School plans calendar hearings
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Buffalo beats Teays Valley, Page 16
l
50 Cents Volume 145
l Issue 7
By Kelly Stadelman kelly@theputnamstandard.com
Putnam County School’s central office is busy working on next year’s calendar to ensure students get the required 180 instructional days. Superintendent Chuck Hatfield said he would bring the 2014-15 calendar before the board at the March 3 meeting. “We have to have two public hearings,” he said. “We’ll get the notice out and have them on March 3 and March 17 before the school board meeting.” This year Putnam County students will fall six days short of the required 180 instructional days. To date students have missed a total of 16 days of school due to wintry weather and water contamination issues. “We will make up 10 of the 16 days,” said Dr. Cindy Daniel, assistant superintendent for instruction. “There is nothing more we can do this year.” Additional make-up days are scheduled for April 21, June 2-6 and June 9-11. By law the county can’t extend the school year past June 12. Daniel said that because the schools keep students in school longer every day, they really aren’t missing those six days if the educational minutes are totaled. “But we can’t count banked days,” she explained. The 2014-15 school calendar will be more difficult as the staff and board must find a way to ensure that 180 full school days are SEE CALENDAR ON PAGE 2
HOW TO REACH US PHONE: (304) 743-6731 FAX: (304) 562-6214
Randolphs mix love, work and family By Kelly Stadelman kelly@theputnamstandard.com
Roger and Grace Randolph’s journey together has been anything but conventional. The two have been married for 48 years and working together for 38 years. They said their love for each other, family, employees and the Putnam County community is what keeps them going and dedicated. “We’ve both been blessed in life,” Roger said. “We love what we do and love the people we work with. We have no complaints. We owe our success to the good people we have working for us.We are just a small part of the company.” The couple met at a church square dance in 1962 in Lowell, Ohio. “I was with another guy at the dance,” Grace said, smiling. “My date went outside to have a beer and Roger slipped in. He’s a sly fox.” The two dated for four years before marrying in 1966. “I lost a $100 bet that we would wait until after graduation to get married,” Roger said.
Roger and Grace Randolph have been married for 48 years and working together for 38 years at Randolph Engineering. After Roger graduated from Ohio University in 1967 with a degree in civil engineering, the couple moved to West Virginia so he could start his new job at Union Carbide in South Charleston. A couple years later Roger took a job with R&R Engineering before ven-
turing out on his own in 1976. “We started Randolph Engineering in the basement of our house,” he said. The company later moved to an old farmhouse located at 4414 Teays Valley Road. They also run Teays Valley Storage located next
door out of the same office. Although the couple spends 24 hours a day, seven days a week together, work stays behind when they shut the door at their Scott Depot office. SEE RANDOLPH ON PAGE 5
State Legislature honors late firefighter’s organ donation Shane Jividen spent his life helping others as a volunteer firefighter. Even after his death, Jividen made life-changing contributions to six more people. Jividen, chief of the Eleanor Volunteer Fire Department, died Sept. 1 after an ATV wreck during a fund-raiser for the Webster County Fire Department. He was flown to Charleston Area Medical Center, where his donated organs continued his giving legacy even after his death. Senate Resolution 19, geared toward encouraging organ donation by others, cites Jividen by name. “Whereas, West Virginians like the late Shane Jividen, former
Eleanor Volunteer Fire Chief, gave new health to six suffering individuals through selfless donation of his liver, kidneys, cornea and heart,” the resolution states. “Whereas, West Virginia recipients and communities are awed and humbled by the generosity of donor families, such as the Jividen family, whose gift in the face of terrible tragedy inspires others to renewed hope and optimism.” It also honors Jay Wessels, a young man who recently received a heart transplant, to show both sides of the donor equation. SEE DONATION ON PAGE 2
Family members of Shane Jividen, chief of the Eleanor Volunteer Fire Department, were honored on the floor of the West Virginia Senate and West Virginia House of Delegates.
Inside This Week: LEGISLATIVE UPDATE - PAGE 4 GAMERS OF THE WEEK - PAGE 5 MATH FIELD DAY - PAGE 9
WWW.THEPUTNAMSTANDARD.COM