The Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 98, No. 161, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 17, 1991 Page: 3 of 12
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Perry Daily Journal
98th Year — No. 161 Saturday, Aug. 17, 1991 (AP) Means Associated Press
Perry, Oklahoma 25 cents
Council To Award
Water Plant
Contract Monday
The city council plans to proceed to There will be actions on two items of
award a water plant construction con- adjust the budget for the water project
tract in a meeting at 7:30 p.m. Monday fund. This involves some expenses from
at City Hall, the past year’s budget and transfer of
Bids for construction of the plant were funds from other revenue sources to
opened July 31. Walters Morgan Con- make sure sufficient funds are on hand
struction Co. of Manhattan, Kan., was to award a water plant construction
apparent low bidder at $2,734,506.40. The contract.
council delayed selection of a successful Purchase of furnishings for the new
bidder in the Aug. 5 meeting pending police station will be discussed again,
some tinkering with the budget. Rear- This matter had been discussed Aug. 5.
ranging the budget by moving funds Bids also will be opened for a new car for
about has become an action of almost the police department.
each council session. Request will be heard to buy three
The council has a consent agenda for typewriters for City Hall at a cost not to
Monday. These items can be acted upon exceed $1,500.
in one action providing all members of Arlan Houghton will be considered for
e council agree. Consent agenda items appointment as a new member of the air-
are approval of the city clerk and treas- port board
urer reports, approval of Aug. 5 meeting Two employes, who have been work-
minutes, approval of contract with Mrs. ing in required probationary periods, will
Edna Luttrell for purchase of two lots for be considered for permanent employe
$7,000 in the Hughes-Sorrell addition and status in an executive session. The em-
approving Kathy Layton, resigned police ployes are Judy Griffin, parks depart-
dispatcher, receiving approximately ment, and Terri Flowers, water depart-
$6,580 in retirement funds in a lump sum, ment.
Sth Anniversary Of
Edmond Massacre
PERRY RESIDENTS WERE among those who recently graduated
from Indian Meridian Vo-Tech Center’s practical nursing program.
Each was presented a diploma by David Hildebrandt. president of the
board of education at IM. After successfid completion of the Oklahoma
State Board of Nurse Registration and Nursing Education licensing
examination, the graduates will become Licensed Practical Nurses.
Shown, from left, are Jan Kukuk, Catherine Pritchett, Lisa Boyd and
Lana Reaves. Mrs. Reaves and Miss Pritchett are employed at
Stillwater Medical Center and Mrs. Kukuk and Miss Boyd are
employees of Perry Memorial hospital. Another local nursing program
graduate was Chris Adkins, Morrison, not pictured.
Faculty And Support
Workers Listed For
1991-92 School Term
Complete listing of faculty, support workers and their cial education: Anita Musshafen and Shelly Mack
assignments for the 1991-92 term have been announced by Librarian: Becky Moran; kindergarten through grade
Larry Fry, superintendent of Perry schools. four music: Todd Harris; humanities and gifted- Miriam
Teachers will go on duty Monday for their annual pre- Lambert; instrumental music: Ray Nimmo and Mike Phe-
term in-service meetings. First day of school will be lan; remedial reading: Donna Kapka and Pam Bendure:
ednesday. , . . . learning lab: Jennifer Nelson; and counselor: Myke Seals,
n The school day will begin at 8:15 a.m. for children en- Support personnel: Teacher assistants: Beth Lowry
rolled at elementary. Classes will be dismissed at 3:05 p.m. Donna Rieman, Glenda Holdge and Susan Richardson-’
The school day will begin at 8.10 a.m. for junior and senior cafeteria: Jeanie McNabb, Faye Oakley, Ann Steichen
high school students and classes will be dismissed at 3:10 Mary Williams, Lois Luthye, Gail Hake, Melva Hoskins and
Pm’ , . . Patti Sylvester; building maintenance: Janice Doggett,
General improvements have been made during the John Berg and Nancy Schwab; and secretaries: Janice Ed-
summer at regular school buildings in the system. Three wards and Gale Fry.
portable buildings have been moved in at the north side of Administration: Principal: Delbert Daniel and ad-
the elementary cafetorium for use until a new school build- ministrative assistant, Mark Dolezal.
ing is completed at the west end of Kaw street.
Plans call for construction of a new middle school to erry Junior High
begin in October. Estimate is 300 working days needed for Administration: Principal: Ron Cunningham; and
completion, counselor: Cheryl Butler.
briefly
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SALVATION ARMY
TRUCK DUE HERE
A Salvation Army truck
will be in Perry on Wednes-
day to receive miscellan-
eous contributions.
Those who have some-
thing to give may telephone
the Chamber of Commerce
office, 336-4684.
Enrollment in Perry schools so far is at 1,112 students, Certified staff: Special services: Nancy Adkisson; phy-
which at this time is a tittle below that of the past school sical education, Quest and athletics: Joyce Anderson; Eng-
term. However, there are always some additional enroll- lish eight and newspaper staff: Carol Bluethman; English
ments in immediate days before start of school and in the nine: Sherri Doughty; English seven: Joan Endicott; voca-
first week of classwork. tional home economics: Cloyann Fent; social studies: Ken-
Following is a list of school grades and number of stu- neth Frank,
dents enrolled so far:
ROTARY TO HEAR
DISTRICT GOVERNOR
Oscar Heuser of Okla-
homa, governor of Rotary
International district 575,
will speak to the Perry club
Monday noon at the Cher-
okee Strip Restaurant.
It will be the governor’s
annual visit to the club at
which time he will also meet
with officers and chairmen
of avenues of service.
y Cavin, who was on the scene that
trAssociated Press Writer August morning in his capacity as police
EDMOND, Okla. (AP) — On Tuesday spokesman, can’t discuss details about
morning employees of the main post of- the department because of the pending
ficein Edmond will file into work and go litigation. But it affected him personal-
to their stations, as usual. But it won’t be ly. One of the victims, Mike Rockne, was
just another day at the office, a close friend
Tuesday is Aug. 20, the fifth anniver- Ra u
sary of the worst one-day m ass killin g in Rockne was one of the first people kill-
state history. It’s been five years since ed he was in supervisor Rick Esser’s
Patrick Sherrill, a postal employee, office when Sherrill, disgruntled about a
walked into the post office and began recentevalnation of his work, walked in
shooting at co-workers, and opened fire. .
He killed 14 of his colleagues. Six were evocknets .farm y used tolvacation
wounded. Sherrill ended the siege by every year with Cavin’s family. , •
shooting himself in the head. Iv Tthada traumatic effect on my fami-
The whole thing lasted only a few Wstoo because Mike was very good with
minutes. The memories will last forever, children," Cavin said. He would always
"The incident will never be forgotten forthipptookialong time
in this community or within this police misses Mike we d over it. She still
department,” said Capt. Ron Cavin, • .
spokesman for the Edmond Police Rockne’s widow, Linda, is just now
Department. “It’s a tragedy of such thinking about going back to work. She
magnitude, it will always be with us." used to work for the Internal Revenue
The police department’s handling of Service, and had continued working for
the case drew criticism and, eventually, several months after the shooting. Then
some lawsuits. There were complaints she quit to be at home with her son. Da-
about the amount of time it took poUce who was 7 at the time.
to respond and about the fact no officers " I thought he needed me more than I
entered the building until all the gunfire ne e died to be working, she said. "I try
inside had stopped 6 to make his life as normal as possible.
There were no such complaints on New Right now I’m at the point where it’s pro-
Year’s Day or this year when a man bably time to 80 back to work and do
crashed his car into the front the Wal- SIA 1Et t ,
, 1She lives111 Oklahoma City now, hav-
Mart store and then walked in wielding ing moved from their home in Edmond
a shotgun. The first officer arrived in less "The house, it had a lot of memories in
than 30 seconds; within * minute and 3 it,” she said. “It was something Mike
half, the man had been apprehended, and I had done together."
Was that a result of the post office She and Damien went through in-
massacre? Cavin said only that each 6
case is different, (continued on pg. 7
Special services and yearbook: C. Lynn Hodge; com-
puters and athletics: Raydon Leaton; science seven: Car-
olyn Luthye; science nine: PhillipMusshafen; librarian and
English: Diana Noteware; band: Mike Phelan; math and
athletics: Kim Powell; math: Dana Sherman; athletic
director and wordshop: Leonard Shelton; math: Nevilyn
Throckmorton; social studies and athletics: Mel Wester-
man; science eight: Melisa Westerman; social studies,
computers and athletics: Kyle Wood; and technology edu-
cation and athletics: Jeff Zagar.
Support personnel: Secretary: Bev Coldiron; custodial:
Wayne Courtright and K. C. Dawes; teacher aides: Sara
Lou Dolezal and Darelyn Miner; and cafeteria: Supervisor:
Cookie Manning; and workers: Vivian Ankle, Debbie Car-
din, Joan Houska, Virginia Slay and Nancy Treiner.
All school administrators are returning to their posts. Perry High School
These include Larry Fry, superintendent; Bill Rotter, high Administration: Superintendent: Larry Fry; principal:
school principal; Ron Cunningham, junior high principal; Bill Rotter; counselor: Rhonda Stevens; and athletic direc-
Delbert Daniel, elementary school principal; and Mark tor: Leonard Shelton.
Dolezal, administrative assistant at the elementary school. Support personnel: Secretary, principal’s office: An-
Following is a listing by schools of members of the na Shelton; financial secretary: Janice Hansen; executive
faculty and support workers: secretary, superintendent's office: Carole Barnett; recep-
Perry Elementary tionist, superintendent’s office: Tamara Kelly; and custo-
Kindergarten: Fran Lathrop and Carol Barry; first dians: Dean Timmons, Inez Timmons, Maxine Cotner and
grade: Helen Fuller, Dorene Pense, Janis Jones, Pat Cook, Chris Kamp.
Leasa Hansen, Carolyn Keating and Shirley Elliott; sec- Faculty: Social studies and athletics: Ralph Baker;
ond grade: Jeff Sullins, Rita Bluma, Gina Bolay, Pam Cun- sophomore English and psychology: Joan Breshears;
ningham and Alisha Kirtley; third grade: Jonna Martin, algebra: Debby Brown; German and librarian: Sherill Car-
Nancy Zavodny, Linda Doolen, Linda Dolezal and Page others; learning disabled: Andy Credille; business: Willa
Davidson. Dalrymple; chemistry and physics: Glen Elliott; home
Fourth grade: Ranay Roth, JuneStacy, Marilyn Ewy, economics: Cloyann Fent.
Kathy Chrz and Lana Day; fifth grade: Jean Crider, Vir- Art: Jim Garvey; trigonometry, calculus and comput-
ginia Slaton, Rosa Friedemann and Mike Kinnamon; sixth er: Earl Hicks; social studies: Kerri Johnson; social studies
grade: Doug Foster, Kynda Smith, Mary Kaye Rogers and and athletics: Les Justus; vocational agriculture: Bob Mit-
Janet Brand; physical education: Madelyn Kinnamon; tasch; senior English and economics: Judy Nicholas; band:
speech therapy: Deana Hardy and Rhonda Robinson; spe- Ray Nimmo and Mike Phelan; general math and algebra:
Kim Powell; Spanish: Valerie Pyle.
Kindergarten
First
Second
Third
Fourth
Fifth
Sixth
Seventh
Eighth
Ninth
Sophomores
Juniors
Seniors
Totals
90
132
85
108
107
81
96
99
73
88
90
77
84
1,112
LESSON LEADERS
TO MEET THURSDAY
“Addictive Personalities"
will be subject for an exten-
sion homemakers lesson
leaders training meeting at
10 a.m. Thursday at the
women’s fair building.
Speaker for the training
meeting will be Wayne Mat-
thews, state family life spe-
cialist for the OSU extension
service.
This same program will
be presented in the noon
hour Thursday at the Char-
les Machine Works for con-
venience of working people.
The subject will be the topic
for training at homemakers
2-Day Workshop
Set For School
Personnel
Perry school faculty
members and support work-
ers will take part in a two-
day in-service workshop
Monday and Tuesday to
prepare for the school term
group meetings in Septem- beginning Wednesday.
ber.
FOUR HOMEMAKERS
GROUPS TO MEET
Four homemakers groups
Plans for the workshop
were announced Saturday
by Larry Fry, superinten-
dent of schools. Coffee and
doughnuts will be served
have meetings on schedule from 8 to 8:30 a.m. Monday
for the coming week. in the junior high cafeteria.
Ladies of 76 will meet An hour and a half orien-
Monday at the home of Mrs. tation period is set from 8:30 •
Betty Dillon with Mrs. Fran- to 10 a.m. This meeting will
cis Webb in charge of the be in charge of Fry. School
lesson. Sumner also will employees will sign their
meet Monday. Mrs. Imo- contracts at this meeting,
gene Zemp will be hostess Walter Rittle, represen-
and lesson leader will be ting Oklahoma Employees
the junior high school cafe- teria insurance plan at 8:30
teria. Guest speaker will be a.m.
Rick Brinkley, Collinsville, Anita Boone, from the
a motivational speaker. He state department of educa-
will present a discussion titl- tion, will be speaker in a
ed: “Where Are You Head- staff development session
ed?” from 9 a.m. to noon. She will
Tuesday's events will speak abut “Opportunity for
begin at 8 a.m. with coffee Excellence — Gifted.”
and doughnuts for all Teachers will have lunch
employes. Kent McLaurin on their own and work in
of American Fidelity their classrooms to prepare
Assurance Co. will address for Wednesday, the first day
school people about a cafe- of school.
Today’s Prayer
Heavenly Father, how thankful we are for
all Your loving care and provision for our lives.
You are interested in everything we do and are.
Your resources are sufficient for all our needs.
Keep us ever aware that we are Your children.
Amen.
Social studies and athletics: Rocky Scott; basic Eng-
lish, speech and vocal music: Ann Tripp; biology, psysiol-
ogy and botany: Fred Waltermire; geometry and applied
math: Danny Williams; junior English and cheerleading:
Kayla Williams; drivers education and athletics: Lonnie
York; typing, keyboarding and yearbook: Sharon Yost; and
technology education and shop: Jeff Zagar.
Transportation: Director: Jim Wolff; mechanic: Bob
Frye; drivers: John Berg, Evelyn Chiasson, BUI Chrz, Bev-
erly Dunn, Judy Golay, Earlene MendenhaU and Joniece
Wilson.
Mrs. Alta Frick.
Black Bear will meet
Tuesday at the home of Mrs.
Lena Appelbaum and lesson
leader will be Mrs. Rosie
Dean. Mrs. Chris Short will
be hostess for the Bliss
meeting Wednesday. Lesson
leader will be Mrs. Mickey
Robinson.
Group Insurance, will speak
at 10 a.m. Teachers will
have lunch on their own at
SUNDAY
religious services
Assembly of God church — Morning worship, 10:30 a.m.
Calvary Baptist church — Morning worship, 11 a.m.
First Baptist church — Morning worship, 10:45 a.m.
Grace Baptist church — Morning worship, 10:45 a.m.
St. Rosa of Lima Catholic church — Masses, 5:30 p.m. Saturday and
Classroom Teachers asso- 10:30 a.m.:Sunday. _
. . . First Christian church — Morning worship, 1t:2( a.m Sermnn
nation members will meet “Live Life.” " — sermon,
noon. From 1 to 2 p.m.,
with Barbara Smith, pres-
ident of the Oklahoma Edu-
cation Association.
Teachers will meet with
building principals at 2 p.m.
Church of Christ - Morning worship, 10 a.m.
St. Mark's Episcopal church — Morning worship, 10 a.m.
House of Prayer — Morning worship, 11 a.m.
Lighthouse Christian center — Morning worship, 10:15 p.m.
Christ Lutheran church — Morning worship, 8 a.m. and 10:15. m
Sermon, "The Way Of Truth."
Zion Lutheran church — Morning worship, 10 a.m., Sermon
ADULT LEADERS
OF 4-H TO MEET
Noble county 4-H Adult
Leaders association will
(continued on pg. 7
at buildings in which they Careful How You Walk."
teach First United Methodist church — Morning worship, 10:50 a.m
A . . , mon, "A Hard Teaching."
All school employees and Church of the Nazarene - Morning worship, 10:45 a.m., Sermon
their spouses will attend a "Why Do Some Children Raisedin Christian Homes Stray From Godt"
banquet at Rn m Monday at First Presbyterian church - Morning worship, 10:30 a.m.
banquet b p.m. Monday at United Methodist church, Lucien - Morning worship, 9:30 a.m.
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