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ents, according to Gitlin. T cannot afford to raise the works in the same way, c the mother consents to PLAINDEALER- HERALD Teiitative settlement on teachers' contract The McHenry High School Teachers Association and the District 156 Board of Education have announced that a tentative agreement has been reachea in the c u r r e n t c o n t r a c t sotiations. itification votes are scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 20, and pending those votes, details of tne tentative agreement will be released. Recent negotiating sessions had been aided by Federal Mediation and Conciliation Commissioner Robert Calloway, who works out of the FMSC office located in Rockford. Contract talks, between the school board and teachers, began in March of this year, and continued regularly throughout the summer months and the fall. Former Dist. 15 board member Ed Samen dies jBy Marion Olsen Ptaiadaatar HereM New» Service The McHenry community lost ienry • one if its active business and community leaders when Ed* ward F. Samen, 41, died in his heme on Nov. 15. He was owner of McHenry Drapery and Carpet Co. on and Negotiations Committees of the board, but was able to serve only four or five months before illness limited his activities and caused his eventual resignation. Dr. Richard Farmer, District 15 superintendent, commented on Mr. Samen's death; "I'm saddened because I knew Ed Samen both as a school board member and Rotarlan. I had a lot of admiration for his steady, reasoned approach to problems and we'll miss the experience of having Him on the school board. He was a community leader and a good fellow." As a McHenry Rotarian, Samen served as president of the club for the year 1960-81. EDWARD F. SAMEN Green Street for the years, which led him to active membership in the McHenry Chamber of Commerce and the McHenry Rotary Club. More recently, he was elected in November, 1983 to serve a foutaear term on the District 15 School board, lie to the Finance was Samen when Swartzloffbecame of their association, "Ed Samen was one of the finest human beings I've ever had the pleasure of knowing." Swartzloff also noted that Samen had at one time worked for the county assisting troubled young people and families. "He was a friend to everyone and touched a lot of lives," the superintendent added. A Rotary-sponsored dance,, held earlier this year, raised $8,000 to assist with costs in- in the treatment of his Mr. Samen was a graduate of McHenry Community High School and Western State College of Colorado in fiunnison. He is survival bv/tus wife, Jean, and three^aaughters: Katherine, Colleen and Jenny. A more detailed obituary appears on Page 12 of this section. Historical society will plaque St. John's Church St. John the Baptist Church in Johnsburg will receive a historic •plaque from the McHenry .County Historical Society at 10' -a.m., Sunday, Nov. 25. i Historic plaque number 21 will rbe presented to Father John • Holaren and lay consultants of 1 the church. The present church, - built in 1900, stands on the site of the first parish house of worship. Mt was built in 1842 of logs and ? measured 20 feet by 28 feet. 1 The original building was used ; as a school and meeting hall, as well as a place of worship. In *1850 a second church, a frame GOOD MORNING! INDEX Business .. Sec. 2. Page 1 Church... Sec. 2, Page 10 Life Today •. Page 11 Neighbors.. Sec. 2. Page 2 Volume 109. Number 26 IHAUIIftllT f ' - 1 . I The high school basketball season gets underway for area teams Tuesday night. Previews of McHenry1 s and Johnsburg's cagers appear in today's sports section, pages 18 and 19. Obituaries Page 12 Schools . Sec. 2. Page 7 Spoils .. Pages 18.19.20 2 Sections, 30 pages ' \ • ' Remembering first Thanksgiving PUlndcater Herald phot* by AaHMiiy 0llv*r Colonials and Indians gather together (above) enjoy a warm fire, a Turkey feast and a chance this traditional Thanksgiving Day celebration, costume from Montfni Primary Center and their parents Joined for the annual feast last Friday noon in the basement of St. Patrick's nwfii building, replaced the original log structure and a Gothic style brick church was completed in 1880. That church was destroyed by fire in 1900 and then the present building was built. The 10 a.m. ceremony will be open to the public. Inside the church exhibits of early history will be on display/ For information concerning the McHenry County Historical Society's plaquing program, contact the museum weekdays between 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. at (815) 923-2267. . 4 Legalities spell out adoption procedure Editor's Note: The following is the first installment In a four-part to be published in the McHenry Plaindealer Herald in the coming weeks. This article gives an overview on the adoption picture in this county, specifically the legalities and procedures involved. By Angela Burjden - • t fflilni^alr Uawlil a--',e> rlawoeaier-neraia News service Although adoption was known to many ancient civilizations, it was not common in modern society until relatively recent times. In Illinois, the first adoption law was passed in 1867. It has been revised several times since then. H. Joseph Gitlin, a Woodstock attorney and specialist in family law and adoptions, explained that most adoptions - about 90 percent -are by relatives. "Ninety-five percent of those are step-parent adoptions: when a mother is divorced, remarries ana the new husband adopts her child or children," he paid; Hie next most common adoption is usually an adoption i occurs when the lild, can't handle the single parent situation, or dies. There are two types of non-relation adoptions. One is through a registered agency and the other is a direct adoption without an agency, Gitlin said. He explains that there are no hidden rules. In a typical adoption, the birth-mother surrenders her child to a licensed agency and then _the agency selects 'on family waiting to adopt a child. Gitlin emphasized that a lawyer cannot take custody of a child and then put it upior adoption. 'That's illegal, be said. However, quite often an unwed mother will approach a lawyer for help in putting her unborn child up for adoption. The attorney can then guide her through the proper channels. Usually, according to Gitlin, pregnant women are referred to lawyers through physicians. Gitlin explained that adoption procedures are not too difficult. The difficulty is in supply and demand, he said. The first steps are that the parents (married or un­ married) of the child, must consent before a judge to. the child's adoption. If the parents do not sign a consent form, then grounds, in court. Often, Gitlin said, the father of a child has not given support for it and has never seen the child. But, ff the father's address is known he must be served with a sum­ mons and if he cannot be located, a notice must be published informing him to appear in court on the issue within SO days. If the father faUs to respond, he is held in default by the court and the proceedings continue. When a new husband such as death or desertion, have to be proven ADOPTION: Searching for love wants to adopt his wife's child, it is very rarely contested, Gitlin said. If the state, through the Department of Children and Family Services or a county agency, finds a child being abused or neglected, it can take custody of that child, but cannot necessarily to put the child up for adoption. "Itisthe agency's obligation to restore the child to its birth-parents if agency'! possible terminate the parents' rights in court. The child tfien can be eligible for adoption through the agency," Gitlin said. Sometimes, Gitlin said, the parents are clearly unfit to raise a child, and at an official court hearing the parents' rights are terminated when the situation is unremediaL ' Adoption procedures are much the same as in any legal proceeding. There is a filing of a consent in court, tne summons and or legal publication and, if there is no answer, the default finding. "There is usually no waiting period for adoption by a relative. Generally it can be finalized within 30 days," Gitlin said. For non-related adoptions the law requires a six-month waiting period from the interim order of the court, which is when the judge places the child in the custody of the adoptive parents, he explained. An agency, according to Gitlin, may have a longer waiting period, but the child is still placed with the adoptive parents. He said that all non-related adoptions require a investigation. Tbe agency conducts its own inve&gation and in the direct adoption procedure (non- agency), the judge appoints an investigator to make a regort to the court on the fitness of % persons to adopt a • "While the law says the court shall consider the religion of the child and adoptive parents, this has never been a problem," Gitlin said. Traditionally, agentHes have handled adoptions, Gitlin noted: the mother surrenders the child and the agency chooses the adoptive parents. But, he said, there is now a trend for independent adoptions where the birth mother decides to surrender her child, but before consenting to such a release, interviews prospective parents herself. More on independent adoptions in the next of this series. rime Crime of the Week fAtt SHAW rR f r PRESS MFDIA INC Tuesday , November 20 , 1984 : H