OF MILLBURN AND SHORT HILLS Founded in 1888 Volume 108, Number 27 Thursday, July 7, 1994 •__________ \____________________________________ 40 Cents Board won’t act on school post until September Efforts by the Board of Educa­ after his present contract expires at tion to find a successor for Super­ the end of the coming school year, intendent of Schools Gerald N. at least one board member may Kohn will not begin before Sep­ have a different view. tember. Board of Education member That was the word this week Nancy Larner reportedly told a from the school board’s vice presi­ township resident during the past dent, Steven Safer. week that although she could not Dr. Kohn submitted his resigna­ speak for others on the school tion, effective June 30, 1995, on board, die extension of Dr. Kohn’s , April 18, the same day the Board contract was a “possibility” the of Education was to have voted on school body might consider in the extending his contract and the day fall. Ms. Lam er’s comment was before township residents cast their made, according to Roy Kirch, a ballots on the school board’s 1994- Coniston Road, resident and fre­ 95 budget. quent attendee at school board The telephone interview with meetings, in a conversation he had Mr. Safer was triggered by rumors with her in which he discussed the which have swept the community rumors circulating within the during the past month that the township. Attempts by The Item to board was prepared to schedule contact Ms. Larner were another vote—after the pending unsuccessful. October $35.5 million school Mr. Safer, the board’s vice pres­ expansion bond issue referendum ident, in his interview with The —on. Dr. Kohn’s future employ­ Item also reported the board was ment here. nearing a decision on filling the “To my mind, that (a vote on principal’s vacancy at the Glen- extending Dr. Kohn’s contract) is wood School. the fiirthest thing from the truth," The field of candidates for that Mr. Safer said. post has been narrowed to two, Mr. Safer said, and a decision is T HE FOURTH IN MILLBURN-Taylor Park Indepen­ explains the workings of a Revolutionary War cannon Mr. Safer also said that Board of to onlookers. Below, right, 2-year-old Kelly Education president Vivian Stein­ expected in the near future. dence Day afternoon was undoubtedly the most pop­ Although the board vice presi­ FitzMaurice is up to her knees in balls as she partici­ berg, who is now out-of-town on ular place in town for township residents of all ages. dent did not identify either of the pates in one of the events for youngsters. vacation, has already discussed the Below, left, a member of the Morgan Rifle Corps impending vacancy in the super­ two finalists, he said one was intendent’s office with representa­ employed in New Jersey and the tives of the New Jersey School second was principal of a Califor­ Boards Association. A member of nia school. The latter principal, that organization would be Mr. Safer continued, was inter­ addressing “the board and the pub­ viewed recently on the West Coast lic in September” and outlining a by Harlan Clark, principal of the procedure for selecting a new Deerfield Elementary School, and superintendent, Mr. -Safer con­ two Glen wood School parents. tinued. Dr. Clark and the two parents were members of a search com­ The board vice president said mittee appointed by the Board of that when Ms. Steinberg contacted Education following the resigna­ the School Boards Association this tion in May of Jean Schmidt from spring, she was told it was “way the Glenwood School position. too early” to launch a search for Ms. Schmidt, who received a Dr. Kohn’s successor. $140,000 payment from the Board Although Mr. Safer’s comments of Education at the time of her appeared to put to rest rumors that resignation, had been Glenwood the board was considering asking School principal since 1983 and Dr. Kohn to withdraw his letter of for the six prior years had been resignation and to remain here principal of the Deerfield School. School expansion plan meetings set Specific building needs of the architect will meet parents and township schools will be the sub­ teachers o f that school and of the ject of a day-long series of meet­ middle school to discuss specific ings which the Board of Education needs of the two secondary has arranged for interested parents schools. and teachers. Under terms of the program The meetings have been schedul­ approved by toe Board of Educa­ ed for Tuesday. Sessions will be tion last week, additions will be held at the various schools and on constructed at the Glenwood, hand for each meeting will be Deerfield, Hartshorn and South Richard B. Shive, architect toy the Mountain Elementary Schools and school board’s $35.5 million at Millburn High School. Renova­ expansion and renovation pro­ tion work will also take place at gram. each of those schools and at toe Deerfield School work will be Wyoming Elementary School and the subject of a 9 to 10:30 a.m. at Millburn Middle School. session at that school; plans for toe Mr- Shive must complete his Glenwood School will be dis­ plans for toe work by July 25 so cussed at that school from 11 a.m. that they can be submitted to the to 12:30 p.m.; and the Hartshorn N.J. Department o f Education for Sandler touts inner-city program School meeting will be held in that approval. A bond issue to provide .... — ;--------------- needs and my family. I often wrote Two less defined characteristics building from 1 to 2:30 p.m. fends to finance the work has been By Eveline Speed ie checks to charity but I never gave are resilience and motivation, said Mr. Shive will be at toe Wyo­ scheduled for October 18. ming School from 3 to 4:30 p.m, ■ 1 ■— time,” he explained. Mr. Sandler. The students who are Persons who have suggestions or After retiring from the grind of Now Mr. Sandler devotes one- selected must be able to withstand for a meeting focusing on the comments pertaining to toe work needs of that school and of the Wall Street and becoming a private third o f his time to charity-related the rigorous 14-month preparatory at the various schools, but who investor, one township resident has activities. One of his pet projects course that will introduce them to South Mountain School which will cannot attend the meetings this decided to modify his life of stocks is SE E D S, w h ich stands for a new life. return to public school use under Tuesday, are asked to submit their terms of the Board of Education’s and bonds by involving himself “Scholars, Educators, Excellence, “They will have college thoughts in writing to Deanne G. expansion program. From 5 to also in a program for gifted inner- Dedication, Success,” It is a opportunities that probably would Gitner, communications director, 6:30 p.m. a meeting has been at the Education Center, 434 city children privately-funded organization that not be available to them in the scheduled at the high school where Mark Sandler, a West Road resi- provides educational opportunities public schools,” said Ms. Millburn Avenue. dent, retired six years ago from 20 for disadvantaged students in New Machines, who taught in the years of Wall Street life. He was a Jersey who are highly motivated Newark parochial school system general partner with Bear Steams and who have-been identified as for 10 years. “There are no easy Brief agenda & Company and a senior vice pres- being academically qualified. The answers to changing the lives of ident with Donaldson Lufkin & two-year-old program seeks to inner-city school children,” she Jenrette. place its participants in indepen- added. “The answers are illusive.” “1 feel I ’ve been incredibly dent schools for their high school SEEDS is trying to approach a before Committee lucky in my life but that I’ve led a years. macro problem as a micro problem A brief agenda is in store for toe before the Committee, the panel selfish life," said Mr. Sandler. “I Mr. Sandler is one o f the found- by adopting a student-by-student Tow nship C om m ittee Tuesday will go out of service October 31. concentrated on my career, my ing members of SEEDS. Three strategy, she said. night when it holds its only public Persons whose hom es are now years agb he was asked by Blair “We’re trying, to tap the poten­ session of July. linked to toe police panel will have imuwnmnwininiliimiinuiinititiiniiiiniiimimmtimmininuiii Machines, president o f the SEEDS tial in these kids, to give them the No new ordinances are schedul- to use a private alarm company _ board and wife of Gordon kind o f education that wi ed to be introduced at toe session after that date, - J V I t i n # Midmtes, the state senator from \tf^^&^lQning^starfmItfe and only one mcmtre is ^ e d fot; &£ 'Die Conmttee Tuesday is also I f f ’kjl'ttC O l/U w J r Morristown, to join a steering Mr. Sandler. He recalled public hearing Sna adoption. y expected toaUfhbHiehlds fbr , , . committee to form this new orga- words spoken to his class at The ordinance due for hearing repairs of the heating, ventilating Mlllburn Middle School honor nization. He serves on the boardof Amherst over 30 years by Presi­ and adoption would terminate use and air conditioning systems at Students announced.