News
November 9,1995
Town residents cast votes for aldermen positions
Chris Knight
Staff Reporter
More than 1,000 residents throughout
^he Town of Elon College cast their votes on
Election Day Tuesday.
Four elected positions on the town’s
board of aldermen were up for grabs during
this year’s election.
After votes were tabulated Tuesday
light, incumbents Chuck Cantos, Beth
Schmidt, and Lawrence Slade had regained
their at-large seats in a four-way race with
•lon-incumbent Tom Dean.
Nell Snyder, running unopposed for an
tinexpired term, also won in Tuesday’s race.
“I am running for re-election because I
hke serving in this community. It’s a good
town. I really like serving the community as
alderman,” Slade said as votes were being
tabulated.
Similar sentiments were echoed by the
other incumbents.
“We are very proud of the town and
want to serve it to the best of our ability,” said
Cantos shortly after winning re-election.
Snyder had served as alderman for 18
years. “I’ve enjoyed it very much. I said if
I could get through the first four years I
wouldn’t run anymore, but I’ve enjoyed serv
ing the town so much,” she said after returns
were counted.
Schmidt said, “We are glad that the
people of Elon College feel that the board is
doing a good job and we look forward to
working with the community again.”
Residents of the 5,045 town came
throughout the day to the Elon College Fire
Department to vote. Officials said the voter
turnout was better than expected. The unof
ficial tally was 1,165 voters, despite
Tuesday’s inclement weather.
“It’s been a good response, considering
it’s just a town 'election,” said Frankie
Hubbard, the Republican judge for the elec
tion. She noted that state and federal elec
tions have traditionally brought larger turn
outs. State election laws make it mandatory
that each party have a judge present during
elections.
Hubbard, Democratic Judge Dorothy
Creene and Dee Atkinson, chief judge of
elections, were present throughout the day as
voters came to the polls.
Atkinson said, the judges become famil
iarized “with rules and regulations of voting
procedure,... help the board of elections se
lect the people to work the polls, ...and pick
up the supplies and voting machines” for
each election.
The town is governed by a six-member
board comprised of the mayor and five alder
men and each serving a four-year term. Elon
College Town Manager Mike Dula said the
board is staggered: three seats become open
every two years with the remainder of the
seats becoming available in the next election
two years afterward.
For the 1995 elections, there were four
aldermen seats being decided, rather than the
usual three. Incumbents Cantos, Slade and
Schmidt, and non-incumbent Dean were, the
candidates for three of the seats. The three
gaining the most votes won seats on the
board for four-year terms each.
Snyder had been appointed to fill out the
remainder of a four-year term after the death
of an alderman last year. She ran unopposed
for a two-year term.
Mayor of The Town of Elon College
Jerry Tolley and Town Alderman and Pro
vost of Elon College Gerald Francis, were
not on the ballot this year. Their two terms
will be up in November 1997.
The six-member board meets the second
Tuesday of each month in the Elon College
Municipal Building on Williamson Avenue.
Meetings are open to the public.
Sixth candidate interviewed for security and safety position
Jeff Wirick
Staff Reporter
The sixth candidate for the
''acant position of director of secu-
•■ity and safety wants a challenging
position at a private college.
Donald A. Kernler thinks Elon
College can provide him with this
, challenge.
Kernler, director of public
Safety at the University of Wiscon
sin-Superior, visited Elon for a day
interviews Nov. 7.
Kernler, who has worked for
the University of Wisconsin-Supe
rior since 1991, up-graded the com
missioned police force at the uni
versity and believes Elon would
benefit from a similar system.
“In order to provide the best
possible service to the students and
staff, a commissioned police force
would be the right answer,” Kernler
said.
Kernler also supports the use
of students within the department.
“I think students can be a valuable
asset to the security and safety
department,” he said.
“The more eyes and ears you
have out there, the better.”
Kerlner also said if selected he
would support crime prevention
and education programs, such as
self protection for women and date/
acquaintance rape protection.
Other programs Kerlner started
at the University of Wisconsin-Su
perior are Operation ID and an elec
tronic newsletter on E-mail that
updates students on department
events, crime watch, and gives
safety tips.
The original four candidates
who were interviewed on Elon’s
campus by several panels of stu
dents and faculty members are John
J. Hackett Jr., director of public
safety at Babson College in
Wellesley, Mass., Sylvia P.
Chillcott, director of public safety
at the Ringling School of Art and
Design in Sarasota, Fla., John Gar
ner, director of public safety at the
University of Portland and Norman
Wallace, assistant director of pub
lic safety at Villanova.
Joe Taylor, interim director of
security and safety and assistant
chief at Elon, was added to the list
of finalists in early October for the
permanent job.
A committee, headed by Vice
President of Business and Finance
Gerald Whittington, is in charge of
choosing the director of security
and safety and narrowed more than
100 applicants to six candidates in
September.
Whittington said he is not dis
missing the idea of other candi
dates in the future.
“It depends on the type of can
didates that we get,” Whittington
said. “We’re going to keep looking
until we find the right person.”
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