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An Officiaf Newspaper of The Incorporated Village of Farmingdale — Serving Greater Farmingdale, Bethpage and Melville .
Vol. 8 No. 17 Second Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735- Thursday, December 17,1970
SPECIAL SERVICES
TO MARK HOLY DAYS
The United Methodist Church of Farmingdale will hold a Can-dlelighting
Service at 7: 30 p. m. on Christmas Eve followed by an 11
p. m. service. There will be no services held on Christmas Day.
Christmas Day next Friday in Farmingdale will be ushered in with
special services to be conducted in local churches.
St. Kilian's R. C. Church will hold a Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve
preceded by tli^ mging of carols. A second Midnight Mass will also be
offered in the School hall.
On Christmas Day Masses will be held at 6: 30; 8: 15; 9: 45; 11; 11: 15
and 12: 40.
St. Thomas' Episcopal Church services will begin with the singing of
carols on Christmas Eve at 11: 30 p. m. followed by a Mass at Mid­night.
On Christmas Day, Masses will held at 8 and 11 a. m.
St. Luke's Lutheran Church will hold a Candlelight Service on
Christmas Eve at Fellowship Hall at 7 and 10 p. m. followed fcy a
Christmas Day service with Holy Communion at 10 a. m.
Willenbrock, Nihan Named College Vice Presidents
Dr. Charles W. Laffin, Jr.,
President of State University at
Farmingdale, announced the
appointment of three vice
presidents, two of them hailing
from Farmingdale, to his ad­ministrative
staff: Berthold D.
Willenbrock, 114 Staples Street,
Vice President for Student Af­fairs;
Dr. James F. Nihan, 16
Alexander Avenue, Vice
President for Continuing
Education; and Dr. Frank A.
Cipriani, Smithtown, Vice
President for Administration.
In making the appointments,
Dr. Laffin said the physical
growth of the college and its ever-expanding
involvement with
academic, student, staff and
community affairs, and the many
services that go with this
progress, make these additions to
the administration necessary.
The new appointees now join
two other vice presidnets, John
M. Purcell of Farmingdale, who
is responsible for assisting the
President with general ad­ministration
and in his absence
serves as acting president, and
Noel Palmer, Westbury, Vice
President for Urban Affairs since
April, 1970. Mr. Purcell, who
started as an instructor at
Farmingdale in 1952, has been
Vice President since 1967.
Formerly Dean of Students,
Willenbrock, in his twenty- fifth
year of service with the college,
in his new position as Vice
President of Student Affairs, is
responsible for the ad­ministration
and supervision of
the Division of Student Affairs
which includes Admissions,
Orientation of New Students,
Counseling, Housing, Financial
Aid, Special Programs,
Veteran's Affairs, Student Ac­tivities
and Placement.
An alumnus of Colgate
University, with a B. A. degree in
English Literature, Vice
President Willenbrock also holds
a Master's Degree in educational
guidance and occupational ad­justment
from Teachers College
Columbia University.
Originally from Mt. Vernon,
New York, Willenbrock has had
broad teaching and guidance
experience at the elementary and
high school levels and came to
State University at Farmingdale
in 1957 as the Dean of Students-
Student Personnel Division- a
position which he has held up to
his present advancement.
In announcing Dr. Nihan's
promotion from Dean of the
Evening College to Vice
President for Continuing
Education, President Laffin said
that " the new designation more
accurately reflects the entire
scope and complexity of our
parttime educational and public
service programs and the func­tions
of the administrator in­volved."
Dr. Nihan taught in several
colleges throughout the country-
California, Massachusetts, New
York- and came to Farmingdale
in 1963 after a six- year stint as an
administrator in the SUNY
Central Office in Albany. He
received his B. A. and M. A. at Los
Angeles State College in 1953 and
1954 respectively, and hisEd. D.
from New York University in
1960.
Announce Formation
of Civic Action Committee
Right to Life, Euthansia,
Abortion, Pornography, Drug
Addiction, Sex Education,
Humane Treatment ofWar
Prisoners were some of the issues
discussed at a recent meeting of
the Civic Action Committee
( CAC) of St. Kilians'Parish
Council.
Each memberof the committee
is assigned to a specific area of
interest and is responsible for
gathering all the background
material available, including
pending legislation, and serves as
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GRAND OPENING: The First National City Bank opened its 22nd branch in Nassau County last
week at 918 Main Street, ( County Line Shopping Center) in South Farmingdale. Taking turns in the
ribbon cutting ceremonies are John Johnson, who will manage the South Farmingdale branch;
RobertHertzil,', Vice President in charge of Nassau area; Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John W.
Burke; Paul Kokerjahn, Senior Vice President in charge of Operations, and Eugene Callan, Vice
President of Marketing and Business Promotion.
George Fain, ( left) President of the Friends of the Farmingdale
Public Library, and Mrs. Isabelle Witonski, chairman of the
Boutique and Flea Market sales, display one of the art creations to
Library Director Orrin B. Dow, at right. The fund raiser held last
weekend by the Friends featured crafts, homemade goods and white
elephants. The Friends of the Library raised over $ 300 to assist in the
purchase of new books for the Farmingdale Public Library. The
restrictions placed on Library service by repeated budget rejections
by the voters prompted the Friends to help in this manner.