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DECA Students Garner 92 Awards At New Jersey Central Region Event

SCOTCH PLAINS – The Scotch PlainsFanwood High School DECA Chapter, an association of marketing students, received 92 awards including trophies at their New Jersey Central Region competitions held at Middlesex County College.

Competing with over 800 students from 25 schools, in marketing competency based evaluations, the SPF Chapter’s award total was the most in their 30year history.

The competitions consist of objective testing of instructional areas taught in the marketing class and role play situations based on case studies of actual business problems in such areas as selling, promotions, management, basic skills, advertising and market research.

The overall First Place awards winners included: senior Nathan Jones in Food Marketing; juniors Chris Gawryluk and David Larkin in Hospitality Management, junior Andrew Elko in Marketing Management; seniors Julie Lowen and Jane Shih in Travel & Tourism Marketing; senior Megan Kiel in Business Services Marketing; senior Becky Vilim in Quick Service Restaurant Management; and senior Lauren Regenthal in Apparel & Accessory Management.

The Second Place winners were: seniors Daniel Goerhy in Apparel & Accessories; Jackie Sanders in Retail Merchandising Marketing; RJ Milligan in Vehicle & Petroleum Marketing; juniors Rob Bugg and Eric Konzelman in Financial Services Management; Jessica LoBrace in Apparel & Accessories Associate Level; Doug Gillie and James McClintock in Sports & Entertainment Marketing, and sophomore Matthew Vanderheyden in Retail Merchandising Associate.

The SPF Quiz Bowl Team of Rob Bugg, Nathan Jones, RJ Raszka and RJ Milligan also earned Second Place.Third Place awards were given to seniors Jennifer Miller and Sarah Vilim for Hospitality Management; Robert GiordanoforMarketingManagement; juniors Sandra Franco for Full Service Restaurant Management; Patrick Dinsmore for Technical Marketing Representative and James Annese for Vehicle & Petroleum Marketing.

First Place trophy winners in the instructional categories within the respective occupation event were seniors DanielGoehry,JerrySalerno, RJ Milligan, Megan Kiel, the team of Julie Lowen and Jane Shih, RJ Raszka, Nathan Jones, Lauren Regenthal, Becky Vilim, juniors David Bell, Erin Watson, Chris Gawryluk and David Larkin, David Bell and Renee Zidonik.

Second Place instructional trophy winners were seniors Robert Giordano, Daniel Kalisky, Nathan Jones, Jackie Sanders, RJ Milligan, juniors Robb Bugg and Eric Konzelman, Brett Bushinger, James Annese, Jessica LoBrace, and the team of Doug Gillie and James

McClintock. Third Place trophy winners were seniors Monique Davis, Julie Lowen and Jane Shih; Nathan Jones, Megan Kiel,Jennifer MillerandSarahVilim; juniors Patrick Dinsmore, Damiano Gaetano, Rob Bugg and Eric Konzelman; Andrew Elko, Sandra Franco, Doug Gillie and James McClintock; David Sigmon and sophomore Matthew Vanderheyden.

The Honorable Mention winners who also became eligible to compete on the state level include: seniors Brian Lavery;AnnEspinoza,Michael Grabel, Tyler Locke, Giorgi Mikeladze, Russell Rabadeau, Douglas Rager, AJRomeo,KatieSargent, juniors Anthony Blasi, Peter Civins, Timothy Gander, Anthony Gicas, Melissa Lemus, Cori Ochoa, Sunita Shah, sophomores David Baumwoll, Ryan Crawford, Josh Finkelstein, Rob Mattar, Andrew Pavoni, Daniel Portnoi, ChristineTroiano,andfreshman Steven Doremus.

DECA’s state competitions will be heldfromThursday, March2,toSaturday, March4,at theCherryHillHilton.

GEOGRAPHY EXPERT… Fifth grader Elizabeth Scanlon of Wilson Elementary School in Westfield recently won the schoollevel competition of the 12 th Annual National Geography Bee for students. The event, sponsored by National Geographic, is held in the fourth through eighth grades in thousands of schools across the country and in the five territories, as well as in Department of Defense Dependents Schools around the world. Pictured, are, Elizabeth, left, and first runnerup fifth grader Leanne Hewit.

Dr. Mazzarese Next Featured Speaker In Lecture Series

WESTFIELD — Dr. Michael L. Mazzareseof Westfield,whohastaught extensively about business, will be the next speaker in the Westfield Lecture Series’ 19992000 season.

Dr. Mazzarese will give a talk entitled “If Aristotle Ran General Motors” on Thursday, February 10. The lecture will begin at 7: 30 p. m. and will be held in the Parish House at The Presbyterian Church in Westfield, 140 Mountain Avenue. The cost of the program is $5 with senior citizens charged $3.

Dr. Mazzarese’s talk is the third in the series sponsored by the Westfield Foundation and the Westfield “Y.” The final lecture, to take place inApril, will focus on 20th Century architecture.

During his talk, Dr. Mazzarese will outline several models that provide for making ethical business decisions. He will also raise a number of thoughtprovoking questions which he will invite the audience to discuss.

A Westfield resident, he operates an executive coaching practice, working with senior executives and their teams on issues of leadership. He also consults about individual and team performance. He teaches Business Ethics at NewYork University’s Stern School of Business and is a faculty member for the Executive Masters in Business Administration program at Wagner College on Staten Island.

For more information, please call Dave Mueller at TheWestfieldY, (908) 2332700, Extension No. 233.

Parents Protest Redistricting Plans During Tense School Board Meeting

By SUSAN M. DYCKMAN

Specially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times

The tension was palpable at the January 27 meeting of the Scotch PlainsFanwood Board of Education as angry parents passionately opposed the potential movement of their children from one school to another under one of the facilities’ options being considered by the board.

The facilities’ options were developed in response to rising enrollment in Scotch PlainsFanwood schools and the inability of existing facilities, particularly those on the south side of town, to properly house the students.

Superintendent of Schools Dr. Carol B. Choye has been meeting with parents at the individual elementary schools over the past few weeks to present these options. According to the superintendent, two things that have come out of these meetings: parents’ desire for a longterm solution, and the need to redefine what neighborhood school means.

While the administration and board are hoping to implement as longterm a solution as possible, they can only project enrollment out to 20062007 because live birth data is a key ingredient of the projection formula.

The following alternatives (more fully outlined elsewhere on this page) are being considered: retain

Facilities, Redistricting Options Told by Officials

the present Kindergarten grade 5 (K5), 68 grade configuration by moving administrative offices out of Evergreen, adding an elementary wing onto Terrill or constructing a new elementary school. The other alternatives are to reconfigure grades to K4, 58 or K6, 78.

Dr. Choye reported during the January 27 meeting that the K6, 78 option and the K5, 68 option calling for movement of the administrative offices and major redistricting have taken a “lower stance” on the priority list.

The five options are summarized below. Cost projections reflect a 10 percent contingency which the administration factors into each construction plan:

1. Maintain K5 grade configuration. Redistrict children from every elementary school (15.8 percent of population). Move administrative offices out of Evergreen. Reclaim classroom space at Evergreen and create new administrative offices at an estimated cost of $2.7 million (not including land costs). Add two bus routes at cost of $40 thousand per year.

2. Construct K5 wing at Terrill Middle School to house 240 students.

Redistrict 12 percent of the elementary population.Construct14 classrooms, a multipurpose room,

mediacenter,art/ musicrooms,and expand parking lot at Terrill at estimated cost of $7 million.Additional staffing costs are estimated at $448 thousand annually. Two new bus routes would cost $40,000 per year.

3. New K5 elementary school (land does not appear to be available).

Redistrict 18 percent of elementary population. Construct new K5 structure capable of housing 400 students at estimated cost of $12 million (exclusive of land acquisition). Build four classrooms and add parking at Terrill at estimated cost of $766 thousand and $75 thousand, respectively. Additional staffing costs are estimated at $547 thousand per year.

4. Reorganize to K4, 58. Redistrict 3 percent of elemen58

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