Bethpage-Tribune_1976-05-27

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OLDBETHIKGE
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PLAINVIEW PLAINEDGE SEAFORD
VOL. 10 NO. 27 Thursday, May 27,1976 10 cents per copy
Honorable Mention For A Job Well Done fa**1™ BETHPAGE PUBLIC LIBRARY
Recalling The Morning Of April 1
Making an attractive picture both ways, Ilona Iberi of Plainview, a
student at Plainview-OJd Beth page High School displays her
original design which won an Honorable Mention prize at recent
award ceremonies for the first annual Wallmark Wallcovering
Design Comeptition. Smiling his approval is Martin Marks, a
member of the four-judge panel selecting the winners which also
included Art Department chairmen Grace Cantone of AdelphL John
F. Hopkins of Hofstra and Monica Geran, executive editor of Interior
Design magazine.
Eleven Nassau and nineteen
Suffolk County high school
students have been named
winners in the first annual
Wallmark Wallcovering Design
Competition, chosen from among
a total of nearly 300 entries from
some 39 school districts in
Nassau and Suffolk. Grades 9
through 12 students, par­ticipating
since last Fall as part
of their high school art
curriculum, and following
standardized industry
specifications as guidelines
supplied to their art department
chairmen, worked to create
original designs which would
hopefully qualify for awards and
possible use as wallcovering
patterns.
The purpose of the event was to
provide high school students with
the opportunity to see a creative
phase of their art class activity
result in an exhibit and potential
utilization of their creative
talents in local industry. The
competition was sponsored by
Wallmark, Inc., Long Island-based
designers, manufacturers
and retailers of custom handprint
wallcoverings.
All 30 winners were presented
with their award certificates and
the prizes which went along with
them on Sunday, May 16, at
Wallmark's main showroom at
120 Fulton Avenue in Hempstead.
The winning designs were on
display at the showroom during
the presentation ceremonies.
Thereafter, starting the first of
June, all entries from each school
are scheduled for exhibit in the
local public library for each
school district for one month or
longer.
Stu Morris was instrumental in
saving the life of Hank Krebs.
There is however, much more to
the story. Others were involved in
this life saving drama, especially
two friends of Hank's who hap­pened
to be on the train with him
that fateful morning. If it were
not for their quick action, Hank's
life may not have been saved.
The following is a personal ac­count
written by one of these
friends:
By Ralph Papa
On Thursday, April 1,1 boarded
the "6:04" at Ronkonkoma and
sat in my usual seat in the last
car. Hank Krebs, Tom Griffin
and I ride this same train on the
Central line of the Long Island
Rail Road. I get on at
Ronkonkorna and they board on
at Bethpage.
Hank and I are both ex-Western
Electric employees, now working
in the same office in Mid-Town
Manhattan as engineers for New
York telephone. I've known
Hank intermittently for 6 years
although we've been close friends
since we've been working
together for the last year and a
half. Hank and Tom, who also
works for N.Y. Tel., have known
Photo By Robert Berkowitz
With a handshake of thanks is Hank Krebs (L.) and Stuart Morris, as
Mrs. Robert Donnenfeld looks on.
each other for nearly 30 years.
At 6:35 am the train stopped at
Bethpage, the last stop before
Jamaica, where Hank and Tom
boarded. We exchanged our usual
greetings, then Tom sat down a
few seats behind me and Hank
sat across the aisle directly to my
-right, between two other
D A* IWtvikutA* ( t passengers. Just about all the
D0C6S UISMIDUIGS $ $ seats in the car were now oc­cupied.
As soon as Hank sat down, I
heard what sounded like heavy
snoring. "Whaf, you're sleeping
To School Districts
Local Artist Featured
At New York Gallery
On June 5, Mr. Tom DeFeo of
Bethpage and seven other artists
will exhibit their works of art at
an opening to be held at the 55
Mercer Gallery, 55 Mercer
Street, N.Y. This Invitational
Group Exhibition, consisting of
serveral paintings and sculp­tures,
will be on display through
June 30.
Although the series of paintings
Mr. DeFeo will be showing are
not yet complete, he will be
exhibiting several works entitled
"Controlled Light Situations",
and "Paintings from the Over -
Exposed Salon." These par­ticular
pieces are created from
over-exposures in photography,
which effect a change in color
and dimension. In the artist's
paintings the images captured by
the camera lens are transfered to
canvass in paint.
Mr. DeFeo is a 1968 graduate of
Bethpage High School and a
graduate of the New York
Institute of Technology, having
received his Bachelor of Fine
Arts Degree in 1972. Since 1968 he
has won numerous prizes for his
art and has had showings of his
works at New York and Long
Island galleries. In 1968 he won
first prize in oils at the Bethpage
Annual Art Exhibition, and in
1972 again won a first prize award
for oils at the Bethpage Annual
(Continued on Page 71
The Nassau Board of
Cooperative Educational Ser­vices
(BOCES) this week
distributed $4,181,250 in state aid
to the local school districts of
Nassau County.
The payment was the fifth of
six installments on an estimated
$16,725,000 that will be distributed
to the districts by BOCES during
the 1975-76 school year. This
week's payments are reim­bursements
for BOCES services
purchased by Nassau's school
districts during the 1974-75
academic year.
Under the BOCES state aid
system, local school districts pay
tuition and fees to send pupils to
special and occupational
education programs and to
subscribe to date processing and
other services provided by the
cooperative board. The State
then reimburses the districts,
through BOCES, under a special
formula.
Reimbursements average about
53 percent of the district's original
cost, and are paid in the year
after the costs are incurred.
BOCES aid payments are in
addition to the regular state aid
that local school districts receive
directly from Albany.
Payments made this week to
school districts in the area were:
Island Trees, $96,586.88;
Plainview, $103,695; Bethpage,
$77,353.13; and Plainedge,
$100.768.13., x-already?",
I \ jokingly asked.
When he didn't respond I
somehow sensed trouble and
shouted to Tom that something's
wrong with Hank. We both rushed
across the aisle to check closer.
He was unconscious, sitting in a
seemingly calm position holding
his briefcase on his lap. His
breathing echoed a gurgling
sound through his mouth, similar*
to a noisy snoring. Tom moved
directly in front of Hank with the
other 2 passengers on either side
still seated, yet nervously sensing
the situation. Tom loosened
Hank's tie and belt. I ran to the
platform and told the conductor,
to "Hold the train - Man with a
heart attack - get an am­bulance!"
Just before he pulled
the cord I remember the con­ductor
uttering words "Oh My
God!" Probably only a minute
had passed since Hank first sat
down, since the train never left
the station, yet it somehow
seemed longer.
I ran back to where Hank was
still seated. Tom by now had
pulled back Hank's tongue, and
was applying mouth to mouth
resuscitation, and alternately
putting pressure on his chest. The
(Con tinued on Page 3)
WINGS OF EAGLES: Oyster Bay Town Councilman Howard T.
Hogan, Jr. presents Citations to newly-inducted Eagle Scouts of
Bethpage Troop No. 604, Donald Lind (center) and Alan Gorkin,
during their Eagle Scout Court of Honor which was held last week at
the United Methodist Church, (See Story on Page 4)