Teen Center at Sussex Civic Center, Old Orchard School Location
edited by Michael R. Reilly
Original March 7, 2015
Updated 03/08/2015
Sussex signing lease to take over Main-Orchard School, Feb 1980, photo: Fred H. Keller. Left to right: Front row seated: ?, Paul Fleishman, ?; 2nd row:S al Maglio, ?, ?, Joanne Smith, ?, Kathy Klager(?), Cheryl Wilde; Back row: Roger Johnson, Bob Stier, Glen Moody, Sr., Bill Ross(?), ?, ?, Grace Jones.
Clean up – Orchard School; Kevin Minor with Art and John Rude, June 1980, photo: Fred H. Keller. Art was a custodian/janitor at Orchard School/Community Center.
Roxanne McManus; Virginia Karpinski, President of the Teen Center Advisory Board; Alma and Charles Roginske.
Clean up at Sussex Teen Club, Feb 1981, photo: Fred H. Keller. Left to right: ?, ?, Lisa Ghetto, Julie Johnson(?)
At the Tuesday night session of the Sussex Teen Club, a former resident of Sussex, William Egerer, was greeted by Virginia Karpinski. Egerer recently donated $5,800 to the teen club. He stated when he was growing up there was a real need for a teen club, but there was none. March 1981, photo: Fred H. Keller
April 1981 Teen Center off to a rousing start as 80 and 100 area youths show up on the Tuesday and Friday evenings that it is open. Game room has eight coin-operated gaming machines, plus four free table games – pool, foosball, air hockey, and bumper pool. Money collected each week, $80-100, from coin/soda machines goes back into the Teen Club coffers. Left to right: Bonnie Belke and Janine Karpinski are shown above.
Bumper pool Feb 1981, Left to right, Eric Mading and David Rose, photo: Fred H. Keller.
July 1981 Racing arcade game, photo: Fred H. Keller, with unknown
July 1981 Playing Foosball game, photo: Fred H. Keller, pictured Left to right(?): Ken Heil and Ed Wilbert
July 1981 Ping Pong Game, photo: Fred H. Keller. pictured: Patty Heil and Cheryl Hilde.
July 1981 Foosball Game with Sussex Teen Club Co-coordinator, Marty Ordinance. Photo: Fred H. Keller, unknown participants?
New Sussex Teen Center coordinator, Theresa McCraw [right], met with two members of the teen committee before the center opened Tuesday, Nov 3. McCraw said the committee members help her keep things under control. The members pictured here are Vicki Surprise and Chris Tennesen. [Sun photo]