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FORT COVINGTON SUN Fort Covington, NY/12937 ouugtm Second class postage paid at Fort Covingtoq, N^Y. 12m Established 1885 Fort Covington, New York 12937 Price 30c USPS 205-680 Edition 352 February 5,1987 Myles White Dies Myles D. White 33, was found dead in his home on the St. Regis Road, Hogansburg, on Tuesday, February 3,1987, Born on Jan. 14, 1954, he was the son of John Donald and Minerva Garrow White of Frogtown. Both survive. He was married to Ivy Ann Ploth wljp survives. A 19721 graduate of Salmon River Central School and SUNY Pittsburgh in 1977, he received his Masters Degree from St. Lawrence University in 1986. He taught at local schools in St. Regis and the Snye and for the past five years was a second grade teacher at the St. Regis Mohawk School. He was a member of the New York State Teachers Association. Surviving besides his par- ents and wife are his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Christine Garrow; three sisters, Sheila Marshall of Massena, Leigh White of Phoenix, Arizona, Mrs. Thomas (Nanette) Oram of Las Vegas, Nevada; one niece, Aubrey Marshall; five uncles, three aunts and many cousins. Calling hours will be in the Henderson Funeral Home on Rt 37 in Hogansburg from 2:00 to 4:00 p. m. and 7:00 to 9:00 p. m. on Wednesday and Thursday. The funeral mass will be held at 2:00 p. m. Fri- day, Feb. 6th, at the St. Regis Catholic Church in St. Regis, Quebec. Rifle and Pistol Arbitrator's Decision Club Formed Clears Plante File By Leslie Dempsey, Secre tary A new rifle and pistol club was formed Friday evening at a meeting held in the New range at Salmon River Central School. The new club, the North Coun- try Sharpshooters, will meet four nights a week. Pistol shooting will be held Monday and Thursday nights and rifle shooting on Wednesday and Friday nights from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Newly Elected Officers are president, Rees White; vice-president, Wayne Allen; secretary, Leslie Dempsey; treasurer, Timothy Allen; executive officer, Robert O'Jida and chief instructor, Jack Buchanan. Dues will be $10.00 yearly and all interested are invited to join the fun. Instruction will be offered in the use of various hand- guns, 22 caliber rifle, air rifle, etc. For this week only, there will be no rifle instruction on Wednesday, February 4th. Fort to Receive Historical Series on Gen. Covington Mr. Leonard Jamison of Akron, Ohio, has offered to send a 17-part series of research articles about the life.and times of General Leonard Covington for whom the town of Fort Covington was named after he was killed nearby in the War of 1812. Last week, the following letter was received at THE SUN office: \After much research, I've written a 17- part series about the life and times of General Leonard Covington. There are 91 types pages. As you know, your town, as well as many others, is named in honor of General Covington. Fort Covington is mentioned in the series. Starting this month, one article a week is being published in my old home town newspaper in Coviagtfuif W/ In yyhkth IVc written luiftifiii 11 columns for five years* I write as a hobby and offer this series to you free of charge. All that I request are your newspaper editions containing articles of the 17-part series. Upon hearing from you, I'D mail the entire series. Sincerely, Leonard Jamison\ (EDS. NOTE: Mr. Jamison's generous and kind offer was quite an extraordinary surprise. Many recent attempts, and there may have been some earlier ones, have been made to investigate this exact subject...and were met with very limited success. Now, voila!, here it is!...a real \breakthrough\ for local history. PWM) SRCS Personnel Changes At Monday's Salmon River Central School Board meet- ing, the following personnel changes were approved. TEACHING ASSIST- ANTS SPANISH, PART— TIME-Linda Lewis was approved for the position by a 5-1 vote with Mrs. Elliott in opposition; Mrs. Lauzon and Mr. Mitchell were absent. Mrs. Minerva White made the following statement;\I want to state that I am voting for Linda Lewis because it is only for the rest of this year, and I also want to publicly state that I feel the superin- tendent's wife of any district should not be teaching in the McDonald Resignation Confirmed At Monday night's SRCS Board Meeting, Chief School Officer Robert Lewis read a letter from District Superin- tendent David DeSantis \offi- cially endorsing and making effective immediately the vacancy of Mary McDonald as a member of the board of edu- cation,\ he said. On his recommendation, the board accepted the com- munication 6,0 (Mrs. Lauzon and Mr. Mitchell were absent). At the end of the meeting, MASSENA OBSERVER REPORTER, Ellen Emery, asked whether any further action would be taken regard- ing the replacement of a new board member. President Kerwin responded that the board had not had time to dis- cuss the matter. Mrs. White asked whether the matter would be on the agenda next meeting. No definite course of action was approved at that time since the meeting was officially adjourned. same district. I have strong feelings about that. I have strong feelings about princi- pals wives teaching in the same district. I've had those feelings since I got on the board way back in 1971. I still feel the same way and I would think that the board would want to do something in that direction later on, but for now, I'll vote for Linda Lewis.\ Mrs. Lewis' salary was not given at the time of the recommendation, but in ans- wering a question later asked by MASSENA OBSERVER reporter, Ellen Emery, Mr. Lewis responded that it was taken for the CSEA scale, $15,703 pro-rated (halved, since the employment is for half semester) and then halved again (because it is part-time employment) Exact figures were not given. SUBSTITUTETEACHERS,- CERTIFIED: Kathleen Gonyea, certified N-Elementary- and 7 through 12 English and Ellen Phillips, Certified in Home Ec. Ed. were approved for the active substitute teachers list 6-0. SUBSTITUTE NURSE- Mary Simons was approved 6.0. RETIREMENTS —The retirement of Elizabeth Kelly to be effected with the close of the 1987 school year approved with appreciation for years of service 6.0. A change and correction was made regarding the retirement date of Gwen Kelley which had been approved last meet- ing. Mrs. Kelley will retire on Dec. 31, 1987, 6-0). LEAVES OF ABSENCE: Tracy Gyoerkoe was granted a maternity leave of absence from March 6-April 27, 1987 6-0. Joseph Catanzarite, who is scheduled for heart surgery on March 16th* was granted a leave of absence upon his request to return when he is able (6-0). William Plante, former SRCS hockey coach, here photographed in 1982 after the SRCS hockey team won the New York State B Division Cham- incidents occurring within a months' time. The Salmon River Central Teachers Association, main- taining that the information contained in the letters was inaccurate, called for their- removal from Plante's folder; when they were not, it filed a grievance on behalf of Plante against the district. In all three cases, the ar- bitrator ruled to remove the letters. Continued on P. 8 '— - T On Jan. 16, Theodore S. Kantor, arbitrator for the American Arbitration Asso- ciation, ruled that all charges filed in the personnel folder of William Plante, a physical education instructor at Salmon River Central School by Chief School Officer Robert Lewis and Athletic Director Ken Mosher be removed. The arbitration was directed toward the placement of three letters in Planters personnel file which involved three separate issues and alleged Lewis - Kerwin Comment on Arbitrators Decision While the issue of the recent arbitrator's decision regarding the clearing of SRCS physical education instructor Bill Planters personnel file was not on the agenda, Board Presi- dent Donald Kerwin posed the question to Chief School Officer Lewis as to whether he had anything to report on the grievance arbitration at Mon- day's Salmon River Central School Board Meeting. (EDS. NOTE.THEENTIRE- TEXT OF THE ONLY TWO COMMENTARIES HAS BEEN REPRODUCED FROMMYTAPERECORDER REGRETFULLY, A FEW NAMES OF TWO STU- DENTS HAVE BEEN DELETED. PWM) MR. LEWIS: \We did get an arbitrator's decision back in respect to a grievance pending against us from the teachers and the arbitrator made, I think, some value judgments based on a hearing where he heard a lot of different wit- nesses and I think his decision is a real blow to our students as far as our system is concerned. 1 am quite concerned about the fact that we have a process that allows for a person to come in and make a value judgment and make a decision that really makes an impact on our pupils. And that concerns me a great deal. Even in the arbitrator's decision as far as the writing of that decision is concerned, there were a lot of areas that indicated that...just...I don't know where he's coming from. I didn't hear any of the wit- nesses testify to those things (Continued on Page 8)
