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L ^ "l WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1980
Unique oiiice complex oilers eiriciency
United Press International
j... i NEW YORK — The average
! en %merican executive spends his
w ^'writing day in an unnecessarily in-
P 0 ,™ l ®cient environment, said Jim Spi-
s yieli 11 niello, and he and Charles Roy of
illy com^rristown, N.J., are doing some-
‘™ n 8t thing to change that.
; The Airport Park, a unique office
'" l '' ' (complex located on the edge of Mor-
s to SiV W own Airport is owned by Spiniel-
nikan w ho runs a construction firm, and
- managed by Roy.
It’s a campus-like scene with a
1th club, a swimming pool, over-
|ht accommodations for visitors,
ference suites and dining rooms
and a coffee shop, plus large parking
space, a pond and other aesthetic
landscaping features.
Roy said there’s more to it than
that. “There are lots of office build
ings located on the edges of airports,
and there are other campus-like
complexes, but,” he said, “they are
made up of what I call ‘stock build
ings,’ not too comfortable and not
very functionally efficient.
“On the other hand,” he said,
“some companies in the Fortune 500
list have buildings that are really
sophisticated and functionally su
perb. What Jim Spiniello decided to
do when he embarked on Airport
Park four years ago was to give ex
ecutives of comparatively small com
panies most of the advantages the
fellows in the big companies get in
their country-club style offices.”
Spiniello’s prime concern was to
relieve the business man of much
travel and of attending to a lot of the
chores that regularly interrupt his
working day under conventional
office environment conditions —
running to the bank, hunting for a
barber shop or a cab to take him to
one, driving to the airport to pick up
visting customers, going out for
lunch and even of having his auto
mobile gassed and serviced, or get
ting in his daily exercise and swim.
Spiniello brought in Roy because
Roy had been manager of the Boston
Redevelopment Authority’s $1 bil
lion Charlestown project, which
turned a depressed area into a thriv
ing new community.
Airport Park isn’t fully completed
yet, but it has attracted a number of
blue chip tenants such as the aviation
department of American Telephone
& Telegraph Corp., Cessna Air
craft’s finance division and branches
of Motorola, Inc., and Bechtel Co.
In addition to things like a sauna
bath, barber and hair styling shops,
limousine service, an auto repair
shop and other amenities, the com
pleted park will have an art gallery
and studio facilities for budding
artists in the community.
The buildings have acoustical-
thermal glazing throughout and full-
spectrum lighting, which transmits
the ultraviolet rays you don’t get in
ordinary artificial lighting. These
rays kill a lot of bacteria in the
ambient air and cut down on the
spread of colds and other infections.
Roy said physicians and psycholog
ists also told him full-spectrum light
ing helps workers to concentrate bet
ter on the job.
Roy is confident the Spiniello
office concept will spread although
he doesn’t expect it to be limited to
sites on the fringes of airports. Plan
ners and developers have come to
Morristown from Baltimore, Boston
and a number of other cities to look
over Airport Park.
Roy said the park also benefits
from its proximity to suitable hous
ing for workers and to some of the
more affluent residential areas of
New Jersey, communities with ex
cellent schoools that appeal to execu
tives.
There is no public transportation,
but Roy is hoping for a busline soon.
He said a project like Airport Park
ought to have public transit as well as
adequate parking.
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nowkytORD, Neb. — Wanted: retired
optometrist to teach music classes in
abilitvgrural Nebraska high school. No for-
oline,' mal music education necessary,
ducet: Must be willing to travel.
20peret»Not an ad you would likely see.
rely,toft that doesn’t stop Dr. Glen Au-
oil slate We, 87, from scanning the classi-
in Atk fietls.
co spolttfeAfter all, just last year he was hired
;s is intf each vocal and instrumental clas-
tivevi ses at Thedford High School, a 100-
m. He#
mile drive through rugged Nebraska
ranch country from his hometown of
Ord.
Auble made his living through his
Ord optometry business from 1914
until he retired in 1972. In between
examining eyes and fitting glasses,
he organized school bands in rural
towns such as Ord, Sargent, North
Loup and “Lord knows where else,”
earning the title of central Nebras
ka’s “Music Man.”
Auble has been directing bands
since 1910, when he and a friend at
Ord High School organized what he
believes was the first high school
band in Nebraska. He estimates he
has directed and taught more than
1,200 students.
His only official music education
— “except for one private lesson on a
snare drum” — was instruction in
the do-re-mi system from his
mother. He learned to play a num
ber of instruments with his family on
their farm.
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ATLANTA — Eliot Wigginton,
I the country schoolteacher who in-
i'spired the famed Foxfire books about
(the once self-sufficient culture of the
Appalachian Mountain people, says
a change may be coming for the pub
lications.
Since 1966, the Foxfire quarterly
igazines and books documented
breeds*
of the
11 ,J step-by-step many nearly-forgotten
skills such as blacksmithing, planting
(jog/ 1 by the signs of the Zodiac, log cabin
g j unbuilding, cooking on a fireplace, hide
jght a; tanning and spinning and weaving.
There were articles about how to
make items in the home — coffins,
id hi 1 shoes, banjoes, flintlock rifles, fid-
i move dies, soa p anc | home-made re-
:r toil-medics.
famoK I Everything j n Foxfire is resear-
eral f ched and written by Wigginton’s 9th
ation and 10th grade students at the 250-
he C pupil Nacoochee School in Rabun
nofwounty, Ga.
exampl Looking to the future, Wigginton
rea all sees the time coming when Foxfire
mg Tl'inay change. Future Foxfire articles
Is Im may tell about historical events and
>r bcfc'iow they affected the mountain peo
ple of North Georgia, he said, parti-
aiii]' jularly the Great Depression of the
all) J [930s, the Civilian Conservation
il)i« r(: Dorps of those days and the building
is if the Tennessee Valley Authority
:_V M 6 lams and lakes.
ilation “There are incredible stories ab-
)ut those early industrial days,” he
jttk‘ f lfi T“There were no OSHA (govem-
t inset 1 nent) safeguards in those days. Peo-
remember some of the incredible
gs that happened to them back
Foxfire has been so successful that
L l^jjational publishing house, Double-
pfey, prints a selection of articles from
Up magazine in book form. The Fox-
|e book is now well on its way to
^yissing two million copies.
The first Foxfire book was fol-
fi'nbwed by additional volumes and
/) iVigginton says the Foxfire Fund has
V led several million dollars from
„ sales. The money is used to sup-
,rt the teaching activities of the
iMooi.
Recently, says Wigginton, the Na
tional Endownment for the Humani
ties in Washington, D.C., offered a
grant of $300,000 to Foxfire with the
stipulation that it be matched by
$900,000 from other sources. If the
money is raised, Wigginton said it
will be used to “perpetuate the
teaching philosophy and teaching
techniques of the school after the
books stop.”
Meanwhile, Foxfire Six will be
published in September. It will have
articles about shoemaking, the step-
by-step construction of a banjo made
out of a gourd, and how hand-made
wooden locks were fashioned.
There also will be a 70-80 page
piece on a sawmill and its electric
generating system that runs on water
power.
The biggest feature of the sixth
edition of Foxfire will be an article on
children’s toys and games “when
people had to make their own,” Wig
ginton said.
“We’re not advocating that people
go back to the old ways,” he said.
Rather, the Foxfire books “are a
vehicle for getting students into
composition skills.”
Wigginton says there is a lot of talk
now about the desire of people to
become more self-sufficient and the
need to be happy with fewer material
possessions.
He believes a combination of
aspects of the present American life
style and a way of life that empha
sizes conservation is workable. “We
don’t have to have a total electric
home to be comfortable.”
Some people are returning to
wood heat, said Wigginton, but
“there are a lot of mountain people
who never left it. I know one man,
Kenny Runion, who kept telling peo
ple they were crazy to be giving up
their woodburning stoves. They
think this whole mania (for wood
heat) is really funny. ”
Lots of food-raising practices of
the past, according to Wigginton, are
practical today, such as raising crops
organically.
“I know farmers in Rabun County
who were able to keep their land
fertile and productive without the
use of commercial fertilizers and pes
ticides. “People can make do with
less and still be happy and comfort
able. We don’t need electic hair
dryers and toothbrushes, 15 pairs of
shoes and 300 neckties. ”
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During the 1940s, he organized
what turned out to be his largest
band ever at Sargent. It grew from 17
students to 70 — about 10 percent of
the town’s population. At one time
during those years he directed three
bands at once. That turned into a
problem when all three went to the
same music contest one year.
“I had three bands playing in three
different rooms. I just ran from one
room to the next.”
Auble turned in his baton in 1966
after directing 27 years at Comstock
High School. But in 1971, Loup
County High School at Taylor, popu
lation 263, ran an ad for a part-time
music director with or without a cer
tificate. He was hired. So much for
retirement.
Auble said the “first major failure”
of his band career came at the Loup
County school. He was disappointed
because he was unable to entice
enough boy students away from
athletics. He ended up with a 33-
piece all-girl band.
Auble decided to retire again from
teaching music in 1975 at the age of
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82. But when Thedford High School
had trouble finding a music teacher,
he applied and was hired. The word
spread, and he started spending one
morning a week teaching in Elba, a
20-mile drive from his hometown.
Both jobs have since been filled
with permanent teachers, but Auble
said he still looks at the classifieds, in
case there is somewhere else he can
help.
In the meantime, he and his wife
of 64 years, Lillian, spend time en
tertaining at nursing homes, chur
ches and clubs, taking along a harp
and horn and leading groups in song.
Last year, he organized another
band. Called the “HasBeens,” it is
made up of 19 former students from
his teaching days at Comstock High
School. All but two of the band mem
bers are farmers and their wives,
most of them in their 40s and 50s.
Auble said he sometimes plays an
instrument with the group but
“mostly I just start ‘em and stop
‘em.”
“But I always insist on fire and a lot
of spirit. ”
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