To the Southern Regional Community:
In 1967, my husband Bill and I moved our family from Philadelphia to Ship Bottom. At that time, Southern had only one building. There were only 17 buses and drivers who transported students from Barnegat, Waretown, Bass River, Long Beach Island and Stafford to the building that is now the 9-10 school. If you were a taxpayer on vacation, your child could go to summer school for free at Southern.
The bus drivers wanted to form a union, which was a definite “no-no” at the time and Superintendent Robert Allen would…
September 6, 2017
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