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BY SUSAN USHER
A plan adopted by the Brunswick
County Board of Education Thursday
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school system in all areas from student
learning to bub transportation.
Board members also hired William
Gurganious of New Hanover County
as the system's new transportation
director.
In developing the four-year
guidelines, school system administrators
will also devise "benchmarks"
for determining how well
the programs work. Superintendent
Gene Yarbrough told school board
members in a conference in his office
before a special meeting of the board
began Thursday evening in
Southport.
"We need benchmarks as we progress.
If we see we aren't successful,
we can always pull back," Yarbrough
said as he answered board
members' questions about the fouryear
plan in the office meeting.
The full board met with the
superintendent in his office for 10 to
15 minutes to discuss their agenda
before the board meeting began at
about 7:10 p.m. "I'm just going over
with them what we're going to do in
the meeting," he said of the office
conference.
Under the N.C. Open Meetings
Ocean Is I
LaDane Bullington, mayor of
Ocean Isle
Beach, has been
appointed to a jfe- 'fj
two-year tenn on , t \
the N.C. State
Capitol Building
ment was recomSk
Gov. Jimmy
Green and approved by the N.C.
Senate last week.
The nine-member authority
chooses the architects and engineers
and lets bids for all construction,
renovation and repair of state property
outside the university and
trnnNportnlion .systems. Five
menders are appointed by thegoverhor
and two by each house of the
legislature at the recommendation of
the body's leadership.
DA's Elect Easley
Michael Easley, district attorney
for the 13th _______
Judicial District, |HETjS
has elected vice
president and r
legislative chair- 47? W
man of the N.C.
District At- if
torneys' Associa- a ?
tion on July 15 at
a meeting of the HH mtk
association in ?* JaSm
Raleigh.
During his one-year term, one of
Easley's responsibilities will be lobbying
the legislature on behalf of
district attorneys statewide.
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I^eon Noorigian of Calabash I,odge
No. 2679 was recently recognized as a
newly elected exalted ruler at the
121st convention of the Grand Ixidge,
Benevolent and Protective Order of
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Under the four-year plan approved
by the board, county schools will
move to a mastery learning program.
in which students will show
mastery of one skill before moving on
to another, following curriculum
guides being developed for each
course and grade.
The checkpoints would indicate to
teachers how well students are doing
well before the end of the school year.
If they can't learn one way, Assistant
Superintendent Ed Lemon explained
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Karen Hewett, daughter of Danny
an{t Mary Etta
Hewett of Route
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been accepted in L
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treat.
She is a 1985
graduate of West Brunswick High
School.
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Betty J. Kelly, daughter of Mary J.
and James F. Kelly of Route 3,
Iceland, has been promoted in the
U.S. Army to the rank of specialist
four.
A 1982 graduate of North
wrunswicx High School, she Is a data
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would be switched to another mode of
instruction.
Within the next two years the
school system plans to begin offering
advanced studies for 10 to 15 percent
of the students in grades K-12, as
wen as a summer enricnmeni program.
A summer remedial program
is proposed for students in grades 1-8
who rank below the 25th percentile on
the state annual testing program.
Efforts will also be made to integrate
coursework. rather than
teaching each subject in isolation and
to increase computer-assisted learning
at all grade levels.
Sixth-graders would be moved into
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Noorigian, elected in March, took
office as Calabash lodge leader in
April. He Is one of more than 2,250 exalJ.vl
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Ashley Michele Marshall, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs.
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8 of Shallotte, was
third runner-up
VI in the Junior
ji Miss division of
the N.C. Miss
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held July 4-6 at
^ Meredith College
in Raleigh.
She represented Brunswick County
in the pageant, in which she also won
first place in division evening gown
competition.
A rising fifth grader at Shallotte
Middle School, she is 10 years old.
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Plan; Hires
self-contained classrooms this fall
and both Basal and Success and
Reading and Writing programs
would be included in the sixth-grade
reading program.
Other goals include improving student
test-taking skills and raising annual
test scores, improving supervisory
services for instructors, increasing
vocational sendees, expanding
athletic programs and support
services, providing effective learning
strategies in the Chapter 1 program,
improving federal job training
opportunities and improving graphic
arts capabilities.
In meeting these goals, the school
system plans to hire more general
and vocational counselors, decrease
the numbers of students in each
class, implement the state's career
ladder plan and performance evaluation
system for educators and, with
the help of a computerized fixed inventory
file, put all vehicles and
equipment on a scheduled replacement
plan.
In transportation, the system will
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drivers and preventive bus
maintenance and will take steps to
shorten the time students spend
riding buses.
A centralized purchasing system
begins this year under the plan, with
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former plant operations director
Randall (Randy) Worth of Shallotte
taking over as central purchasing
agent.
Superintendent Yarbrough said the
central purchasing system should
reduce delays in receiving material
as well as providing potential cost
savings of 20 to 25 percent. The office
would buy in bulk, using state contract
where available, beginning
with instructional materials tliat will
be warehoused in the maintenance
lai-uiues. acnoois anil/or individual
personnel would submit purchase
orders that could be filled possibly
within 24 hours.
For teachers, the plan also calls for
increased in-service training, improved
access to outside resources,
more supervisory help such as
demonstration teaching and
classroom assistance, and greater
use of co- or team-teaching.
In sports and athletics, P.E.
teachers will be certified in CPR this
year and will begin including CPR in
their classroom training. The school
system wants to initiate a middle
school football program in cooperation
with the high schools this fall.
Spring sports of baseball, track and
softball would be added the following
year and volleyball and tennis the
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Tri-County Cinderella Miss Robin
Ann Campbell,
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Mr.
Jim
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Beach, competes - - flB
for the title of In- 7
ternational Miss
Cinderella in
Miami, Fla., * '
Aug. 3-10. In the state pageant held
July 10-14 in Charlotte, she won the title
N.C. Cinderella Miss Photogenic
and was one of four contestants In the
10- to 12-year old division who won
payment of their entry fees in the
Miami event.
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third year, with coaching staff increases
as the program grows.
At the high schools, sports needs include
bleachers, additional tennis
courts and paving or repaving of
tracks.
In addition to Worth's change of
responsibilities, the board also hired
a transportation director Thursday
night.
New Director
William Gurganious. 32. of Castle
Hayne, has been in school transportation
for 13 vears. he said, workinu
his way from apprentice to supervisor.
Most recently he was a
mechanic/technician for the NewHanover
County Public Schools.
He plans to move to Brunswick
County, where his responsibilities
will include working with bus
drivers, operating the county garage
and moving to a system of preventive
maintenance on all vehicles, and
working with Bill Turner, assistant to
the superintendent, and with the
superintendent and principals on
matters such as bus routing.
He has worked with both adult and
teenage drivers in the past and said
he looks forward to working with
every driver in the system and the
garage staff.
"I'm tickled with the four-year progam,"
the Cape Fear Technical Institute
graduate said. "It gives me
something to work toward. We're going
to work as a team."
In other personnel action, the
board:
Hired Mary Blanton as media
coordinator at Iceland Middle School.
Approved transfers for Hetty
Smith of Shallotte from Iceland MidMiCOASTAL
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W1I.I.1AM GUKGANIOUS
die to Shallotte Middle School and for
P.E. teacher Shelley Payton from
Shallotte Middle to Bolivia Elementary.
Accepted the resignations of Billie
Hollar, Bolivia Elementary media
coordinator; and Tonja Spencer,
North Brunswick math teacher; and
two cafeteria workers, Dean Ester,
North Brunswick and Francis Gore,
West Brunswick.
Acknowledged official separation
from the system of William Bradley,
vocational education instructor at
Sluillottc Middle. He could not be offered
a contract for the 1985-86 term
because he did not renew his
teaching certificate within two years,
said Stephanna Tewey, assistant
superintendent in charge of personnel.
Approved l.inda Edwards,
Pamela Bruton and Brenda Suggs as
substitute teachers.
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