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VOL. 11 No. 2 Second Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735
Published by THE OBSERVER, Inc., Box 146, Farmingdale, N. Y. Thursday, August 30, 1973 15c
DISHING IT OUT: Sam Caracci, co- chairman of last Sunday's Far­mingdale
Republican Club picnic, had his hands full serving hamburgers to
his many customers, among them M. Hallsted Christ ( left), County Comp­troller
and former Oyster Bay Councilman, Chairman Bob Pfoh called the
picnic at the Chateau in Melville a success. More pictures on our back page.
New Position for Director
Of St. Kilian's Boychoir
Albert A. Rauscher, Director of Music
Education in the Massapequa Schools is
pleased to announce the appointment of
Theodore G. Grudzinski to the post of
Director of Choral Music in the
Massapequa High School commencing
this September.
Grudzinski has for the past five years
been the director of the famed St. Kilians
Boyschoir in Farmingdale and will
Enjoy Labor Day
Weekend- We Will
Labor Day Weekend will not only bring
a last fling at the summer of ' 73 to our
readers, but to the Observer staff as well.
The Observer's offices, as well as the
offices of the other Observer / Tribune
Group Newspapers, will close down
Monday in observance of Labor Day.
The publication date of next week's
Observer will not be affected, nor
editorial and advertising deadlines.
Enjoy the weekend- as we plan to do!
continue his work in this capacity. Under
his direction, the St. Kilians Choir has
performed in New York City at the City
Center Opera, Hofstra University with
the Pro Arte Symphony, and last year gave
an American Premier of Benjamin Brit-tens
" Children's Crusade" at the Central
Presbyterian Church in New York City.
Grudzinski's educational background
includes degrees from Queens College
and the University of California at
Berkley where he was also engaged as
assistant director of chorus. At Brooklyn
College, Grudzinski served as assistant
choral director and research editor for
choral materials.
His professional singing career has
included performances under the
direction of such conductors as Leonard
Bernstein, Hugh Ross, Thomas Sherman
and Margaret Hillis along with per­formance
appearances in Vienna,
Austria.
Grudzinki comes to Massapequa to
succeed Donald Haynes Guidotti who is
leaving to assume choral duties at the
Brentwood Schools.
Aniticpated Street Closings
A number of Farmingdale Streets will
again be closed this coming week
because of sewer interceptor con­struction.
The following streets will be
closed between August 31 and September
7, according to the Department of Public
Works: Junard Drive from Main Street to
dead end, Orchard Street from Oakwood
Avenue to dead end, Heisser Lane from
Fulton Street to Beverly Road, Willard
Avenue from Graham Street to Nor­thwest
Drive and Spielman Avenue from
Woodward Parkway to Kent Street. All
street closings are subject to change due
to weather conditions or other un-forseeable
occurrences.
A Strange Find on Main Street
Village Hall in Farmingdale is a bit
puzzled. How on earth would a High
School diploma for Delberta Josephine
Hendrix end up on Main Street,
especially if graduation took place in 1940
at Jeffersonville High in the State of
Indiana? Nevertheless, that's what
happened The diploma, neatly rolled up
and in perfect condition, was brought to
Village Hall on Tuesday by the Firehouse
custodian, who apparently had found it
on Main Street. The diploma will be kept
at the Village Hall until the owner can be
located.
RR Station Loses Adding Machine
The Farmingdale Railroad Station was burglarized, according to a police report
from the 8th precinct. The entry took place through a window on August 25 in broad
daylight, between the hours of 4 and 7: 25 p. m. The only item missing after the burglary
was an adding machine valued at $ 115.00.
Another burglary took place on August 22 when a residence at 969 Fulton Street was
entered through a side door. Assorted jewelry valued at $ 135.00 and a check book were
stolen.
Farmingdale U. Ready
For Record Enrollment
State University at Farmingdale, the
oldest public institution of higher
education on greater Long Island, is all
prepared for a record enrollment of
students for the Day and Evening
Colleges when it ushers in its 55th
academic year Wednesday, September 5.
As pointed out by Dr. Charles W.
Laffin, Jr., in his thirteenth year as
President of Farmingdale, the start of
the Fall Semester is also the " earliest in
our history- two weeks ahead of the past-with
classes to terminate before the
Christmas holidays instead of the
traditional mid- January. We have had
close to 16,000 applicants for 4,000
openings in the record- breaking college
freshman class, while nearly 7,000
students, teenagers to senior citizens,
will be seeking to continue their
education with the Evening College."
According to President Laffin,
' Pressure to get into college apparently
is softening at campuses all over the
country, but this trend is not evident at
Farmingdale. The record- breaking
freshman class is the largest of any of the
72 units of the State University of New
York."
With 2,000 sophomores returning, the
Farmingdale enrollment for this Fall will
also be a record total of 6,000. It is in­teresting
to note, according to Dr. Laffin,
that 80 per cent of the student body at the
college comes fron Nassau and Suffolk
Counties.
For figure filberts, Dr. Laffin reports
that in a breakdown of freshman ap­plicants
for the four divisions of Day
College, the ever- expanding Human
services curriculum drew the largest
number, a total of 4,590 for 917 openings.
Nursing, led the list in this group, 1,261
seeking 145 spots; Police Science was
next with 937 for 220 openings, followed
by Dental Hygiene, 724 for 72; Nursery
education, 533 for 140 and Medical
Laboratory, 469 for 110.
In describing the largest freshman
class ever admitted to Farmingdale, Dr.
Laffin said that " the men and women
have a mix of ages, and other descriptive
factors, making it a truly cosmopolitan
group. Having been picked com­petitively,
it appears evident that a
serious student has entered the Far­mingdale
University campus this Fall.
With good credentials and known
educational objectives for career ad­vancement,
the Class of 1975 should
become one of the college's greatest."
He concludes, " Farmingdale is a great
college. It has offerings in almost every
career and academic pattern of today's
higher education spectrum."
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BAD CRASH: Although there was a stop sign at Sunset avenue and 30 Miles an
Hour speed limits, there was a spectacular collision at the intersection of
Sunset Avenue and Juniper Street in South Farmingdale last Thursday. The
drivers of both cars had to be taken to Mid Island Hospital, lop picture shows
Fireman Frank Lofdolinoof the South Farmingdale Fire Department standing
by after both cars were wetted down. Below: Men of the Rescue Company assist a
woman at the scene of the accident. Photos: Hubert J Greco