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fo Gel Fund Still Needs $583 J. To Meet Camping Costs With oae wee* remaining before the summer camp With Inflation *•» Summit Herald'* 30th annual Fresh affecting camp cow, the minimum Serving Summit Since 1889 Air Camp Fund comes to an official *5,«W will lust abort meet expense*. cl^ an additional *»S is still needed It is fearedthat if tiw tS.OM to net to meet thte war's goal of »,<«». «7 A YEAR 15$ made, some of the children already VOL. W, NO. 9 THURSDAY, JUNE 26,1978 With new donations for fee week chosen to attend camp will be forced amounting to KB«, contribution* to to leave the program. this, years fund «s of Tuesday now Contribution* to the Freih Air Reports stand at H,W». At this time last Camp Fund should be forwarded to Advi»orv year when the fund was in its ninth the Summit Herald, 22 Bank Street. and final unset, gifts totalled W.915. Summit, New J«*ey tnm. Ctwdt A.donation from the Soroptimtat should be made payable to the aub of the Summit Area in. the "Summit Herald Fresh Air Fund." amount of $823.85 became this year'* The camp fund operates on a non- Roosevelt Closing Recommended largest donation. The Soroptimist profit basis and makes *o Club, a women's service organization, solicitations nor conducts any mail is an annual doner to the fund. appeal. There are no administrative The long-awaited report of 1978-79 school year, the schools came the suggestion schools are utilized at a the seven elementary • Another large donation came from expenses and all money received goM the Board of Education's changeover In the secon- that the existing Board of -positive influence" In4he schools ancillary programs the Summit Area Chapter, Amerlcen directly U> paying camping expenses. Community Advisory. dary schools is recom- Education office building be neighborhoods, preferably Included in the Junior High Committee last night Schoel curriculum ami Red Cross which contributed 800 Facilities used are generally Boy mended for "no sooner than sold and that the Board and for educational or com- unanimously recommended including foreign languages, from its Barbara B Barber and C. and Girl Scout and YWCA and YMCA the ?981-82 school year." school administration ma n i t y service. the dosing of Roosevelt woodworking, cooking. Dale Whitesell Youth Memorial Fund. camps located m the region. Other to the split vote regarding functions be consolidated Dpecifically, the recom- school And by a vote of 10 to mechanical drawing, art, Both Mrs. Barber and Mr. Whiteselt camps operated by charitable Wilson-end Washington into either Wilson *or mendation was made that ?, voted to close Wilson, music, Science labs, in- were active Red Cross workers at the organizations are also used. Day schools, the committee Koosevelt school beginning school recreational facilities instead of Washington - terscholastic athletics.' time of their deaths. camping is also included In the concluded that th* In- with the 1«TW» school year. be used for community school. drama and after-school program. -""• - - centives to close Wilson In addition, at the same recreational activities. There was also a *50 check from "A The Board of Education, clubs. Those who receive two week outweighed those to close time other- existing As part of the decision Grateful Family," another in the however, will make the fujat Washington. educational and-or com- making process, the com- Along the same lines, the amount of $35 from Mr. and Mrs. John vacations are usually boys and girls decision regarding the committee noted that there who otherwise would remain in the Specifically, the com- munity services would be mittee advised that the C, Vjfelcott and another donation, committee's recommen- mittee found that there is consolidated Into the school • possible closing of the would be "significant ex ' given anonymously, in the sum of 525 city during the summer because of dations. When that will be, Is penditures" required to family financial difficulties. Others "limited flexibility" at building not used for board Junior High School was It is estimated that a minimum of unknown at this time. Wilson because of the small and school administration carefully evaluated. make the seven elementary $5,000 will be needed this year to send who are chosen come from broken or The report foUowed by six schools adequate for foster homes'. •; number of classrooms and offices However, the committee the 98 needy local boys and girls to days recommendations of Owt Wilton would still be a • In the matter of trans- concluded that closing of the seventhly eighth grade the Lay Committee of small school even if some ferring children, the Junior High would,be, a children including physical Education, which also Washington students were committee report recom- "decidedly negative step". separation from primary suggested dosing Wilson transferred in. mended that Roosevelt On the negative side 'aged children and sup- and Washington schools and On Ihe other hand, the children be retUstrtelfed into would be the educational plementing the physical revamping 'the school committee concluded that Braytoo and Jefferson and disadvantages of having education facilities. organisational set-up. the primary reasons, to dose that Wilson school children four elementary schools still Finally, the committee Also included In the Washington would? tw the be consolidated into remaining with only one noted that closing the Junior Advisory Committee ' naturtof the building, itself, Washington. section per grade. High School would postpone recommendations is the which was termed "older" Children from the new In addition, the committee for two or more years ultimate changeova-of the and "leas attractive." In Weaver street hooting pointed to "the dramatic 'social contact with Junior High-School to a addition, the committee project would be toned into difference in maturity levels children from other parts of middle school to»thoute found that the location of Washington in the event the between seventh and eighth Summit". gradessix through eight and Washington school "is more new housing is occupied graders" in contrast with In arriving at the of the High School to house conducive te finding before Wilson school is children In grades kin- . recommendation that grades nine through U. alternate use; for the closed. dergarten through six. Roosevelt and* Wilson While both of the The committee cautioned The committee also schools be doled, the elementary school ckstajps With the recommendation that special care should be commented on the **im- are recommended for the to dose the two elementary taXen so that the two dosed praeticality" of offering in _ Tier Parking Protwto Mount Residents Rap Proposed Location RyL:acyM*y«r. Joseph Barnard, Lincoln pense of the residential would hurt aesthetics, would *ehoo?PTO president, said area. Some suggested the lessen real estate values." Resident* for and against his orgauteation was op- Cultts and Lewis site rather He questioned safety in an tier-parking on Woodland posed To any plan which than Woodland and underground garage and Deforest avenues tacrtoedtrafacuitheareo DeForeat. pointing out someone waa crowded into Common "A traffic Study of Donald Stubba, Woodland Injure? aw* landed in Council's chambers Tuesday night, standing ttW" along the watts ostU 11.15. Lincoln school children .dation .that Roosevelt street. ' p.m. should he considered before \schaol be dosed and those Property value* would In spite of Ilia oppceltisn, anydecUtonlsmadeonthe children cent to Lincoln go down; if the downtown however. Common Council parting garageThe said. This would mean a large area weren't made more Introduced an ordinance Councilman Gerald Hale group crossing the heavily- accessible, according to which would provide quoted figures which traveled areas and he William Stockwell. a ttoo.ooo for initial con- showed there would be little suggested the traffic study merchant and a resident structions fees such as change In the present be expanded from ihe center "We mustpush forward now architect and specification traffic. of town, out from Woodland or we wUHose another year. RENAMED — Mrs. Gladys casts. A public hearing on Parents at Lincoln school avenue. Toe Short Hills Mall will P, Swansea ot Valley "View the measure is scheduled for presented a petition with 1M "We are not fighting probably be completed a avenae has been reap- Tuesday, July IS at 8:30 signatures asking Common whether there should be a little before our parking pointed a member of the p.m. in City Hall. It is ex- Council to study the traffic garage, but let's look at garage. Bat if we act now, board of traslees of the Glen pected another overflow impact in the area. other alternatives." said Summit will be in a position Gardner Center for crowd will be on hand to Other residents said the Richard Nelson, Woodland to compete with this threat (Wiatrlcs for a term of debate the Issue pro and dry may need a parking avenue. "A garage at three years beginning July I con. garage but not at the ex- Woodland and Deforest bv Gov. Byrael Mrs. Swansea, a former efcalr- mkn for six years of the Uation County Welfare Bokrd. Is atso a director at Teachers Approve Wage Contracts 129-99 large, Eastern Regional FROM A GRATEFUL CITY - Rev. John S. MeGdvera. a former associate pwWr at si. Council on Welfare Fraud. A Teresa's Church, who has been assigned to Mother Seta. RrgJwsJ Utah School. <1srk. three-year cycle with a MOO Also, some of the criteria graduate of ikt University accepts from Mayer Frank H. Lehr. a plaque thanking Mm lor "his year* of pubUc ser- t» Lacy Meyer to teach, to do well." Summit teachers voted Miss Baldwin, president award to all eligible have been strengthened by tjr Maryland, Mrs.

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