Bethpage-Tribune_1976-05-20

              BETHPAGE BETHPAGE 'PU3UC LIBRARY
OLD BETHB4GE
also serving ISLAND TREES
RAINVIEW PLAINEDGE SEAFORD
VOL. 10 NO. 26 Thursday, May 20, 1976 10 cents per copy
Commissioner Criticizes Cuts
In Drug Rehabilitation Centers
Plainedge Art Museum
From Cabinets To Artistic Delight
Mr. Leo SchotUand, center, of the Bethpage Tribune, discusses the
current crisis for drug rehabilitation centers with Ms. Dorothy
Young, director of Recovery House, and Mr. Nelson Festinger,
director of the Oceanside Counciling Center, during a conference
held at the Alcohol Rehabilitation Unit in FTainview.
''Within 9 to 18 months, Nassau County, the state cutback
County and New York State will
be facing a drug crisis more
devastating than the epidemic of
the Sixties," Commissioner
Harold E. Adams, ACSW,
warned editors at County
Executive Ralph G, Caso's May
news conference for weekly
newspapers.
''The difference between 1966
and 1976," Adams said, "is that,
in 1966, Albany responded to the
drug Crisis by creating state and
local programs to fight drug
abuse and addiction. Now, in
1976, with a major escalation of
the drug problem staring us in
the face, the governor and
legislature have responded with
'the kiss of death.'" In Nassau
amounts to 38 percent for com­munity-
based drug programs
and 17 percent for school-based
programs.
Adams stressed that "Nassau's
problem is compuhded because,
in addition to reducing local
assistance, the legislature
reduced the state's own treat­ment
programs even more
deeply. As the state shuts down
its methadone program, empties
three-quarters of its residences,
and halves its aftercare
program-thousands of hard-core
addicts will be released, with no
supervision whatever, and sent
back to their home community."
"Nassau may have 40-45,000
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GPCA And Local Leaders
Honor 'Citizen Of The Year'
Among the dignitaries who will
be in attendance at this Friday
night's Greater Plainview
Community Association Dinner
Dance are Congressman Jerome
A. Ambro, State Senator Owen
Johnson, Oyster Bay Town
Councilman Salvatore Mosca,
and Plainview-Old Bethpage
Board of Education President Al
Delman. Congressman Ambro
will be making the formal
presentation of GPCA's 1976
"Citizen of the Year" Award to
Plainview Baseball Association
President Irwin Zolotorofe,
Mr. Zolotorofe a resident of
Plainview for 22 years and an
employee of the Plainview Water
District, is widely known for his
dedicated service to the com­munity's
athletic program and to
the youth of Plainview-Old Beth­page
generally.
According to GPCA President
Paul Eisenstein, Irwin has been
President of. the Plainview
Baseball Association for the past
five years, and spends the
greater part of his free time in
assuring that the baseball
program runs smoothly for the
more than 750 local youngsters of
all ages who participate. He is
also a past President of the
Plainview Father's Club and
presently serves as Vice
President of the Long Island Stan
Musial League.
The Dinner Dance to be held at
the Huntington Town House, is
now completely "sold out."
According to Mr. Eisenstein, the
fantastic public response is due to
two basic reasons - "It's a
combination of both the
tremendous respect in which
Irwin Zolotorofe is held and the
ever-increasing local support for
GPCA," he observed. "The
Dinner Dance will be the perfect
highlight for our Association's
most significant and fruitful
year, "heconcluded.
In 1961, when Shirley Rothman,
an art teacher, arrived in
Plainedge, Dr. Gerald Green-berg,
the Principal, showed her .
around the Northedge School on
Stewart Avenue in Bethpage and
pointed out the Art Museum,
which was about three years old.
It consisted of twd steel cabinets
of very fine art reproductions in
sculpture and prints. Mrs. Roth-man,
and Dr. Greenberg worked
together for fifteen years
developing the museum.
In 1975, Dr. Greenberg, died,
and the Board of Education has
decided to name the museum in
his honor. The dedication
ceremony will take place on
Sunday, May 23, at 1:30 p.m. at
the Northedge School.
For ten years the museum
remained in steel cabinets used
only by art teachers, and hi 1971 a
classroom became available in
the Baldwin School. The museum
was transferred there and was
for the first time put on display.
The annual budget of $300.00
provided by the Board of
Education had developed into a
very large collection spanning
2 Local Stores Fined
A Hicksville meat market and
a Plainview bakery have been
fined a total of $490 for violations
of the New York State Sanitary
Code and the Nassau County
Health Ordinance, according to
Dr. John J. Dowling, Com­missioner
of the Nassau County
Department of Health.
Feldwood Kosher Meats, Inc.
of 428 South Oyster Bay Road in
Hicksville and the owner, Jerry
Feldman, were fined $125 for
violations of Article III of the
Nassau County Public Health
Ordinance. He was cited for
failure to properly protect food
and to keep the premises clean.
Triple C Bakeries, Inc. of 1056
Old Country Road, Plainview,
and Robert Krupin, president,
and Gary Chartoff, secretary of
the corporation, were fined $365
for violations of the New York
State Sanitary Code, Part 14. The
complaints included failure to
keep the premises clean, to
properly protect food from
contamination, to keep garbage
in covered containers, to
properly store toxic materials.
Both food service establish­ments
were inspected after the
fines were levied. Department
records indicate that Feldwood
Kosher Meats, Inc., had
corrected the violations on April
20 and Triple C Bakeries, Inc.,
had removed the major
violations by May 4.
The penalties are due May 28
and Jurte 1, respectively. Com­missioner
Dowling is empowered
under the State Code to fine
and or close food service
establishments found to have
violations.
the ages and cultures of the
world.
Mr. Reilly, Assistant
Superintendent for Curriculum,
was so impressed when he saw
the show that he offered the
districts free buses to bring
classes to see the collection. An
assistant, Mrs. Honig, was hired
to help Mrs. Rothman. Mrs.
Rothman.had the title of Curator,
and continued to teach art. The
class visits proved a success.
Mrs. Rothman felt that a gift
shop should be added. It began
with postcards and prints from
the Metropolitan Museum and
British Museums. When the
Baldwin School was closed in
1972, the museum was moved
back to Northedge, and a new
assistant Mrs. Beer, was hired.
The gift shop has grown and been
patterned after the one in the
Brooklyn Museum. Special
lecture tours were arranged and
Educational Exhibitions of
Roslyn, N.Y, were hired to bring
in one ma|or show a year from
New York City museum
collections.
Today the museum provides 4
to 5 shows per year plus
educational materials for the
teacher. Next year, possibly with
a grant, a new catalog will be
published. For the Bicentennial
celebration Mrs. Rothman has
begun to assemble a large
collection of prints dealing with
American Art selected from the
major museums in the country.
This museum has several
differences from others. It
belongs to the students of
Plainedge, they can touch, play
with, and handle all materials.
The gift shop is geared for
children, not adults. The
materials presented are related
to the school curriculum. It also
adds to the sultural enrichment of
the community. It will now carry
the name of an outstanding
educator in the community who
was instrumental in bringing the
Art Museum to Northedge and to
Plainedge, "Dr Gerald Green­berg."
The current exhibit On
"Fibers" was sent to our
museum as a scholarship of­fering
for the Bicentennial year
by the New York State Council
for the Arts at no charge 'to
Plainedge. It consists of original
crafts by New York State
residents in all facets of the use of
fibers as an art and craft form.
Biography On Dr. Greenberg
Prepared By
Dr. Gerald Greenberg. received (
his B.A. degree from Brooklyn 1
College in 1951 and his MA. from \
the same institution in 1953. In
1956 he received his Education
Doctorate from Columbia
University, being one of the
youngest Ed. D.'s to graduate
from Columbia.
Dr. Greenberg came to the
Plainedge School District on
September l, 1957 and was the
principal of the Northedge school
for 18 years. Prior to his arrival
in Plainedge, Dr. Greenberg
spent ten years in college
teaching including the teaching
and training of teachers, both
graduate and undergraduate. He
was also involved with the
training of public school
supervisors and principals. In
addition, Dr. Greenberg held
part-time teaching positions in
graduate and undergraduate
programs at Brooklyn College,
Queens College, New Paltz State
Teachers College and Hunter
College.
Aside from his work in
education, Dr. Greenberg wrote
several publications. In 1961 he
contributed to the NEA Yearbook
on Elementary School
Organization and also to the
Elementary School Principal
Yearbook on Elementary School
Organization for the Department
of Education. He also co-authored
a book in 1965 entitled,
Help Your Child to
Remember."
R. Lowe
He was; also very active in
numerous professional
organizations including mem­bership
in; the Honor Society Phi
Delta Kappa, the Association for
Supervision and Curriculum
Development; the National
Education Association,, the
Executive Board of the Youth
Programs in Nassau County and
a former member of the steering
commission of the Nassau County
Elementary Principals
Association. Dr. Greenberg also
founded the School for Student
Advancement in 1964.