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By BONNIE ADAMS badams@leader.net
Wednesday, March 05, 2003 Page: 1A
DALLAS TWP. – By his own admission, Dallas High School Principal Frank
Galicki is shopping impaired.
He credits his price-savvy wife for his recent win as a contestant on “The
Price Is Right” game show. The episode is scheduled to air at 11 a.m. Friday
on CBS.
“I have no clue about prices of anything,” said Galicki, 51, in the school
library. He rarely watches the show.
“I’m not a game show type of guy.”
He said he had hoped his wife, Terry, would be chosen. But as contestant
number 271 out of hundreds of show hopefuls, Galicki must have caught the
attention of the show’s producers during a small group interview.
“I was kind of forward,” Galicki said. He joked with producers and wore the
bright orange T-shirt his wife got for them and two other couples to wear to
the Feb. 25 taping in California.
The T-shirts said, “Pennsylvania Principals Know the Price is Right.”
Wearing a dark suit and a bright colored, Mardi Gras-theme tie on Tuesday,
Galicki held up a cardboard sign that said $15,965. That’s the value of the
merchandise he won, which includes a week-long trip for two to Singapore and
living room furniture destined for his daughter in Philadelphia.
Galicki said his wife’s lucky number is 13. He took her suggestion and told
game show host Bob Barker that the trip/furniture showcase was worth $13,000.
On the way to the showcase competition, Galicki initially bid too low on a
pool table, but later made a good $600 guess – with help from his wife – on a
wine rack/cart. Galicki missed both putts in the hole-in-one game to compete
for a Buick LeSabre. Barker also missed his putt.
The Galickis and the other couples attended the taping after a three-day
National Association of Secondary School Principals conference in San Diego.
Galicki said they left San Diego at 3 a.m. and arrived at the show’s studios
in Burbank at 5:30 a.m. to stand in line.
Dallas High School students will be allowed to watch the game show Friday
in their homerooms. Galicki said that will fall in the middle of a lunch
period.
“They’re going to have the option to watch their principal make a fool of
himself,” he said. In the high school office, Galicki and co-workers will also
watch.
“They’re going to abuse me, they said.”
Bonnie Adams, a Times Leader staff writer, may be reached at 829-7241.