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A Prize Winning Weekly Serving The Greater Farmingdale Area Since 1920 ®
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An Official Newspaper for the Village of Farmingdale
VOL. 57 NO. 13 Second Class Postage Paid
in FarmlnRdale, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, February 12, 1976 Copyright 1976 by
bland— Wide Publications, Inc. price 15f - $ 5 per year
Public Hearing
Views Budget,
Building Use
Next Thursday evening's public session of the Board
of Education does not promise any final answers, but
the agenda should set the tome for major decision­making
to take place over the next several weeks. The
meeting is scheduled for Thursday, February 19, at 8: 30
p. m. in the Senior High School;,
ty Crocker
Lists Winner
QUEEN FOR A KNIGHT Marion Schrimpe receives her crown from past queen Camille Troppiano as
her husband, Fred, smiles proudly at left. Dance Chairman William Coughlln presents the new queen
with a bouquet of flowers while a gift just presented by Grand Knight Joseph Kurtz [ right] rests in her
lap. The crowning ceremony took place during Saturday night's Queen for a Knight Ball at the Far-mingdale
Knights of Columbus Hall on Morton Street. [ Post photo by Bob Starrett]
Children's Day
Edward F. Connelly has been
named 1976 Betty Crocker
Family Leader of Tomorrow at
Farmingdale High School. He
won the honor by scoring highest
at the school in a written
knowledge and attitude
examination administered to
seniors throughout the country
last December 2.
Edward, son of Mr. & Mrs.
Edward Connelly of Louis Drive,
Farmingdale, will receive a
certificate from General Mills,
sponsor of the annual Betty
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It has already been announced
that the. meeting will cover at
least two* najor topics of concern
to Farmingdale School District
residents. Both the possibility of
building closings and next year's
budget outlook will be discussed.
At the regular monthly
meeting held/ on February 2,
Board President Robert Weiss
indicated that the matter of
utilization of buildings must be
related to the fiscal outlook for
this year. Weiss indicated that
there are many rumors regar­ding
school closings but he
assured residents that no
decision had been made at that
point. He further indicated that
no final decision would be an­nounced
at the Thursday meeting
but that the Board would express
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The Juvenile Diabetes Foun­dation
will be aided by activities
held in conjunction with the
twelfth annual Farmingdale
Children's Day Brotherhood
small coins collection scheduled
for Sunday, February 22.
As in past years, the youths of
local participating religious
institutions will solicit con­tributions
within their immediate
home neighborhoods early in the
day. The funds raised will help
expand research which will
ultimately find not only the cause
of juveniile diabetes put also a
cure for this silent killer.
Insulin has been available for
the past fifty years to control
diabetes but relatively little
concerted effort has been exerted
to find its cure. The urgency to
accelerate activity to find its
cause and cure is underscored by
these facts: Juvenile Diabetes. is
growing at the rate of 9 pet.
annually, it is the leading cause
of all new blindness cases, it is a
high risk factor behind heart
gangrene and nerve damage. In
fact, Diabetes is the third leading
cause of death from disease.
Diabetics live a third shorter life -
span than any of their con­temporaries.
Beyond the most obvious goal
of the program to provide
youngsters a means of ex­pressing
their genuine concern
for, and awareness of the needs of
other children, there is also a
desire within the adult com­munity
of Farmingdale to
provide a fertile climate where
the positive attitudes of the spirit
and realities of brotherhood can
be nurtured until these young
people can acknowledge their
own roles in life and then will be
ready to take upon themselves a
measure of responsibility for the
quality of life to be desired about
them.
This, farmingdale Children's
Day annual expression of
goodwill eminates from the youth
of the community and is shared
by its sponsor, The Women's
Interfaith Council of Far­mingdale.
The program has
always had broad, support from
community churches and
synagogue, Boy and Girl Scout
units cooperate in all kinds of
community service. The Far­mingdale
Public Library has
once again graciously has
consented to serve as a collection'
center for all contributions. All
young solicitors may be identifed
by the official cover for their
collection container and by their
identification tags.
Members of the committee
include Jane Weaver from St.
Lukes Lutheran Church, Mary
Ann Wolling for the United
Methodist Church, Irma
Thompson for St. Thomas'
Episcopal Church, Lillian
Gammello and Addie Bucaria for
St. Kilian R. C. Church, and
Marsha Goodstein for Far­mingdale
Jewish Center. Betty
Tomforde and Patricia Schrero
serve as coordinators. Par­ticipating
religious schools in-
^ H St. Kilian R. C School, St.
Thomas Episcopal Church,
Luke's Lutheran Church Sunday
Schools with the Hebrew School
of Farmingdale Jewish Center.
KING AND QUEEN OF HEARTS: Marjtrie Pfoh, left, president ef
the Nassau Heart Association's Fund Drive in Farmingdale, displays
the Heart Fund banner to this year's Queen and King of Hearts,
Jean marie Rogers of North Massapequa and Tom McTague of East
Rockaway. Five- year old Tommie and seven- year old Jeanmarie will
preside over the Annual Farmingdale Heart Fund Ball on March 5 at
the Holiday Manor in Bethpage. Tickets to the Dinner- Da nee are
available by contacting Mrs. Pfoh at CH9- 3244.