1969-10-23

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Vo! c 7 No0 9 Second Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, October 23, 1969
NEW INDOOR POOL
USE AS MERCURY DROPS As the first cold spell of the fall season descended on Farmingdale
on Wednesday night, views on the use of the new indoor swim­ming
pool nearing completion at the Senior High School were un­veiled.
The meeting was held ; it Guilford Hull by Thomas
Lavan, School Board Curriculum Chairman and the high school's
administrative and instructional staff concerned with the facility.
Due to an electrical contractors slow down, the target date for use
of the 75 x 42 foot pool has been set for February 1.
By scheduling the over 3,000 senior high school students into
swimming pool gym periods, each student should receive five weeks
of swimming instruction, it was pointed out. One half of of the
students will receive ten periods of instruction and the others 15
periods of instruction. The hoys' instructor, John DeMarie and the
girls instructor, Molly Scahill, were introduced and each described
their programs. On a daily basis, high school instruction will be given
from 8: 30a. m. to 2: 30 p. » r ; high sehool intramurals from 2: 30 » o 3: 4f>
p. m. and interscholastic and extramurals from 4 to 6 p. m.
Swimming Pool Director Donald Snyder outlined the tentative
swimming pool program for community use.
Mondays ; md Thursdays the pool will be reserved for groups
such . is Giii Scouts, Boy Scouts, CYO and Adult Education groups.
On Tuesdays and Friday evenings the pooi will be reserved for
recreational use between 7 to 8 p. m. for Junior high students and
between 8 and 9 p. m. fors for senior high students. On ' Wednesdays
the pool will be reserved for adult use from 7 to 9 p. m.
On Saturdays; from 9 a. m. to 12 p. m. the pool will be reserved for
instructional swimming for elementary school students, grades three
through six under the direction of the lnrmingdale Youth
^ afttMatlaMF^ aftilaJI'
Council.
On Saturdays, from 1 to 4 p. m. junior high age youngsters will use
the pool for recreational swimming and from 4 to 6 p. m. senior
highsschool student will be permitted use of the pool.
On Saturdays from 7 to 9 p. m. family recreational swimming will be
scheduled.
On Sundays the pool will be available to families for recreational
swimming from 2 to 6 p. m.; and recreational swimming from 7 to 8
p. m. for junior high school students and from 8 to 9 p. m. for senior
high school students.
Vacation periods during the school year will also be scheduled for
full use of the swimming pool, it was pointed out. Recreational
swimming for grades three through six from 10 a. m. to 12 noon; 7- 9
from 11 noon to 2 p. m.; 9- 12 from 2 to 4 p. m. and grades 3- 6 again from
4 to 6 p. m. 7 p. m. to 9 p. m. on Mondays and Thursdays again will be
s^' aside for groups; on Tuesdays and Fridays recreational swim­ming
for junior high school from 7 to 8 and for senior high school age
students from 8 to 9 p. m. On Wednesdays recreational swimming for
adults will be offered for adults from 7 to 9 p. m.
' The program was developed with the aid of the Citizens Advisory
Pool Committee
Farmingdale Senior High School Principal John McLennan, em­phasized
that safety precautions would prevail and that in the
beginning fewer students would be allowed in at one time. Other gym
teachers will supervise the locker tooms in conjunction with the pool,
and swimming instructors offices will be located on the swimming
pool deck.
H. ontinued on I'tige l(>)
Lefkowitz Rules Religious
Services May Be Held
On Campus
DEDICATION: The Town of Oyster Bay dedicated its newest facility, the 52- acre
John J. Burns Park on Merrick Road, Massapequa, recently. Hon. A. Holly
Patterson, left, the President of the Long Island State Park Commission, joined
Town Councilman Frank J. Hynes, right, in honoring Burns, center a former
Town Supervisor and the present Commissioner of the New York State Office for
Local Government.
Slate Attorney General Louis
Lefkowitz issued a ruling this
week that since State law
provides for chapels and
religious activities and services
in prisons and hospitals, it is just
as legal for the State University
to avail its students of these
facilities. " Since many colleges
are in small communities where
churches are inaccessible, it
would be a denial of the students'
rights to practice their religions
if provisions were not made for
it".
The decision came in answer to
a request made by Jack Crary,
State University legal counsel
alter Charles W. Laffin, Jr.,
President Of The Slate University
at Farmingdale had suspended
the Newman Club, a Roman
Catholic organization tor holding
a service on campus last year.
In elaborating on ins decision
LefkOWiUs said that ( lie State
cannot deny t< » people within its
jurisdiction the right to practice
their religious beliefs, although
the slate cannot found or support
a religion The holding ot
religious services on a campus of
the State University is not in
violation of the United States of
the New York State Constitution,
in fact it might be in violation of
the Constitution for a University
to turn down student requests for
the use of campus facilities for a
religious service.
Reverend Konald Luka said
that masses for the students have
been continuing on Sundays in a
local service station and at the
homes of faculty members
The college at Farmingdale
liad been informed by the State
University Council, and Jack
Crary, that the Attorney General
has ruled that a state University
college may make available
facilities lor religious services on
the request Of students without
violating the Blaine amendment.
A spokesman tor the college
added when the college receives
a copy of the ruling and
guidelines from the University
C o u n c i l , a p p r Q p r i a l e
arrangements i< » accommodate
students' requests will be made.