Salk School Calendar Dedicated To Schliebe Boys

For the record (Friday, November 17, 1995): In a North Voice story Thursday about calendar sales at Salk Middle School, the cost given for the mail-order calendars did not include a $2 handling fee. The total cost of a mail-order calendar is $7. In the same story, the work experience of Jan Foland was misstated. Foland taught at Shaw Middle School two years ago.

When he sketches, Dean Rodgers normally tries to wrap his 14-year-old brain around his subject and draw it in, feeling the rough edges even as he smooths them on his sketch pad.

But as he drew a memorial sketch of the four Schliebe boys for the Salk Middle School calendar, he tried to keep detached.

“You kind of tried to keep your mind off them being dead, or you get depressed and stuff,” said Rodgers, an eighth grade art student at Salk.

The sketch - a collaboration by Rodgers, who drew the boys’ eyes and faces, and eighth-grader Briana Main, who drew the boys’ bodies and hair - is the centerpiece in the calendar.

The calendar, filled with original artwork by Salk students, is dedicated to the boys. All proceeds go to a trust fund for Rob and Jill Schliebe, who were injured in the fire that claimed their boys, the North Side rental house the family called home and all of their belongings.

Salk art teacher and calendar organizer Jan Foland said a fire prevention message inside the calendar gives it a special meaning.

“Yeah, the proceeds go to the family, but it is also fulfilling the parents’ wishes with each calendar,” said Foland. “They feel like something good can come out of this.”

Her art class produces a calendar every year, with proceeds going to a charity. Two years ago, the proceeds enabled Salk students to buy meals and Christmas presents for homeless youths staying at the YMCA.

This year’s version was going to the printing presses just as the tragedy struck. On Monday, Oct. 30 - two days after the fire and a day before the printing deadline, Foland decided to make the calendar a memorial and asked Rodgers and Main - her two best students - to duplicate a picture of the four boys.

They were excused from class all day Monday and part of the day Tuesday to concentrate on the drawing. Main said she also “tried not to think about it” while she was drawing, but the tragedy has effected her.

“It make you kind of more cautious - like if you have newspapers on the dryer and stuff,” she said.

The title of the calendar is “Shared joy is double joy, shared sorrow is half sorrow.”

The deaths have spurred some to action. A Salk teacher who recently lost a son to cancer has helped Foland organize sales.

Eighth-grader Marie Winter, who babysat the boys at Shadle Park Presbyterian Church, sold 28 calendars in about 15 minutes at church. She has been getting calls at home from people looking for the calendars.

The $5 calendars have been selling like flapjacks. In the past, selling 200 calendars would have been a noteworthy accomplishment. This year, an initial run of 500 has been sold and a second run of 1000 is expected.

The District 81 printshop and several local businesses have given time and in-kind donations to keep costs low and profits high. Costs for the second run have not yet been covered, Foland said, so donations are welcome.

Foland is now organizing a mailorder business. To buy a calendar, send a $5 check or money order to Schliebe Fund, Salk Middle School, 6411 N. Alberta, Spokane, WA 99208.

Shadle senior hits 1430 on SAT

Jason Borhauer’s rabbit foot is a bit more utilitarian - a pair of new, sharpened No. 2 Dixon Ticonderoga pencils.

The charm worked - Borhauer, a Shadle Park High School senior, scored a fat 1430 on the Standardized Achievement Test. That score was among the best among North Side students and good enough to get into an Ivy League school.

Borhauer took the test once before, scoring a 1330. He took it a second time hoping to improve on the math portion.

“My scores surprised me, but I’m not going to argue,” said Borhauer, the president of the high school Spanish club and involved with church activities. “In fact, when I came away from the second test, I thought I had done better in verbal.”

The SAT test is offered six times during the school year. Based on the first test in early October, here are some of the North Side students who blew the curve:

Amy Sawatzky, Shadle Park High School senior, 1400.

David Anthony, Shadle Park High School senior, 1400.

Joe Hall, Mead High School senior, 1380.

Jennifer Bennett, Mead High School junior, 1380.

Kari Klonoff, Mead High School senior, 1410.

Meghan Pinch, Mead High School sophomore, 1360.

Kelly Sargent, Rogers High School senior, 1420, including a perfect 800 verbal score.

Christine Sandman, Lakeside High School senior, 1220.

New gym at Lake Spokane

Lake Spokane Elementary principal Bob Stanek had extra reason to appreciate the school’s Veterans Day assembly: he didn’t have to do it twice.

The school dedicated a new gym last week, replacing the old multipurpose room that was too small to hold the entire 500-student body.

The school used to run two assemblies - one for older students, another for younger ones. With the new gym, Stanek had to oversee just one assembly.

“We still had a little room in there with 500 kids,” said Stanek.

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