Parker Returns To
Schools Central Office
Jean Parker, a former school sys
tem administrator and elementary
school principal, has rejoined the
Brunswick County Schools ccntral
office staff as Chapter 1 supervisor
and testing analyst.
Ms. Parker, whose job-rclatcd
lawsuit against the school board re
mains pending, fills the post previ
ously held by Patricia Ward of
Shallotte. Mrs. Ward is now director
of the Chapter 1 and testing pro
grams and Ms. Parker's supervisor.
Personnel Director Ralph Wanl
said Tuesday Mrs. Ward assumed
the responsibilities of director, with
no change in pay, in a lateral move
when PR. Hankins moved from as
sociate superintendent to superin
tendent.
For the past two years Ms. Parker
has served as a guidance counselor
at Leland Middle School. Her latest
ransfer, effective Feb. 28, was ap
proved Monday by the Brunswick
County Board of Education along
with other personnel decisions by
staff.
During his tenure, former Super
intendent John A. Kaufhold had at
tempted to transfer Ms. Parker to a
counseling post at Shallotte Middle
School to satisfy requirements by
the Southern Association of Col
leges and Schools for system ac
creditation. The rules provide that
the principal be the highest paid
person on a school's staff; Ms. Par
ker was receiving a salary greater
than that of her principal.
The planned transfer prompted
the filing of grievances by both Ms.
Parker and the counselor in the slot;
both were allowed to remain in their
existing posts.
Still, school officials said the sal
ary problem had to be addressed;
hence Ms. Parker's most recent
transfer.
"We needed to do it for SACS,
but if it helps take a little heat of this
other thing, that's good, too," said
Superintendent Hankins Tuesday.
The "other thing" is a complaint
filed by Ms. Parker in Brunswick
County Superior Court in July 1989
against the Brunswick County
Board of Education and then Super
intendent John A. Kaufhold after
she was transferred from the central
office to the middle school.
The complaint seeks an order re
quiring the school board to offer her
employment in a supervisory or ad
ministrative position; damages in
excess of S 10,000 each for denial of
her rights and intentional infliction
of mental distress respectively; and
attorney fees.
Glen Peterson, attorney for the
school board, said that, at this point,
"no comprehensive settlement has
been reached as to all parties" to the
suit.
In the complaint Ms. Parker as
serted her transfer to Leland Middle
School for the 1989-90 school year
was made against her will, violated
her right to due process and in ef
fect, was a demotion that resulted in
a loss of rank and total compensa
tion because of a shortened pay year
and her purported career status as a
principal.
She also claimed Kaufhold had
engaged in a "deliberate . . . course
of conduct designed to degrade, in
sult and harass" her.
Ms. Parker was hired in July
1984 as principal of Waccamaw
Elementary School, a position she
held for two years. Ms. Parker con
tended she had attained career status
in the system as a principal because
she was not notified prior to June 1,
1986, that she would not have that
post for a third year. She was noti
fied of the change in post in July af
ter the start of the next fiscal year.
For the 1986-87 school year she
served as administrative liaison for
the school system; in 1987-88, as
director of internal services, and in
1988-89, as interim community
school coordinator.
An order filed by Judge David G.
Wall in Brunswick County District
Court Feb. 21 holds open for future
hearing the question of whether Ms.
Parker had attained career status as
a principal rather than teacher in
Brunswick County or the system
where she worked previously. Ms.
Parker had sought a summary judg
ment on the issue, but Wall said
there were unresolved factual issues
that needed to be decided first.
In other personnel action the
board approved:
? Hiring, at Shallotte Middle,
Memory Goforth of Sunset Beach as
an interim art teacher at and Eunice
Abercrombie of Holden Beach as an
interim special education teacher for
the balance of the school year.
? Hiring, at Waccamaw Elementary,
Linda Atkinson of Ash as an inter
im part-time custodian until the end
of the year.
?Listing of these substitute teach
ers: David Baker, Wilmington;
Elizabeth Erickson, Carolina Beach;
Shirley Pait, Sandy Creek; Henry
Randolph, Shallouc; Richard Ray
burn, Long Beach; Brcnda Carter,
Sunset Harbor; Terri Mitchell, Sup
ply; David Thrailkill, Southport; and
Carol Walters, Sunset Beach.
Students Con Purchase
Milk, Fruit At School
BY SUSAN USHER
Yes, by golly, students can buy
milk ? and fruit ? in the school cafe
teria without buying a plate dinner.
That's the ? he hopes ? final word
from Superintendent of Schools P.R.
Hankins.
Monday night, during a two-hour
meeting at North Brunswick High
School, Hankins told members of
the Brunswick County Board of
Education that he intends to lay to
rest confusion over school system
practices regarding milk sales.
At a meeting last year at Union
Primary School, a parent in the au
dience asked why students who
brought their lunches from home
could not buy milk in the school
cafeteria.
According to Child Nutrition Di
rector Sherryl Johnson, single-item
sales were not allowed except by stu
dents who buy dinners. The guide
line was established as a means of
e.Kouraging students to buy full
meals. Plate lunches, especially
those provided through the federal
Staff Encouraged
To Be Creative
The entire staff of Bolivia Ele
mentary School recently participat
ed in a creative drama workshop.
Facilitator Gloria Yount, staff de
velopment director for the county
schools, involved staff in activities
designed to help them learn to ex
tend the use of video clips, idioms
and other tools as the basis for skits,
illustrations and writings.
The group closed with a sit-on
the-floor seminar in the media center
for discussion of excerpts from Al
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At that time. Superintendent Han
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On checking, Hankins said in a
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except for milk and fruit. We don't
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But that initial complaint has been
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two board members who asked cafe
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iting the schools. All three reported
the same response: they were told
milk could not be purchased as a
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Hankins said the word simply
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He said he plans to get a letter
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ating the policy. "I'm going to have
r
to say that in simple language so
thai it will be clear."
If that doesn't work, he added,
"I'll go and personally visit the each
school."
In other routine business, the
board:
? Rescheduled its April 1 meeting
for April 8 at 6:30 p.m. at Bolivia
Elementary School, noting the Eas
ter break is set April 1-5, with the
schools and central office closed.
? Heard a progress report from the
policy revision committee and a re
port on an IBM conference attended
by the superintendent. He said he
focuscd on networking and on look
ing at ways of teaching learning in
the classroom, taking full advantage
of computer technology. Students
need basic familiarity with comput
ers today on entering the job mar
ket, he said.
?After a presentation by represen
tative Jim Fortune, approved addi
tional benefit options for employees
to shelter a portion of their income
from taxes.
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A GROUP OF SHALLOTTE AREA RESIDENTS want to turn the former Shallotte Presbyterian
Church building into a community center.
Shallotte Group Wants To Convert
Old Church Into Community Center
BY DOUG RUTTER
A small group of Shallottc area
residents is interested in converting
the old Shallottc Presbyterian
Church into a community center that
could be used for civic group meet
ings, continuing education classes
and arts functions.
"I think the idea is great," said
Virginia "Bunny" Lauzon, one of
the people involved in the project.
"Here's a building that could meet
the needs of several organizations."
Mrs. Lauzon said the proposed
center could serve as a focal point
for community afTairs. It could be
used to meet the area's social, edu
cational and artistic needs and serve
as a base for supervised youth activ
ities.
She said the center could be used
for everything from scout meetings
to performing and visual arts
events. "I just think that building
has so many possibilities."
Mrs. Lauzon, who is working on
the project with Dr. Marcus Wil
liams and his wife, Penny, said the
group plans to find out if Shallolte
Aldermen would support the pro
posal and if the town would help
purchase the church.
The group has sent a letter outlin
ing their proposal to Shallottc May
or Sarah Tripp. The board of alder
men was scheduled to discuss the
proposal at its meeting Wednesday
night
Mrs. Lauzon said the new Shal
lottc Presbyterian Church off U.S. 17
at the south end of Shallottc is nearly
completed, and the old church on
Sellers Drive is up for sale.
The old church consists of two
buildings that sit on about one acre
of land. The main building includes
4,148 square feet, and a smaller
building has 632 square feet of en
closed space.
Mrs. Lauzon said the real estate
company selling the property is ask
ing for 5190,000. 'The building is
there and the price is right," she
said. "It would certainly take care of
a lot of organizations that need a
home."
If the Town of Shallotte can't af
ford to help pay for the church, Mrs.
Lauzon said fund-raising events
could be an option. :it think a com
munity effort could get it off the
ground. We're too big a towr. not to
have a place like that."
Mrs. Lauzon, a local artist who
teaches continuing education art
classes through Brunswick Com
munity College, said the building
could help with the formation of an
arts council in the South Brunswick
Islands area.
The Brunswick County Arts
Council is oriented too much to
ward Southport, she said, because
that area of the county has galleries
?
and other facilities for arts func
tions.
Mrs. Lauzon said arts supporters
in the Shallotte area cannot apply
for grassroots funds because they
don't have a formal arts council or a
building to use on a regular basis.
Without a building, she said it's dif
ficult to build an active arts council.
Mrs. Lauzon said Shallotte is the
best place for a community center
since it is the center of the South
Brunswick Islands area, which in
cludes Calabash, Sunset Beach,
Ocean Isle Beach and Holden
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