EIGHT - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, April 22,1998
Chuck Starr receives educational honor
IEB Community Day, April 28
branch will be staffed to answer
phone calls, and all ATMs will
continue to provide customers
with uninterrupted service.
Inland Empire Bank employees be open as usual on the afternoon
will be manning hammers, hoes of April 28. In addition, each
sweetheart.
County as superintendent.
and hedge clippers instead of
Starr began his teaching career
Starr says that of all his teller windows on the afternoon
at his alma mater, West Linn accomplishments, he is proudest of Tuesday, April 28.
High School, where he taught of his family, his wife and two
The first annual IEB
math, health and PE and coached sons, both of whom became \ Community Day is a bank-wide
football, wrestling and track. teachers. His son Terry teaches community service project on
Starr laughs that his first teaching fourth grade and coaches football behalf of citizens in the
contract, for 1963-64, was for in Pendleton He and his wife, Boardman, Hermiston, Umatilla,
$4,866 a year~$4,500 for the Debbi, have two boys. His son Stanfield and Pendleton areas.
teaching position and 366 for Denny teaches math and science Inland Empire Bank branch
coaching three sports.
for grades seven through 12 and lobbies will close at 11 a.m. on
In 1966, he won a fellowship to is head football and track coach Tuesday, April 28, so that
return to the U of O to work on and athletic director at Spray. employees may participate. All
his doctorate, which was the Denny and his wife, Darlene, dnve-up windows and ATMs
study of physical education and have four sons.
will remain open and ready to
C om e S h are With U s A t
the total education program of
Professionally, Starr says that serve customers as usual on that
elementary school students in he feels good about his teaching afternoon.
Willow Creel? Baptist Ch urch
Oregon.
career. "I've helped a lot of
"'Committed to People and
Starr received his master's students learn," he said, "and Community' has been the
Worship Service on Sundays at 11 a.m.
degree in 1967 and in 1969 was they helped me learn, too." He philosophy by which we've run
Meeting in the 7th-day Adventist Church
hired as a professor at Pacific added that he has enjoyed his our business since the founding
560 North Minor, Heppner
University at Forest Grove, administrative experiences with of our bank 50 years ago," said
where he taught teachers, the exception of the 1989 Jess Foster, president and CEO
And a big WELCOME to our
aspiring teachers and graduate Morrow County teachers' strike. of Inland Empire Bank. In
new pastor and his wife
students. He was also head track
He says that the district has March, Inland Empire Bank
Brent and Jennifer Waldrep
coach and assistant football done a good job of preparing its observed its 50th anniversary of
coach. At the end of his third students for life after high operation.
year at Pacific, he was named school. "I'm extremely proud of
"We wanted to show our
chairman of the education the educational program we have appreciation to and pride in being
division over any department in Morrow County. I think the a part of our communities by
which prepared students to graduates are prepared to seek rolling up our sleeves and
become teachers.
the careers they are interested in assisting our friends and
However, since Pacific was' and have the ability to go on to neighbors through an annual
primarily funded through tuition further education. I see many of bank-sponsored
community
payments, the school experienced them as successful members of service event," Foster noted.
a
budget
crunch
and this community and society in Nearly 500 man hours will be
consequently froze salaries for general. We are preparing kids donated by bank employees
two of the three years Stan- for the future."
during the afternoon activities.
Classic
taught there. Instead, he decided
While deciding to launch the
Starr retired from his position
to move to Heppner where he in March, but will continue on as community service day was an
B la c k P e a k
received $1,600 more as a high interim superintendent until June easy decision, selecting the
school teacher than he did as a of 1999. *
community service projects was
college professor. He taught
He says that he and his wife more difficult. "While there are
math at Heppner High School have no special plans after he hundreds of worthy organizations
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and was head football and track retires, but they do not plan to that could benefit from our
coach and was JV basketball leave the area. "This is our employees' efforts, we wanted to
coach for one year.
choose an organization that had a
retirement home," he said.
In 1976, Starr was hired as
Starr is an avid fisherman and presence in each of the
principal at lone High School hunter. Besides professional communities where we have
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and from 1985 to 1989 was the organizations, he is a member of branch locations. The senior
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assistant superintendent.
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Heppner, Irrigon and Boardman, were very helpful in identifying
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In 1989 he was hired as and is a charter member of projects and people who could
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superintendent at Central Linn, ICABO in lone.
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use our help," Foster explained.
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which is south of West Linn. In
To ensure customers are not
^Drawing
to be held April 23,1998 j
1993 he returned to Morrow
unnecessarily inconvenienced
during the bank-wide community
Nurse practitioner joins MCBH staff service event, all drive-ups will
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Chuck Starr
Morrow County School District
Superintendent Chuck Starr has
been awarded the Educational
Excellence Award, sponsored by
the University of Oregon College
of Education Alumni Society.
Starr was presented the award at
the MCSD meeting April 13 by
Boyd Swent of the Educational
Service District.
Swent, in his presentation, said
that Starr "has distinguished
himself as an advocate for
children above all else." He
credited Starr for "excellent
leadership to a district that covers
more than 2,000 square miles. .."
Swent also cited Starr's
leadership in the development of
the district's comprehensive
evaluation
program;
development of programs for
academically gifted students as
well as for those at risk of
dropping out of school; and for
using a systematic approach to
assess and develop a plan to meet
the district's needs through a
multimillion dollar bond levy.
Swent said that Starr is not only
"sensitive to the feelings of his
employees but also demands
excellence and high performance
from each of them."
Starr, 57, was bom in Oakland,
CA, and spend most of his
younger years in southern Idaho.
He moved to Oregon in 1956 and
graduated from West Linn High
School in 1959. After graduation,
he went to the University of
Oregon on a full-ride football*
scholarship. His football coach at
the U of O was Lynn Casanova.
Assistant coach was John
Robinson, long-time head coach
at the University of Southern
California and for the LA Rams.
In his sophomore year, Starr
transferred to Lewis and Clark
College in Portland, attending on
both football and academic
scholarships. He graduated with
honors from Lewis and Clark in
1963, receiving a bachelor of
science degree, majoring in
math, health and physical
education.
Before graduation, in 1961, he
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Tim Holt
Tim Holt, a psychiatric nurse
practitioner, has joined the staff
of
the
Morrow
County
Behavioral Health office.
Holt, 35, lived in Chicago,
Florida, Wyoming and Montana
before moving to Portland, where
he lived for five years, and then
LaGrande, where he has lived the
past two years.
Holt will work for MCBH
every other Friday, spending
mornings at the Boardman office
and afternoons at the Heppner
office.
In addition to his work in
Morrow County, Holt also
contracts with other agencies,
working a day in Baker and two
and a half days at the prison in
Pendleton. He also is an
instructor in the school of
nursing at Eastern Oregon
University at LaGrande, teaching
the mental health component of
the
undergraduate
nursing
program as a part of the Oregon
Health Sciences University
satellite program at EOU.
Holt received a bachelor of
science degree in nursing in
1987. He worked for 10 years
before returning to school at the
OHSU School of Nursing in
Portland where he received a
master's degree. He completed
additional hours beyond his
master's degree to become
certified as a nurse practitioner in
1996.
Holt is licensed to perform
psychotherapy, using various
types of treatment, including
prescribing medications, and
works
independently
of
physicians and psychiatrists.
Holt and his wife, Ginny, who
is a nursing student, have a 10-
year-old daughter, Rebecca. Holt
enjoys fly fishing.
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The SYSTEM vs. OUR KIDS
As a former teacher and current school board member in Monument, I have a
pretty good handle on what many say is the number one problem facing us, the
education of our kids.
But the solution is not what we hear from every politician in every election ...“Our
kids are our future, we need to spend more on education"! Well, Oregonians are
already doing a great job funding education ... more than half of every income tax
dollar goes to education and that doesn't include property taxes!
It's not time to spend more, it's time to get a clue: the principle cause of the
decline in school performance are teachers' unions and liberal social
mandates on the classroom!
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First things first: we've got a system which is essentially a government monopoly,
not subject to competition, and controlled by collective bargaining, a recipe for
inefficiency. Teacher unions were instituted not to improve education standards, but
to lobby, strike and use political muscle to increase the pay, perks and pensions of
their membership!
Now don’t get me wrong ... I'm not knocking the thousands of public school
teachers who only want the very best for our kids, but their collective bargaining
contracts force school districts to pay teachers on the basis of seniority, rather than
merit. Our best teachers have little incentive to excel, the bad teachers have no
incentive to improve!
We are lacking legislators willing to defy the politically powerful union bosses. I
am determined to fight to institute rules of "pay-for-performance"
in public schools.
Next week I'll talk about education's other serious
problem: the abandonment of proven basics and
legislatively-mandated, "outcome-based"
experiments on our kids.
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