THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, May 31, 1996 TAG: 9605300173
SECTION: PORTSMOUTH CURRENTS PAGE: 10 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: Vanee Vines
LENGTH: 43 lines
The School Board recently hired Mary E. Yakimowski of Connecticut as the district's new director of research and student services.
Yakimowski now works as a research/evaluation specialist in the Meriden, Conn., school district.
Portsmouth has twice as many students as Meriden.
Yakimowski replaces Katherine P. Divine, who resigned in April and moved to Florida.
Yakimowski will join the administration in August.
The board set her annual salary at $66,580.80. Wilson student may face charges
Police Detective Richard Copeland said Wednesday that he would soon arrest a Woodrow Wilson High student suspected of stealing several hundred dollars intended for teacher and coach Joe Ladisic.
The student recently took as much as $425 in cash and checks from the main office, school officials allege.
The student, a minor, will be charged with grand larceny - a felony, Copeland said. He said he would arrest the student by today, at the latest.
Ladisic suffers from cancer complications. The school has been raising money to help him with health-related expenses.
The teen suspected of stealing the money bragged about it to at least two other students, school officials said.
The money was from tickets sold for a school barbecue, scheduled for next Wednesday afternoon.
A secretary who had been selling tickets reportedly left the money unattended in a desk for a few moments, school officials said.
Wilson has raised several thousand dollars for Ladisic.
In addition, Hunt-Mapp Middle, formerly the old Wilson High, recently gave him nearly $2,300.
Ladisic said the theft troubled him.
``It upsets me. . . because of all the hard work people have done to help,'' he said in a telephone interview this week.
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