Old friends from Newark High School reunite/2 0 , ,_. m Project Angel Tree ..0 ...... t:::l ,_. [<;I ..... p~vides ·you\hs I \ft...., Steve Steinwedel excites happy holiday /15 .....a- :. Hen hoop fans/10 0 ~ Yule sp1nt• • lives t's out with the old and in with Newark youth the new as 1985 gives way to 1986. I The year gone by was an in­ donates doll teresting one for Newark, with its faces and places continuing to change. Although Lauren Brohawn The area lost some dear old friends and of Newark is just five years gained some new ones, and a construc­ old, she already seems to tion boom helped continue the constant know what Christmas is alteration of Newark's look. really all about. A number of local sports teams had ·Like many other children surprising seasons, some happily so and this year, Lauren wanted a some not so happily so. Cabbage Patch doll. And so And many issues which were raised in she asked for one from her 1985 will continue to be important to NEWARK'S YEAR IN REVIEW 'parents, Michael and Nancy Newarkers in 1986. Brohawn of Pheasant Run. A recounting of the year gone by, as Unbeknownst to Lauren, found in the pages of The NewArk Post, still continues, and Christina plans to ousted Evans from the presidency in her parents granted her follows. The recap begins in June, the reopen West Park Place as an elemen­ 1984. wish, purchasing one with a month the Post was reborn. tary school in 1986. The building has been tooth because mother Nancy run as a center for a variety of communi- is a dental hygienist. ty organizations by the Newark Depart- • Glasgow High In the meantime, J4ne ment of Parks and Recreation for the last m~king plans b'> however, Lauren had smoking court, • Th~ ~ewArk Post rQtur/ted to a n~ws several years. ·~ong ~~nant.s who were _, entered a drawing for a , 1- toL'it 'u't aft~ i five· ~ears .as a hopv .f:"The"' notlfled tb~ woult! ·t_I.twerto'fmd new · ~~g, ·, ( 0ibbage Patch doll spon- 1 15 • N warke~ new~paper, foundecj, iri 1910, was com- homes w~I e the Newark Day Nursery sored by her eye doctor, · ,... Liber Day cele Gerald Resnick of Furman r pletely redesigne1, ~d first hit area and the G1rls Club of Newark. Place enter. \ homes and newssfah~s June 5. and Resnick Optometric Associates. • In the world of sports, St. Mark's • In sports, the gpld High School won the state baseball title. As it turned out, Laur~n • The Christina School District under­ 12-7 before 8,000 fans in high went a changing of the guat d as Dr. won the drawing. When Dr. • Also, former University of Delaware school all-star football game to benefit Resnick called to tell her George V. Kirk retired after 18 years as Delaware's mentally retarded citizens. superintendent. "I feel good that so­ and Newark High School baseball star the good news, the Newa k meone is taking over while things are·go­ Steve Taylor, now a Republican state girl was somewhat subdued, representative serving the eastern por­ • More than 1,100 soccer players at least until she gave the ing smoothly," said Kirk, who'saw the representing 77 teams descended on old Newark Special School District tion of the Newark area, reported that telephone back to her the Eastern League was interested in Newark for the annual Kirkwood Soccer mother. "Then she started , through the worst of the desegragation Club invitational tournament. Among the problems and into a new incarnation as locating a franchise in the city. Acquisi­ screaming, 'I won! I participants was a team from West Ger­ won!' " Resnick said. Christina. In honor of the service provid­ tion of a local team was to hinge on the many. ed by Kirk, the Ogletown Middle School construction of a new stadium, possibly The doll, Tracy Sybil, 1' was renamed Kirk Middle School. on the site of the current university facili­ came complete with ty. • The Newark Babe Ruth League's 13- eyeglasses. Taking Kirk's place was Dr. Michael year-old all-star team won the state title. W. Walls, late of the Beloit, Wis. public On learning the news, school system. Walls, once a poor student Lauren's mother explained July • Newark native Frank Masely discuss­ that she had already pur­ who was turned on to education by a car­ ed plans to compete once more as a ing teacher, said, "I'm a great believer chased a doll. Lauren then • Members of the Newark Police member of the U.S. luge team in the decided that she didn't need in the power of teachers. I know · Department went public with their anger Winter Olympics. He is pointing towards teachers can change lives." both dolls and agreed to over stalled contract negotiations. Talks the 1988 Calgary Games. donate one of hers to a began in the fall of 1984 and police had • Walls took over a growing district, needy child, Resnick said. been working without a contract since August A restaurant near one of the few public systems in the state J(lnuary 1985. with an increasing student population. Resnick's Elkton, Md. office • Residents of downtown Newark were was conducting a toy drive The Christina school board learned m .. Longtime city resident Eth~l upset over rowdy behavior by youths who June from a report by a University of for needy children. One Tomhave died July 21, promptmg Mayor congregated on Main Street weekend child had specifically re­ Delaware researcher that it could expect William Redd to remark that "Newark nights. " We've abdicated and the rabble its enrollment to grow by 2,000 students quested a Cabbage Patch has lost a good friend." has taken over," charged Anne Munyan doll, so Lauren gave her doll in the next 10 years, with increases of 400 of Center Street. Youths later said they each of the next two years. Projected to that child. • Carole Ann Boyd of Fairfield was hang out along Main Street because it is " It's really the true growth had continuing implications reelected president of the Christina . a social gathering place. " Where else can throughout the year, as district officials Christmas spirit to see a school board, but not before weathermg a kid~ go nowadays?" asked one teenager. child age five understand attempted to find ways to accommodate heated attack by fellow board member the new students. Work on redistricting what Christmas is all George Evans of Wilmington. Boyd had See REVIEW/4 about," Resnick said. INDEX N ewarkers .. ........ 2 News .. ... .......... 3 Schools ............. 5 University ......... 6 Community ......... 7 Campus ............ 7 Opinion ............. 9 Sports .... ........ 10 Lifestyle .... ... .. 13 Entertainment ..... 14 Church ..... .... 15 Classified .......... 16 Dec. 30 1985 .: 2 Tlw 1\ J..\\ Ark l'u:-, 1 Friends from N ewark High School's Class of 1967 r eunite at Jimmy's Diner. '· ' . Homecoming \Newark natives reunited at Jimmy's floor, the same Formica tables a person to abandon dreams and to kill for political reasons," he and the same blinds. Everything's live on a day to day basis. said. by Bruce Johnson the same." But the morning that stretched " I really didn' t have any into evening was filled mostly AFTER NEARLY : The 1960s, the era of revolution, While high school students, the dreams,'' said Kauffman. " It was with happy memories of the hippies, Woodstock, and Vietnam friends - James Stewart, Pete just do what there was to do at the recklessness and antics of youth. has been romanticized in the White, Dale Coover, Steve Kauff­ moment. It was the Vietnam era Trips to the beach, the summer of 100YEARS, inovies. Most recently, the movie man, Dave Foraker, Ed Morris and things were changing very graduation and the nights spent on ~ ' The Big Chill" centered around and Ralph " Duck" Stewart - rapidly so I didn't have a lot of set Main Street watching the world go the dreams and aspirations of would gather at Jimmy's after a goals at the time. It was more of bv. WE KNOW OUR FIELD. ~even fl"iends who went to school night on the town to exchange an immediate thing. · Today, many people know about Kubota m i d · S I Z~ tractors. But ~ogether and were reunited years stories of their exploits. Eighteen few arc aware that Kubma's roots d ate back to 1890. All agreed that life as an adult Since then, Kubota has g rown to be one of the largest l:ater. years later, a little older, wiser " Everyone was -faced with the manufacturers of agric ultural cquipmcnl in the wo rld. · , · ·,. ' ·r · and grayer, the scene was possibility of going to the Vietnam was far superior than life as strug­ Kubota is now in its second d ecade of se ll ing di (.• scl· powcrcd • But realityJs often m.":\<ih u,Uike •,,replaye,d as the friends once again war where people were being kill­ gling adolescent striving for iden­ tractors in America. Wi th dealers coast to coast, Kubota has become the world of t.hefiter .. 1?.o 1~ was for •• e?tcha~ed stories of their lives ed left and right. So it was party tity and independence. a well-established name, synonynlous wi th economy, ..--------, ihe seven fnendS' fron;t Newark · 'during an era that is now being dependability and d urabilit y. hardy a nd live it up because you Some other manu fa c t u r e r ~ have onl y High School's• Class• of 1967 who studied on many college cam­ may not be coming back." recently entered the mid-size market, and gathered together at their old puses across the country.