Milford chronicle., 1960-01-29
Caesar Rodney
School News

The Caesar Rodney Board of Ed
ucation has requested the assis-
tance of an advisory committee to
help with the problem of the need
for and the method of financing a
supplemental salary schedule, if
the need is deemed necessary.
This action at the January meet
ing of the board was in response
to PTA backed resolution asking
the board to make the study and
hold a referendum if a need was
found to exist.
The board is asking community
organizations to participate in the
study and has requested that rec
concentrations be made in time for
school board action on February %.
The board received communica-
| ton from the State Board of Edu-
cation approving the construction
of a 24-room elementary school,
costing 81 1,275 900. Facing the pos
sibility of double sessions if fur
ther delays occur the board di-
rected that the districts represen-
tatives in the General Assembly be
urged to push for prompt action
to provide the state share amount
ing to $765,0OO The local share
for the elementary school on CO.
40 basis is $4,000.
Major Robert James of the Do
yer Air Base and John J. Ryan,
principal of the Dependent School
at the base met with the board to
plan for emergency housing of Air
Base students pending the COM
pletion of the on-base Upgrade
school sometime during the next
school year.
In other action the board ap-
proved as building commission
the purchase of shrubbery for the
Star Hill School, authorized a sur
vey as to the locations of an ad-
ditional science room, authorized a
| bus route survey, approved the ad-
dition of another principal in the
elementary school in 1960-61, ap-
proved the attendance of three
coaches at Atlantic City Football
Clinic, approved the employment
of an additional custodian and urg-
ed the Student Council and the
school staff to breakdown" on vio-
lators of the. school smoking reg
ulations which are as follows:
Students are not permitted to
smoke in the school buildings, on
the school grounds, going to and
from school, or at any school func-
ton. The penalty for violating this
regulation is suspension from
school for three days with par
ent conference required prior to re-
instatement."
With 100 per cent cooperation of
the bus owners and operators, the
Caesar Rodney Civil Defense evac-
uation drill on Friday afternoon,
January %, was deemed successful
as all twenty-seyen buses were in
line within one haur after the alert
was called.
Students were sent to their
school air raid stations at 1:30 and
evacuated to their homes beginning
at LAS. The evacuation was COM
pleted by 2:30 with the exception
of few students who missed their
buses and were subsequently de-
livered home by a special bus trip
and by the Office staff.
The Camden-Wyoming Fire Com
pany cooperated with the drill by
sending a fire truck to the school
during the emergency drill. Local
radio stations assisted by notifying
parents of the drill so that they
would know their children were on
the way home.
The local "all-clear" was set at
p. m. to allow for after-school ae-
tivities including a girls basket
ball game with Lewes and a ninth
grade Beatnick dance.
The Caesar Rodney Civil Defense
evacuation was stagedin cOmpli-
ance with the Parent-Teacher As
sociation program developed by the
Safety Committee last year and ap-
proved by the Board of Education.