International Year of the Child Parade in Carbondale
Children in Carbondale celebrated the United Nations International Year of the Child with costumes and decorations in a parade and fair on Sunday. Freddy Fire horse sponsored by the Marion State fire marshal’s office promoted fire safety, while Daphne Lampking a Southern Illinois University Carbondale student, is Freddy’s true identity. The event drew bicyclists pompon girls and clowns along Sunset Drive and Emerald Lane, with some youngsters receiving free rides including 5 year old Keith Echols of MUTPHYSDOTO.
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Carbondale
Freddy Firehorse
Marion
Daphne Lampking
Freddy
Sunset Drive
Carbondale battles bill shift on handicapped students
Carbondale school districts push amendments to a special education bill that would make home districts or placing agencies cover costs for educating handicapped children placed outside the district. If enacted, Carbondale would educate resident wards and contract with other districts for nonresidents, with a possible $300,000 bill avoided only by amendment.
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Jean Ness
Carbondale
Don Stricklin
Jackson County
Styrest Nursing Home
Stricklin
Kenneth Buzbee
Carbondale Schools
Marvin Ott
Special Education Cooperative
Truant officers adapt as skipping persists in Illinois county
Jean Ness of the Southern Illinoisan reports Williamson County truant officers Les McCollum and John Fisher continue to handle truancy with letters and conferences before courts. They use peer counseling and community services, noting 85 to 90 percent of parents cooperate, while eighth and ninth graders and dropouts remain key challenges.
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Ly Jean Ness
Les McCollum
Williamson County
McCollum
John Fisher
Bob Howerton
Howerton
Illinois
Youth Services Bureau
Child and Family Services
John A. Logan College
Fisher
SIU chancellor search narrows to 20 to 40 candidates
The SIUC Chancellor Search Assistance Council has cut the candidate pool from 106 to 20 to 40. Chairman Keith Sanders says exact numbers will be revealed after the board meeting in Carbondale. A May 23 session aims to further trim to 8 to 12 names while the board retains final naming authority.
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Frank Suhadolnik
Southern Ilinoisan
Southern Illinois University Chancellor Search Assistance Council
Keith Sanders
Sanders
SIU Board of Trustees
Carbondale
Board of Trustees
SIUC
William Simeone
Search Council
Barbara Spears
Rend Lake College Professor Receives NEH Summer Seminar Honor
Rend Lake College professor Richard Doherty, a social science instructor and Illinois Social Science Association board member, was selected by the National Endowment for the Humanities to attend an eight week summer seminar at Columbia University in New York. The Rend Lake Student Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa named him a Distinguished Educator.
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Rend Lake College
Richard Doherty
National Endowment For the Humanities
Columbia University
New
Doherty
The
Ilinois Social Science Association
RSC
Phi Theta Kappa
Area students win four year National Merit Scholarships
Three area high school students earned four year National Merit Scholarships totaling 1,917 nationwide recipients. Wayne C. Jones of Marion High School will study music at Indiana University Bloomington. Constance P. Snyder of Carbondale Community High School will attend Washington University in St Louis for theater. Alex Melchers of Chester High School will major in engineering at the University of Missouri Rolla. Scholarships ranged from 1000 to 6000 dollars.
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Wayne C. Jones
Carbondale
Marion High School
Indiana University- Bloomington
Jones
Marion
Marion Band
Constance P. Snyder
Carbondale Community High School
Washington University
St. Louis
Miss Snyder
Ciety
Chester High School
Alex Melchers
Ellis Grove
University of Missouri-Rolla
Melchers
Nashville denies Moonie solicitation permit
Nashville officials refused a doorstep solicitation permit to the Moonies led by Rev Sun Myung Moon after prior complaints about pressure tactics and street solicitations. Moonie Frank Harris plans to appeal the denial and may seek legal action.
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Nashville, Ill
Moonies
Sun Myung Moon
Nashville
Albert Gilter
Jim Hale
Moonie Frank Harris
Harris
Hale
Carbondale minister acts as informal council chaplain
The Rev. Duane Lanchester of Carbondale's First Presbyterian Church has for eight years given invocations at city council meetings. He aims to tie prayers to council agenda, urging focus on social issues and civic responsibility while juggling community involvement and his 550-member congregation.
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Tom Woolf
Carbondale
Duane Lanchester
First Presbyterian Church
Lanchester
White Plains
N.Y
Caldwell
Idaho
Washington
Washington State University
Florida State University
Princeton Theological Seminary
University of Michigan
Fort Sanders United Presbyterian Church
University of Tennessee
Knoxville
Halfway House of
Westchester
Council of Churches of
Greater White Plains
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