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Vol. No. 33 Second Class Postage has been • aid at Fanainadala, N. Y. Thursday, July 1, 1965
RATE DR. KINZLER TOPS William A. Kinzler, an edu­cator
who came up from the
ranks in Farmingdale and who
has been here for 18 years,
was selected over outstanding
superintendent candidates from
throughout the United States for
the position of Superintendent
of the Farmingdale Public
Schools at Monday's Special
board meeting held at Weldon
E. Howitt.
Kinzler a resident of 21 Bar­berry
Court is married and has
two children.
He is a graduate of the Grover
Cleveland High School in Brook­lyn
in 1938 and was selected as
an outstanding all- around boy
graduate. He received a BA de­gree
from St. John's College
in 1943 having majored in Social
Sciences and minored in English
and Mathematics. He attended
Notre Dame University under
the Midshipman training pro­gram
for the US Navy. He also
studied Diesel Engineering at
the University of California and
then received his Masters de­gree
in 1947 fvoM St. John s
University. He received his doc­torate
degree in 1962 when he
majored in Public School Ad­ministration
and Supervision. He
has also studied at Hofstra and
New York University.
During college, he worked in
with the Grace National Bank
and during the service served in
the Navy from 1943- 46 as a
Commanding Officer of a com­missioned
U S Naval Mine -
sweeper with the rank of LTj. g.
From 1946- 1951 Kinzler taught
mathematics, English and social
studies in grades five through
eleven. He taught in New York
City and Westbury and came to
Farmingdale in 1947. He was
nominated for the Best Teacher
of the Year A ward in 1948.
From 1951- 56 he served as
Co - Director of Guidance for
grades 7 - 12. He initiated many
new services with special em­phasis
on scholarship improve­ment,
resulting in the attainment
of $ 68,000 of scholarship grants
in 1954.
From 1956 to 1959 he was
appointed Principal of the Far­mingdale
Junior High School, in­novations
which he introduced
included ability grouping, cur­riculum
materials for uMterae-tiated
instructional levels, for­eign
language and algebra to
selected groups in grade 8; re­medial
reading, revised report
card which now serves for grades
4- 12.
From 1959 to present he has
served as Assistant Sspery***-
dent of schools. He has worted
with personnel, evaluation of staff
and instructional program,
school board - staff relations,
pupil personnel services, chair­man
of all district- wide confer-erences;
director of i n -
service teacher training and
Chairman of the Curriculum Ad­visory
Council.
Kinzler has served under foaar
different superintendents of
schools and these four
for
He wasap-nder
the
Dr. John
Principal:
for me
Directorship by
D. John J. Fu « iimj, as Prin­cipal
by Fred Pajuter; and as
Assistant by Dr. Thomas W. Gufl-ford.
Buhjalnj developed
for aD the
developed CUT—
Institutional Representative; Co­ordinator
of School Expansion
Program ( Speakers Bureau) 1964
Referendum; Chairman of Far-
• riajaiht* Community Scholarship
Fund - 3 years; Campaign work­er
for Boy Scouts, Salvation
Army, Cancer, Cerebral Palsy,
Heart and Community Chest,
Chairman of District- wide Stan­dardized
Testing Program also
a member of the Seven District
Committee Studying Shared Serv­ices.
See P age' 7
Social Board Happenings
gP* » and
He has act wed as President
of the Classroom Teachers As­sociation;
Vice President of the
Farmingdale PTA; member of the
planning Cinmnilli of the Vo-catiaBadEuntaHunandFjrtensinn
Board of Nassau County; mem­ber
of the Board's C onmuttee
on Special Classes for the Men
tally Retarded; Chairman of the
1955 Boy Scout Fund Campaum;
Chairman of the Citizens Stat­istical
Committee on School Ex-parsjon;
Chairmen of Citiieas
Advisory Committee mi Sdaool
Expansion; Onurmanof Conmrit-tee
on Development of School
Boards Cluistman Policy; Chair-off
CunmailH i on Develop-of
Evahmtion Report:
Grouping and Depai janj ntaBaa-tion
in ( the Elementary School;
l hairman of Red Cross Disas­ter
Commiittee, 19M to present;
Co- Chairmaa of 1965 Cerebral
Palsy Fund Drive; Boy Scoutsc
Parent d Dr. William A. Kinzler
Airport Study Progresses
The recently organized Baby­lon
Airport Study Committee,
has reported progress in the
initial stages of its study of the
feasibility of municipal operation
of the Republic airfield at Farm­ingdale,
as a limited use Gen­eral
Aviation Airport.
According to John Russell of
Amity ville, temporary chair­man
of the group, the commit­tee
has visited Republic where it
inspected the airfield, control
tower, related facilities and wit­nessed
take- offs and landing of'
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Farmingdale recipients of Nassau County Physical fitness and Academic
awards were honored last week by the Klwanls Club of Farmingdale at a
dinner held at Westbury Manor. Reading from 1 tit r is Lewis Minn, Di­visional
Chairman of the Program; Steven Woodford and Dale Jones, r e ­cipients
of physical and academic awards and Theresa Salerno, who r e ­ceived
a Physical Fitness award.
Herbert Thomas, another Academic Award recipient was not present.
Nat Marchese of the East Farmingdale Fire
Department, center, receives the Long Island
Press Photographers Association first Suffolk
Fireman of the Year award from Charles Wyrostok,
left, chairman of the Association and a member
of Police Fire Press Relations Committee, makes
the presentation as Chief George Messeder looks
on. ( Photo by Jackson Pokraaa)