THE DAILY IIKRALD, Provo, t'tah, Tuesday, January 23, 1996 Page C4 weaumns mrrrniBiiniiniiriiii-i- m n tinmrtt'TMm n By PETER JAMES SPIELMANN Associated Press Writer vr if m V 1IM ' i if nmniiiMmiMiin Kevin Doyle McCoy Dana Sue Thomson this morning?" "Good morning over!" a dozen voices reply, crackling with static as they boom from the loudspeakers in Woodhill's classroom, the Outback radio base station of Broken Hill's School of the Air. The class motto is "The Sky Is the Roof of Our School," appropriately enough, because the school's 87 primary students live on isolated ranches spread over 193,000 desert and square miles of scrubland in western New South red-di- Thomson, McCoy bana Sue Thomson, daughter of Mrs. Norma Thomas of Cal-imas- a, Calif., and the late Philip Thomson of Calimesa, Calif., will marry Kevin Doyle McCoy, son of Mr. and Mrs. John R. McCoy of prem, on Saturday Jan 27 in Sat) Diego, Calif. A. reception will honor the couple; Saturday Feb. 10 from 7:30-9:30- " p.m. at the Provo Park Hotel, 10 I W. 100 North, Provo. is a graduate TJie bride-to-b- e of'Yucaipa High School. She San Bernardiattended Cal-Stano 'and Brigham Young University. She served in the Oklahoma Tujsa LDS Mission and is employed by Novell Inc. te Her fiance graduated from Orem High School and attended BYU. He served in the Portugal r Carr, Jordon exchange vows Judith "Judy" A. Carr of daughter of Mrs. J. Alfred Anderson of Stratford, Conn., married K. Paul Jordon of Ore.rn, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles K. ; Jordon of Orem, Jan 19 in Pleasant Grove. The bride was born in Connecticut. She lived in Saratoga, N.Y;, for 20 years where she received her associate degree in nursing. She is an occupational health nurse for A. P. Green Refractories in Lehi. Tfie groom is a native of Santa Mcrrica, Calif. He graduated from Brigham Young University and earned a master's degree at the University of Southern California. He hiis been a member of the BYU Library faculty for 31 years. Attending the bride and groom is John Alfred Carr. Pleas-antrGrov- Wales state. Out on each ranch, each pupil checks in daily by radio "Good morning, Jake in Pineview"; "Good morning, Ben at Fowler's before they get down to Gap" the day's on-a- ir lesson. The radio contact breaks the on-si- te in town. Students also gather each year in Broken Hill for a class reunion. New South Wales has 13 "distance education" schools teaching by correspondence, radio or visits by roving teachers. About 640 students get lessons by radio. ; Elsewhere in Australia, radio classes enroll 300 primary students in Western Australia state, 135 in long-distan- because of the high volume of weddings in the area, announcee ments are published on a basis and either a '.wedding or engagement anit(Hincement will be printed, but not'lioth. Wedding announcements must be received at the newspaper one wetk prior to the desired publication date. Late announcements accompanied by a photograph will be accepted and held for publication first-com- first-sene- d event. information on events that occurred more than two weeks earlier will not be printed. Information on weddings must be Submitted on a form available at tjie Herald o ffice. Announcements are published free of charge: there is a process-ing'.fe- e of $8 for photographs. (Jolden weddings announcements and photographs are without charge. d didn't complain when they made a movie based on "The Brady Bunch." I didn't protest when "The Addams Family" hit twice. the big screen And when "Dragnet," "The Beverly Hillbillies," "Dennis the Menace," "The Little Rascals" and "Car 54, Where Are You?" were turned into feature films, I didn't open my mouth, even to laugh. Especially to laugh. I won't But I can't sit still for this. This is sacred TV ground they're treading. This is The Beav. Universal Pictures is looking around the country for boys between the ages of 7 and 13 to play Beaver and Wally Cleaver, Eddie Haskell, Lumpy Rutherford and other kids of mythical The producers say they want to make a "contemporary comedy about life as seen through the eyes of young Theodore (Beaver) Cleaver." I May-fiel- d. My advice to them: Leave It to (the Original and Still the Best) Beaver. You know what they're going to do, don't you? First, they'll hire some kid who's a dead ringer for Jerry Mathers: freckles, jeans, a plaid shirt and that little tan jacket. (At least I think it was tan. Beaver was a kid, and we ought to keep him that way.) But he won't be Beaver. He'll be some younger brother of black-and-whi- te Macaulay Culkin who's never even seen "Leave It to Beaver," and he'll be a scene-stealing, ' J"T't - .... : . - tory. ' The programs are completely government supported. Even the radio equipment is provided on loan to the Outback families by the school system. Schools of the Air evolved from the radio network set up in the 1930s among Outback ranches and towns by the Flying Doctor services. The Alice Springs school was founded in 1951; the Broken Hill school in 1956. The primary students on Outback ranches actually make up Ward isn't working these days. He's still wearing his cardigan and tie to the dinner table, but in the '90s, there's no more pot roast. Red meat, you know. The Cleavers are into pasta. Remember the chocolate layer cake Jun always sliced for the boys when they came home from school? Well, that hunk of cake's a timeless show, and timeless shouldn't be updated. ; The original Beaver hit TV in 1957, but the show wasn't about the '50s. It was about families and their problems and it was gentle and funny and simple. But for today's audiences, would that be enough? It might be too dull, so we'd low-fhave to spice it up. now. We'd need drugs, just to be realAnd what about Wally? Well, istic about what goes on in schools he's still concerned about Mary today. Maybe Larry Mondello is Ellen Rodgers and getting his footselling crack on the playground at ball letter. Only in the '90s verGrant Avenue Grammar School. sion, he'll be trying to get conWe'd need sex, because that's realdoms before he and Mary Ellen istic too. So maybe we'll deal with take off to the prom, and he'll be the sexual tension between Mary getting calls from State U boosters Ellen and Wally. Will they or offering a sports car if he'll sign a won't they? letter of intent. And how about a little marital Remember how Wally and The You know, June's infidelity? Beav used to lie in their beds little a too much time on spending atnight, whispering about the day's a and Ward's getting case, big events? No more. The boys don't with that hot awfully chummy share a room anymore. But their divorcee next door. And young brotherly bond hasn't been broken he's drinking a couple of extra entirely. They beep each other cocktails while waiting for June to often. now, and they too. home, get Eddie Haskell? He's in counselTV close to a Beaver came that to correct pering now, trying 10 years ago with about sonality disorder that made him update which let us "The Wonder Years," suck up to parents and bully little kids. We shouldn't laugh at Eddie see life in the late '60s through the eyes of adolescent Kevin Arnold. I now. We should try to understand him. Same goes for Lumpy always thought Kevin was the next He's Rutherford. Clarence now,, generation's Beaver. If the 1990s need a kid to give and he's going to Overeaters Anonymous. He's joined a gym, us a view of the world, that's fine. But they should get some other too. Are these people you want to family. I mean, gee, I don't want to be a see a movie about? The problem with updating creep or nothing, but leave Beaver "Leave It to Beaver" is that it's a alone. single-servin- Snack-Well- at g, AP Photo Kindergarten teacher Judy Woodhill uses a morning class of about a dozen students on radio to greet her Outback two-wa- y far-flun- g in jail; adults country; teen-agein isolated regions; people who are bedridden by illness or injuries; and even some students overseas who stay in touch with their teacher and classmates by radio ' " and mail. only 40 percent of Australia's "distance" students. The other 60 percent are pupils living on fishing boats or yachts; children traveling with parents who are on sabbatical or moving to new jobs in another part of the rs Porters celebrate golden 's Ken and Anne Porter celebrated V their golden wedding anniversary at a formal dinner hosted by their children. They were married Jan. 24, 1946. Both served LDS missions in New England. Later in life they served three more missions. Ken worked in numerous leadership and management positions . " 4 4 in the insurance industry. He finished his career at Brigham Young University Development Office. Anne has been a dedicated mother and homemaker. She has contributed many hours of service to the community. They are active in the LDS Church and have served in many ward and stake I MY 3 m ! S3 I ill Anne and Ken Porter John Porter, Sandy; leadership positions. They are the parents of nine children: Dave Porter, Sandy; Jan Knight, Bountiful; Jean Smith, Orem; Diane Rasmussen, Provo; 1" ' . : : Ben Porter; Bridgewater, N.J.; Ken Pojter; Orem; Mike Porter, Riverton,;iH(jX Jim Porter, Spokane. They hav 26: grandchildren and two grfatt-- t grandchildren. Vera Robbins to mark SOthi Vera Robbins will celebrate her 80th birthday at an open house hosted by Jean Larsen on Saturday Jan. 27 from 5 p.m. at the Springcreek 2nd Ward LDS Church, 400 N. 400 East, 3-- Springville. She was born Jan. 19, 1916, to John and Hanna Halverson Crook-stoShe married Thomas Rob n. bins Jan. 29, 1948, in the Salt Ljike: LDS Temple. ; She has served in various posi 'tions in the LDS Church. - K She is the mother of four dren: Raymond Robbins, Hal Kotv; bins and Ralph Robbins, all ' and Jean Larseii Springville, uf, Salem. She has five step-gran- d children. ' vhj: jf ::; camera-m- machine. As for Ward and June, well, forget it. They'll update them, too. June will still wear pearls, but not while vacuuming. She'll wear them to the office with a Donna Karan suit and silk blouse. They'll make her a corporate attorney or something. Ward won't be the kind, gentle and wise dad you used to know They've been cutting back down at the office, and well. one-lin- ugging I ' ... Please don't ruin the Beaver by making him into a feature film Newspapers " South Australia, 1,655 in Queensland and 360 in the Northern Terri- sheep-sheari- Knight-Ridd- t4MhM rt ce By JAYNE CANNON I The class motto is "The Sky is the Roof of Our School," appropriately enough, because the school's 87 primary students live on isolated ranches spread over 193,000 square desert and scrubland in miles of red-diNew South Wales state. Out on western each ranch, each pupil checks in daily by "Good morning, Jake in Pineview"; radio "Good morning, Ben at Fowler's Gap." isolation of these children scattered through the Outback, building friendships among them as work, which can be from dawn to well as providing dusk in busy seasons. education. Even the students are someToday, Woodhill has her stutimes "absent" during floods dents color the oceans blue on time. or world maps they received in the droughts Their homework and art promail. Then she reads them a story are mailed to Broken Hill to about a boy who sells newspapers jects be graded and evaluated, which from the Bondi streetcar in Sydney also gives teachers a chance to punctuated with dramatic pauscompliment the children's work es, and questions about what they over the air when the whole think will happen next. class can hear. Each daily radio lesson lasts The teachers also visit each of Each child spends their School of the Air students only a at least four more hours on homeonce a year, staying a day or more work, taught and supervised by a to instruct and evaluate the pupil parent or a tutor hired by the ranch and counsel the tutor. And if the e, The Daily Herald's new wedding policy pub-lislk'- rt Broken Hill's program has about 30 tutors serving as teachers. About 10 of them used to be teachers in big cities. The School of the Air students "come out well on top of the state average" on the New South Wales basic school tests, administrator Geoff Brown says. "They're not in a situation where there's one teacher and 30 students." Hiring a tutor allows the parents to concentrate on the ranch or farm half-hou- r. Lisbon LDS Mission and is employed by Josten's Learning Corp., Salt Lake City. Bridal attendants are Tammy Fairbanks, Dena Wiley, Vicci Hesey and Vernon Payne. Attending the groom is Pamela Richwine. aftCj'-th- e BROKEN HILL, Australia Kindergarten teacher Judy Wood-hi- ll starts off her class with a cheery greeting: "Good morning, Paddington Bears. Are you well family comes to Broken Hill for supplies, the kids come along and temporarily join the regular class owner. er M-- THIS SUPERBOWL WEEKEND, LEAVE Valentines & J kl 100KATMN0W! 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