THE PLAIN DEALER, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1989 Classes most courses are designed to accommodate 24 students a class. "We think we're not doing our job if we have a single opening in this building," Shuck said. What's different this year is the number of in regular classes, and a new curriculum that adapts the course work to their needs and those of the high school students. Faced with a continuing decline in regular enrollment, school officials decided to experiment this year with a free day program that fully integrated adult and high school students. "You'd be lynched, tarred and feathered if you proposed this at a regular high school," Shuck said.
But the vocational school's sevenyear pilot program convinced school officials that expanding the adult presence in day classes would be workable, he said. The school sent word of the upcoming program throughout the school district's 25 communities in Cuyahoga and Summit counties and to area companies whose, secondand third-shift' workers might appreciate a daytime opportunity to retrain or to upgrade skills. As a result, the school's adult population shot up from 40 last year to 106 in the first quarter of this year. This quarter it climbed to 136, nearly a fifth of the 686 daytime students. In some classes the mix of adults and high is nearly equal.
The school is supported by federal, state and local taxes, but receives no additional funds for beefing up the student body. "We're not doing it on the expectation that we'll get funding (but) simply because it makes sense," said Shuck. To accommodate adults, who might want to refine skills or learn just one or two new aspects of a field, the school restructured the two-year curriculum into eight nine-week segments or "modules." The adults can take whichever segments suit their needs. The modules are designed as self-contained units that divide the subjects into learning areas, instead of following the French-Ithrough-French-IV sequential tracks that mark most traditional study. For medical secretaries, the areas include medical records technology, data management and medical transcription.
School officials say the modular system serves the adults but does not compromise the needs of the regular high school students. Using computerized material, which officials say is critical to the modular approach, tailors instruction to individual needs and allows both adult and younger class members to progress at their own pace. 16 Cuyahoga Valley Joint Vocational J. MEYERS Welding instructor Ray Sacha, right, instructs Dave Malkowicz, left, and Terry Shover at the Cuyahoga Valley Joint Vocational School. Shuck said the mixture of adult and teen-age students, the evolving computer-aided instruction and the innovative modular approach, which faculty and staff members developed with 150 outside advisers, had stirred keen interest among superintendents in the state's 48 other joint vocational districts and had begun to generate national and international attention.
Comments by the school's teachers, students and administrators suggest the new program has been rewarding all around. "I think (the mixed classroom) has been so beneficial," said Roy J. Bendel, who teaches the medical secretary classes. "The adults add a certain note of seriousness and maturity. That part rubs off on the high school The regular students, in turn, "have this enthusiasm that perks up the adults some," Bendel said.
They also seem to exert a certain influence on the adults, many of whom have been away from school and studies for decades. "If (the high schoolers) don't grasp something immediately, they don't panic," Bendel said. "It's like saying, 'Hang on, adults, it'll clear "Both have tremendous things to give each other." The students, both adult and high school, seem to agree. "I think it's nice because we get their input. They're older and hav a lot more knowledge," Michelle, 16, said.
Communication skills and experience in the business world are two of the areas in which the adults tend to excel. But they generally are less familiar with the computers and often rely on the younger students for technical In Dean Lynn's welding class, though, most of the adults are experienced workers trying to advance their skills, and the younger students sometimes look to them for assistance. "It's almost like having more than one teacher," said Lynn, 18, a North Royalton High School junior. Students at the vocational school can be as giddy and immature as high school students anywhere, teachers say, but on the whole, they take their job-oriented studies a bit more seriously. With attendance required for a vocational training certificate, average attendance has been for the past 13 years, said Shuck.
Shuck said the school, with its emphasis on cultivating habits and attitudes favored by employers, is already "a very adult environment." But having the adults in their classes has forced the younger students to look at their studies in a fresh light. "If they're coming back, you know it's important," Michelle said. The adults seem to appreciate this influence. "I'd like to feel that my being here would help at least one of them see their education R.A. HAMED 1.
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2 Texas men sentenced in fraud involving sale of Arabian horse Two Texas men have been sentenced in U.S. District Court in a $4.5 million fraud involving a loan from Superior Savings Association here for the purchase of an Arabian horse. On Tuesday, Mack O. Hickman, 49, of Austin, was sentenced to a year and a day in jail, and John T. Jaeger 46, of Dallas, was sentenced to five years' probation by U.S.
District Judge David D. Dowd in Akron. 3. Jaeger is to spend 90 days in intermittent confinement; make partial restitution totaling $325,000 and perform 240 hours of community service in Dallas. Hickman was convicted of overvaluing the horse by $850,000 by falsely indicating that a down payment of $500,000 had been made for the purchase.
He also failed to disclose a $375,000 payment he received from Waste criticism from numerous Oakwood residents, who said they were already weary of dealing with problems from two landfills in nearby Glenwillow. The residents joined with area environmentalists to publicly campaign against the proposed plant. "I'm very pleased with how things have turned out," Councilwoman-elect Shirley Stevens, one of the leaders of the anti-plant drive, said yesterday. "It's an example of democracy at its best." Ozog said he initially supported Waste Distillation's proposal, but changed his mind when he learned the facility would produce emissions. The Cleveland air pollution office has estimated the plant would emit about 200 tons a year, but Miller has said the annual amount would be 32 tons.
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Buildup within the city's 30-inchwide intake reduced the system's pumping capacity from 11.5 million gallons a day in the spring of 1988 to its current 9.2 million gallons a day. The city. with 55,000 water cus- Mom charged after PD SPECIAL YOUNGSTOWN Police yesterday arrested Rebecca Tucker, 29, on a child endangering charge filed against her after she reportedly abandoned her baby daughter in the police station elevator. Police said Tucker was found about noon yesterday in a home in the city. She is in City Jail under $7,500 bond.
Police said earlier that the 19-. Oakwood Law Director Joseph W. Diemert said the. proposed plant also did not meet the zoning requirement for the land on Oakleaf and Alexander Rds. The Heights-Hillcrest Intermunicipal Refuse Association, a group composed of five East Side communities seeking alternatives to landfills for trash disposal, had served as Waste Distillation's sponsor when the company applied for an air pollution permit from the Ohio EPA.
None of the communities, however, has officially committed to Waste Distillation's technology. Mayfield Heights Mayor Ross C. DeJohn, who had written a letter on Waste Distillation's behalf, said yesterday the association would now seek another site for the plant. "I don't blame those people (in Oakwood) for being worried when they don't even know what is going on," DeJohn said. But Kim Hill, a member of the Sierra Club, said the association and Waste Distillation underestimated Oakwood's willingness to fight the plan.
"They picked a low-income, racially divided community which they thought was politically vulnerable," Hill said. School. the seller the day after the loan was made. Jaeger was convicted of making false statements to Superior Savings in connection with the guarantee on the loan made by Hillcrest Equities of which he was board chairman. Jaeger concealed the fact that Hillerest was facing substantial losses because of an Internal Revenue Service investigation into its activities trading government securities, according to Assistant U.S.
Attorney Ann Rowland. Hickman and Jaeger had pleaded guilty to tax fraud charges involving $56 million arising from the securities transactions and were awaiting sentencing in Texas. Superior won a judgment in federal court here in a different way," Crosby said. Bendel said the two groups treated one another as fellow students rather than relating on a parent-child basis. "The best word I can think of is he said.
Sharing the travail of their studies, like fighting in the same com-: bat unit, also has created something of a bond between the groups. "They don't sit there and exclude you," said Henrietta Conroy, 36, another medical secretary student. "They just treat you like they. would anyone else in the classroom." It has taken a little while for this rapport to develop, however. Some of the adults especially approached the classes with trepidation.
"I did have some reservations," said Susan Kotabish, 38, a former social worker studying advanced business technology. "I guess I wasn't sure how they would react to having adults. I thought they might resent us." Michelle said for her it was never a problem. "I just walked into the class and they were there," she said. "It was just no big At this point the students seem to pay scant attention to the age differences.
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At Toledo Edison Bay Shore power plant in Oregon, 0., mussels had become so thick on huge grates that screen water intake pipes that a diver could not poke his hand between the grates, a spokesman said. The EPA has approved a 30-day trial project at the plant to test a nolluscicide, described as a chemical compound that would kill mussels, said Terry Flood, a Bay Shore chemist. baby abandoned month-old girl had been offered to a woman in the police station shortly before she was abandoned. Police traced the mother through the child's birth certificate which they found among some clothing. The baby was turned over to her father who was awarded custody of her several months ago.
Detective Sgt. Robert Davis said Tucker gave police home addresses in Youngstown and Brookfield Township in Trumbull County. and Jaeger in 1988 and has collected 1 A Ohioans heed traffic safety, patrol says 5: COLUMBUS (AP) Ohio motorists are becoming more cautious about the dangers of holiday driv- ing, a State Highway Patrol spokesmansaid yesterday. Only one person was reported killed on Ohio roads from Wednesday night, the start of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, to late yesterday, according to the patrol. "The public is becoming more conscious of traffic safety," said Lt.
David Peters. "More people are paying attention to what they're He also said the number of deaths in Thanksgiving holiday traffic accidents- was decreasing because of milder weather in November in recent years. Peters said 13 people were killed during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend last year, compared with the 1980-88 average of 18. The deadliest Thanksgiving weekend was 1968, when 52 people were killed. Peters also said safety awareness programs were helping to reduce the number of traffic fatalities.
The patrol counts holiday traffic deaths from 6 p.m. Wednesday to midnight Sunday. The first fatality in Ohio occurred Wednesday night on a Mahoning County road. The patrol said John A. Rozzi 24, of Campbell, was killed in a car-train crash.
The National Safety Council estimates 400 to 500 people may die in traffic accidents on the nation's roads over the holiday period..
