Zip Code Your Want Ad Is Easy To Place- Just Phone 686^7700 An Official Newspaper For The Borough Of Mountainside MOUNTAINSIDE, N.J., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1968 PuUiilhtd rjgch Thursday L,"T,um r Pul Inhiny I mh Lic-ripfisn Rgfi 2 N«w Frsyjdines Read, Mnuniaimidi, N J 07052 15 Cent! Per Copy USING TWO SENSES—Patricia Harmlgan combines book and record for a perfect example PATHWAY TO KNOWLEDGE—Allan Zelteliach digs for a card with a study problem for MATTER OF DEGREES-—Blair Smith looks well on the way to a PhJ3, as he works on an of audio-visual learning techniques in Mrs, Aletta Bark's fifth grade classroom at him to solve In Mrs, Aletta Bark's Mountainside classroom, as part of her project for Independent research project at Mountalnside's Echobrook School, financed by a state Mountainside's Eehobrook School, which she was awarded a state grant. grant to his teacher, Mrs, Aletta Bork. Jersey ^mini-grant' aids An anti-Santa letter teacher's maxi-'mgenuity No growth to go A request by Mrs, Aletta Bork for a state arohaelogy to set off an area in her class- Girl doesn't want to believe "minigrant" W do something original with room "with unbleached muslin' curtains, just 'the youngsters in her Mountainside classroom like those used to protect ttie site of a regular Serious doubt was cast on the integrity lucky enough to live in a community where sn-uek the right note with educational of- archaelogical dig. Besides stimulating of Santa Glaus in a litter directed to the children don't really need Santa Claus, for local schools ficials in Trenton — and no one should be interest, the curtains give a child a place to North Pole by a Mountainside youngster, Parents in Mountainside can usually pro- surprised, go and work independently and quietly, away a copy of which was passed on the Echo, Vide everything their children need, at Her husband, Caslmlr Bark, is supervisor a-om the rest of the class, The letter, written by 12-year-old An- least where toys are concerned, BY JACK PFANNE second and third grade pupils to begin im- of music In the Roselle school system and "If a child finishes his regular work, he is drea, was mailed in another town, School enrollment has reached its peak mediately after the Christmas break. "The world, as you will learn, is not Proposed by school superintendent Dr. Levin director of the Union County Summer Music free to go to a 'money box* and choose a card She wrote: aU Uke Mountainside, There is no Santa in Mountainside and will hover in the area of School, with questions to answer or with suggestions "1 hope I'm not taking your time away, Claus for many children who cannot even 1,300 students, according to the results of a 10- B. Hanigan, the project will enlist a full- Mrs, Bork, a fifth grade teacher at Moun- of study projects he can handle. I expect to I just want to tell you that you're a dream of having the kind of comfort and year projection made public atTuesdgy night's time teacher, Mrs. Bonnie Brooks, at a cost tainslde's Eehobrook School, was one of 37 prepare 500 to 1,000 cards and to coordinate big fat PHONY!!! security you take for granted in a town Board of Education meeting at the Deerfield of $825, minigrant recipients whose names were an- these with Hie audio-visual materials we al- "All that time writing letters to you, like Mountainside, School, The program, Dr, Hanigan said, would be nounced last week by the State Board of Edu- ready have or can obtain through these funds, telling you the toys 1 want, but I never The survey was completed by the long range conducted during time currently allotted to cation. The grants ranged from |900 to $1,000, got those toys, "Perhaps some day your parents, and planning committee under the direction of half - hour recess periods. Although children , "We will use books, film strips, alone or your generation when you are able, wUl She will UB« her f 1,000 to conduct a "class- combined witii records! cominerical tape re- "Plus those postmen! The nerve of them Walter Rupp, chairman, Rupp has been doing will be asked to bring or wear loose-fitting giving me a postcard which came from have the determination to make Santa the surveys every two years since 1952. clothing, Dr, Hanigan said, no uniforms will be room areha*logieal dig for knowledge." Mrs. cordinp, slides — every kind of audio-visual Claus a reality for millions of children Bork said that the students "wUl be digging equipment the child can manage on his own.*1 them, telling me I'll gerthem, and 1 The projection means that the recently required. .don't like a phony postcard, * to *,hum the spirit of peace on eirth opened addition to the Deerfield School may The pilot wUl be a "two — pronged pro- into aU ^pes of source material for infor- The teacher's own interest as an amateur to mm of good will would be a bitter mation to pursue their Individual interests in arehaelogist is one of long standing, and she "I'm 12 years of age, and mother be the last major school consttuction project gram," Dr. Hanigan said. The first part wiU gives me better gifts." irony, if they have heard the phrase at in the borough, concenn-ate on bodily development, empha- topics of allkindi," feels ftat she can have the greatest impact on • • • aU. The 37 nuriigrants announced last week were tiam youngsters by utilising her own en- "We are now looking to improve the quality sizing posture and breathing. the first under a $100,000 program set up in thusiasms, This past summer, Mrs, Bork was THE FOLLOWED REPLY has been "All life, Andrea, Is an illusion — if you of our system now," Rupp said, "and future The second part Dr, Hanigan termed "crea- Trenton earlier this year. The purpose of the able to visit a "dig" in Delaware and examine received from an unidentified but authori- think you are being fooled. And Santa development, as far as consttuction goes, will tive rhythm," He said children would be given program is to give state support and incentive fossilized remains of Indians Biousands of tative North Pole spokesman; Claus will be real, to you and millions be limited to new rooms for special programs, the opportunity to develop their coordination. to "creative and Innovative classroom teach- years old, "No, Andrea, there is no Santa Glaus — of other children, only if the spirit of such as remedial reading," Balance bars and ropes will be some of the ers in order to better meet the educational Mrs. Bork is a graduate of Potsdam, N.Y., unless you want him to be real. You are giving to one another becomes a reality." Tracing school enrollment growth in Moun- apparams used in conjunction with music and needs of New Jersey students, to attract and State Teachers College and Newark State Col- tainside since 1940 when there were slightly vocal commands. hold high quality and qualified teaching per- less than 200 students, Rupp said the borough There is no physical education program at lege, She taught in Mountainside from 1950 turned the corner in 1960 when about 1,200 sonnel," to 195S and then returned in 1960, She has ^yiiiiiiiiirftiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiifitiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiriiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiifiiiJiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiriiillililiy present for first and second graders, with also taught in omtr communities. During K-8 students were registered; hit its peak in third graders meeting informally once a week. ';; • * * 1966 with 1,327, ind stands now at 1,289, Fourth and fifth grade students have gym ses- MpS, BORK had adapted her own interest in World War 2, Mrs. Bork was an Air Force social hostess at bases in Texas, At least unti 1978, Rupp said, and barring sions twice a week; sixth, seventh and eighth 1 PRQFILE-Kathleen Neubauer a major change in the borough's single- graders, four times a week, Dr. Hanigan said. She and her husband live in Westfield, They family dwelling ordinance, enrollment hive three children, Lt, Casimir Bork has Expressing hopes that the pilot would be con- Pert Kathy Neubauer Is putting some punch should be around 1,300 students "give or take tinued beyond its six weeks, Dr, Hanigan said just returiwd from Air Force duty in Thailand, In the-GhriBtian-eduaationHprofram of ttie Wendy is a sophomore at Wagner College, parents, members of the PTA and the Board Community Presbyterian Church, Rupp said the leveling off in enrollment of Education would be Invited to observe the Staten Island, and Aletta Ann is a ftird Beginning Jan, 12 In cooperation with Com- grader at the Washington School in Westfield, is because the "rapid growth in the borough sessions, munity's Christian education committee, ti» between 1940 and 1960 is now over.,,we're * 4 * 25-year-old director will inaugurate a Sunday just running out of land," IN OTHER AREAS of business, the board morning adult education program which will focus on such issues fts,drug addiction, Viet- * * * announced that negotiations with the Mountain- THE MOST VOLATILE period m the growth (Continued on page 3) Seek musical nam and the right of dissent, the use and of the school system, Rupp said, was between misuse of power, violence and problems m 1952 and 1960, when enrollment soared from education, 400 students to 1,300, That second weekend of the New Year will In other business, the board approved a six- Retarded children instruments for be especially gratifying for Miss Neubauer, week physical education pilot program for first.