8 OUR WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2001 THE HARTFORD COURANT Briarwood College Copes With High Demand For Housing By KIMBERLY W. MOY COURANT STAFF WRITER SOUTHINGTON Between frogs croaking, ducks quacking and homesickness nagging, a CONNECTICUT competing chorus of voices kept some students awake their first night in suburban Southington away from home. Glitches and discomforts aside, dorm life is growing in demand at Briarwood College, where fall classes began last Wednesday. Like last year, officials have packed three students into most bedrooms for the fall semester, squeezing 138 into an apartmentstyle dormitory that houses 120 in the spring, when demand is lighter. But 10 other students are living off -campus in Waterbury, about 7 miles away.
For their hardwoodand tiled-floor apartments, the two-year college is charging these students the same rate as their on-campus counterparts. A van shuttles the students to classes and extracurricular events from 8 a.m. to about 9 p.m. With a demographic bubble projected to boost the traditional college ge-age freshman population until 2008 and Briarwood's effort to recruit more out-of-state students, school officials said they anticipated the housing demand for some months now. Colleges statewide compete for a limited pool of local high school students, half of whom leave the state for college.
That pattern plays a central role in the Briarwood's 10-year plan, which includes recruiting more students from outside Connecticut as well as offering four-year degrees, officials said. "We know if we want to grow the school, we need to grow it from out of state," said Briarwood's dean of administration, Jack LeConche. By next spring the college might build a new dormitory with a cafeteria, offering an alternative to students, who now must either cook in their apartment kitchens or eat out, LeConche For more than one-fifth of Briarwood's 600 students living away from home, the crash course of housekeeping, diplomacy and self-sufficiency is a quintessential piece of the college experience. Bobby Herazo, 18, a resident adviser and a second-year student from New Haven, initially planned to commute. But when LOCAL OBITUARIES Howard Knox, 77; Of Old Saybrook Howard Lee Knox of Old Saybrook died Sunday at Saybrook Convalescent Hospital in Old Saybrook.
He was 77. He was born in Deep River and lived in Old Saybrook for the past 45 years. He was a World War I veteran of the Army Air Corps and graduated from the University of Connecticut in 1950. From 1952 until 1956, he represented Deep River in the General Assembly and he was a former member of the Old Saybrook Board of Education. He worked for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co.
for many years. He is survived by his wife, Aurelia Negrelli Knox; three sons, Peter Knox of Deep River, Thomas Knox of Old Saybrook and Christopher Knox of Cape Coral, a daughter, Sarah Mayer of Essex; and 10 grandchildren. He was predeceased by his brothers, John and Walter Knox. A memorial service will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at Grace Episcopal Church, 336 Main Old Saybrook.
There are no calling hours. Swan Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Donations may be made to Grace Episcopal Church, 336 Main Old Saybrook, CT 06475 or to the American Diabetes Association, P.O. Box 31160, Hartford, CT 06150. R.
G. Caldiero, 87; Of Old Saybrook Rosalie G. Intermaggio Caldiero of Merritt Lane, Old Saybrook, died Monday at Middlesex Hospital in Middletown. She was 87. She was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and grew up in Oceanside, N.Y.
She and her husband owned a number of luncheonettes and delicatessens on Long Island before they moved to Branford. She also lived in Chester. She is survived by her husband, Robert F. Caldiero; a daugh- ter, Diane Bunch of Old Saybrook; a son, David Caldiero of Nesconset, N.Y.; a brother, Joseph Intermaggio of Virginia; three sisters, Adelaide Wilday of Lindenhurst, N.Y., Lillian Marinello of Santa Cruz, and Elvira Maffucci of Rockville Centre, N.Y.; two grandchildren; two great and several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by a sister, Ann Caldiero, and a son, Robert A.
Caldiero. The funeral procession will leave Swan Funeral Home, 1224 Boston Post Road, Old Saybrook, Thursday at 8:30 a.m., followed by a Mass at 9 a.m. at St. John's Church in Old Saybrook. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Old Saybrook.
Calling hours are at the funeral home tonight from 6 until 8. Donations in her memory may be made to the Alzheimer's Association, South Central Connecticut Chapter, 2911 Dixwell Suite 104, Hamden, CT 06518. E. Lindemark, 98; Middletown Edward O.G. Lindemark, formerly of Butternut Street, Middletown, died Monday at Avery Heights in Hartford.
He was 98. He was born in Lenox, and lived in Middletown and Hartford most of his life. He was a member of Christ Lutheran Church in Middletown. He is survived by several nieces and nephews. He predeceased by four brothers and three sisters.
Graveside services will be held at Pine Grove Cemetery, Middletown, on Friday at 11 a.m. There are no calling hours. Friends may visit the online memorial at www.doolittlefuneralservice.com. Donations in his memory may be made to Christ Lutheran Church Memorial Fund, 300 Washington Middletown, CT 06457. Doolittle Funeral Service 14 Old Church Middletown, is in charge of arrangements.
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"It really prepares you; it sets all the responsibilities for you," Herazo said. "Some people, they come here, they don't know how to keep clean. They never had to clean. Here, no one's cleaning for you. The best thing to do is make the most of it," he said.
Already using the three studenta-room option for at least a year, school officials said they began thinking about off campus alternatives in January. "Basically, when we noticed a lot of housing applications and a lot of out-of-state interest," LeConches said. College officials said they ran ads in a free local weekly in the late spring an effort that generated only a few phone calls and one apartment in Bristol that a student now rents. LeConche next turned to the Yellow Pages, eventually visiting five or six apartment complexes and settling on the 500-unit Waterbury complex. Leasing space in condominiums or hotels has grown in popularity among public and private institutions facing a space crunch in recent years.
Sacred Heart University rents apartments and condos for students, while Trinity College usually rents houses and apartments, said Hotel Funds, Housing Land Transfer OK'd By CHARLES STANNARD COURANT STAFF WRITER MIDDLETOWN The common council Tuesday appropriated $200,000 for the planned con- MIDDLETOWN version of the former armory into a hotel and authorized the use of city property for a housing complex for hearing- impaired senior citizens. Both were approved unanimously. The council also spent a large portion of the meeting debating whether to appropriate an additional $40,000 for an after-school program that initially was expected to be funded with state grants. That special appropriation eventually was approved on a 7-3 vote along party lines, with Republicans Stephen Gionfriddo, Stephen Shapiro and Francis Patnaude opposed. The $200,000 for the proposed hotel is the initial payment of a $400,000 city commitment to assist developer Robert Friedman in converting the historic armory on Main Street.
The council transferred $100,000 from the Reinvest program account, $50,000 from the Harbor Park account and $50,000 from the unappropriated fund balance. The remaining $200,000 is to be included in the city budget for 2002-03. Deputy Mayor Gerald Daley said the $400,000 would be recovered over 10 years through new tax revenue from the 100-room hotel. For the housing complex, the council conveyed a 1.3-acre parcel on South Main Street and Randolph Road, adjoining the existing Marino Manor elderly housing complex, to the city housing authority. The project, which would be one of the state's first housing complexes for hearing-impaired Save 69995 622819 584 Main Middletown Phone Orders Welcome 346-7297 SPECIAL SALE HOURS: Sat.
senior citizens, received letters of support from the state Commission on the Deaf and Hearing Impaired and the Connecticut Association of the Deaf. The $40,000 special appropriation for the board of education is an initial payment 1 to maintain funding for the after-school program, which serves about 800 students in the city's public schools. School officials initially expected a state grant to cover the entire $86,000 annual cost of the program. Daley said the school board decided to request $40,000 now with hope that the General Assembly would restore some funding in the 2002 legislative session. While expressing support for the after-school program, Gionfriddo said the school board should transfer money in the education budget now to pay for the program and seek a special appropriation at the end of the fiscal year to cover any overruns that could result from the transfer.
"We generally don't makes supplemental appropriations in August or September," he said. LEGAL PUBLIC NOTICES LEGAL NOTICE TOWN OF CROMWELL PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION The Cromwell Planning and Zoning Commission will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, September 11,2001 at 7:00 p.m. in Room 224 of the Cromwell Town Hall at 41 West Street on the following item: 1. Application Special Permit (Daycare parking lot at Pumpkin Patch Daycare) at 11 Kirby Road. Estate of Charles Crowell, owner; Barry Steinberg, applicant.
At this hearing interested persons may appear and be heard and written testimony received. These applications are available for public inspection in the office of the Town Planner. Brian Turner, Chairman Dated in Cromwell, Connecticut this 28th day of August 2001 LEGAL NOTICE OF DECISION TOWN OF KILLINGWORTH PLANNING ZONING COMMISSION An application of Living Rock Church of Killingworth, Inc. for a Special Exception under Section 120ofthe Zoning to construct a 4,060 square foot building addition to the existing church building was submitted to the Planning Zoning Commission at its meeting of June 19, 2001. The property is located at 138 Route 81, Killingworth, Connecticut and is shown on Tax Map 33, Parcel 4A.
The owner as recorded in the Killingworth Land Records (Volume 88, Pages 202 203) is Living Rock Church of Killingworth, Inc. The application was considered under the standards prescribed in Section 120G of the Zoning Regulations. The Commission, at its meeting of August 21, 2001, voted to approve the application for Special Exception with conditions. Thomas Lentz, Vice Chairman Dated at Killingworth, Connecticut this 30th day of August 2001. LEGAL NOTICE TOWN CROMWELL BOARD OF ASSESSMENT APPEALS The Board of Assessment Appeals for the Town of Cromwell, County of Middlesex, State of Connecticut, will be in session for motor vehicles only on: Saturday, September 15, 2001 9:00 a.m.
12:00 p.m. at Cromwell TownHall, 41 West Street, Cromwell, to hear any persons claiming to be aggrieved by the doings of the Assessor of the Townof Cromwell for motor vehicle assessments. Persons wishing a hearing may obtain necessary forms by calling the Assessor's Office at 632-3442 between 8:30 a.m. to Any documentation in support of an appeal should be brought to the meeting. William Bouton, Chairman Denise Larrivee Moira Robertson Board of Assessment Appeals Town of Cromwell SEPTEMBER SAPPHIRE Sale Ring or Pendant $225 ea.
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