Sundal April 22, 2001

BOB GIBSON Political Notebook

Governor candidates take stage WAKEFIELD

For 53 years, Virginians with an interest in poli­tics, and possibly a taste

for shad, have gathered near here on a spring afternoon to size up politicians and pick through bony baked fish.

Once a white male affair with a decidedly conservative Democratic cast, this year's Wakefield Ruritan-sponsored Shad Planking featured a bipartisan crowd, a bipartisan trio of speakers and more than a little of Virginia's diverse voter base.

Political junkies of all colors and stripes and both sexes sported stickers for more than a dozen statewide and congres­sional candidates.

This year's Shad Planking offered more than 3,000 people a chance to see and hear Virginia's next governor while sampling some imported Maryland seafood. No one has yet suggested importing Maryland politicians as Virginia has no shortage of those.

Unlike gatherings here decades ago when anointed future gubernatorial candi­dates spoke, this year's Southside Virginia political rite of spring broke with tradi­tion by allowing all three cur­rent candidates for governor to share the podium.

Colurful introduction

RepUblicans Mark 1. Earley and John H. Hager and Democrat Mark R. Warner started to introduce them­selves miles out of town with unprecedented plastering of the roadsides with political placards bearing their names thousands of times each in red, white, blue and yellow.

If the election were to be decided by colorful cardboard, it woUld be Warner's in a waltz. The Alexandria Democrat and high-tech ven­ture capitalist easily bested the GOP pair in the sign wars.

Warner also pitched an impressive number of sign and shad jokes, two of the staples of planking humor. He said Republican cooks had reported preparing 5,000 shad and the Democratic cooks said the gathering had 5,200 shad. That was because the Democrats "were counting the hanging shads," he quipped.

Actually, all the shad were hung before the fishy feast, as the fish are nailed to planks and then smoked for hours before the festivities along smoldering wood fires.

Laughing at the past

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Sisters Magda Katzenstein (left) and Katia Gould, Holocaust survivors, talked about their war experiences at the Congregation Beth Israel.

War survivors rememtier the Holocaust Sisters are reunited with Torah scroll at Congregation Beth Israel on Yom Ha Shoah By PETER SAVODNIK Daily Progress staff writer

Magda Katzenstein remembers the German SS officers tying strips of white cloth arounq their arms, the distant thun­der of Allied artillery, and then a sudden swoosh of English infantrymen pouring into the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp near Hamburg.

This was April 1945. The 23-year-old Katzenstein was mother­

less, fatherless, stricken with typhus and weighing in at about 66 pounds. She had spent the past few days hauling corpses around the camp, clutching her last few shreds of life.

"I was very weak," Katzenstein said in an interview Friday. "I ran back to the bar­racks, and I cried, 'We are free! We are free!' And then IilCollapsed."

On Friday, Katzenstein, now 79, and her sister, Katia Gould, 82, came to Charlottesville's Congregation Beth Israel

to remember the Holocaust - part of Yom Ha Shoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day - the war and the Jewish community they left behind in Frydek-Mistek, a small Czech town near the Polish border.

And they came to be reunited with a Torah scroll they hadn't seen in more than 60 years - the same one that now sits in a glass case at Beth Israel, the same Torah scroll read from so long ago by their father and grandfather.

"He came to the town in 1850," Gould said of her grandfac'ler, a 1 ;t!uor distributor and founding father of the Frydek Synagogue. "We were comfortable, shel­tered. ... But we were not a particularly observant family. We went to temple only on the High Holidays."

Like many central European Jews, Katzenstein and Gould's family was well­educated, successful and in many respects typical of the still-burgeoning, Jewish mer­chant class scattered throughout Germany and the former Austro-Hungarian Empire.

By the end of the war, that corriinunity had all but disappeared. The large majority had been gassed to death at Auschwitz­Birkenau, Treblinka or elsewhere. Others had escaped to Israel, as in Katzenstein's case, England, as in Gould's case, or the United .States.

"A month before my mother was gassed in the gas chambers, Magda was selected by the famous Dr. lengele," Gould said, refer­ring to the Tazi scientist, Dr. Joseph Mengele.

Being selected as 8 subject for medical experiments, Gould explained, meant Magda had been spared. at least for the time being. "The women were much tougher than the men," Gould added. "They simply were made of tougher stuff."

Remarkably, not only did Katzenstein survive, but so did her brothers, Herman and Hans, and her sister, Lore, who spent the war with her husband, a civil engineer, in a village in Slovakia. Gould spent the war

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Local man selected for education board Lawyer region's first representative since 1989 By KATE ANDREWS Daily Progress staff writer

Scott Goodman knows what can happen when the educational sys­tem fails its students.

Many of his clients as a criminal defense attorney are among those who slipped through the cracks.

As a new member of the State Board of Education, Goodman is in a position to help students succeed.

able anymore." Appointed in February by Gov.

J im Gilmore, Goodman is an Albemarle County resident and the announcer at Albemarle High School football and basketball games.

"Scott was always interested in education," said Allen Freeman, Western Albemarle High's sports announcer and chairman of the county-based Coalition for a

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develop plans fo] center' By KERI SCHWAB Daily Progress staff writer

MADISON - If the coun builds it, will the people come?

Members of the Madis~ County Board of Supervisors asking themselves and co un residents that question befOJ going further with plans to b . a 22,600-square-foot comm . center with a 25-yard-long indo pool.

The plans have been in t works since last fall when anonymous county reside) offered $1.2 million toward t project.

"A lot of us dreamed of a b community center. I don't thin we ever dreamed of a competiti size pool," said David Jon chairman of the county board.

The center would be located land already owned by the Sch Board just off Route 687 a within one-q~arter mile wal . distance from the county eleme tary, middle and high schools.

The center would have indoor, heated, six-Ia.ne pool, 4,400-square-foot multipurpo! room for sports, two large me ing rooms, a commercial kitche three small meeting rooms, computer learning lab and 0

-storage room. There also would be pub

restrooms, which would be ava able to those using the adjace existing outdoor soccer field.

Jones said the center wou probably be staffed by scho employees during the day a recreation authority employe after school hours.

Building the center is estim ed to cost between $3 million a $4 million, and the annual op ating cost is estimated $170,000.

The project is a joint venture the Board of Supervisors, Scho Board and recreation authority.

The center would be availabl for any county group such as t~ 4-H Club, church groups, or tl! recreation authority to use fi meetings, fund-raisers or athle events.

Jones said community grou currently take up every fr meeting room in the schools eve night of the week. l

Consultant Andy Mank, w drew the site plans, said the ce ter would benefit the communil and the region.

"It could serve a regional ne€ - trade shows, business mee ings, training sessions, famil reunions or weddings," Man said.

But before continuing wit building plans, the supervisOJ want to know if Madison res dents support the plan and tl: possibility of a tax increase i help pay for it.

Jones said the board woul umbablY ut n undete

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nds help GMU law school raqk in top 50 iated Press

LINGTON - A big increase nding helped the George

University School of Law ts first top-50 ranking in U.S. & World Report's assessment nation's law schools.

e 22-year-old Arlington law 1 tied two other schools for

place in the rankings, ed this month. was a huge turnaround for e Mason, which as recently '0 years ago was hovering d 100th place among the 174 Is rated by the magazine. The 'ng worried state and univer-fficials. ' ere's the risk of the death spi­aid law school Dean Mark F.

TH NOTICES ANE - Virginia Parrish

e, 71, of Troy, died Friday. an Funeral Home, Goochland, harge of arrangements. CKSON - Frances Virginia Jackson, of New Canton, died . Thacker Brothers Funeral , Scottsville, is in charge of ements. YO - Margaret Randolph 96, of Charlottesville, died

day in a local nursing home. gements are being handled by Wood Funeral Home. ~IER - Gertrude M. Napier, Charlottesville, died Friday in a hospital. Hill & Wood Funeral is in charge of arrangements.

CHARDSON - Kenneth Kyle rdson, 52, of Somerset, died y at the Qulpeper Regional ital. Preddy Funeral Home, ge, is in charge of arrange-

• BERTS - William R. Roberts,

~f Orange, died Friday at the per Regional Hospital. Preddy

ral Home, Orange, .is in charge angements. NDRIDGr; - Horace King

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idge Sr., 89, of Charlottesville, Saturday in a local hospital. e Funeral Service is in charge

angements.

hleen Ellen Beach thleen Ellen Beach, 51, of Lake 'cello, died Thursday, April 19, , in a Charlottesville hospital. e was born Sept. 11, 1949, in Iyn, N.Y., and was a member of ter and Paul Catholic Church. e is survived by one brother, Beach of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., ne sister, Muriel Weixler of New

Christian burial service will be at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Peter Paul Catholic Church, \yith r Jerry Przywara offiCiating. ent will follow in Monticello

ory Gardens. Christian wake service will be

from 7:30 to 9 p.m. this evening church.

liflu of flowers, the family sug-that memorial donations be

e to the Hospice of the mont, 1490 Pantops Mountain e, Suite 200, Charlottesville, Va. 11; or to the American Cancer ety. heridan Funeral Home of Kents e is in charge of arrangements.

'ginia Parrish Deane irginia Parrish Deane, 71, of died Friday, April 20, 2001.

he was preceded in death by her nts, Eddie H. Parrish Sr. and I Marley Parrish; her husband, am H. Deane Jr.; a son, Robert ish Nicholls; and a daughter, lara Faye Yertzell. he is survived by seven grand­Iren, Robin Nicholls, Kevin IL\.JI '''·'U~.L\_iM_" C .l"i.Hi.r::\ QUff

The University of Virginia tied for seventh, and the College of William & Mary tied for 34th in U.S. News & World Report's assessment of the nation's law schools.

''You're going to have a subset of areas of excellence in a university, and you have to fund those," he said, also listing technology, public policy and arts programs. "The law school was one of our crown jew­els."

Grady. ''These rankings tend to feed upon each other ifleft untended."

The concerns prompted officials to increase the law school's budget by 55 percent from 1996 to 2000, allowing the school to hire 14 addi­tional. professors and reduce class sizes.

In 1999, the GMU Board of Vi~itors gave the law school $300,000 more than university President Alan ¥erten requested,

rankling many faculty in other parts of the university that have been less generously funded.

"A lot of us want George Mason to be a balanced university," said Larry S. Bowen, a professor in the graduate school of education. "We have to concentrate on undergrad­uate liberal education."

Merten defended the munifi­cence showered upon the law school.

George Mason's ranking was also improved by its increasing selectivity in admitting students. School officials say they have been able to be choosier because they are getting more and better applicants. In 1997, they received 1,640 appli­cations for a class of 200; this year, they got 2,671.

Two other Virginia law schools made the magazine's top 50. The University of Virginia tied for sev­enth, and the College of William & Mary tied for 34th.

OBITUARIES

nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Salem Baptist Church, Buckingham, with the Rev. Earl L. .pendleton officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery.

Mrs. Jackson will lie in state from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday atThacker Brothers Funeral Home, Scottsville, and at the church one hour prior to the service.

The family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m. Monday at the funer­al home.

Lucille G. Mawyer Lucille Graves Mawyer, 75, of

Charlottesljille, died suddenly on Friday, April 20, 2001.

She was the daughter of the late Gordon Greene and Lucy Poe Graves. Her husband of 51 years, George Leroy Mawyer, preceded her in death.

She was employed by Crown Orchard for over 20 years, and prior to that by Roy McClanahan Company. She was a graduate of Red Hill High School and a longtime member, trustee, clerk, former Sunday School teacher, and choir member of M~oreland Baptist Church.

She is survived by her sister and brother-in-law, Helen G. and Harry W. Leathers Sr. of Charlottesville; a brother and sister-in-law, Hunter ' L. and Lillian C. Graves of North Garden; three nephews, Harry W. Leathers Jr. and his wife, Candy, of Richmond, Hunter L. Gr~ves Jr. and his wife, Allison, of northern Virginia, and Gordon R. Graves of Charlottesville; a niece, Virginia G. Melicher and her husband, Steve, of

, Manassas; as well as many other family members and friends.

A funeral service will be conduct­ed at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday at Mooreland Baptist Church, with the Revs. Clarke Hawkins . and Wertie Turner officiating. Interment will fol­low in the church cemetery.

The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday at the Hill & \ .4-1-------1 '-. •• ______ -J~_

The family will receive friends Monday' evening from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Hill & Wood Funeral Home.

Roy Mason Reynolds Funeral services for Roy Mason

Reynolds will be at 2 p.m. today in the Preddy Funeral Chapel, Orange .

Interment will take place in Graham Cemetery with full military honors conducted by American Legion Post No. 330, and VFW Post 2524, both of Culpeper. The Rev. Forest Porter will officiate. .

Kenneth Richardson Kenneth Kyle Richardson, 52, of

The family will receive friends from 4 to 5 p.m. today at the Teague Funeral Home.

The family would like to extend their special thanks to Dr. Joseph Lowdon, the staff of the Hospice unit at Martha Jefferson Hospital, and to the staff at Winterhaven Assisted Living.

It is suggested that in lieu of flow- . ers, memorials be made to the Hospice of the Piedmont, 1490 Pantops Mountain Place, Suite 200, Charlottesville, Va. 22911; or to the Aldersgate United Methodist Church Endowment Fund, 1500 Rio Rd., Charlottesville, Va. 22901.

Somerset, died Friday, April 20, Mary Ellen Terrell 2001, at the Culpeper Regional Hospital. Mary Ellen Terrell, 70, departed

Born March 12, 1949, in this life on Thursday, April 19, 2001. McDowell County, W,Va., he was the She was born July 23, 1930, in son of Kyle George Richardson and ,Wilkes-Barre, Pa., the daughter of Pearl Mae Simms Richardson of the late William Franklin Milligan and Harrisonburg. He was a cattleman Alfreda Murray Milligan. for Capture Service for Livestock and Mrs. Terrell was educated in the a member of the Virginia National public schools of New York City and Guard. Charleston, S.C., graduated from

In addition to his parents, he is sur- North Carolina Agricultural and vived by his wife, Donna Joann Technical' University, Greensboro, (Ma"on) Richardson; a daughter, N.C., and also attended South Jennifer (Richardson) Samanka of Carolina State College, Orangeburg, Allentown, Pa.; two stepso~s, John S.C. She taught for several years in and William Whipple, both of the Mt. Pleasant, S.C., school sys­Somerset; one brother, George tem and for a number of years in Richardson of Harrisonburg; two sis- Albemarle County. She was a mem­ters, Barbara (Richardson) Fix of ber of the First Baptist Church, of the Wytheville, and Wanda Dean of Elton; Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) Sorority, two grandchildren, Amanda and and of the NAACP. Jessica Samanka, both of Allentown; Music was her love: to hear her and a number of other relatives, sing and play piano and organ was

Graveside funeral services will e quite a pleasure. For many years, at 11 a.m. Monday in the Graham she was a pianist 'and organist for Cemetery, Orange, with the Rev. churches in Charleston, S.C., Mort Robson officiating. Charlottesvill~, Albemarle and

The family, will receive friends Nelson Counties. , . from 7 to 8:30 p.m. this evening at : . She leaves to chensh her pre­the Preddy Funeral Chapel in CIOUS memory a beloved husband of Orange. 48 years, Thomas E. Terrell Jr.; one

son, Thomas E. Terrell III of Charlottesville; four daughters, Tonya T. Williams and her husband, Kenneth, of Raleigh, N.C., Myra T. Johnson and her husband, Bennett, and Tilwana Terrell, all of Charlottesvill,e, and Millicent Terrell of Columbus, Ga.; six dearly loved grandchildren,. Jermaine, Korey, Kenneth Jr., Travis, Brandon, and Kiara; two sisters-in-law, Mazie L. Davidson of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Thelma T. Hagen of Charlottesville; a cousin, Francis Hayward of Washington, D.C.; a devoted friend, Pensacola Barbour; and a host of nieces, nephews, and other relatives and friends.

William R. Roberts William R. Roberts, 63, of

Orange, died Friday, April 21, 2001, at the Culpeper Regional Hospital.

He was born Dec. 1, 1937, in Albemarle County, son of the late Randolph Roberts and Phoebe Wood.

He is survived by his stepfather, Aubrey Lee Wood of Orange; and three sisters, Virginia Sparks of Gordonsville, Annie North of Orange, and Margie Meadows of Claremont, N.C.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Preddy Funeral Home Chapel, Orange, with inter­ment in Graham Cemetery. The Rev. Josh Shifflett will officiate.

The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at First Baptist Church, with the Rev. Dr. Bruce A. Beard offi­ciating. Interment will follow in Oakwood Cemetery.

Her remains will lie in state at the Horace Sandridge Sr. church for one hour prior to the ser- ,

vices and the family will receive Horace King Sandridge Sr., 89, of

Charlottesville, died Saturday, April 21, 2001, in a local hospital.

Born in Albemarle County on Jan.

friends during this time. The family will receive friends at

any time at the home of Mrs. Thelma 1; Hagen, 820 Anderson Street.

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didn't know how much tax money it would take or if a tax increase would be required.

If the center is built there will be a member fee, but Jones said the amount has not been decided.

"We want to hear from the public, both the good and bad. It will take total community sup­port to make this work," Jones said.

The supervisors will hold a public hearing for discussion and questions about the center at 7:30 p.m. May 1 in the high school auditorium.

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save them." Saufley sard the top priority is

to stabilize the homes. Professionals from various

fields have offered their exper­tise for the projects, and Saufley is searching for grants to help fund the effort. R,esidents have offered to donate old apple trees and rose bushes, machinery, barns and tools.

The final product should be homes and gardens in the style of the early 1800s. The Moses house also might include a muse­um dedicated to the artist.

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in London, where she had trav-eled to in 1937. .

"It's amazing," Gould said of her family's good fortune. "It's a great exception." Besides Herman, who died in 1954, all of the siblings are still alive.

At Friday night Shabbat ser­vices, Rabbi Daniel Alexander seemed very much aware of the happy, bittersweet, even miracu­lous series of events that led to the sisters being reunited with the Frydek-Mistek Torah scroll, a reunion made possible by the Czech Torah Network, Alexander, congregant Robert Capon and others.

Several congregants dabbed

Goodman Continued from B1 ing questions that his constituency was interested in in a way that wasn't biased," Freenmn said. "We miss him."

Besides his work with the coali­tion, Goodman is a three-year member of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia.

Goodman, a Norfolk native, was an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, graduating in 1975. Three years later he got his law degree at the College of William and Mary.

Since then, he's lived in the Charlottesville area. His three chil­dren attend St. Anne's-Belfield School.

Goodman defends the decision to go private in the children's schooling, which he and his wife made years before his appoint­ments to the state boards. Goodman praised the small class sizes at the school and said his . children are free to go to public school if they choose.

In the first months of his four­year board I term, Goodman is intent on learning his job.

"In the few meetings that Scott has participated in, it's clear he's a

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Today's events Amusement rides. 1 p.m., McIntire Park. Free parking at Charlottesville High School.

MS Walk. 1 p.m., Omni Charlottesville Hotel. Join the walk to fight multiple sclerosis. Information, 971-8010.

Dogwood Tennis Tournament. Singles play at Snyder Tennis Center. Information, 924-3791.

Monday 48th annual Pepsi.Cola Dogwood Festival Pro·Am Golf Tournament. 11 a.m., Meadowcreek Golf Course. Information, 977-0615.

Amusement rides. 6 p.m., McIntire Park. Free parking at Charlottesville High School. I

'Tuesday Amusement rides. 6 p.m., McIntire Park. Free parking at Charlottesville High School.

Charlottesville Municipal Band Spring Concert. 8 p.m., Lane Auditorium, Albemarle County Office Building. Free.

their eyes as Gould spoke about her family's tortuous road out of the ashes of central Europe. Charlottesville Mayor Blake Caravati issued a resolution com­memorating Katzenstein, Gould and Holocaust Remembrance Day. '

Despite all this remembrance, 'all this history, all this tragedy and bloodshed, Katzenstein' said life in a little town just outside Tel Aviv ,after her freedom had not afforded her much opportu­nify to think about the Holocaust.

"After the Six Day War, there were two or three years where there were soldiers fallen every day," she said, referring to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. "For a mother, there are other things, terrible things."

Uln the first few meetings that Scott [Goodman] had participated in, it's clear he's a conscien­tious board member."

Kirk T. Schroder, president State Board of Education

duties on both boards, taking fewer cases in the meantime.

"It's a good six days a month" he devotes to board work, Goodman said. "I love it. I like dealing with the detail of it. I really like being very thorough about it and being a part of it.

"Having a good time - to me -is going to an all-day workshop on four-by-four [school] scheduling versus a seven-period day."

Although Goodman is very much a part of th~ Albemarle County community, he recognizes that other areas of the state are needier.

Eight "best practices" centers established by the Gilmore admin­istration across the state allow schools to attack weak points in students' training for the Standards of Learning tests.