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Monday, August 24, 2015
School year brings new faces to USD 257
Teacher offers lifetime of experience
Former student returns as instructor
By RICK DANLEY The Iola Register
By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register
Iola High School’s new family and consumer sciences teacher, Sharon Frankenbery, decided early on that, unlike the bevy of other women in her family, she wouldn’t end up a teacher. Interested in clothing from the start, in the middle 1960s the Thayernative received a degree in fashion merchandising from Pittsburg State University. “I thought it sounded glamorous. But of course it’s a very difficult field to get into. You start out as a retailer and try to claw your way up to the top. “At that time, the Joneses had a big department store in Pittsburg. I worked there and did displays. Before I graduated, they sent me to Kansas City to interview at the [flagship] Jones Store up there. Now, this is back when you could get away with discriminating. The guy there sees that I’m engaged. ‘Well,’ he said, ‘we’re really only interested in people that we know are going to be with us for 30 years. I see you’re getting married — you’re probably not going
Of all the work Reine Loflin has put into her fledgling teaching career, she noted one aspect that was notably absent from her training — addressing colleagues who formerly were her instructors. “It’s a little adjustment,” she said with a laugh. “When I was a student teacher (in Humboldt), one of my former teachers, Mr. Taylor, was there.” As coworkers, Loflin had to consciously remind herself to address her former teacher by his first name, David. Now, the Iola native must adjust to a building filled with her former instructors. Loflin, 26, will teach math at Iola Middle School, a building she roamed as a student not so long ago. “So far, it’s been great,” she said. “Everyone I’ve talked to, they don’t treat me like a kid. They treat me like an adult, a peer, a colleague.” Loflin comes to IMS equipped with a lifelong appreciation of math, and a willingness to work with others. “I’ve always been drawn to math,”
Sharon Frankenbery, a retired family and consumer sciences teacher, returns to the classroom this fall at Iola High School. REGISTER/RICK DANLEY to be here that long.’ And of course I was pretty much a timid kid from the country, so I said, meekly, ‘OK.’ And then I left and that was the end of that. “Anyway, they can’t do that now. At least not overtly.” It wasn’t exactly the end of that See FRANKENBERY | Page A4
Iola native Reine Loflin is returning to Iola Middle School, this time as a math instructor. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN
she explained. “I’m good at it. It’s something I like.” And math, she noted, has concrete answers. “It’s always that answer,” Loflin said. “In English class, you may have a rule, but sometimes that changes.” (Think I before E, except after C.) See LOFLIN | Page A4
Global stocks in freefall BEIJING (AP) — China’s stock market fell today by its biggest margin in eight years, defying the government’s multibillion-dollar effort to stop a slide that has wiped out the gains of this year’s price boom. The decline threatened to weigh anew on global markets after last week’s Chinese losses triggered a worldwide selloff. U.S. markets plunged at the open following the Chinese stock market losses. The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 1,000 points in early trading. The Dow was 783 points, or 4.8 percent, lower as of 8:40 a.m. Central time. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index dropped 87 points, or 4.5 per-
Residential care facility to close By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register
Tara Gardens’ days are numbered. The Iola residential care facility will close its doors for good Sept. 30. Many of the residents are being relocated to Greystone Residential Care — formerly Fountain Villa — at 2620 N. Kentucky St. in Iola. Fountain Villa was purchased in January by Dimensions in Senior Living, the same management company for Tara Gardens. Ongoing maintenance issues at the old Tara Gardens building at 1110 E. Carpenter St. have become cost-prohibitive, explained Amy WilcoxBurns, operations manager at Dimensions. She noted the Greystone
Above, Tara Gardens, a residential care facility in Iola, is closing its doors soon. Many of the residents are being relocated to Greystone Residential Care on North Kentucky Street. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN
property contains 7 acres, large enough to accommodate expansion, if necessary. The Tara Gardens closure involves notifying residents and the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services. Not all of the residents
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will move to the newer facility. Some may transfer to Arrowood Lane — also a Dimension property — in Humboldt, while others may choose to find an alternative See CLOSING | Page A4
cent, to 1,882. The Nasdaq composite fell 247 points, or 5.1 percent, to 4,465 points. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index fell 8.5 percent to close at 3,209.91 points, its biggest one-day loss since an 8.8 percent decline on Feb. 27, 2007. The index is down 38 percent from its June 12 peak and just under 1 percent below its closing on Dec. 31, last year’s final trading day. “A disastrous result for China, after working so hard to breathe life back into domestic equities after the 2007 crash and having spent hundreds of billions of dollars propping up the market since June,” said Angus Nicholson of IG Markets in a report.
Militants hit ancient ruins BEIRUT (AP) — Islamic State militants have destroyed a temple at Syria’s ancient ruins of Palmyra, See related activists article, A3 said Sunday, realizing the worst fears archaeologists had for the 2,000-year-old Romanera city after the extremists seized it and beheaded a local scholar. Palmyra, one of the Middle East’s most spectacular archaeological sites and a UNESCO World Heritage site, sits near the modern Syrian city of the same name. Activists said the militants used explosives to blow up the Baalshamin Temple on its grounds, the blast so powerful it also damaged some of the Roman columns around it. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Sunday night that
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the temple was blown up a month ago. Turkey-based activist Osama al-Khatib, who is originally from Palmyra, said the temple was blown up Sunday. Both said the extremists used a large amount of explosives to destroy it. Both activists relied on information for those still in Palmyra and the discrepancy in their accounts could not be immediately reconciled, though such contradictory information is common in Syria’s long civil war. The fate of the nearby Temple of Bel, dedicated to the Semitic god Bel, was not immediately known. Islamic State group supporters on social media also did not immediately mention the temple’s destruction. The Sunni extremists, who have imposed a violent interpretation of Islamic law See RUINS | Page A4
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