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Vol. 64 - No. 34
The weather Tuesday: high
64, low 44, hum. 65 percent. As
Robert Dedmondt says, "A
beautiful day."
Let's talk about court results.
Should The Bulletin publish
them?
We at The Bulletin would like
to know your thoughts on the
subject, and we invite you to jot
us a note or give us a call.
The case can be made for
printing court results. They are
public record. Anyone has the
right during the clerk's office
hours to look up most business
of the court.
The Bulletin has printed court
results for decades... Even if
they were not printed in The
Bulletin, people would always
find ways to learn what is hap
pening in court. Perhaps, by
printing the facts, truth al least
catches up with most rumors,
and perhaps even overtakes a
few.
People have a right to know
what's going on in their com
munity, their region, their state
and their nation. An open court
is guaranteed in the Constitu
tion. And people use the court
results in understanding rela
tionships and business dealings.
A strong case against court
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frlntod in the THERMAL BELT of Western North Cerollna
TRYON, N. C. 28782
Accelerated School
Concept Explained
Suppose this bulletin just
came across the wire: Radi
cal teachers have taken over
Mill Spring Elementary School.
They've been openly meeting
before and after school for the
last couple of years and bra
zenly decided to change every
thing.
And they have changed
everything - even the name of
the school to Mill Spring
Accelerated School. Even the
principal’s functional title has
changed from "administrator" to
"facilitator," or helper.
Film at 11.
Actually, it was slides, not
film, which documented the
changes for about 30 persons at
the E.P.I.C. meeting Tuesday
niglit at Isothermal Community
College.
The changes arc so exciting,
Principal Rick Howell said he
has been "floating on air" for
the past 24 months. His is one
of only 40 schools in the Uni
ted States using the "accelerated
school" concept, and the only
one in North Carolina.
The concept was discovered
by Polk County teachers
already in use in California. But
the methods used here were
tailor-made by Mill Spring
teachers for Mill Spring school
Sth grade teacher Linda Hardin
told the gathering.
Several slogans were adopted
by the faculty which give
glimpses of the school's trans-
(Continued On Back Page)
24 Pages Today
THURSDAY, MARCH 21,1991
20C Per Copy
Peter Hahn, (left) inducted Into Second Wind
Hahn Elected To Second Wind
Peter, Hahn, originator and
first president of the Polk
County Dispute Settlement
Center, was elected to the Sec
ond Wind Hall of Fame at a
meeting of the Board of Direc
tors conducted by Homer
Carder, current president of
PCDSC, in the Board of Edu
cation conference room at
Stearns School on March 15.
Mr. Hahn was the guiding
force behind the origin of the
Dispute Settlement Center. He
made the original arrangements
with the court and law authori
ties to establish this valuable
community service, and contin
ues to serve it as a director and
active mediator.
, Hc W f a ^p ne ° f thc originators,
also, of Die Friendship Council
scrvcs 35 thc hca '
n 118 Education Committee. For
Friendship Council Mr.
Hahn initiated the tutoring ser
vice which now utilizes 18
volunteers to conduct tutoring
programs in area schools.
An area resident since
December 1982, Mr. Hahn lives
with his wife, Lili, on Rippey
Rd. in Lynn. Lili is also active
as a mediator in the Dispute
Settlement Center, and as a
writer and U.N. observer.
Mr. Hahn's other considerable
pubic serx ice to the community
includes service as a director of
FISH, a past program chairman
of the Tryon Rotary Club and a
fund raiser for the Polk County
Campus of Isothermal Commu
nity College.
A 1967 graduate of Adelphi
University on Long Island and
thc Leather Sellers Institute in
England, Peter served as man
ager of thc Commodities
Department of Balfour-McLain
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