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PAGE 14 — SECTION FIVE THE OCEAN CITY SENTINEL-LEDGER . SPRING EDITION — 1977 SPRING EDITIQM _ 1977
Consortium for
education, outings
If you're looking for an
interesting afternoon outing
with the kids or if you're
seeking • a degree in the
sciences from a bachelors
through a doctorate, you don't
have to go any -farther than
Cape May County.
Located in Seaville on the
former Palermo U.S. Air
Force Radar Station grounds,
the New Jersey Marine
Sciences Consortium has been
serving the Jersey Cape
community for the past four
years.
According to Assistant
Director Tom Pendlebury, the
Consortium has been "getting
everything together" during
this past winter and he expects
to be able to offer more
courses and services than
ever to the community this
< summer.
In addition to the field
center in Seaville, the group
also has another station in
Sandy Hook in Monmouth
County and "is dedicated to
both education and research,"
Pendlebury said.
It is a non-profit agency
supported by 17 New Jersey
colleges and universities and
offers credit courses for
students seeking bachelors,
masters or doctorate degrees.
It also offers the local
community non-credit
courses in areas ranging from
marine angling through basic
SCUBA diving and sailing,
Pendlebury said.
These courses will be
conducted at various times
throughout this summer,
Pendlebury noted, and information
for registering can
be picked up at the center.
"Because of the various
research projects that are
being conducted here,"
heaton
Pendlebury continued, "local
people also find dur labs an
interesting place to take their
children for an educational
outing."
At the laboratories on the
base, visitors can see
everything from on-going
research studies to display
tanks with all sorts of living
marine life.
" We also hope to have our
museum finished and ready
for visitors by the end of this
summer," Pendlebury said.
During the winter months,
the center provides a variety
of science field programs for
local school districts and will
work with the local educators
in establishing a program,
Pendlebury said.
The Consortium recently
obtained its first Federal Sea
Grant and is the -only New
Jersey institution to receive
such a grant.
"New Jersey was the only
Atlantic coastal state not to
have received such a grant,"
Pendlebury said, adding that
to qualify an institution has to
prove it is working on
statewide projects.
The Consortium will be
working this summer on
projects involving fish immunology
and the levels of
mercury toxicity in area fish
species, Pendlebury said.
The mercury toxicity
project, being conducted by a
professor from Montclair
State College, "could end up
being a life-long project," the
assistant director explained.
Any area high school or
college student interested in
learning more about marine
sciences is also welcome to
spend time helping out at the
center and monitoring
projects this summer, Pendlebury
concluded.
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winter's
wraith
-Weather experts say
that the winter just past
was the worst in the
modern history on the
East Coast of the United
States. Would that it
was ' 'good beach
weather" here the year
around, but our
Chamber of Commerce
can't do anything about
the succession of
seasons. Even in its
calm, the ocean is an
awesome force to
ponder, and when the
winter winds and ice
rake the beachfront
even the seagulls and
tiderunners go into
hiding. The jetty rocks
shown in the accompanying
pictures
just might be your
favorite sunning place
in July, but they were no
place to be in January
and February this year.
Only winter lovers and
news photographers
ventured onto the jetty
stones at times like
these. But don't dispair,
you who plan to
visit Ocean City this
season. The ice is
already gone from the
jetty rocks and the surf
is settling down for a
languid summer at the
shore.
Active shore scouting units
keep boys and girls busy
Scouting is a phase of life in
America which plays an
important and lasting part in
the future of the nation by
training boys and girls to
develop good character traits
for application in their adult
lives.
In Ocean City several
hundred boys and girls are
engaged in scouting activities.
Ail of the boys and girls don
their uniforms and participate
in such public functions
as services on Memorial
Day and Veterans Day and in
the various parades which are
staged during the year.
Various churches, schools
and organizations in the city
sponsor Boy Scout Troops,
Cub Scout Packs, Explorer
Posts and for the nautical
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minded boys a Sea Scout Ship.
There are also Girl Scout
Troops and Brownie Troops.
Scouting was made more
interesting for local Boy
Scouts several years ago
when a $10,000 trust fund for
camping awards was left in
the estate of the late Charles
R. Stilweli, local financier.
The balance of the bequest
amounting to somewhat over
$9,000 was used to provide a
unit camp at Camp Edge,
Alloway, which includes yearround
permanent platforms
and sanitary facilities. This
site has been designated the
Stilweli Memorial Camp Site,
and it has a stone gateway at
the entrance.
. The campsite is reserved
for use at all times by Ocean
City Scout Troops and Explorer
Posts. However, if the
Ocean City group is not oe«
cupying the unit, it ra
available to other groups of
the Atlantic Area.
Income from the trust fund
is distributed annually to the
various Scout Troops and
Explorer Posts on a pro-rata
basis, according to the
membership of each Troop or
Post. The monies received
each year by the Troop or
Post are given as an award to
selected scouts or explorers,
used for camping purposes,
either at Camp Edge or at
Philmont, the national Boy
Scout ranch located in New
Mexico. The award may also
be used to permit the
recipient to attend the International
Scout Jamboree,
which is held each year in a
different foreign country.
Cyclists peelal for
a sweet charity
Bicycling is Tun in Ocean
City and the South Jersey
Shore Chapter of the
American Heart Association
capitalizes on this form of
exercising fun.
The Association stages a
Cyclethon to benefit the Heart
Fund. Cyclists of all ages are
invited to participate in the
event, which is staged in the
Fall on the Ocean City
boardwalk.
Each person who enters has
a financial sponsor who
agrees to contribute a specific
amount of money to the Fund
for each mile covered by the
bike rider. Prizes are offered
the participants, but the
Heart Fund is the big winner.
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