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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1977
Page
5
Charles Reamer discusses legibility challenges with handwriting and the advantages of typewriters and pens. He recalls lessons from school, printing ability, and notable misreadings caused by poor penmanship, including a fuel spill error and a bank notice that triggered an alarm.
Teachers adapt lessons to digital clocks as more students lack traditional timepieces at home. They must still teach concepts of hour and minute hands and determine recess, lunch, and dismissal times, a skill once learned at home.
Dr. Drewrey McDaniel is named director of the School of Radio-Television at Ohio University by Dean John Wilhelm following a faculty selection. The school, with 570 broadcasting majors, has McDaniel who has served as acting director for a year and holds a PhD from OU.
Time nears for 1977 license plate stickers in Ohio. Beginning Tuesday non passenger vehicle owners can obtain their stickers with deadlines by May 31. Last name groups A through K pick up in April and L through Z in May.
Shelly Kleinman reports on OU Government Department internship in Athens placing 11 students this quarter and 18 next quarter in roles with Mayor Barrett and local agencies. Interns earn college credit, work on projects like flood insurance and housing rent, and may help form a proposed Institute for Local and Rural Government to train students and serve area residents.
The Athens County Regional Planning Commission will wait for its solid waste plan completion before acting on the proposed 550 Sanitary Landfill in Ames. Chairman Don Campbell says the study, due by June 30, will guide positions as the EPA has yet to approve or disapprove the project. The landfill operators plan continued preparations despite the delay. Two Athens students appear on Indiana University Bloomington’s dean list.
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