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GREENFIELD — The Dale
E. Kuhn Hancock American
Legion Post 119, 278 Center
St., will have a Veterans Day
program at 11 a.m. Tuesday.
After the program, a free
lunch including chili and trim-
mings will be served until 12:30
p.m. All veterans are welcome.
HANCOCK COUNTY — The
following businesses, govern-
ment offices and schools will
be closed for the Veterans Day
holiday on Tuesday:
All city and county govern-
ment offices
U.S. post office
Local banks
Fortville-Vernon Township
Public Library
Hancock County Senior
Services and Purdue Exten-
sion Hancock County
Trash services will have regu-
lar pick-up.
The Daily Reporter will not
publish on Tuesday.
GREENFIELD — The
Character Council will meet at
7 a.m. Wednesday at the com-
munity room in the basement of
the Hancock County Jail, 123
E. Main St., Greenfield.
Jack Frisby will speak on
“Hospitality – Cheerfully Shar-
ing Food, Shelter and Friend-
ship with Others.”
GREENFIELD — A Diabetes
Health Fair is set for 9 a.m. to
1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15, at
Hancock Wellness Center, 888
W. New Road.
In addition to several pro-
grams, A1C testing will be avail-
able. The test is a diagnostic
tool for diabetes. Quantities
are limited; pre-payment is
encouraged. Go to the Well-
ness Center in advance to pay
in advance for a reduced rate
of $15 per test; day of the fair,
$20 per test.
For more information, call
(317) 468-6100.
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What: Greenfield-Central
High School Veterans Day
program.
When: 2:15 p.m. Tuesday,
Nov. 11; reception for
veterans begins at 1:30 in
the choir room. (Veterans
reception parking in north
circle parking lot)
Where: Greenfield-
Central High School main
gym, 810 N. Broadway St.,
Greenfield
Who’s invited: All
veterans; open to the
public.
Sugar Creek Elementary fourth-grade teacher Deb Weiler says
the new ISTEP will be more demanding for students.
Tom Russo / Daily Reporter
By JIM MAYFIELD
jmayfield@greenfieldreporter.com
GREENFIELD — Tuesday
will be a star-spangled day
at Greenfield-Central High
School’s 16th annual Veterans
Day program.
Principal Steve Bryant said
he brought the program to G-C
when he came to the school
in 1999, and the program con-
tinues to enjoy strong support
from faculty, students and the
community.
“Our students’ response is
just phenomenal, and we just
get excited about it,” Bryant
said.
A reception for area vet-
erans will be held in the G-C
choir room at 1:30 p.m. after
which they will parade into
the main gymnasium under a
spotlight to a standing ovation
for the program at 2:15.
Bob Workman, commander
of the Greenfield Veterans
Honor Guard, said his unit
will present and retrieve the
colors for the event.
This year’s speaker will be
By jmayfield@greenfieldreporter.com
G
REENFIELD — Richard Goodwin is
more than 45 years and 9,000 miles from
the A Shau Valley in Vietnam, but it felt a
lot closer on Friday night.
Goodwin, a retired Army captain who was wounded
during the battle for Hill 937 in Vietnam’s Central High-
lands in May 1969, was honored along with 15 other Hoo-
sier veterans who were inducted
into the inaugural class of the
Indiana Military Veterans Hall
of Fame.
Organized in March 2013, the
hall of fame will annually recog-
nize veterans from Indiana who
accomplished significant military and civic achieve-
ments.
“Without exception, this is an outstanding group,”
said Russ Dowden of New Palestine, one of the principal
organizers of the hall of fame.
“They offered great
service to their
As Veterans Hall of Fame
inducts its first class, one
of its members recalls a
battle on a bloody hillside
By KRISTY DEER
kdeer@greenfieldreporter.com
GREENFIELD — With the
adoption of the state’s new aca-
demic standards, big changes
are coming to the ISTEP exam
next spring.
State officials, teachers and
administrators say they expect
scores will drop in 2015 because
the test will be so different.
The new ISTEP will be filled
with “greater rigor,” educators
say. Students will be asked not
just to come up
with the correct
answers: They
must also be able
to explain how
they came up with
them.
“We are trying to build aware-
ness for our parents that it is
inevitable our kids are going to
score lower than they have in
the past,” said Rhonda Peterson,
curriculum director at Southern
Hancock schools. “It is a vastly
different assessment.”
The test is
based on Indi-
ana’s new college-
and career-ready
Indiana Academic
Standards, which
were approved
earlier this year. The new stan-
dards replace the federal Com-
mon Core standards.
“Indiana had strong stan-
dards but just not enough depth
and rigor,” said Deb Weiler,
BIG CHANGES AHEAD FOR ISTEP
Scores expected to drop with new test in 2015
Program
thanks
local
veterans
SEE ISTEP, PAGE A5
SEE PROGRAM, PAGE A5
SEE VALOR, PAGE A5
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By MARIBETH VAUGHN
mvaughn@greenfieldreporter.com
GREENFIELD — Green-
field officials are hoping to
partner with businesses to
beautify the north entrance
of the city, enhancing the In-
terstate 70 interchange and
beautifying an area that thou-
sands of residents and visitors
pass daily.
City engineer Karla Vin-
cent wants to take plans to
the Greenfield Board of Works
next week for a company to
design landscaping at the in-
terchange.
“We’d like to be able to dress
up the entrance of Greenfield
to make it our own, to make
it attractive, to make people
want to stop here and see
what it’s all about,” Vincent
said.
Preliminary designs could
cost up to $43,000, and the
city plans to use tax incre-
ment finance funds to pay for
it, Vincent said. TIF money
comes from businesses in the
I-70 area; in lieu of property
taxes, businesses pay into the
TIF fund for infrastructure
improvements in the area.
The design will reveal
ideas for the interchange, and
Vincent said the hope is for
businesses to chip in and help
pay for the improvements.
Ideas for sprucing up the
interchange vary, from new
signs to an island on State
Street with bushes, flowers or
trees. If the city’s works board
approves a contract with Blue
Officials plan to use tax increment
finance money to fund improvements
City wants to ‘dress up’ north entrance
VALOR
UNDER
FIRE
SEE ENTRANCE, PAGE A3
Preliminary
designs for a new
entrance to Green-
field could cost up-
wards of $43,000.
City officials are
hoping businesses
will chip in to help
pay for improve-
ments.
Take a look at an
example of the questions
being used for the new
ISTEP. Page A5
CLASS OF 2014: Meet the mem-
bers of the first class of the Indiana
Military Veterans Hall of Fame A5
Richard E.
Goodwin re-
ceived a Silver
Star, a Bronze
Star and a
Purple Heart
for his actions
on Hill 937.

2. country, some of them giving their
lives in the process. And for those that
survived and came home, they went
on to serve their communities,” said
Dowden, who is a member of the Ar-
kansas veterans hall of fame. “They
are very impressive.”
Goodwin, 67, became a banker and
businessman after leaving the Army.
He now is a sales manager for a com-
pany that sells televisions to health-
care companies. It’s hard to imagine
him caught in the wild-eyed frenzy
of a battle for a 3,000-foot, jungle-cov-
ered mountainside that would become
known as “Hamburger Hill.”
“Looking back, it all seems surre-
al,” Goodwin said.
A tall, skinny kid from New Castle,
young Richard and his family came
to Greenfield when his father left the
Chrysler plant in New Castle to work
at Ford in Indianapolis. He graduated
from Greenfield High School in 1965
and got a year of accounting studies in
at Ball State University before U.S. in-
volvement in Vietnam intensified. He
joined the Army.
He qualified for and completed Of-
ficers’ Candidate School and received
his commission as a second lieutenant
at age 20.
“I knew I was going,” he said of his
deployment to Southeast Asia. “Jungle
school was a dead giveaway.”
He spent a couple of days in Saigon
before heading to the jungle. Ironical-
ly, he felt safer there.
“We were pretty tough,” he said of
his unit. “We could take care of our-
selves, and I could maneuver.”
Remembering those days, Good-
win’s throat tightens, and his voice
strains. He’s not haunted by Vietnam,
but, then again, he concedes, he’s nev-
er really talked about it before, either.
His unit was operating in the A
Shau Valley, a mile-wide basin near
the Laotian border used by the North
Vietnamese Army to move men and
equipment. One day, an order came
down to take Ap Bia mountain – Hill
937. It got its nondescript name from
its elevation, 937 meters above sea
level.
The indigenous Montagnard moun-
tain people called it the Mountain
of the Crouching Beast, a name that
would become eerily prophetic as the
events of May 10-20 unfolded.
As acting executive officer of his
company, now-1st Lt. Goodwin was at
a rear firebase utilizing his account-
ing skills and managing payroll when
he caught wind of the operation. He
flew by helicopter to join his unit.
The outfit’s captain had previously
shipped out, “and our platoon leader
was pretty green,” Goodwin said.
On May 10, the operation began,
and Goodwin’s Company C, of the 3rd
Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment,
was on the back of the mountain.
“I don’t know about the rest of the
mountain, but we were the first to go
up on the south side,” Goodwin said.
Four days later, Goodwin’s unit
started to advance.
It didn’t get very far.
Mere minutes after moving for-
ward, the enemy fire began, “and
it increased steadily from there. I
spent a lot of time – several hours –
getting the killed and wounded out of
the area,” Goodwin said.
In the process, a sniper spotted
Goodwin partially in the clear. The
sniper’s shot went through Goodwin’s
wrist, severing the tendon to his
thumb, and exited his forearm, strik-
ing his radio operator next to him.
He continued evacuating the casu-
alties, and while moving down a trail,
a rocket-propelled grenade landed
nearby. The blast flattened him, laced
him with shrapnel and killed the man
standing next to him.
“I woke up, and the platoon ser-
geant was looking at me… I thought
I was dead the way he was looking at
me,” he said. “But I don’t remember
any pain.”
The battalion’s commander, Lt. Col.
Weldon “Black Jack” Honeycutt, radi-
oed to summon Goodwin to the rear
for a debriefing, “but I just said I was
too busy at the time,” Goodwin said.
He later was awarded the Purple
Heart and two medals for valor: the
Bronze Star (with the V device, desig-
nating heroism); and the Silver Star.
The citation read:
“Refusing medical evacuation,
he supervised the extraction of the
wounded members of his company.
Despite the disabling nature of his
wounds, Lieutenant Goodwin repeat-
edly braved the hostile fire to move the
most seriously wounded men to pro-
tected positions for evacuation.”
While recovering at Walson Hos-
pital at Fort Dix, New Jersey, he met
a nice Jersey girl named Dee and fi-
nally convinced her to come back to
Indiana with him.
“I told her I searched the whole
world for her,” he said. “I knew she
had everything.”
It was a long time ago – three sons,
grandkids, a couple of businesses and
a good life ago.
But people need to know, and that’s
why Dee nominated her husband for
the hall of fame.
“People just need to remember,” she
said. “It’s not that everybody has to do
it (serve) or can do it, but the people
that do it should be remembered.”
As U.S. forces began withdrawing
from Hill 937 only eight days after tak-
ing it, controversy erupted over the
necessity for the battle and the more
than 400 casualties it bled. As debate
about the direction of the war grew,
the Pentagon ultimately dropped its
strategy of “Maximum Pressure” to
rout the North Vietnamese Army and
the Viet Cong.
Goodwin’s perspective, having
seen the carnage firsthand, doesn’t
afford him the luxury of second-
guessing what actually happened.
It’s not who he is.
“It’s not a big deal,” he said. “It’s in-
grained in you to follow orders.”
Pinned to the ground by withering
fire and focused only on what can be
seen only inches away, it was hard to
articulate the perspective for a broad
view of events, Goodwin said.
Goodwin, who will tell you outright
that “life is good; life is excellent,” ad-
mitted he really hasn’t thought much
about that morning at the base of the
Mountain of the Crouching Beast.
When he began to talk about it last
week, it sometimes became difficult.
“I did my job,” he said. “I don’t feel
bad about it.”
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GUARD SCHEDULE
The Greenfield Veterans Honor
Guard will be on the move next
Monday and Tuesday as it makes
its rounds through a variety of
county events honoring veterans
this year.
The 26-member guard performs at
ceremonies, holiday remembrances
and military funerals throughout the
area.
Here’s where it will be:
Monday
8:30 a.m. – Maxwell Intermediate
School, 102 N. Main St., Greenfield
9:30 a.m. – Eden Elementary
School, 8785 N. SR 9, Greenfield
2 p.m. – Kindred Transitional Care
and Rehabilitation, 200 Green-
meadows Drive, Greenfield
3 p.m. – Golden Living Centers
– Brandywine, 745 Swope St.,
Greenfield
Tuesday
7:45 a.m. – Weston Elementary
School, 140 Polk St., Greenfield
8:30 a.m. – Harris Elementary
School, 200 W. Park Ave., Green-
field
9 a.m. – Greenfield Junior High
School, 1440 N. Franklin St.,
Greenfield
9:30 a.m. – J.B. Stephens Elemen-
tary School, 1331 N. Blue Road,
Greenfield
11 a.m. – Dale E. Kuhn Hancock
American Legion Post 119, 278
Center St., Greenfield
Noon – Take a Veteran to Lunch –
Hancock County Public Library, 900
W. McKenzie Rd., Greenfield
2:15 p.m. – Greenfield-Central
High School, 810 N. Broadway St.,
Greenfield
HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
The Indiana Military Veterans Hall of Fame
inaugural class is listed here. For more informa-
tion, visit the hall of website at www.imvhof.com.
Valorous military service category
Gary D. Brewer, Sr.,* Worthington; Distinguished
Service Cross, Bronze Star (V), Purple Heart
Robert H. Butler, Jr.,* Indianapolis; Silver Star,
Purple Heart
William E. Butler,* Indianapolis; Silver Star (2),
Bronze Star, Purple Heart (3)
Charles B. Garrigus,* Indianapolis; Distinguished
Service Cross
Richard E. Goodwin, Greenfield; Silver Star,
Bronze Star (V), Purple Heart
Ronald E. Gray, Palm Bay, Fla.; Silver Star,
Distinguished Flying Cross (3), Bronze Star (2),
Purple Heart
Charles W. Lindewald,* LaPorte; Silver Star,
Purple Heart
Johnny J. Miller,* Argos; Distinguished Service
Cross, Bronze Star, Purple Heart
Joseph E. Proctor,* New Whiteland; Silver Star,
Bronze Star, Purple Heart
Frederick L. Spaulding, Fishers; Distinguished
Service Cross, Silver Star, Distinguished Flying
Cross, Bronze Star (V), Bronze Star (2)
Robert J. Williamson,* Vevay; Distinguished
Service Cross, Purple Heart
Combined military and community
service category:
Allen E. Paul, Richmond; Bronze Star, Air Medal
(2), Army Commendation Medal (V)
James E. Koutz, Boonville
Robert G. Moorhead,* Indianapolis; Distin-
guished Service Medal, Legion of Merit (2),
Bronze Star (2)
Donald W. Moreau, Center Point; Legion of Merit
(2), Air Medal (2)
James R. Sweeney, II, Indianapolis; Defense
Superior Service Medal, Air Medal (V), Air Medal
STRK/FLT3
*Posthumously awarded
teacher at Sugar Creek
Elementary School, who was
part of a state committee that
helped put the new testing
standards in place. “It was just a
lot of recite and recall.”
Weiler said the test is designed
to measure how students think.
“The new way of testing is
called ‘evidence-based,’” Weiler
said. “Kids have to be thinkers,
and that means creative writing
is out, and evidence-based
writing is in.”
As an example in math, Weiler
said, the new standards are much
tougher in that what was being
taught in sixth grade will now be
taught in fourth grade.
“There will be a shift in skills
from grade level to grade level,”
Weiler said. “Many times, it can
be up to two grade levels.”
Educators are now giving
students a crash course in what
to expect when they take ISTEP
starting in March.
They’re also informing parents
of the changes and are using
acuity testing, another growth
measurement assessment, to get
kids ready for ISTEP.
“These new test items are
different from what students
have experienced in the past,”
Peterson said. “They are bolder
and have a lot more steps. It’s not
like multiple choices anymore.”
Not only is the test going to be
different, it will also have a new
technology-enhanced element
beyond the standard multiple-
choice questions.
Instead of selecting one answer,
students might have to select the
best three out of five answers.
“We used to preach to our kids
that there was one answer. We
can no longer do that,” Weiler
said.
Greenfield Central Junior High
math teacher Kristen Piron
attended a state workshop on the
ISTEP changes and said the new
standards will end up helping
students in the long run.
“The big thing they are trying
to do with the new testing is get
the kids to think about thinking
and the process students use to
solve problems,” Piron said.
The newer testing will allow
students to show and explain
how they came up with an
answer rather than just
identifying the correct one.
“The big addition to the typical
standards we have to teach in
math,likeaddingandsubtracting
and decimals, is the process
standards,” Piron said.
While she would like to see the
changes put in place with more
time to teach the new standards,
Piron likes them.
“It’s moving forward to the
future, where kids need to be –
more of an independent thinker,”
she said. “We just need to kind of
shift how we are getting kids to
learn.”
G r e e n f i e l d - C e n t r a l
Superintendent Harold Olin said
many districts will rely on acuity
diagnostic and readiness testing
throughout the year to gauge a
student’s progress.
He acknowledges teachers and
parents just don’t have a great
amount of time to prepare
students for the new ISTEP,
despite the fact test results are
crucial for districts. School letter
grades released earlier this week,
for example, rely heavily on
ISTEP results.
“They’re important for
accountability scores for the
school and teacher performance,
but some of that has got to
change,” Olin said. “I just don’t
think we are going to be able to
measure growth as we have done
in the past, because it is a new
test with new standards.”
He said G-C has been informing
parents of the new standards via
conferences and take-home work.
He said it is important parents
understand the state has new
guidelines, but he feels in time
students will adjust.
“I think students are pretty
resilient, but that alone will not
help them be successful,” Olin
said. “They’re going to need some
guidance, so… I am a little
concerned….”
Eastern Hancock Elementary
School Principal Amanda Pyle
said her teachers have looked at
the new test samples, which have
been made available to educators.
“As a school staff, we took the
sample tests and paid close
attention to the type of question
as well as the type of output
required by the students to solve
the problems,” Pyle said. “The
test is definitely going to be more
rigorous. The reading passages
were much longer, and the math
problems more complex, often
requiring students to solve four
problems within one problem to
get the correct answer.”
Olin said he’s just ready for the
state to get a set of standards and
stick with it.
“I think this is our third set of
standards in four years,” he said.
“That is difficult for a classroom
teacher to prepare their
curriculum.”
The coming ISTEP is only an
interim test for 2015, with a
proposed new ISTEP to be fully
implemented in spring 2016.
Sample test questions can be
seen at experience-ccra-in.ctb.
com/
Continued from Page A1
ISTEP Here is a sample question
from the fourth-grade math
assessment being used for
the new ISTEP:
Olivia colors a rectangle.
The rectangle has an area of
18 square inches. What could
be the length and width of
the rectangle? Select TWO
measurements that apply
8 inches and 1 inch
9 inches and 2 inches
6 inches and 3 inches
5 inches and 4 inches
12 inches and 6 inches
More sample test ques-
tions can be seen at www.
experience-ccra-in.ctb.com/
SAMPLE QUESTION
Continued from Page A1
Valor
retired Army Command Sgt.
Maj. Stephen W. Short, whose
reserve career has taken him to
Honduras, South Korea and
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
A special feature this year,
Bryant said, will be a flag folding
ceremony conducted by retired
Air Force Senior Master Sgt.
Paul Norton, 113th Air Support
Operations Squadron, with an
honor guard comprised of
representatives of various
branches of the armed services.
The G-C band and choirs will
also perform during the
program.
School secretary Nancy
Alldredge said plenty of seating
will be available in the gym with
the public seated in chairs on
the gym floor and students in the
bleachers.
The school anticipates a large
crowd, however, and those who
wish to come early may do so,
Alldredge said.
Bryant said historically, G-C
students have taken pride in
their celebration.
“Sometimes you hear a lot of
negativity about teenagers, but
this is one moment in time when
their true colors shine,” Bryant
said.
Continued from Page A1
Program
Greenfield
resident
Richard
Goodwin is in
the inaugural
group of
Indiana
Military
Veterans
Hall of Fame
inductees.
Tom Russo /
Daily Reporter