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44 - CAPE GAZETTE, Friday, April 14- April 20, 2000
Troy Hazzard honored as one of three to
win Making a Difference in Delaware awards
By Jim Cresson
H.O. Brittingham Elementary
School was the scene of a surprise
award presentation Friday, March
24, as Family Crisis Therapist
Troy Hazzard was honored as a
winner of the state's annual Mak-
ing a Difference for Delaware
Award.
Hazzard, employed by the
Delaware Department of Services
for Children, Youth and Their
Families, was selected for the
award from a state work force of
14,000 and will be formally hon-
ored at a luncheon in May.
Department of Services for
Children, Youth and Their Fami-
lies Secretary Tom Eichler could
not wait for the luncheon to pres-
ent the elite recognition to Haz-
zard, however, and journeyed
downstate to Milton to do the
honors in person. The presenta-
tion came as a surprise to Haz-
Furse repeats as
For the second year in a row,
Lewes Middle School student
Ramsey Furse earned the
Delaware Geography Bee cham-
pionship. The sixth-grader will
represent the state at the national
Geography Bee in Washington,
D.C., in May. A student whom
teachers praise, Furse said he
studied for the 2000 competition
by reading books and playing
Trivial Pursuit. He hasn't had a
chance to travel to nearly as many
places as he can speak knowl-
• edgeably about, but he has been to
New Hampshire and the dream
destination of most youngsters:
Walt Disney World.
Even though he isn't a world
traveler yet, he "just likes geogra-
Coastal
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cooperative classrooms, she said
the program is committed to offer-
ing quality education in a small-
class setting. The campus covers
grades one through seven and is
divided into cooperative groups of
first- through third-graders and
fourth- through seventh-graders.
Snapp's class includes approxi-
mately a dozen students. As the
C-5 pilot poses questions through-
out his talk about planes and avia-
tion, hands fly in the air to answer
him.
"I think a program like this is a
great idea," said Snapp, whose
wife, Debbie, accompanied him
during his teaching. "I'm very im-
pressed with how willing they
[the students] are to learn new
things."
The culmination of the session
on flying was for students to con-
struct their own Delta wing planes
using a paper cut-out. By placing
paper clips on either ends of their
planes or bending certain parts,
zard, who was finishing another
normal day at the school.
"I remember all the good work
you did for Strong Communities,"
Eichler said during a small cere-
mony in the school lobby. "You're
a very deserving winner, and
we're proud of the work you have
done. It's the first time ever that
anybody from our department has
won this award, and I'm very hap-
py to present it to you."
Hazzard replied: "I just love
kids, and I love giving back to the
community." He said that H.O.
Brittingham Elementary School,
with its 500 students from all
racial, ethnic and social back-
grounds, is a great place to work,
offering many chances for him to
make a difference in youngsters
and their parents' lives.
Hazzard said the problems that
require a family crisis therapist
assistance at H.O. Brittingham are
essentially the same as those his
state departmental colleagues face
in other Delaware schools. "I
think the biggest root cause of
children's problems today is they
lack a good, spiritual base," he
said.
Eichler added that from his per-
spective, "a lot of the time, these
young students arc bringing adult
problems to the school."
Rosendo Medina, supervisor of
the Division of Family Services'
K-3 Early Intervention Program,
seconded those assessments. "Too
often, children aren't given the op-
portunity to be children," he said.
What Hazzard and others do is
try to resolve problems that arise
in young students, and those prob-
lems most often involve wider
family issues.
"We have Troy and others here
at H.O. Brittingham," said school
principal Dr. Wayne Whaley. "We
Geography Bee
phy." He knows the competition,
from the building level up to the
national level, requires knowl-
edge about many aspects of differ-
ent countries. Included in likely
topics are questions regarding an
area's history, cultural and politi-
cal life and current events.
As a sixth-grader, Furse still has
two more years of competing in
the Geography Bee. The program
is designed for students in grades
four through eight.
Evelyn Travis, the champion's
social studies teacher, said: "He's
a very bright, conscientious stu-
dent who is very eager to please.
He's really a neat person, and it's
an honor to have him in the class-
room. He adds to much to a
• I
they learned from Snapp how to
make them dive, pitch and turn.
After their projects were com-
plete, class members and teacher
then went outside to have some
fun with a real silk parachute.
Forming a circle, the group lifted
the chute high in the air, lowered
it quickly and watched it swell
with air on its descent.
Ritter said she hope s publicity
of the homeschool program will
encourage other parents to ex-
plore it as an option. While there
are strict requirements for enroll-
ment, Ritter said participants and
their parents have found the pro-
gram highly rewarding.
"The goal here is to provide in-
dividual attention," said Ritter,
mother of a second-grader and an
infant. "It seems like the children
work better one-on-one. I've al-
ways struggled, as a parent, be-
cause I've noticed a lack of caring
professionalism. That's not over-
all, by any means, but that is
something that I've always wanted
and continue to want as a parent."
For more information about
Coastal Community Campus, call
Ritter at-678-3961.
winner
class."
Teacher Joe
Billger coordi-
nates the Ge-
ography Bee
competition in
Lewes Middle.
Two from each FURSE
grade level compete in the school
showdown with the winner going
to the state competition.
Furse's state win earned him
$100 and takes him to the national
competition May 23 and 24.
Family crisis therapist Troy Haggard was honored in a sur.
prise presentation at BLO. Brittingham Elementary School,
Friday, March 24, for being named one of three state winners
of the annual Making a Difference in Delaware Award. Shown
are (l-r) Delaware Department of Services for Children, Youth
and Their Families Secretary Tom Eiehler, Hazzard and H.O.
Brittingham Elementary School Principal Dr. Wayne Whaley.
definitely need them, and more.
There are challenges in the
schools today. The family and so-
cial problems of children require
we have people like Troy Haz-
zard. He's doing a great job."
Area residents featured in SSU concert
Two area students will appear in Salisbury State University (SSU)
Dance Company's 40th anniversary spring concert. Gretchen Lieb, a
1999 graduate of Sussex Technical High School, is
the daughter of Kenneth and Annemarie Lieb of
Dagsboro and is a sophomore English major. Kate
Downes of Milton is the school nurse at the Southern
Delaware School of the Arts and also teaches dance
classes there.
Performances for the spring concert are 8 p.m.,
Wednesday, April 26, Friday, April 28 and Saturday,
April 29, and at 2 p.m., Thursday, April 27. All per-
formances will be held in Holloway Hall auditorium. DOWNES
Admission is $8 for adults, $6 for seniors citizens > ..
aged 60 and older and teens, and free for kids 12 and under and SSU ID
cardholders. For more information, call 410-548-4183.
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