School Board Has Woes by JANE MORROW Ster a Preview of the Program I Am Proud to Be Associated with Members Quit, Fund Used Up, Students Fail Yesterday
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The role or the board decided to request emer- high school freshmen for last of Education — in a manner of through the efforts of M r. his contract. gency appropriations from the intellectual ammunition for in any of the three upper grades 25 teachers now working on it year showed 51 students out of speaking — came apart at the Wooley that the adult education When the school budget was state Municipal Finance Com- use in the war of ideologies that "• nublic, private and parochial is to make the material teachable a class of 146 were not pro- seams last night. program was being inaugurated defeated in February, the board mission and the Borough Coun- moted to the 10th grade. While Is going on in the world they higj, schools. and oractlcal for schools. It will Three board members and in Union Beach, and his resigna- agreed to discontinue bus serv- cil. face, a recent Register survey being [ ot be the kind of hlgh-faluting $11 but about a dozen will bo n three- teachers tendered their tion would be a loss for bor- ice for students residing less ohould the requests be granted, showed. worked out is exciting and vital. thing nobody can use." conditional sophomores, mor« resignations. ough education in general. than 214 miles from Keyport the board wii! require an addi- than one-third of the class failed A committee of educators from At present 15 lectures of 55 In addition, the board an- James Robbins, a system High School. tional two bus routes in order to ir. either commercial arithmetic the nine Northeastern states Is minutes each by Dr. John S. nounced that it has no funds to teacher six years, resigned to However, it now faces the avoid discrimination among stu- oi algebra. now taking steps to help correct Gibson, chairman of the liberal meet its bus transportation com- accept a better contract in an- problem of having contracts for dents. A total of about 515,000 this situation where it exists. arts department of the Babson Paul J. Evans, administrative mittments; that J4 per cent of other school district, and Mrs. six bus routes and insufficient is needed. They are preparing a course, Institute. Wellesley, Mass., are principal, advised the board that its 1961-62 freshman class at Virginia LaForgia resigned to funds to meet the obligations. Mrs. Frances Lacey, chairman built around 15 televised lectures, being filmed in Boston. he had not been contacted on Keyport High School failed in move to North Carolina. George Emergency Fund oi the student relations commit- to give high school students a Lectures on TV this problem by high school of. commercial arithmetic or alge- Gall, who had signed a teaching After lengthy discussions itrials, and that he had been ad- long, level look at communism, These lectures, to be presented bra, and — to top it of* — the vised by the Keyport principal other totalitarian systems, and by local educational television board's secretary took an indefi- not to teach algebra in the democracy in contrast to these stations, or shown in classrooms nite leave of absence. Union Beach eighth grade. Doe oa Thanksgiving or. film, are the core of a course Six board1 members have re- that can be covered fn as little In commenting on the situa- This course will, it is planned, signed since the February school as six weeks, or, preferably, in tion, board member Camelio be available for use in New Jer- elections this year. an eptire term. Severinl suggested that the board gey and the eight other sponsor- Last night's resignations were consider seriously departmentali- A detailed teacher's manual ing states in the 1863-'64 school by Richard A. Shannon, Jr., a zation of the elementary school, is being written to accompany year. board member for 3H years; -T. Mrs. Lacey requested confer- Official announcement of the the televised lectures. This man- Russell Hicks, elected in Feb- ual will present a course of study ences between board members new course will be made Thanks- ruary; and J. Harry Wooley, Jr., and parents of students who are. giving at the national meeting in such a way that it can also appointed to the post in May. be used without the Gibson lec- repeating their freshman high of social science and history Mr. Shannon gave as his rea- tures. school term before school opens teachers in Philadelphia. son for resigning the pressure of in September, Mr. McCafferty stressed that H. Donn McCafferty, chairman hi? working hours; Mr. Hicks Health Leave efforts are being made to make oi the social science department stated that he anticipates moving Mrs. Grace Rutherford, board the course so flexible that any of Monmouth Regional High from the borough in the near fu- secretary, requested an indefin- high school can make use of it School, and a member of the ture, and Mr. Wooley advised ite leave of absence, for health In some way. 23-man committee working on that he will be "attending cours- reasons. Here again the board the new course, gave The Reg- (See COURSE, Page 2) es" and unable to attend board facet a problem In that after re- meetings. organization this year, it voted All Accepted that a board member could not All resignations were accepted serve In the capacity of board Regional Expansion Set with regret. secretary. In accepting Mr. Wooley's res- Mrs. Grace Brennan, school ignation, Board President Donald NEW SHREWSBURY - The The new building program into usable condition, he said (See UNION BEACH, Page 2) Monmouth Regional Board of here follows on the heels of com- except for removal of some Education last night approved a pletion of locker rooms and stones, which the contractor wil tentative schedule to provide do before the start of the foot- Fence to Go Screen All enough classrooms to double the athletic field, which were added ball season. ,, capacity of the new school by to the school during its first year Member Vincent Festa com- -Unwillingly- 19T0. of operation, mented that he believes the field WHERE FIRST LADY WILL VACATION - Thit i, the .mall retort of Ravelle, near the Keansburg The schedule, along with pre- Board secretary Ralph Keevil is not level enough, and presi- liminary plans and estimates by announced last night that only a dent Gordon Bartle pointed out From Street village of Amalfi, Italy, where Mrt. Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter, Caroline, Relief Pleas architect Frederick J. Wieder- few minor items remain to be that the board has not Had the SHREWSBURY - Charles R. who arrived in Rome today, will spend an August vacation. A villa in rWello has wn, Trenton, will be presented finished by builders of the new money to make a perfect field. Stoddard, 35 Shadowbrook Rd., been rented for the »ray by Mrs. Kennedy's sister, Princess Stanislas Radziwill of Lon- KEANSBURG ~ At the sug. to the Board of Local Govern' locker rooms. "It will be adequate," he said gestion of Mayor Louis T. Col- last night told Borough Council don. (AP Wirephoto) ment in Trenton at a Sept. 12 The football field has been put "but not plush," he would remove a fence from lichlo, Borough Council will meet meeting. Decisions following that the right of way on his street once a month with the welfare meeting will determine how by .Monday. director to screen all relief cases many of the rooms will be In the' borough. planned in the proposal to be The move was ordered July 27 Use Marked Money by Building Inspector Robert J. The mayor said this would con- submitted to voters of the three Sagurton. Council confirmed the Ferrante Is Silenced tinue until such time as the gov-, participating municipal!' ernlng body decides one way or ties, probably in December, order last night. Mr. Stoddard, armed with another on adopting the state wel- The proposed additional rooms ToEffect 3 Arrests petition — signed by neighbors rt School Plan Not ABoweiL fere program. would increase the "functional in favor of the fence remaining It was reported last night that capacity" of the high school from In Its present location, said the Mrs. Ann Norman, welfare di- a present B72 to 1,691. It was EATONTOWN — Stake-outs investigation of laundroma KEYPORT — Residents and on this thing," said board mem- The Register that board architect fence had been erected as a rector, is running out of funds pointed out that already in the and marked money, which local thefts will continue in order to taxpayers here still have re ber Mrs. J, Willis Lewis, and we Frederic Fessler; Hazlet, sub- police say they planted in two determine if other persons are neighborhood project to protect ceived no official announcement were Wot supposed to issue any mitted a tentative school add! to-rheet focal relief heeds.