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By Jessica [email protected]
CAMDEN — Celena Fuscel-laro has known she wants a career in the field of fashion mar-keting for much of her young life, and a summer program offered through the Rutgers School of Business seemed like a perfect opportunity to learn some of the essential skills.
“I’m in the business academy at Williamstown High School and we had to do internships this summer, but I found out about this and got to come here instead,” said Celena, 17, of Mon-roe Township. “I’ve always loved fashion and I’ve been learning about the business side. I want to attend the Art Institute of Philadelphia after graduation.”
Celena said, through Rutgers’ BizEd program — a two-week session meant to educate and excite high school students about business at the college level — she has picked up valuable skills in public speaking, engaging an audience and standing out in the crowd.
Celena is one of more than 40 high school students from Gloucester, Camden and Bur-lington counties attending the tenth year of this event. The five participants from Glouces-ter County are Rebecca Murphy
from Woodbury High School, Kaitlyn Dohanicz and Ian Pass from West Deptford High School and Celena Fuscellaro and Ange-la Ballachino from Williamstown High School.
Kaitlyn, 16, takes many busi-
ness courses at her high school and thought the program would help prepare her for a future career.
“The best thing I’ve learned are the entrepreneurship skills,”
Students get down to business at Rutgers
(See BUSINESS, Page A-5)
By Lisa FleisherStatehouse Bureau
New Jersey faces a $10.5 bil-lion budget deficit heading into next year — nearly the same size as the gap that opened up before this year’s spending plan passed, according to an analysis by a non-partisan legislative office.
The internal report, obtained by The Star-Ledger, means next year’s budget challenges could be just as difficult as this year, when Gov. Chris Christie slashed fund-ing for schools, municipalities and property tax rebates.
The Office of Legislative Ser-vices calculated a $10.5 billion shortfall by counting all manda-tory increases in state funding and assuming all programs now in the budget would be included next year.
But David Rosen, OLS’ chief budget official, wrote the num-bers “will no doubt shift” between now and when the next budget is crafted. The analysis was request-ed by Assembly Democrats.
At a rally last night in Ocean County celebrating his first six months in office, the Republican governor told a crowd of more than 200 supporters that he closed an $11 billion budget gap without raising taxes for the bud-get he signed in June.
“We fixed at least part of the awful mess that Jon Corzine left
Study: $10.5B deficit coming
(See DEFICIT, Page A-5)
By Jessica [email protected]
WASHINGTON TWP. — A longtime beloved educator in the school district here has lost his battle with leukemia.
Daniel Rozmes, 55, was a township resident who worked in the dis-trict as both a teacher and assistant princi-pal during his 34-year career. He died on Fri-day.
He left behind his wife, Patricia, and three chil-dren, Lindsey, Danny and Casey, among other relatives, friends and colleagues.
Those who knew Rozmes during his time in the halls of a few Washington Township schools, said the descrip-tions such as “one-of-a-kind,” “upbeat,” “down-to-earth,” and “larger-than-life” weren’t just clichés. They described Rozmes perfectly.
“You’re going to hear people say some of the same things about him because he was a great guy,” said Mark Ebner,
principal at Bunker Hill Middle School where Rozmes worked most recently as the assistant principal.
“The kids loved him and he loved the kids,” Ebner said. “Whether it was a student who needed the least amount of help through the ones who spent a lot of time in the discipline office. They all loved him.”
Ebner said Rozmes was more than just his right-hand-man, who offered great advice.
“Dan was always there for everybody,” he said. “He was last in line when things had to get taken care of. Peo-ple will throw the word ‘beloved’ around but he really was ‘beloved.’”
Rozmes was born in Paramus and attended high school there where he was a multi-sport athlete. He attended Glassboro State College where he played on the first winning football team and then for two state championship teams. He continued to coach the team after he graduated.
He began working in Washington Township schools in 1976, first at Bells Elementary, fol-lowed by Thomas Jeffer-
Educator succumbs to leukemia
(See ROZMES, Page A-5)
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Gloucester CountyTimes
113th year: No. 169 Copyright 2010 Gloucester County Times Woodbury, N.J. http://www.nj.com/gloucester FIFTY CENTS
TUESDAYJuly 20,2010
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WEST DEPTFORD TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT
Staff photo by Tim Hawk
From left, Asia Reed, 17, Timber Creek High School senior; Katie Dohanicz, 16, West Deptford senior; Celena Fuscellaro, 17, Williamstown High School senior and Kevin Rosen, 16, Cherry Hill West High School senior discuss how to advertise their project, the Ultimate Kitchen in One, at the Rutgers Camden BizEd program.
Program offers high school kids chance to gain some experience
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT
n Guadagno calls for accountability, towing of the ethics line in wake in reportBy Peggy Mcglone
Star-Ledger staff
Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno ordered a major shake-up of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Monday, shifting authority from the council’s executive director to her office and requiring new ethics training for its volunteer members.
In a letter obtained by The Star-Ledger, Guadag-no said she wants the 17-member council to adopt four “reforms” during its annual meeting next week in Trenton. The reforms include the future appoint-ment of a new executive director to replace Steve Runk, who has been in the position for a little more than two years.
“The past practices and policies of the State Council on the Arts, with regard to ethical behavior, are incon-
Lt. gov. to arts council: Reform
(See ARTS, Page A-7)
n Daniel Rozmes, longtime teacher and administrator, fought the disease for several years
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Assistant principal at Washington Township’s Bun-ker Hill Middle School Daniel Rozmes, pictured with daughter Casey at her graduation from WTHS, died of lukemia on Friday. He was 55.
n KABUL, Afghanistan — The strategy sits for now on a table in a locked-down Afghan capital: Hand over security in all 34 provinces to the gov-ernment by the end of 2014 — more than three years after President Barack Obama’s date for the start of an Ameri-can troop drawdown.By Tuesday, it will be adopted at a one-day international conference, giving war-weary Americans and Europeans a date for when their involve-ment in Afghanistan may begin to come to an end.
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The day in Afghanistan
By DJ McAneny
WEST DEPTFORD — The Board of Education approved the contract for Kevin Kitchenman as the
new district superinten-dent, replacing the outgo-ing Ed Wasilewski. His contract is outlined through the 2012-2013 school year.
“I’m absolutely ready for this,” Kitchenman said. “I
am ready for the responsi-bility and challenge of being the instructional leader for the West Deptford public schools.”
The contract lists Kitch-enman’s initial salary at
$140,000 for the 2010-2011 school year. For the 2011-2012 year, Kitchenman will receive a 1.5-percent increase and then, for the 2012-2013 school year, a 2-percent increase.
He also spares the district health benefits coverage even though his contract specifies he can receive them. He will instead remain on health benefits under his wife’s coverage,
who is an employee of the Gloucester City school dis-trict.
“My wife has benefits,” he said. “She is employed in another district, and
Board of Ed. OKs new superintendent
(See BOE, Page A-5)
n Report finds this year’s problems ready and waiting down the road for next year’s budget
