| Steve Wiser calls it a career at Lyco
Wiser retired in June, 2006 as a social studies teacher from Williamsport High School after 32 years. “Right now, I'm going to step away,"he said. “It's time for me to enjoy some of the things that I've missed over the years. For the longest time, I woke up Lycoming, ate Lycoming, and slept Lycoming. I have to get that balance in my life that I've never had. It's been great but you have to have balance in your life." .
OUR VIEW: Give them a ‘Q’
Editor's note: Readers often comment that there should be more good news in the paper. While it's true that there's more than enough bad news to go around, on Mondays on the editorial page we will highlight some of the many good news stories that appear on our pages on a regular basis.It seems so long in the past that women's accomplishments rarely received the attention men's deeds did.And if a female high school athlete was noticed in the media back then, it was usually because she was singled out for trying to break the glass ceiling in a boy's sport because there were not similar opportunities available to girls.But that was merely 3 decades ago and Title IX, the landmark federal legislation passed in 1972 that leveled the playing field and the classroom for women, slammed the door shut on discrimination and misogyny, even if some pockets of chauvinism remain today.Clare Oliverio, Marianne McCarthy Verria, Peg Thorley Jenner and Lois Malvesti were four senior mainstays on the Quincy High School girls softball team in 1977 that won the Suburban League championship and made it to the state playoffs.They played the game for the right reasons - because it was fun and they were good - and never thought once about the lack of recognition from the athletic department even while some boys got letters for warming the bench.That's the way things were back then,'' said Oliverio, now wheelchair-bound because of multiple sclerosis.Quincy Athletic Director Jim Rendle, after an appeal from Oliverio's brother to recognize the four women who played several sports, has agreed to award varsity letters to them and others who may have been left out in the haphazard decisions of old of who did and didn't get letters for playing varsity sports.
Reader comments: Cougars unload 'avalanche' of 3s in big routaway
BYU is a "NICE TEAM" but not a good team. They are to be congratulated for the win. But part of it is, it is just another testament of the ridiculous 3 point basket distance. You have to be kidding! If there is to be a 3 point basket at all it must be at least 23 feet, not this 19 or 20, whatever the distance. It's just silly. And what about some of the names of the players these days....what is a 'Jimmer', and a Diserese? Wow!! I'm still saying UNLV is the team to beat in the MWC, which is a joke of a conference.....no one without a ticket can see the games. 19,932 or whatever was the attendance....what was the ticket gross for that number? TCU must be a wonderful team, being beaten by that powerhouse Ute team by 16 or whatever the spread was. Jeff Call, Harmon, and all you MWC lovers keep raving on about how great the thing is!!!! Go Cougars!!!! .
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