Your Want Ad The Zip Code Is Easy To Place- for Mountainside is just Phone 686-7700 07092 An QHi£io! Newspaper Borough Of Mountainside Sscend Clan Peitage Published Each Thursday by Trumar Pubiishmq Corp Subscription Rale 25c per copy VOL, 18-NO. 14 Paid at U.-ni.,.,,,!,, ll,| MOUNTAiNSIDi, N.J,, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1976- 2 New Providence Road, AAOuntaimidf?, N J 07W2 SB 00 Yearly Reilly, Schmedel elected to school board Budget wins by edge of 728-553 Incumbent runs third HOW 'I HL in race for two seats WEST Margaret Keilly and Scott Schmedel, whn ran us a team for I wo three-year lerms on the SVAHWON Mountatnsidt? Board of Education, won tho borough voters' approval in the annual school election Tuesday, polling 91S and Sen votes including absentee ballots) respectively. Incumbent Patricia Knodel, svho hod served on the hoard five years, lost in her bid for reelection, receiving 7SI votes. Voters also approved the $1,885,357 current expense portion of the ifiTfi-™ school budget by a vote of 728 to f,53. Including absentee ballots, a total of 1.51H MAKCiAHETHKlI.I.V votes was cast in the election, with 29,3 percent of those registered voting. 1 Asked to comment on his victory, Schmedel slated, "I am certainly pleased that Peg Reilly Bandmasters contest award nnd I won. I really consider it a victory for Church. Mountainside, arm, left to right, Sob LeFranck, education in Mountainside. 1 suppose that iALLADiiRS—Rehearsing for choral presentation of 'Ballad sounds self-righteous, but it is not meant that to ex-AAountainside resident for Americans* this Sunday at the Community Presbyterian Margie Drysdalo, Jeff letrehsrt and Seott Talcott. way, 1 do think li is cmr intent to do the best we (Photo by Jan Wingord) can for the education system and the children. Loretta Jankowski, a former resident of lllllllllllllllllllllMlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllMllllllinillMIIL Those are the things uppermost in <mr minds Mountainside, recently won the 1976 American "I would particularly like to I hank the ninny Bandmasttrs Association IABA' band com- people svhn. for that purpose, helped our position" contest. Her winning composition, 'Ballad for Americans' Regional hoard campaign—distributing flyers, making ••Todesband," will be performed during the thousands of phone calls, talking to their grand concert of the ABA eonvfntion In Tucson. ree/eefs- Vitale friends. It Is really due to their efforts, as much Ariz., in March. Charles Vitale of Kenilworth was as the candidates' that we won " Schmedel, a The former local resident first began music to be performed Sunday special writer for the Wall Street Journal, will A salute to 177B will present "Ballad for named to his third term as president of lessons at the age of 10 and later studied the Regional High School District serve in his first elective office. composition, music theory and keyboard Americans" at R p.m. Sunday at* the Com- Mrs. Reilly, a housewife and former teacher, munity Presbyterian Church, Deer Path and Hoard of Education at the annual harmony for six years at the Juilliard School of 1 organiiation meeting held Monday also is o newcomer to public office. In her Music, Preparatory Division Meeting House Lone, Mountainside. Mark Hull, victory statement she commented, "I want to •baritone, will be soloist nnd director of thc> - night in Springfield, John Conlln of While at Gov. Livingston Regional High Oarwnod was selected for his third year thank all those who worked to help us win. I c'homs for this musical presentation, which is pledge that I svill do my best to keep quality School, from Nvhlch she graduated in 1968, Ms. sponsored by the church, the Cultural and as vice-president. Winners in last Jankowski was a membtr of the high school week's election who were sworn in in. education in Mountainside, with due concern Heritage Committee of Mountainside and the for the tax dollar. We must do the best we can band, orchestra and choir She was a Mountainside Branch iif the American eluded Dr. Marilyn Hart, ;a new t^ssoomtHqr two years *n both the All State member from Mountainside: Conlin, with what we have," Association of University Women,, , • . -o—o^ '• Regional Band and the Young Artists Chamber The "Ballad for Americans" highlights STildllB" Waldl of Springfield and THE NEWLY-ELECTED board members Orchestra. Music honors earned m high sciiool important events in the history of the United William J, Keyes of Berkeley Heights, will be swnrn into office, at (he annual included the John Philip Sousa Band Award, States since the Declaration of Independence, The board voted to hold its meetings organization meeting, to be held Monday at 8 the PTA Music Award and the Lincoln Center including the Constitution nnd Lincoln's Get- the third Tuesday of each month, rather p.m. In the Deerfield School. At that time, the Award, than the first. The next meeting will be board president and vice-president will be tysburg'Address. The chorus will include the March 23, at a site to be announced, A 1972 graduate of the Eastman School of rhoirs of the church and its' young people's elected, committee members will be named, Music, Ms. Jankowski .was awarded a fellowship, iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiltfiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiititiiiiiiiiniiti and the board secretary and attorney will be scholarship from the Polish Alliance Club of Mayor Thomns Hiceiordi will read the ••ippointed. Rochester, X.Y.. and the Bernard Rodgcrs Declaration of Independence, John Haleeky. a Kaercher returns Also on the agenda for the session is :i Composition Award, student at .Jonathan Dayton Regional High discussion of lawn and maintenance bids. School, will read an essay, "What the Bicen- During the regular board meeting which Ms, Jankowski earned her master's degree tennial Means to Me," for which he was for third year as preceded the closing of ihe polls Tuesday night, at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, awarded a prize, A flafi dedication will be r that subject was tabled, as was n discussion of LORETTA JANKOWSKI where she studied composition and electronic student transportation bids. music. She is currently working toward her conducted by Boy Scout Troop 147, and the tennis instructor Ph.D, in composition at the Eastman School of Veterans of Foreign Wars in memory of Calvin Tom Kaercher will return to the Moun- Board secretary John McDonough reported that nnlv one firm, the Bime Bus Co. of Red Cross opens Music and has a part-time teaching position at Kubernik who was a member of the troop. tainside tennis courts for his third year as in- Plttsford 1 N.Y.I High School. Additional musical number,s will be the Dunellen, had submitted a bid. Asked to give structor of the spring tennis lessons sponsored price quotations for lioth four-bus and three-bus facility for seniors The composer of 13 principal works, Ms, singing of "America the Beautiful" and *The hy the Recreation Commission, The leaching Battle"Hymn of the Republic", James Little, routes, Uirnc, the board's current trans- Thi \U-.tru Id MomiLiirMrli Ch.iptu ol tin Jankowski has also studied at the Darbington professional will Instruct two sessions of portation supplier, submitted the same bid. Summer School of Music In England and the organist, will play Charles Jves' "America," classes; April 12 to 29 and May 3 to 2(1. l American National lied Cross held an open When a replica of the Liberty Bell was S49,J<>5, for both. During 197570 school year. house program ;it its headquarters at >2l Elm Higher School of Music in Krakow, Poland, Her presented to the Borough of Mountainside The schedule for the April session is as Kirne is supplying five buses for S49.9r>0 st.. Wostfiold. on Feb. 29. a IliKhlicllt of which studies in Poland were underwrittin by a earlier this year, the anonymous donors follows; Monday and Thursday mornings, 9- McDonouKh noted tho board will continuo was the formal dedication of the new leisure scholarship from the Polish government. She 0:45, beginner; 9:45-10:30, advanced beginner: discussion of the transportation question, but it also is a member of the League of Women requested that Ihe bell be used and that it be room tor senior citizens Composers and the Leschetizky Association, available for special occasions, especially in 10:30-11:15, intermediate: ' 11; IB-noon, tias not yet IH-CII decided if the topic will be on Martha Oudcrkirk, director of viiuth for the the schools, The hell will be rung during the strategy: Monday and Thursday evenings, B- Monday's agenda. Westfield Preshyterinn Church, offered the program by Dana Levinson and Jessica Fine, 8:45, beginner; 8:45-9:30, advanced beginner: He also reported no word h;is been received prayer of dedication. The furnishing of the two students. 9:30.10:15, intermediate' 10:15-11, strategy. from the Borough Council on the school txiards room was made possible hy a group of \oung Lourdes Schopl Also participating will be Nancy Osborne The May schedule is: Monday and Thursday request for some type of financial aid to permit people who contributed pan of the pi-weeds of Hull, accompanist, and a brass quartet under MARK HULL mornings, 9-9:45, advanced beginner: 9:45- continuance next term of the same bus service ;i CROP "Wall: for llunt'.er," which was sup- the leadership of Luke Proeopio, Following the imiuiMiiiiMiiiimiiiiiiiinimiiiiiiinmiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiniiiiimn 10:30, intermediate; 10:30-11:15 strategy: offered to borough students this year. ported by all the churches in Wostfiold begins sign-up "program, a reception will be held in the 11: IB-noon, strategy; Monday and Thursday The board, in a financial crunch, had con- evenings, 8-8:45, advaneea'beglnner; 8:45-9:30, The leisure room is open Monday through Registration for the 1976-77 school year will auditorium by the steering committee of the Budget hearing sidered reducing service, with the result that Friday for card playing, reading, craft:- be held at Our Lady of Loureles School, Cultural and Heritage Committee of Moun- intermediate; 9:30-10:15, strategy; 10:15-11, more youngsters would have to walk greater The Mountainside Borough Council strategy.