Committee Seeks State Aid for Great Hills Road Work State Road Aid for the Reconstruc Great Hills Road Was Reconstructed Mr
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Committee seeks state aid for Great Hills Road work State road aid for the reconstruc Great Hills Road was reconstructed Mr. Cunningham described the ex acrimonious Township Committee tion of the upper portion of Great in the 1970s. isting roadway as varying in width discussion which saw Mr. Lydecker Hills Hoad will be sought by this Although details of the proposed from 22 to 26 feet and having a “basic clash on several occasions with Com municipality. reconstruction were not available at width” of 23 feet. That width descrip mittee members Prank W. Long and The decision to seek the state aid Tuesday night’s meeting, Robert tion drew an objection from Commit Cynthia Q. Fuller. for the Great Hills project was reach Cunningham of the township’s teeman Robert Lydecker who noted ed by the Township Committee at its engineering department said a that previously submitted data from When Mr. Long at one point in the conference meeting Tuesday night. uniform, 24-foot wide, curbed road the engineering department set the discussion indicated he would sup port a municipal application for state If the application for approximate way was planned. The reconstruction roadway’s current width at a road aid but that his final decision on ly $150,000 is approved the project, he continued, also includes minimum of 24 feet and a maximum reconstruction of Great Hills Road the work would be based on both installation of catch basins along of 26 feet. residents’ reactions to the project from Old Short Hills Road to Great Hills Road and other im The decision to seek state funding and the specific engineering depart- Wildwood Drive would take place provements to drainage conditions for the project came at the conclu next summer. The lower portion of on the roadway. sion of an hour-long, often Continued on Page 6 16 towoin school faculties here Fourteen/teachers, a librarian and of English as a Second Language to a vice principal will be new to the Portuguese students. She also taught Mill burn school system when public French and Italian at an American school classes resume September 5. school in Milan, Italy, as well as in Ir- Donald Yates of Glen Ridge is the vington, Springfield, Kenilworth and new vice principal at Millburn High Westfield Schools. School. Replacing Timothy Dyas who Mrs. Yonezuka also will teach retired last June, Dr. Yates will con- French. She received both her PLAYGROUND INITIATION—Philip Rycroft and his sister centrate on curriculum and super- bachelor’s and master’s degrees Vicky of Hawthorne Road try out the new log clim ber which visory work rather than discipline, from Rutgers University as well as a Disciplinary duties will be shared by baccalaureat in Paris. A former was installed by the recreation department last week on the the three administrators — principal French interpreter at the United Na former site of Short H ills School. Keith Neigel, vice principal Ray tions for the ambassador of Niger, mond Mammano and Dr. yates. Mrs. Yonezuka most recently taught The new vice principal comes to French at Wardlaw-Hartridge Millburn from Irvington where he School, Edison. She also has taught Declining enrollment was district director of language arts Spanish. and coordinator of reading. He With 11 years of teaching ex previously was a reading specialist perience, Mrs. Matyola will handle in Glen Ridge public schools and a computer science classes. Her hits dog population teacher at Montclair Academy. previous positions were at Bernard- Millburn High School also has gain sville High School, Somerville High ed five teachers. New to the foreign School and Havelock (N.C.) High The canine population of the township, Mf- Faitoute Said. language department will be Davida School. She graduated in 1965 from No official figures were available Brautman of Old Bridge. M arJorie^Trttity College, Washington, D.C. tained from the municipality’s health but Mr. Faitoute and animal control Bosco of Springfield and Anastasia with a major in chemistry and has department, has experienced a slight officer Rocco Giannattasio, who is Yonezuka of Watchung. Leonora done graduate work in science and decline in the past decade. retiring at the end of the month after Matyola of Somerville and Eugene chemistry at Beaver College and at A total of 1,874 dog licenses were 15 years of service to the township, Shapiro of Westfield will join the Newark State Teachers College. Mrs. said some of the most popular breeds issued In 1975 while the 1964 total mathematics department. Matyola also attended Florida In- showed that 1,496 licenses were given in the township are golden retrievers, poodles, schnauzers, German Dr. Braatman, who has nine years stitute of Technology for graduate out. The greatest number of licenses of teaching experience, will teach courses in computer languages and shepherds, black Labrador issued in a single year in this decade French. She earned her bachelor’s the Rutgers Center for Mathematics, NEW ON S T A FF—Among the new staff was in 1963 when 1,746 licenses were retrievers and cockerspaniels. Due to the fact that the health and m a ste r’s degrees in that Science and Computer Education, members in Township public schools are, alloted to local dogs. language from Brooklyn College and In addition to mathematics, Mr. Township health officer William department does not have a com from left, top row, M illburn High School puter at the present time, a break her doctorate in French at the City Shapiro will teach history at the Faitoute said 1,286 licenses had been University of New York. Dr. Braut- senior high school and world cultures vice principal Donald Yates, teachers issued as of August 2 and that figure down of canine population by breed and name is not available. Mr. man also attended the Untyersite de to two ninth grade classes at Joyce Sullivan, Norma Miller, Eugene is expected to increase by about 100 Montreal and has taught French for Millburn Junior High School. He Shapiro; bottom row, teachers Joseph when information from this year’s Faitoute said surrounding towns such as Maplewood and Summit both adults at Middlesex County College, comes to secondary schools here Steele, Maryalice Palisano, MaryAnn dog census, expected to be completed Mrs. Bosco will teach French and after teaching for 27 years in New use computers in their dog licensing Cermele, Elizabeth Cicenia; and at left, at the end of this month, becomes Italian. A 1967 graduate of Boston York City where he taught American available. programs and as a result they are University, she studied at Hunter history, world history and elementary librarian Felicia Cerreto, Four census takers are canvassing able to determine more information College and Rutgers University and economics. He also served in the U.S. School staffs w ill be on-duty beginning the town door-to-door to determine about their dog population while received her master’s degree in 1975 Air Force from 1951 to 1955. September 3. whether there are any dogs in the greatly reducing the amount of from Seton Hall University. Mrs. Mr. Shapiro graduated from the Ci- paperwork that must be done. houses, are they licensed and Bosco began her career as a teacher Continued on Page 6 whether they have been vaccinated The health officer added that, as against rabies. part of his budget for next year, he Dog license no. 1 this year was will seek funds for the purchase of a issued to township clerk John W. computer for use in the dog licensing Pritchard, making his mixed breed program as a means of increasing Student reports on Indonesia trip female Jessie the “ top dog” in the the efficiency of. the program. Edward Carrington, son of Mr. and farmers who grow rice and other spoken in Indonesia. ment. You miss one or two classes Mrs. Ellsworth Carrington of 68 crops. Fanning techniques have not “To get to school I take public and it is your responsibility to make Hemlock Road, is spending ll weeks changed over 'the centuries. A transportation. It is a blue Suzuki up the work you missed. The school Stolen truck is accessory this summer as an American Field wealthy farmer uses a plow pulled by pick-up designed for eight or nine grounds are fenced in so that you Service student in Indonesia. In the anoxoracow . Others will till the soil people, but it is packed with 12 or cannot leave the grounds when the fall be will enter his senior year at by hand. The rich volcanic soil yields sometimes more. Arriving at school school is in session. to daylight burglary Millburn High School. two harvests per year. The average we must pass through a gate where “In the high school there are only two men stand to make sure we are Edward passed along some of his income is $250. two different sections to choose experiences by way of a letter to The wearing the proper uniform. On from: social sciences and natural “The farmers come into the cities Fridays \fce have to wear a special Item. to sell their produce at the open air sciences. The school has very few of North Road home Batik shirt because Friday is the 1 “I am having such an exciting time markets. At these markets you can facilities; there is no library, large Moslem day for prayer, and on other here in Indonesia trying to learn as buy all sorts of things, but you have athletic fields, etc. In my class there A light truck belonging to one Taken from that home were two days the uniform is more simple.