SchfirtlQ^anc^ates *or ® board positions
wv*i lUUiOface Lane County voters Tuesday
By ANN TRENEMAN
Of the Emerald
While other candidates around Lane
County are just getting into the cam
paign swing for the May primary, candi
dates running for positions on the
Eugene, Lane Community College
(LCC) and Bethel school boards have
already run the campaign gambit and
are down to the wire.
Voters will cast their ballots to elect
school board officials Tuesday and the
final results will determine the future di
rections of education in Lane County in
the upcoming years as well as decide
the fate of Tom Payzant, Lane County
School superintendant.
Included on the ballot is a $5.95 mill
ion bond issue, which would permit
school district 4-J to undertake almost
$2 million worth of long put-off school
maintenance projects, remodel schools,
making them accessible to handicap
ped students and support additional
school remodeling and construction.
The passage of the bond issue obli
gates tax payers for 25 years, although
the annual cost ot a typical homeowner
would not be great.
Three positions are open on the
Eugene school board with Guy Di Tor
rice, a former radio newsman; Maggie
Gontrum. a former teacher and Ned Ris
brough, executive director of the
Eugene Hearing and Speech Center,
running for Position 1. Position 1 is a
four-year position.
Jim Jeppesen, a county engineer;
Barbara Koser, a grant writer for the Wil
lamette Community Design Center and
Richard Paul, a former teacher are com
peting for Position 3, a two-year position.
Jeppesen was appointed to the position
in February when board member Bar
bara West resigned.
Running for the four-year term Posi
tion 5 are Rosemary Boss, Jame Britton,
a civil engineer and Douglas McCool, a
lawyer.
The most publicized campaign issue
has been whether candidates like or dis
like Payzant. Gontrum, Jeppesen and
Britton have all spoken out against
Payzant. If all were elected, they would
constitute a majority on the seven
member board if joined by Howard
Warner, current board member. Warner
went on record last year, saying he
would not vote to resume Payzant’s con
tract.
Payzant’s contract expires June 30,
1979, and the decision to rehire him
would be made by the board next spring.
Other campaign issues have been the
mandatory transfer of school principals,
junk food being sold in the schools and
alternative and community schools.
On the mandatory policy of principle
switching, Koser, Boss and Risbrough
favor the policy, while Jeppesen, Britton
and Gontrum oppose it. Di Torrice and
Paul would like to see a more flexible
policy. McCool has no position on the
issue.
Koser, Jeppesen, Paul and Di Torrice
are convinced of the evils of sugar and
approve of the banning of junk foods
from schools. Gontrum opposes the
idea and McCool would like to forward
the matter to individual student councils
for decision.
The county-wide LCC school board
ballot will have 14 candidates on it, al
though four have withdrawn and only 10
are actively seeking the positions.
Candidates for Zone 5, representing
residents of the Eugene school districts,
are John Hanks, a commercial sales en
gineer and Catherine Lauris, a
catologue editor for the University.
Lauris is seeking her third term on the
four-year position.
Vyi ng tor Zone 3, a three-year position
that opened up after board member
Lynn Moore’s death, are Charlene
Curry, a homemaker and a former ap
pointee to the LCC board; Ronald
Farmer, a bailiff and reporter for Lane
County District Court; Alan Scott Jr.,
lawyer and Lawrence Wheeler, local ex
ecutive director of the Eugene Switch
board Inc. All candidates for Zone 3,
which represents the entire Springfield,
Marcola and McKenzie school districts,
live in Sprinqfield.
Running tor the at-large position, a
four-year term, are Richard Freeman, a
Eugene motel owner seeking his third
term on the board; Leslie Hendrickson,
an evaluation specialist for the Eugene
School District; Leonard Wassom, a
jeweler and William Watkins, a manag
ing partner of Total Copy Service, a
Eugene print shop. The at-large repres
ents the entire college district.
In the Bethel school district, six candi
dates are running low-key campaigns
for the two positions open. Running for
Position 3 are Gregory Greenough,
Raymond Swinehart, Irene DePaepe
and Brian Pindell. John Hulsey and Al
Hoffman are competing for Position 4.
Nightscape’ exhibit here
The photography of Richard Misrach will be featured at the Oregon
Gallery at the University Museum of Art, Tuesday through May 7.
Misrach, who teaches photography at the University of California at
Berkeley, will display mostly black and white prints from his collection of
"night landscapes."
Misrach uses a large format camera and is primarily self-taught. In
1976 he was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant to
further his photography and also the Ferguson Grant from Friends of
Photography in Carmel, Calif.
His work was shown last year in New York, Seattle and San
Francisco.
The gallery is open free of charge during the regular museum
hours, noon to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday.
The exhibitions are funded in part by the Oregon Arts Commission,
the National Endowment for the Arts and the City of Eugene Parks and
Recreation Department.
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