about $13,000. "The price that we asked was the outstanding amount on the mortgage and the promissory notes," he said With five years remaining on the mortgage, the chamber pays $159 monthly, and another $141 a month on the notes. Although the former bank building was donated to the chamber, it was "pretty

much raw" on arrival, Millard explained "And it was really a lot more" in costs than expected to convert, furnish, landscape, insure and maintain the structure, he said. THE CHAMBER FINANCED those costs with a loan and "promissory notes from members," he added. "The fund raising we were doing went into that building instead of into projects. "What it does for us." he said of the probable sale, "is. it takes the burden of the building away from us and still allows us to use the building." "Never happy" with the nutrition center at the airport, Thronton regards the chamber building as "a good location" for serving the more populated sections of the township. Villas and North Cape May. The county also operates a nutrition center, serving meals to senior citizens etc., farther north on Bayshore Road at the township's Joseph Millman Community Center " What we're going to do is expand the (Chamber) building. ..." Thornton added. "They want a lease and they're going to need a variance." observed Joseph Lonergan, a fiscally conservative Lower councilmen who said he's "concerned about the loss of a" tax ratable property The building would not go back on the tax rolls if the county buys it, he noted. "I don't know how I feel about the possibility of losing a ratable. "But it's sitting there doing nothing now." he added. "If they can use it to feed some people, that's better than nothing "

Stick to Women's Issue ?

( From Page l > that Tlay care facilities were lacking and children were suffering from social service funding cuts. Thornton said at the time that was "misleading." In June of 1984. the American Association of University Women (AAUW) published a child care facilities directory and Chojnacki. then its president, wrote to Thornton that there was "a compelling need" for more day care. THORNTON RESPONDED THAT day care was a "recognizable" problem, but too costly for the county to solve. He also pointed to a county program to train welfare recipients at the vo-tech school to be day-care providers, thus giving them jobs and day care service to others Thornton told the commission last week that that program "failed. It was a great program, conceptually, but we couldn't get enough incentive going. We wasted $25,000 with very little results." Devaney suggested that "information and referral" could be focused on "women willing to help women." Earlier in the meeting, commission member Rosabel Koss asked for a definition of "information and referral." That brought from commission member Eileen Rodan the suggestion that "it's probably not that we need more agencies, but we need more communications." j COMMISSION MEMBER Maria DiGiacomo pointed out that First Call for Help is a central information and referral agency well publicized by notices around the county. "I'm a pretty alert citizen," said Koss,

"but I've never seen that material." "Is First Call the first place to call0" asked commission member Lois White. "Just call Social Services." said Thornton. "They have an intake system." It was pointed out that First Call has a new directory of human and social services at the county printer due for distribution shortly CHOJNACKI SUGGESTED that the emergency housing need could justify a focus on a women's shelter. Devaney said she doubted there are enough women "for a shelter to be costeffective," and state regulations prohibit a shelter that would handle both women and adolescents. Five persons volunteered to serve on a committee "to think about where we ought to go from here; do we do our own needs assessment?" It includes Chojnacki. White, DiGiacomo. Corinne Robinson and Eileen Rodan The AAUW spearheaded the drive for a . commission, which was appointed by the freeholders June 11. The resolution establishing it says the purpose is "to develop and implement programs to increase the participation of women in both public and private life." Its meetings are open to the public and generally held the fourth Thursday at 7 p.m. in the county library meeting room. But, because of holidays and space problems, the commission last week set this schedule for the remainder of the year: Aug. 22, Sept. 26, an Oct. 24 dinner meeting, no meeting in November, and Dec. 5.