~-------.----- q .. 4 ec 44 QceqQQ. c.o.c. .. Gross~ Pointe ews VOL. 45-No 45 Grosse POinte, Michigan Thursday, November 8, 1984 30 cents 42 Pages B)' l\lik~ Andrzej('zyk In The mtervlew, to be held more than 12 years Before that, he $52,000a year to administer the $96 "I \~dS all>o Jooklllg f(1f a Ubtll<.t Grosse POlllte public schools pubhc as reqUIred by the Open held pos:tlOn5 In the White PlaltlS, millIon budget that ....a<, bigger dnd olff'red dlf may be gettmg another Connecti- Meetmgs Act, Will oe the flr~t Item N Y schools system and was albo a ferent kind::, of opporllllotllt':' <tr.d cut superintendent of busmess on the No\ 12 d.genda, leadmg candidate m the New The city of East Lyme IS located on the AtlantiC coa::,t, halfwav be. (>hdllengE'~,' \\hntncr ~clld ddllll1g accordmg to boar d pre!>ldent Joan Ha\ en, Conn superintendent he also looked at thl' .,1.J~IlII~i dnrl The board of eduCdtJOn's search Hanpeter TI'ubtee::, 'Wlll::,pend 30 to search tween the mouths of the Thclmci. and committee recommended Monday Connecticut nver!>, along the Con mterC.bt of ttiP board of '(IUC ,,111m 40 mmutes questlOlllng hlln, she , Gr0'5se POlllle fit::, on dll th()~l' that the full board interview Dr Whntner earned hIS undergra- nectlcut Turnpike It::, populallOll of added counts" he '>dld John \\ Mitner of East Lyme, Conn duate degree at the New Paltz Tea- 14,000 doubles In the summer ~ Ith schools at Its Nov 12 meeting While members of till:' public chers College and hiS master's and the resort trade, according to Mor- can't que::,tlOn WhI'ltner directly, doctorate at Teacher's College in gan McGInley, editOrial page edi- PrOfe~'ilO!ldJI\ \\hfit!lPf h 'ljr Trustee Cathenne Bnerly, who they ma... submit questIOns the ColumbIa He and hiS Wife of 28 tor for The New London Da) rently prc!>ldt'nt e:ect fA th (110 re"d the recommendatIOn of the board wll) work JIlto the mtervlew years, Katherme, have three child- nectlcut ~upCrtntend('nt.'> d~"()<.la j.... ............. .. ............ .. I I ~ "" ,.., ~ -.... "., ,.. ~.. " 'I''''''' .....; t "",,n... ,-to' • 1_ _ _, ~ "',,"'. '" """"" ':>\1.1'" ~Uel>llOn~ bnOU1U oe ~uoml![ea to ren \.tvu ,-UJU ua, In.t:'"l~ IU ....Ut"-::C[ HI ")tdlt" seven candidates the committee the board office by 4 P m tomor- sU~~'i~'i~~de;;t, v;ry ~Pe'n ~~vJp;~_ ~tudlell of achJI'\ ement te<,tln~ at can choo::,c from, but it is "lean- row The East Lyme district ha!>3,000 mg" tov,ard Whritner No commit- students, three elementary ments ha \ e been made to hIm by Whntner, 49, has been superm- schools, one middle and one high the board ~he selld tendent of schools 111 East Lyme for school Its supermtendent earns 'J 1'11fH [ gressive, With a no-nonsense ath- certalll grade levels and the POSSI' tude toward education," McGinley blhty of developll1g rem~lal pro- saId. He vigorously recruited top grams, he added teachers for the distrIct and "didn't jump on the closll1g band- "I'm lookmg forward to the op- wagon when enrollment began to portumty to m~t With more people fall," McGinley added In the comm unity," he ...a In "Thl'! Will be the flr~t hme my Wife has Whritner noted the dIstrict been able to YISlt Gro..'ISe POinte studied the possibility of having to I've told her about It close a school when faced with the enrollment decline, which he "I'm more than delIghted to be pointed out was a national trend. this far along in the consideratIon As I've said, Grosse Pomte ha~ a While one elementary school was national reputahon for excellence identified for closing, the school and is a good opportunIty for edu- population has leveled otf and catIOnal leadership," Whrltner there's no longer the need, he said, said adding, "We've faced up to the problem, but we never had to face He noted he had met former up to closing a school " Grosse POinte superintendent Dr Kenneth Brummel "t" 0 or three several things drew him to apply times professionally" Brummel for the su~rintendent post in who left Grosse POinte In Julv for a Grosse Pomte, Whritner said. California poat, came from the "Grosse Pointe has a national Westport school system, nedI' East reputation for education excel- lence," he added. {Continued on Page 15-\1 Detroit receives aid from Park firemen By Haniet Nolan "It wu the (trlr IJme "'e W~ of- While the Detroit FlJ'e Depart- fiCially called to help Detroit Since ment had Its hands full responding the 1967 nots," saId Phtllip Costa. He writes poetry that remembers to the hundreds of fires started by fire chIef "Walter Chapman, vandals on DevII's Night, Grosse 1)(>trolt's chIef of Fire OperatIOns, By Tom Greenwood Illustrutmg he fmal offenbe of the and my Vietnam experiences were Pointe Park firefighters lent their asked (or h~lp and \\C l>dld we It Isn't unusual for an Enghsh NVA In 1!t75 The first offenSive ar- the main thrust of my poetry," said support. would, as long as ....e could teacher to write ~oetry What ISun- row pushed through the Cambo- Bufahm "The class was very lib- usual ISwhen It's poetry about "It feels g'xxi \\ hen little brother dian border and swept over the eral and antI-war. I guess I was a Cdn help bIg bl"Other,' he added a bad war town of Duc Lap At that moment a thorn 111 my Instructor's Side be- Absentee vote Thl ee men dnd d plimp truck The "bad war" IS, of course, long dormant demon began to stir cause my work was ripped to Strong tears welled hehmd the shreds were sellt to 1':nglllt' ;)~, located ..t Vietnam and the teacher/poet IS rims of my eyes I had been there not as high Mamstlque ne<1r Warren .. 1llUUl 9 Woods reSident Gerard BUfahm. III 1969when our f1rebase had been "But I learned from them, I took pm, Oct 30, accordmg (0 C,~t..l Bufallm spent a year In Vietnam surrounded, when ovrl' one hun- their Criticism to heart and grad- as '76 election as an artillery officer serving as a dred ARVN's had perished as well ually won some grudgmg respect He !><1ldthe truck \\.1~ b.!n'lv LlI- forward observer alternately With as 22 Amencans, most of them from my classmates" The percentage of voters exercIs- Side the statIOn beton' hb !l1t'fl re ~ponded to II call for Ul>l>ll>t.mceon the 173rd Airborne BrigadE', the artJ!lerymell Since then, Bufahni has met With ing their franchise by absentee ballot ranged from 17 percent 10 Mal1lstlque near ~lack \\ het e they U S -'We had fought, we had WOliand more success. "Corridors" mag- the Park to 28 percent 10 the worked for almost thret' hour~ to then We' had left,' Bufaltnl con aline published by the DetrOit Wnter's GUild, has published hiS Shores The figure was do"n consI- keep flres ~et 11l lhrt't' \ aC,lnt tinued "Like many of the bdttles In derably from the 1976 General home!> from :.pre.ldmg \11 \\ ere VIetnam that hlstol rans 'ihould work that was of a non-military reportt'd to be total I~.:;~:> nature. and' 'DEROS", a quarterly Election \\ hen bet\\een 25 percent have recorded, Itb story \\ as never and 40 percent of the volers In the told Who In the hell hab pver heard poelry Journal, had publIshed at The~ dhoo put out .1 bldll' Itut least four of IllS wntlllgs Pointes used absentee ballots of the Battle of Duc Lap (''(crpt In the Woods, 3,016 ballot~ were ::.t.lrted clfter ~omeolw tI,hed .1 I.lte model CM \\ Ith g.\:. <lnd :lot'! .t ,Hl lhose who had been llwrc'l It held "The word 'DEROS' has 11 lot of Issued, amounting 10 "bout 20 per- llre all been for nothlflg " meanmg for many veterans," said cent of the registered \'oters In the After lhdt, the mcmOllC'> 1e Bufalll11 "It's an acroynm for Date last presIdential electIOn, as many P.lrk Illl'nH'1l hd\l' d:>...,:.(t'd Pt' turned fresh and "trong Ind E:.tlmated Return from Over Seas, as 40 percent of Woods \'olt'rs opted trOlt before 1~1::'1 H'M on }){'\ ,I :> Bufalllll began to \\ 1'111' I It liltin t Anyone who has ever served over- for the absentee ballot Night ('o~l.-l:-poltt'{i !ldml'~ r"'llg Illl'ct \~Ith m uetl SU('I'P"" ,Ii I H.,I I ,>ea., always knew what thelr Twenty two percent, or 1,02.1.of up bchllhl tht' one-!>tllr\ ~ ~ \ \llt0 took d podr) \\ ntlllg (1.1'" , ,'< , DEHOS \V8S The magazine City voters requc!>ted absentee Gl(h~ Cornp<ln~ ,11 lSI III :\l.ll" \\.' 'll EHOS' IS a non-profit, non- ballots thl!'>year compared 10 3J al8 49 p rn polltlcal publicatIOn devoted to percent 111 1~6 lIt' ~,lld lhen lklt ht' :"'lll'\1 !l,I'll tJlo.,e who 'iervf>o In Vietnam" In the F'arms 2 11'12 ballot., \\t're IS::'Uf'dfor thl" election The figure, It'!)tlrb th<lt tllKk~ _lill1 'HI t! .. t'f Butdlim ,lh.o ha.b one poem under gt'nc\ lint'" 1',1.1 1».,( I Itt'd lip lc'f about 24 percent of thl:' ch~Jh!f' \ 0 l OIl,>ld('ratlOnby Avon Books for an ters, was down from :JO pen'I'nt !l1'1I'~, tilt' Il''''l1lt cl1 tll t.'~ "'.lllt'cl In <lIlthology of p<>('tryabout the Viet fOllr year'i ago durnp,>tl'r~ .llld \ ,1\ .Ill! I•.!d.ll11~' 11,lm War \\ tllch spre,ld to <l(1).1\'('PI bllddlll~-" The number tlf Short"" votl'r~ re- cillO d('Ic\~ I'd ht'll) • Avon Book!>contsc ted me dfter qu{'stmg abllentl"e IldJ!otS Ill- aeased, however, (rom 500 III 1976 lhl'\ f('.trl my work 111 'DEHOS'," (lh~t.j ".,"I'd hi" .l1t'1l tcl f','lp ".lId Bufalml HI wa~ thrilled, of In 6SO thIs year The ft~Urt' I cprt' qU(l'>h Uw 211 nllilllfl' 'Id t,ll' II fill '1 (oUt!>l' I'm not Romg to make any srnts 211 perel'nl of thE"Short'~' n' ",t<lltt"\1III luhh, ...l\ pll.