Bethpage-Tribune_1974-07-11

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VOL. 8 No. 34 Thursday, July 11,1974 10 cents per copy
Photo$-ln~The-New$ Coliseum Hosts
AFS Farewell
WITH THE FRINGE ON THE TOP: Oyster Bay Town Councilman
Salvatore R. Mosca and his wife. Margaret, portray Supervisor
and Mrs. Peter Lyster (circa 1851) for the annual Fourth of Ji
celebration at Old Bethpage Restoration Village. All of the Village
inhabitants and some volunteers turned out in period costume
commemorate the day with a parade, speeches and games a
Amid tears, laughter, songs,
hugs, and kisses 2,500 foreign
students bid farewell to the U.S.
at Nassau Coliseum yesterday
morning. The students, who were
all between the ages of 16 and 19,
have spent the past ten months
living with families across the
U.S., attending high school, and
becoming involved in community
activities. The stay was arranged
by the American Field Service
International Scholarships. As
one student remarked, "It is so
hard to say goodbye."
The students had left their
"Adopted families" on June 28 to
begin a 12-day bus trip to New
York. Over, sixty buses from all
areas of the country brought the
students to Uniondale, stopping
at different communities along
the Way.
Dordi Nilsen and Oystein
Gjertseh, both from Norway,
greeted each other gleefully after
an excitement-filled year's
separation. Dordi, who spent her
last ten months in Illinois, said,
"I just loved it. I made so many
good friends. Now is the time to
say goodbye and all I can do is
Oystein, who stayed in
ota, said, "I will definitely
ack to the U.S."
e ignored the name tags
each student wore bearing
his / her name and native
country, it would have been
impossible to tell the foreign
teens from their American
counterparts. Man wore "AFS
Peace" or "Buffalo University"
T-shirts. One student from
by Shari Miller
Ghana, who recently arrived
from the West Coast, said, "I'm
glad I spent my year in
California. That's where it's at."
The three cardinal rules of AFS
are no driving, no hitch-hiking,
and no drugs, according to a girl
from Chile. One student ex­pressed
her concern that visiting
students were not given adequate
freedom by their American hosts,
yet most of the students felt that
they were treated properly as the
mature, responsible young adults
they are.
As the bus arrived bearing
those students who had lived in
New York and New Jersey,
cheers of "AFS Spirit" rang
throughout the crowd. Marcio
J.M. da Silva, who is from Brazil
and whose nickname is "Pita,":
arrived at the Coliseum from
Glenhead, L.I. He said, "Long
Island is fantastic."
Cecile Noelmans, whose native
land is Belgium, also loved Long
Island. She said the biggest
surprise was finding that Oyster
Bay, where she has been living
this year, "was so green.
Everyone told me how ugly and
crowded the New York area was
before I left. But Long Island's so
beautiful!" She said she enjoyed
her year at St. Dominic's High
School, where she felt classes
were much easier and the at­mosphere
was much more open
than in Belgian schools, Cecile
said she had become especially
close with her "American
mother" and had made mapy
other wonderful friendships.
Dalton de Toledo, who also
stayed in Oyster Bay, did not
enjoy his experience at Oyster
Bay High School, although he
loved his new family. "The
people at school were a drag, as
you say here. They were not
friendly to me at all. The greatest
thing was my family and their'
wonderful friends," explained
Dalton. He enjoyed the idea of
living on an island surrounded by
water, which he found quite
different from his home in Brazil.
AFS President Stephen
Rhinesmith expressed the hopes
for the future which he found
reflected in the smiles and
feelings of all those involved in*
this y e a r ' s program. His arrival
and wild cheers from the 2,500
AFS students in the audience.
Assistant Secretary of State for
Education and Cultural Affairs
John Richardson sent a farewell
telegram in which he wrote, "The
road to a more peaceful and just
world order depends on students
like you."
Following the farewell
ceremonies, the students began
boarding busses which will take
them to airports where they will
board planes bound for then-native
lands. As these students
are returning home after their
AFS experience, 2,600 foreign
students are anticipating what
1974-75 will be like in the U.S., and
1,627 American students are
getting ready to leave the U.S. for
their year aboard.
TWO SUPER COPS AND TWO Former Basketball Stars get together
at recent dinner held by Nassau County Democrats where Arizona
Congressman Morris K.Udall (second from left) was guest speaker.
Standing with him on dais are Stanley Harwood, Democratic
chairman, who played basketball for Columbia University, (Udall
played for the University of Arizona) and Denis Dillon (second from
right) and Robert Meehan, Rockland County District Attorney.
Dillon is the former Director of the Department of Justice Organized
Crime Strike Force Eastern District of New York, and a candidate
for Nassau District Attorney. Meehan Is running for New York State
Attorney General.
PRSA Officer
Elected
Howard M. Blankman of Port
Washington has been elected the
first president of the new Long
Island chapter of the Public
Relations Society of America
(PRSA).
Blankman, president of
Howard Public Relations Ltd.,
will serve a one-year term as
president of the chapter, which
was formed this spring when the
Long Island Public Relations
Association merged with the
national society. PRSA, with
more tiiaa 7,000 members and 72
chapters, is the largest
professional public relations
association in the world.
The Long Island chapter's
charter night will be held Sept.
12, with PRSA's national
president, Dr. Carl Hawver of
Washington, D.C., serving as
principal speaker.
The Long Island chapter has
held two meetings since formally
becoming part of PRSA. Com­mittee
chairman have been
appointed and fall programin,
including charter night activities,
is well underway.
PICTURESQUE, BUT ROUGH GOING - Assemblyman Stuart R.
Levine (R-Bethpage) points out ceremonial stone steps of the east
entrance to the State Capitol in Albany which are characteristic of
the architectural features of many public buildings: pleasing in
appearance but almost impassible for persons with handicaps.
Governor Wilson has signed into law a Levine bill which requires
that anytime the surface of a public building is substantially changed
barriers to the movement of handicapped persons must be removed.