Bethpage-Tribune_1976-02-26

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VOL. 10 NO. 14 Thursday, February.26^ 1976 10 cents per copy
Johnson Backs NOW Privilege For Savings Banks
State Senator Owen Johnson
(W. Babylon) informed the
hundreds of savings bank
customers who contacted him
that he will support legislation
allowing checking accounts to be
offered by savings banks.
Johnson, a two-term State
Senator, represents the 4th
Senate District which spans parts
of Suffolk and Nassau Counties.
"I've contacted the Senate
Majority Leader's office offering
to sponsor any departmental bill
Local Student Wins
Congressman Norman F. Lent (I); Charles Noll, Deputy Director
of the National Cemetery System; and Donald Garrison, Superin­tendentof
Pinelawn National Cemetery visited Pinelawn recently to
inspect the grave of Dudley Nelson. (See editorial page 4.)
New Chairman Nursing Dept.
Newly Elected: Plainview ••^att-y.-*,.
Resident Mrs. Patricia Keenan
has been appointed to chairman JW £M
of the Nursing Department of K#
Molloy College in Rockville yib-
Centre. Mrs. Keenan, who has | "**f\xm ixj-been
a member of the nursing •• ^ t MjL}
faculty at Molloy for the past % %Z2*M ^*J%
eight years, received her basic ^^ llgmr
nursing education at Kings 7 | M pP%
County Hospital School of Nur- J| mL{ f
sing, a B.S. in Nursing Education
from St. John's University, and
M.S. in Clinical Psychiatric
Nursing from Adelphi Univer­sity.
She is presently enrolled in a
doctoral program at Columbia
University.
The new chairman, whose
department includes 722 students
and 31 faculty members, ex­pressed
the hope that "students
of today and the future will
embrace the philosophy of
JESSES
nursing as a profession; one in
which they have a strong com­mitment
to provide the best
health care for their patients
whatever the setting," and that
"through their contact with the
educational -process, will find
themselves better equipped to
function within our continually
changing society."
Elected To Exec* Committee
Pictured above is Mr. Norman
Guleksen, resident of Bethpage,
and newly elected member of the
ExecutiveCommittee of the East
River Savings Bank life in­surance
council.
Norman Guleksen, ad­ministrative
vice president and
granting Negotiable Orders of
Withdrawal (NOW) or traditional
checking accounts," Senator
Johnson confided.
Savings banks were offering
this service untillate last year
when the courts declared that
banks authorized as savings
institutions did not have the right
to offer this form of checking
acccount and that the NOW's
must end by March 31.
The West Babylon Senator
went on to say: "If today's saver
wants the convenience of NOW
accounts, the Legislative should
grant savings banks the authority
to offer them.
"Up in Albany there is a large
billboard in one of the major
arterials, reading 'Listen to the
People', and it goes on to say that
customers of savings banks want
checking privileges. From all the
mail I've received, I'm confident
this is, indeed, what the people
want."
Summing it up, Senator
Johnson commented: "It's now
up to the State Legislature, and
I'm going on record as backing
the NOW account concept."
St. Regis Scholarship Craft Classes To Begin In March
At Bethpage Village Restoration
branch administrator of the East
River Savings Bank, has been
elected to the Executive Com­mittee
of .the Savings Bank Life
Insurance Council. The Council is
an advisory group for SBLI,
composed of senior executives of
mutual savings banks throughout
New York State. The Council's
primary focus is on statewide
marketing operations for Savings
Banks Life Insurance. As a
member of the Executive
Committee, Mr. Guleksen will
help to set policy and direction
for the SBLI Council.
Mr. Guleksen, who is in charge
of branch administration for East
River, joined the bank in 1941 and
is a graduate of the American
Institute of Banking and the
Brown University School of
Savings Banking. He is treasurer
of the Redeemer Lutheran
Church of Hicksville, and resides
with his wife in Bethpage.
St. Martin's School Principal,
Sr. Mary Josette, and the staff
extend joyful congratulations to
Matthew Szmytkowski, the
winner of a Regis High School
Scholarship.
Matthew, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Stanley Szymytkowski, and
a 7th grade student at St. Mar­tin's,
is now eligible to enter
Regis High School's 9th grade in
September. The decision of the
scholarship award was an­nounced
by Fr. Gerald R. Rip-pon,
the director of admissions at
Regis, following the results of a
scholarship examination, St.
Martin's School recom­mendations
and a personal in­terview
with Matthew, his
parents and Fr. Rippon.
From the 1,300 boys who took
the examination, 320 were
selected as semifinalists; Mat­thew"
is one of the 140, finalists
selected from the semifinalists.
All at St. Martin's join in ex­tending
Matthew success in all
his studies and undertakings at
Regis High School.
0TB Continues To Expand
Nassau OTB, announced this
week (hat it has signed leases for
two additional branch offices in
New Hyde Park and Far-mingdale.
The New Hyde Park site is a
vacant store at 685 Hillside
Avenue in the Grant's Shopping
Plaza: the Farmingdale branch
is a vacant, former fabric store at
4747 Hempstead Turnpike.
Nassau OTB presently has nine
offices with a 10th scheduled to
open at 260 Jericho Turnpike,
.Syosset, on Thursday, February
:26. • ' •
A series of handcraft classes,
featuring leathercraft, quilting
and rug hooking, will begin the
week of March 8 at the Old Beth­page
village restoration
Recr ea tfon Center.
Sponsored by the non-profit
Friends of the Nassau County
Museum, each of the three
courses will be taught by noted
craftsmen from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
for five consecutive weeks. The
leatherwork session will meet on
Mondays beginning March 8, and
will continue on March 15, 22, 29
and April 5. The quilting class
will be held on Teusdays - March
9,16, 23, 30 and April 6, while rug
hooking will be held on Fridays ~
March 12,19,26, April 2 and 9.
Leathercraft students will
learn the basics of technique and
design in working with leather
from instructor Fred Patterson
of Smithtown. They will actually
design and make a leather item
of their choice, such as a bag,
belt, sandals or wrist band.
The quilting class, taught by
Jane Blaurock of Wantagh, will
consist of a history of quilting and
will feature pieced work, ap­plique
and trapunto. Patterns to
be used include variable star or
sawtooth, nine patch, five stripe,
duck's foot in mud or bear's
tracks. Students will learn to c,u t
patterns, plan colors, assemble
units, quilt, draft patterns and
enlarge designs.
The rug hooking class,
designed to teach students how to
hook a rug and taught by Norma
Pelletier of Dix Hills, will also
study pattern selection and
implementation, techniques, use
of tools, material selection and
preparation, dyeing techniques
and blocking and finishing of the
completed project.
The number of students in each
of the three Courses will be
limited so early registration is
advised. The registration fee for
each course is $18 and a
materials charge of from $5^ to
$10, depending on the selected
project, will also be added in the •
leathercraft course. .,
Registration may be made by
telephone by calling the Friends
of the Nassau County Museum
administrative office, located in
Nassau Hall, Muttontown Road,
Muttontown, at 364-1050
A TAXING INTEREST: Oyster Bay Town Receiver of Taxes
Solomon Newborn, <r.), is becoming a popular speaker in our local
high schools these days, as interest is increasing among students and
faculty alike regarding the collection and disbursement of taxes.
Here, Mr. Newborn goes over a few points with Bethpage High
schooler-H.) Kevin Brin and Consumer Economics teacher, Mr. Fred
Medeivpriorto his address to the members of Mr, Meder's class,-'