Property of the Watertown Historical Society Town Times watertownhistoricalsociety.org N Tow. IO nes F Tow, PAT nes Tow. s nes ToWi nes 3I November 12,1998 PUBLISHED BY PRIME PUBLISHERS, INC. Price 75 cents RU nes \ving Watertown and Oakville Since 1947 Town Times Toft Nobel Boar icels swim Prize recipient fees IJI -for-play speaks today by Susan _ _r .. a S19.517 savings and to cancel all Dr. AlfredGUman, Nobel laure- The Board of Education voted out-of-town team scrimmages, ate and Taft School Graduate of the unanimously Monday night to saving$l,000in transportation fees. Class of 1958, will address the approve funding that would elimi- A total of $1,600 will be saved student body and faculty at the natea proposedpay-for-play sports through the donation of physical school's morning meeting today policy, as well as higher fees for the therapist services, and the schools (Thursday) from 9 to 9:45 a.m. in town's youth swimming program. will use an $8,000 co-pay fee from Bingham Auditorium, 110 Woo- The last round of cuts that fol- Pomperaug High School ice hockey dbury Road. lowed three budgetdefeats this year players. He will remark on his experi- prompted school financial officials TheboardalsoauthorizedSuper- ence as a student at Taft, present a to come up withaproposal to charge intendent of Schools Dinoo Dastur slide show of his extraordinary high school athletes $ 125 per sport, to seek at least $10,000 in private scientific work, and play a brief and to raise the cost of participating funding from potential sources videotape of the Nobel ceremony. on the age-group swim team.Three including Thomaston Savings Following his presentation, Dr. teachingpositions were eliminated, Bank, Litchfield Bancorp, the Gilman will remain at Taft during as well as plans to upgrade the Watertown Foundation and the Taft the day and talk with students and schoolwide computer system. School. faculty and tour the Lady Ivy Kwok To fend off pay-for-play, the The board's action "will allow Wu Science and Mathematics school board voted to eliminate the Center, Taft's new state of the art purchase of all sports equipment at (Continued on page 8) facility. A member of the faculty at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dr. Gilman was Special town meeting on selected in 1994 to receive theNobel Prize in physiology and medicine. Ledge Road power lines He won recognition for his land- A special town meeting will be held on Monday, November 16, at 7:30 mark discovery of the G-protein p.m. in the Polk School library to consider a $55,000 appropriation from component of basic cellular func- the general fund for improvements on Ledge Road in connection with tion and communication. Connecticut Light & Power Co.'s transmission line project. Dr. William Neaves, dean of In the spring, the town was made aware of CL&P's plans to install Southwestern Medical, cited Dr. transmission lines on Route 262 for improved service to the Echo Lake Gilman for a "breakthrough so Road industrial area, according to Town Manager Charlie O'Connor. The fundamental to medical science that area has been experiencing power losses recently and the installation Middle school pickup basketball teams from the area, and high school G-protein research has become one would provide the area with more juice. pickup volleyball squads, battled it out Sunday afternoon and evening atof today's hottest fields." CL&P was contacted to negotiate a more aesthetically pleasing plan thethirdannualNaturalPeerHelpersBasketbalUVolleyballTournament, The work for which Dr. Gilman that would entail installing the lines on Ledge Road, Mr. O'Connor wrote was recognized involves "mecha- in an October 30 memo to Town Council members. The council's Public held thisyear at Swift Junior HighSchoolinOakvUle.Intopphoto.aWestnisms by which cells communicate Works Subcommittee reviewed the plan with no objection. Side Middle School player from Waterbury lines up a free throw in Us with each other." Town employees would work on the project, Mr. O'Connor said, and game against Swift. West Side won the title match against the Eagles, 50- Ultimately, the work that Dr. CL&P would also contribute to the project. 27. In bottom photo, Watertown High volleyball players (on left side) Gilman has done will significantly prepare to return a volley against one of the Holy Cross High School improve the ability to design drugs teams. The Holy Cross No. 2 contingent captured the volleyball crown."more rationally, more specifically The tournament served as a fun way of raising funds for the annual to do just what you want then to and statewide peer educators conference that takes place in the spring at to avoid things that you don't want Holiday Hill in Cheshire. Both Watertown High and Swift have well- them to do," Dr. Neaves explained. developed peer helper programs. — Times Photos, Valuckas (Continued on page 6) Coaxing the blues out of excellent creative journey by Susan Faber the arts as a way of communicating "The blues do not offer a solu- The rhythm of the "blues" filled to others, organizers said. tion to human suffering, but they Carole Weaver'sclassroomatSwift Mr. Marra and other poets in- offer a resolution," Mr. Marra said Junior High School on a recent cluding Pit Pinegar, Davyn Ver- — an acceptance of pain, sickness Monday morning as "poet in resi- standig and Lonnie Black visited and death that is marked by grace dence" Reggie Marra helped sev- Swift's English classes on October and a defiant decision to preserve enth graders compose poems hav- 19, 26 and November 2, helping the human spirit. The blues provide ing to do with life's troubles. students write a series of poems an opportunity to express the diffi- The poetry lesson was part of that will be published later in a culties in our lives, in an honest, Project Poetry Live!, a collabora- school anthology. sometimes humorous and usually Swift Junior High School seventh grader Kimberly Carroll, center, tive effort of English and humani- A particular format — a stan- determined way. worked with poet-in-resident Reggie Marra, left, in Carole Weaver's tiesclasses with Litchfield Perform- dard blues stanza—is used to cre- The poetry created in the Swift English class recently as part of the regional Project Poetry Live! Mr. ing Arts, Education Connection and ate "blues" poems, Mr. Marra told classrooms can be a stepping stone the students, and is based on the Marra, who teaches in Connecticut and New York, describes himself assix participating school districts, toward further creativity, and moti- including Region 6, Waterbury, blues as a musical style. A poem vated students were selected to at- "poet and migrant educator." He was one of four poets who visited the Watertown, Winchester, Torring- that "speaks" about such topics as classrooms of Ms. Weaver, Rose Mary Brown, Marilyn Varno and Jim tend two-day poetry workshops on lon, Thomaston, and Litchfield. not getting along with parents, too November 9 and 10 at the Torring- FergusoninOctoberandNovember to help students explore thoughtsand In its sixth year, the mulu'disci- much homework, being treated ton Congregational Church. Stu- ideas through poetry. Project Poetry Live! focuses on American jazz this plinary program focuses on Ameri- unfairly, playing for a losing sports dents from the participating school year and will culminate in a student dance performance and art exhibit incan jazz, and students are exploring team, or too many rainy days could March. — Times Photo, Faber their thoughts and ideas through be considered a blues poem. 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