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Northern New York's Greatest Weekly A Prize Winning Town & Country Newspaper Vol. 103 No. 2 - Gouverneur, N.Y. 01988 MRS Printing Inc. Wednesday, August 30,1989 2 Sections - 22 Pages - 35 Cents •~<* Modified Sports Program Gets Shot in the Arm at GHS By Lisa L. Reape For the first time ever at Gouverneur Central School, girls in seventh and eighth grade will have an opportunity to participate on their own soccer team this fall, following action by the Board of Education Monday night. . The board elected to act on seven coaching recom- mendations presented for consideration by High School Prinicipal Michael J. Derrigo, which are designed to bolster the modified sports program for seventh and eighth graders. The recommendations follow discussions among School Superintendent Gary J. Buehler, School Athletic Director Ronald Woodruffand Mr. Derrigo. The board approved establishing a modified girls soccer program for seventh and eighth graders, after Mr. Derrigo pointed out that the school currently has no such program, although a boys modified soccer program is offered. While Mr. Derrigo explained that the school does meet Title IX regulations that stipulate that schools receiving public funding must offer \equal opportu- nity\ for girls to participate in sports offered to boys, the principal added that there are fewer team offer- ings for girls than boys at Gouverneur, and \we're trying to change that.\ . . • \Girls can try out for the boys modified soccer team, and we have two girls who are going out for it,\ he said. However, he concurred with school board member David Gourd's conclusion that more girls would be likely to try out for the modified soccer program if a separate program were established. • \Some girls might feel too intimidated to try out for the boys' team,\ Mr. Gourd suggested. The cost of establishing the modified girls soccer program was estimated at $1,500, including the cost . of hiring a coach. Other approvals will see an assistant coach hired for tbe modified football team, at a cost of $700, as well as another coach for both the girls modified basketball team and the boys modified basketball team, each at a cost of $900. Mr. Derrigo explained th« additional coaches are needed because currently there is only one coach in With $60,000 Grant each of these programs. Because of the numbers of students turning out for the programs, practice sessions for each sport last year had to be divided into split sessions, alternating seventh and eighth graders on opposite days, to accomodate all the students. \Interest in these programs is so strong, we're seeing 40 or more kids turning out for the different sports,\ Mr. Derrigo said. \That's too much for one person to handle in one session.\ Thus, Mr. Derrigo said, the students were only receivinghalfthe number of practices they normally would. He added that it was Mr. Buehler's feeling, as well as Mr. Woodruffs and his own, that the split sessions failed to provide sufficient practice time for the students participating in the sports. Board member Nancy Cappellino asked whether there was a substantial number of students who actually completed the sports programs, or whether students were signing up and not staying with the programs. Mr. Derrigo reported that 38 students completed the modified football season last year; 29 boys com- pleted the basketball season; 39 girls finished the basketball program, and 25 boys completed the soccer program. He predicted there would be an equal, or possibly even greater, number of girls who would see the soccer program through to the end, if given an opportunity. . \ . *The girls soccer program is very strong,\ Mr. Derrigo said. - .• • To accomodate the changes in the modified sports ^coaching staff, the board approved creating the fol- lowing coaching positions: —head modified football coach (by retitling the existing but vacant ninth grade football coach posi- tion); • • ' - . • ., ,—assistant modified football coach (new); .—head grade 7 boys basketball coach (through an upgrade of the existing boys basketball coach posi- tion); —head grade 8 boys basketball coach (new); —head grade 7 girU basketball coach (through an See Modified pg. 6 GHS To Pilot 'Mentor' Program The Gouverneur Cen- tral School District has been awarded a $60,829 State Education grant to participate in the Mentor .Teacher Internship Pro- gram, designed to improve the quality of teaching by new teachers. The indication is that this program may very well become mandatory for all schools across the state,\ said James Berry, Fowler Elementary School principal and director of the program. \Our par- ticipation in the program offers Gouverneur Central School District the oppor- tunity to 'pilot' the pro- gram and the process. The State Education Depart- ment is using grant money to initiate successful pro- training at the State Uni- versity College at Potsdam. The training included information about peer observation and coaching and using grams for the induction of new teachers into the teaching profession.\ - Recently, eight teachers from Gouverneur Central participated in mentor Minister Says Fullerville Community Church Will Be Closed Due to an apparent lack of parishioners at its services, the Fullerville Community Church will be . closing its doors, it wa6 announced this week. The Tribune Press received notice from Madeline Closs, Hailesboro, lay minister for the church, that services would be suspended. The church had closed for a brief period this summer while repairs were being made to the build- ing, but recently the church was able to resume services. See Fullerville pg. 6 \professional circles 17 tech- niques. Four of these eight teachers will be \matched\ with intern teachers once all of the new staff mem- bers have been hired. • Each mentor will be released 10 percent of his or her fulltime teaching load in t>rder to act as mentor for the intern teacher. The intern teacher will be released 20 percent of his or her fulltime teaching load in order to meet with the mentor. This time will be used by the mentor and intern to plan lessons, observe classes, discuss classroom management, attend conferences and engage in activities to sup- port and help ensure suc- See GHS pg. 6 'Orchid Sage '89' ••V 1 I II! DOCTORS VUAY KUMAR AND ABDUL JALAZAI corv terover Mary Amoroso, above, one of the \victims\ in the disaster drill enacted last week, as Rita Adams stands ready. At left, Kay Bush attends to Cindy Hoag, another volunteer, who por- trays a patient with an am- putated thumb. i— E. J. Noble Enacts Disaster Drill . By Lisa L. Reape * What one hospital official called \a paper exercise\ last week certainly had all the appear- ances of an actual disaster, and staff at E. J. Noble Hospital responded as though it was more than a mere drill. E.J. Noble was one of hundreds of hospitals across the nation to participate in the National Disaster Practice Drill. Coordinated by the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS),the drill was designed to simulate the castastrophic results from an earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter Scale in Northern California. In the event of such an emergency, hospitals across the country would be called upon to help deal with the emergency transportation, diag- nosis and treatment of thousands of disaster vic- tims. . • Six eastern states, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts participated in the drill, mobiliz- ing their emergency medical response systems to assist mock victims of the quake who were \flown\ east from California due to overbur- dened local hospitals. SeeE.J. pg. 6 Largest Medical Field Exercise Held at Drum JOSEPH MASTRAMOtLO. 331 msSj ftrftoa In tott wt* • OreMi By Tracy Gerlach Last week at Fort Drum, between six and eight thousand support troops from the Army Reserves, the active Army, the Army National Guard and the US Airforce Reserve gathered for the largest medical field exercise held to date in the United States for participants to see how their specific function would come into play in the event of a real combat situation Orchid Sage'89 combined combat support and combat service sup- port troops, testing their efTectavtnes» in working together, deptoyablemedi- csJ systemi (DEFMEDS and the armed services' inertK^ eouip~ in a sim bat situation. Eighty-five U.S Army and Air Force units par- ticipated from Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Washington, DC, Eu- rope, Maryland, Massa- chussetts, Michigan, Min- nesota, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia and West Virginia. Using deployable medi- cal systems, including hard shell tactical shel- ters, used for operating rooms, laboratories. X-ray units or wards; generators to run equipment and temper tents, which can be transported and con- nected in any number of configurations, complete hospital facilities were erected. Fully utilized, the facili- ties can house op to 400 beds, According to SSgt Ronald J. Mabus, 300th Field Hospital, Lewisburg, Pa. Testing the full spec- trum of medical support to troops in a combat situ- ation, Orchid Sage 4 89s objectives were to exercise theater level medical sup- port doctine, exercise units in the field to protect them - selves from opposing forces and nuclear and i*^*^*** } *V ™U,7o performing their medical task and at the same time, exercise command and control medical support units of the 87th Maneu- veT Area Command. Ex- ercise* in standard oper- ating procedures and us- mg coenbat service support units were also focuses of the training \ft* exercise began witn tone 800 patients being made up with moulage, a technique used to simu- late injuries, and trained to act as wounded to be *put through the system.\ According to Sgt. Mar- garet Williams of the 331 st General Hospital in Utica, a team of 96 moulagers created injuries that •'might happen\ from a scenario given to them. Using clay simulated ihlrwV rpul t**th far frac- tured jaws, vaseline $nd tissues to create burns or cottom to simulate blood clots, moulagers created injuries which could be detected by the various hospitals Sgt Williams said the injuries are so realistic, some patients actually become squeamish. Ihe moulage team is made op of nurses and technicians with the added duty of moulaging. Patients made up to portray fractures, burns, amputations, bullet wounds or just day to day maladies were then taken from the staging area where they were briefed on how a victim of their injury would react, to ambulances taking them to the various medical treatment facilities. If each patient was put through the system twice, Sgt. Williams said there was potential for treat- ment of at least l r 200 patient insertions Depending on the sever- ity of their case, patients might be sent to the gen- eral hospital, station bos* pi tal, evacuation hospital, CSIi field hocpiul m clearing company. must determine by the number of patients and seventy of injuries, the priority of treatment meeded and where to send the patient. Exercises are also conducted in medical regulating, keeping track of where the patients are, medical supply—how and where to order more medi- cal supplies, where to get blood, and coordination of combat support units Wringing «rxnn)y and nmrv- ice, engineering support, military police, signal support, personnel and maintenance The exercise was held from Ai^ 17-22 Following Orchid Sage *89, the same unit* par- ticipated in a similar exer- eist testing the National Disaster Medical System, which would be called upon in the case of a natu- ral
