Contributed photo Barbara Sush’s kindergarten/first grade class at the White Sulphur Springs Primary School pose with their puppets. Pictured are Shane Barnes, Alexa Buday, Brandon Burns, Avi-Ell Castro, Andrew Davis, Melissa Goggin, Hunter Reeves, Trae Serrano, Michaela Torre, Alexander Bossert, Eugene Doyle, Alejandro Mercado, Hannah Nadeau, Gabrielle Nappi, Lila Schiff, Kristen Siegel and Tyler Young. (Click for larger image)

Learning through puppets

LIBERTY — Students in Barbara Sush’s kindergarten/first grade class at the White Sulphur Springs Primary School recently completed a unit on short stories, which involved their playing the parts as puppeteers.

Sush recently engaged her students in an integrated reading exercise with stories like “The Gingerbread Man,” “Goldilocks and the Three Bears,” “The Little Red Hen” and “The Three Little Pigs.” Students were given parts to play as puppeteers to bring the stories to life, using puppets to play the characters along with props.

The students learned about the different characters and the events, and then were given a problem with a beginning and an end and allowed to pick their own parts. Each group chose a student director to guide them.

Schools get grants

MONTICELLO — The Monticello Central Schools have been awarded $2,500 from the ExxonMobil Foundation.

These grants are made possible through the efforts of the following local retailers: VEO Express Lanes in Sullivan County; 788 Mart in Kiamesha; Sam’s Service Station in Liberty; Fine Mart in Roscoe; and Hit or Miss in Bullville. During the last five years, over $18,500 in grants have been awarded to local schools.

Fresh Air Fund seeks area host families

UPPER DELAWARE REGION — Each summer, volunteer host families in the Northeast are sought to help provide summer vacations to needy New York City children.

Fresh Air hosts can be young families, single professionals, empty nesters and grandparents who want to share the simple pleasures of suburban or country life with an inner-city child.

For more information call 570/488-5505, or visit the web site at www.freshair.org.

Area students named to ESU Dean’s List

REGION — A total of 842 students have been named to the Dean’s List at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania for the Fall Semester of the 2001-2002 academic year.

Students eligible for the Dean’s List are those who have attained a 3.50 quality point average or better. The letter grade “B” earns three quality points per credit, and the grade “A” earns four quality points per credit.

Among those students named to the Dean’s List at ESU are:

From Beach Lake, Jason Cole and Michael E. Holmstrup; from Dingmans Ferry, Erica A. Burd, Maria F. DiDio, Alan T. Fedor, Kellie L. Fuehrer, Audrey C. Lee, Tracey A. Nast, Jennifer Pelak, Maryann Todino and Karen A. Fells.

From Matamoras, Steve B. Lem; from Hawley, Thomas J. Bower, Nicholas K. Lauersen, Jason W. Robbins and Rebecca A. Schaepe.

From Honesdale, Holly B. Bunting, Jamie L. Daniels, Mary Ellen Mahoney, Leonard N. Spoor and Paige L. Stephens; from Lake Ariel, Lori A. Koerner and Timothy K. Mc Clure; from Milanville, Rebecca L. Henderson; and from White Mills, Jennifer L. Mehrtens.

	Contributed photo Pictured here at the start of the Olympic Men’s Giant Slalom Race at Park City Mountain Resort are (from left) Barry Bea; his wife, HHS graduate Katy Eggenberger Bea; a manual timer at the start of the Giant Slalom Races and Parallel Giant Slalom Races; their daughter, Jeanine Bea Langer, a course worker on the start crew; and Maury Bobst, assigned to the OnCourse Security Team. (Click for larger image)

Area schools represented at Olympics in Salt Lake

UPPER DELAWARE REGION — Sullivan West at Narrowsburg, along with Hawley High School (HHS) and its successor, Wallenpaupack Area High School (WAHS), were all represented at the recent 2002 Olympics in Utah.

Retired Narrowsburg Languages teacher Barry Bea was among five HHS-WAHS graduates working at the Olympics. Four of the HHS-WAHS graduates were volunteers at the Park City venue, working the Snowboard Half Pipe where the U.S. captured six medals.

Among those representatives were Barry Bea (HHS Class of 1959), who was Chief of Course Security. His wife, Katy Eggenberger Bea (HHS Class of ‘59) served as the manual timer at the start of the Giant Slalom Races and Parallel Giant Slalom Races. The Beas’ daughter Jeanine Bea Langer (WAHS Class of 1984) was a course worker on the start crew. Maury Bobst (HHS Class of 1957) was assigned to the On-Course Security Team.

A fifth member of the group of former Hawley residents was WAHS 1990 graduate T.J. Kennedy. Not a volunteer, Kennedy has been employed by The Salt Lake Olympic Committee as Wasatch Back Public Safety Director.

Project Liberty

LIBERTY — Parents can learn more about “Project Liberty: September 11th Outreach,” at the next Parent Support Group meeting, Wednesday, March 20 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at the BOCES Administrative Building.

The support group is open to all Sullivan County parents to inform them of their rights and the rights of their children. Refreshments will be served.

For more information call 845/292-0082, ext. 142.