• 1980 - Third School Bus Roadeo for the Greater Rochester Area
    hosted by Gates Chili Central School District

  • Official name adopted: Rocheser Area School Bus Safety Roadeo Associaiton
  • 12 Districts Participate: Gates-Chili, Spencerport, Churchville-Chili, Wayne, Fairport, Greece, Hilton, Brighton, Honeoye Falls-Lima, Rochester City, Brockport, and Monroe BOCES #1
  • 138 Contestants
 



hosted by: Gates Chili Central Schools

held on: Saturday, June 7, 1980

9 A.M.

Gates-Chili
Transportation Department
Wegman Road




cover by H. Olsen

  

Winners (one category 60 passenger bus)

1st - Tim Guck, Brighton

 

4th - Larry Gilbert, Brighton

Team Trophy: Brighton Central School District



  
 


Wayne Central Participants

 

Drivers attending from Fairport Central Schools:

Bettie Hicks, Linda Masciangelo, Kay Eck, Helen Clark, Duane Granger, Pat Dodd, Lousis Allen, Norma, Fernaaya, Yvonne, Skarlow, Floyd Huckenberry, Fred Dickinson, Linda Daciw, Peggy Dickenson and Mike Daciw.






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Brighton drivers - top, Tim Guck; left, Larry Gilbert; right, Ron Delettera.

 

School bus drivers form 12 Greater Rochester school districts gathered at Gates-Chili Central School District’s Wegman Road campus this past Saturday morning, June 7, for the third Annual School Bus Roadeo sponsored by the Rochester Area School Bus Roadeo Association. One hundred forty drivers participated in a difficult roadeo course, which tested both accuracy and riving skill. Time and penalties were major criteria used in judging each driver’s performance.

Wayne Central’s representatives included bus drivers Bea Holcomb, Janice Holbertson, Mary Kenner, Joanne Derringer, Esther Goulette, Elaine Hyde, Dottie DeVrieze, Linda Anderson, and Olga Gunke, Ken Ebert served as a roadeo mechanic. Transportation manager Jim Brown and support services manager Jim Switzer were among the two-dozen school personnel who volunteer to serve as judge and scorekeepers. Local bus drivers supported the costs for gasoline used to drive to and from and during the Roadeo.

The roadeo course includes nine separate stations. After a stop watch start, the contestants, driving in busses other than those from their own district were required to drive though a diminishing funnel, a 100-footline-right rear dual line though parallel tennis balls, a serpentine turn series, a right turn, the offset alley, a left run, a front bumper stop, a read bumper stop and a timed stop. Each error made resulted n a penalty in total score; lowest penalties resulted in highest score and time for individual runs were used to determine ties.

Wayne County, 1980