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People in the News
EAGLE SCOUTS: Troop 261 of the Boy Scouts of America
recently honored two eagle scouts with the award of three eagle
badges. Our picture shows the two scouts during the award
ceremony at the Talbonard Post Hall. They are left to right
Mark Coppola and Wayne Borysewicz. Henry Lorch ( right) the
former scoutmaster of troup 261 looks on approvingly as the
certificates of merit are presented to the scouts by Tobay
Deputy Supervisor Carl Tese.
Photo: Jack Pokress
DALERS3- 0: The Farmingdale Football team is riding the crest
of success. After blanking the Plainedge Devils last Saturday 16-
0 they are now 3- 0 for the season. Above, Jim Teatom of the
Lions was a tough man to bring down. Richie Kemondino ( 40)
and John Cordaro ( 50) of Plainedge are about to stop Teatom
who ran 12 yards on that play. More on the Lions on our sports
pages.
Photo Jack Pokress
TROPHY WINNERS: Tara Cunningham ( center) and Candice
Campbell, students at Northside Flementary School, proudly
show Mrs. Cynthia Ooerl, art teacher at Northside, the trophies
recently awarded them for their entries in the Farmingdale Fire
Department's annual Fire Prevention Week poster contest.
Farmingdale Schools Start
Saturday Morning Program
Seven schools in district 22 will
start Saturday morning
recreation centers on Saturday,
November 6.
According to Tony Tonachio,
director of recreation, this
program is open for grades 3
through 9. Registrations are
accepted now and have to be
accompanied by a 50 cents in­surance
fee if the child is not in
possession of a summer
registration card. The program
will offer a variety of activities,
such as games, gymnastics, arts
and crafts, dance and baton
twirling. The program will
continue for eighteen sessions.
Doors will open from 9: 15 a. m.
( ill 12: 15 p. m.
The Saturday morning
recreation program will be given
at the following schools: Albany
Avenue School, supervisor Mr.
Ocean; Parkway Oaks School,
supervisor Mr. Parks; Northside
School, supervisor Mr. Monaco;
Main Street School, supervisor
Olympic Fund Raising
Off to a Good Start
A $ 1,000 contribution by the
Schaefer Brewing Company
kicked off the organizational
luncheon of the College Division
of the Long Island U. S. Olympic
Committee fund- raising cam­paign
at State University at
Farmingdale's Knapp ' Hall
Lounge. Dr. Charles W. Laffin,
Jr., President of the Aggies and
Chairman of Colleges, who
hosted this unique event, was
overwhelmed by the wonderful
turnout of some 30 ad­ministrators
and athletic
directors from 11 different Long
Island colleges who joined efforts
in outlining plans and methods
aimed at raising $ 10,000, the goal
set for Queens, Nassau and
Suffolk schools of high learning.
As Dr. Laffin pointed out, some
49 per cent of the 1,200 athletes
who will carry the Stars and
Stripes of the U. S. at the winter
games, Sapporo, Japan, Feb. 3-
13, and summer Olympics,
Munich, Germany, Aug. 26- Sept.
10, will come from college ranks.
He said, " The American image
recently has been suffering
throughout the world and much
prestige and good will could be
regained by giving support to the
finest team possible in next
Transportation Hub
Remains Untaxable
What residents already know
for quite some time, was recently
confirmed again by William J.
Ronan, chairman of the
Metropolitan Transportation
Authority: there will be no tax
benefits coming to the Far­mingdale
school district from the
proposed muss transportation
center at Republic Airfield.
Ronan made his statement last
weekend during a press con­ference
at Marcpiere Restaurant
in East Farmingdale. He added
that the only tax ratables for the
Farmingdale schools could come
from the area now occupied by
Zahn's Airport which would be
turned into a industrial park
complex.
In order to offset the tax loss to
the school district, which
generated millions of dollars from
Republic Airfield, legislators in
Albany passed a bill to make the
Slate reimburse the school
district to a certain extent for its
lost revenue This bill was sub­sequently
vetoed by Governor
Rockefeller.
year's games. Surely," he added,
" The youth of our country, men
and women, who take time out
from their educational study to
train hard and give of their time
and effort to achieve the highest
honor possible in the athletic
world by representing the U. S. in
the Olympics, should be given all
the support possible, expecially
by educational institutions.
Wh^ r- Fred Dress. Branch
Manager for the Schaefer
Brewing Company in Melville
announced that his sports-minded
firm was contributing
$ 1,000, Dr. Laffin reminded the
excited listeners that " already
we have realized one- tenth of the
$ 10,000 goal set for the Long
Island committee for all its
groups for the Olympic games."
He also brought out that the
Aggies are running the Schaefer -
sponsored Long Island College
and Junior College Basketball
Championships to be held on the
campus ( Roosevelt Hall gym­nasium)
December 13- 16 with the
proceeds also donated to the
Olympics.
Mr. Kass; Mill Lane School,
supervisor Mr. Mangels;
Woodward Parkway School,
supervisor Mr. Cantor- The
Welden E. Howitt Center will be
open to students in grades 4
through 9 for instructional and
tournament activities in
basketball and will be supervised
by Mr. Berardi.
The supervisors in all the
centers will be assisted by
volunteer recreation leaders-
25 Commendations
Letters of Commendation
honoring them for their high
performance on the 1971 National
Merit Scholarship Qualifying
Test ( NMSQT) have been
awarded to twenty- five students
at Farmingdale High School,
Principal John A. McLennan has
announced.
Those named Commended
students are Robert Axelrod,
Ellen L. Banberger, Charles R.
Barke^ Karen M. Beckwith,
Steven D. Botkin, Peter V.
Chabarek, Steven P. Cohn,
Richard N. Frey, Michael
Friedberg, Thomas Gerson,
Janice Hatch, Thomas F. Horan,
Sharon E. Kass, Wright Kieran,
William Lipschutz. Brian C.
Moore, Robert J. Pleva, Sandra
L. Posillico, Michelle Rosen,
Vicki A. Schwartz, Jeffrey A.
Seigel, Barbara Sicuranza, Carol
A. Sieb, Jonathan Spector, and
Jeri L. Weinkrantz.
Veteran's Day Services
Veterans Day Services by
the Corp. George Benkert Jr.
Post 516, Farmingdale, will be
held at the Main Street School
and at V. F. W. Post 516, 635
Main Street, on Monday,
October 25. The services will
commence at 10: 45 a. m. All
are invited to attend.
REASON TO BE HAPPY: Dr. Charles W. Laffin. Jr. ( third from
right) President of State University at Farmingdale and Chairman
of the College Division of the Long Island Olympic Fuiul- Kaising
Committee, and several of his cohorts are " thrilled beyond words" in
being told by Fred Dress ( second left). Long Island Sales Manager.
Schaefer Brewing Co., that his firm will contribute $ 1.0( 10 to ( he
Fund. Sharing in the great tidings are: ( left to right) Keith Berry,
Co- Chairman of the Long Island Division. I'. S. Olympic Committee:
Dress. Tom Farrell. former St. John's two- time Olympian and world
indoor KKO- yurd record holder: Dr. Laffin. Hon Swoboda, Yankee
slugger, and Martin Bursten. also Co- Chairman of the Long Island
Division, t SOI . Contribution was made during the luncheon-meeting
of £ 5 administrators and athletic directors representing M
colleges at Farmingdale to unite plans in support of American
athletes who will participate in the winter Olympics in Japan and
summer games in (• ermauy next year.
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