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GRADUATION ISSUE
Bethpajp PuWic Library
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Island Trees
Vol. 4 No. 35
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Thursday, June 18, 1970
Old Bethpage
The Grumman Corporation has
again awarded four-year college
engineering scholarships to ten
outstanding students from
Nassau and Suffolk high schools.
These ten scholarships are worth
approximately $100,000 and this
is the 27th year that the Bethpage
company has made these
awards.
Grumman annually awards a
maximum of, ten scholarships of
which a minimum of three are
awarded to dependents of
Grumman employees. Except for
the dependents of Grumman
employees, the scholarship
awards are limited to residents of
Nassau and Suffolk counties.
These scholarships represent
full tuition, plus laboratory fees,
for courses leading to a
bachelor's degree in any ac­credited
engineering school of the
student's choice.
The Grumman Scholarship ;'
Plan was established more than a
quarter of century ago to en­courage
talented and ambitious
graduates of Long Island schools
to study engineering.
Students selected as
scholarship winners.ma# choose'
to specialize in ! either
aeronautical, mechanical, civil,
electrical engineering, or other
suitable courses including,
physics and mathematics,
providing his primary interest is
a long-term career in engineering
or supporting fields in the
aerospace field.
Winners of the Grumman
Dependents scholarships are
based solely on the results of the
College Entrance Examination
Board tests at the March series.
Selection of the scholarship
winners in the open competition
is made primarily on the basis of
overall academic achievement
and apparent engineering ap­titude,
determined by a series of
interviews with the Grumman
Scholarship
Committee.
Eligibility
Recommendations
Awards Scholarship
ations Eneinpprinn ™-J •
s
for a Grumman
scholarship in the open com­petition
is limited to secondary
school seniors ranking in the
upper 20 percent of their class.
The open competition this year
drew 163 applications, and 71
applied for the Grumman
Dependents awards.
The Grumman Scholarship*
Committee consists of L.R.
Grumman, Honorary Chairman
of the Board; E. Clinton Towl,
Chairman of the Board; L.J.
Evans, President; W.T. Sch-wendler,;
Chairman of the
Executive Committee; and Dr.
T.P. Wright, retired, former Vice
President of Research, Cornell
University.
The list of 1970 Grumman
scholarship winners:
GRUMMAN DEPENDENTS
SARA JEAN ROTH. Walt
Whitman H.S., Huntington
Station, daughter of Mr. & Mrs.
Morris Roth of 55 Bennett Ave.,
Huntington Station: She will
attend Pembroke School of
Brown University and major in
mathematics.
MICHAEL P TANGREDI,
Sanford H. Calhoun H.S.,
Merrick, son of Mr. & Mrs.
Joseph Tangredi, 1407 Van
Nostrand Place, No. Merrick. He
will-attend Massachusetts In­stitute
of Technology and major
in mathematics.
JONATHON R. TILLEM,
HicksvilleH.S., son of Mr. & Mrs.
Joseph Tillem, 17 Lehigh Lane,
Hicksville. He will attend Johns
Hopkins University and major in
physical sciences.
NASSAU-SUFFOLK
OPEN WINNERS
JOHN L. ERICKSON, JR., L.I.
Lutheran H.S.', Brookville, son of
Mr. & Mrs. John Erickson, Sr., 19
Sunnyside Blvd., Plainview. He
will attend Columbia School of
Engineering and major
aerospace engineering
Valley-Stream North H-S.., son of
Mr. & Mrs. Pasquale Fortunato,
704 Herman Ave., Franklin
Square. He will attend Yale
University and major in
aerospace engineering
GEORGE A. HERMAN, Long
Beach H.S., son of Mr. & Mrs
Nathan ^H. Herman, 536 East
Chester St., Long Beach. He will
matriculate at Massachusets
Institute of Technology and
major in aeronautical
engineering.
. JOSEPH E. MARTINO, Valley
Stream Central H.S., son of Mr. &
Mrs. Nicholas Martino, 246
Buscher Ave., Valley Stream. He
will enter Brown University and
major ' in mechanical
engineering. *
ROBERT SCARINGE, Wan­tagh
H.S., son of Mr. & Mrs
William Scaringe, 3689 Riverside
Drive, Wantagh. H«^ win
matriculate at Rensselaer Poly­technic
Institute and major in
mechanical engineering.
ROBERT J. STEINGART,
Roslyn H.S., son of Mr. & Mrs.
Murray H. Steingart, 79 West-wood
Circle, Roslyn Heights. He
will attend Massachusetts In­stitute
of Technology and major
in electrical engineering.
MICHAEL J. WOLLMAN,
Westbury H.S., son of Mr. & Mrs.
William L. Wollman, 27 Ash St.,
Westbury. He will study at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
and major in aerospace
engineering.
ALTERNATES
STEVE A. SCHOENBERG,
Division Avenue H.S., Levittown,
son of Mr. & Mrs. Gerald H.
Schoenberg, 532 Charles Lane,
Wantagh. He selected Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute for elec­trical
engineering. •
ROBERT F.HOENIG, Miheola
HS.'son of Mr?•JcM'rs. DbriaM B
Hoenig, 21 Hillvaie Rd.1, Albert-son.
He selected Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute for elec­trical
engineering.
WILLIAM S. MIRER, Gten
Cove H.S., son of Mr. & Mrs.,
Herbert Mirer, 13 Laurie Place
Glen Cove. He selected Princeton
University for aeronautical
engineering.
NASSAU-SUFJFOLK OPEN WINNERS
JOHN L. ERICKSON, JR.- was recently awarded a Grumman
Engineering Scholarship. John won Athlete-Scholar award at L.I.
Lutheran H.S., given to varsity letterman with highest scholastic
average. He ranks second in class of 115 and played varsity tennis,
bowling, and baseball. He is a member of National Honor Society and
won Regents Scholarships, National Forensic League Degree of
Merit, and Math Association of America award. John has been on the
Star Honor Roll for six semesters. He is a member of school and
church choirs and is an excellent guitarist, both classical and folk. A
a custodian at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, his hobby is
"making things," with strong model airplane interest.,. One of his
big dreams is to fly in a Grumman Gulf stream II.
Student Survey Finds
150 Bethpage High School
Driver Education students have
found, after surveying 1,650
people, that in spite of the hearth
damage due to automotive air
pollution, people are not willing
to do without their cars. The
survey also revealed that the
electric car, which is considered
an alternative to the internal
combustion engine, is also not
acceptable because of its 100 mile
range.
This survey was the idea of Mr.
David Lubell, the Vocational
Coordinator of Bethpage High
School, who has, for some time,
been concerned about public
pathy and ignorance in areas of
tomotive air pollution and
Cars Preferred, Despite Pollution
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combustion engine.
Sometime before the 1070
Easter vacation, LubeU enliseted
the cooperation of the five High
School Driver Education In­structors
and 150 of their pupils.
His ultimate goal was to for­mulate
a training program for
future Automotive Emission
Technicians, but first it was
necessary to know how the public
reacted to the automotive in­dustry's
present policy of
cleaning up the internal com­bustion
engine rather than ac­tively
researching other alter­natives
such as the external
combustion engine, the electric
car and other types of low
emission propulsion devices.
Lubell was also interested in
involving youth in community
and industry affairs, especially
since these students will soon be
beginning drivers.
The students were asked to
survey Licensed drivers to an­swer
yes or notte a list of 64
decisions. These decisions dealt
with the public's attitude towards
alternatives to the internal
combustion engine. The surveyed
person was asked if he would be
willing to accept some alter­natives
if it meant some benefit.
The survey questionnaire was
handed out by the Driver
Education teachers to the
students, and the teacher, during
the class period, explained the
questions on the survey form.
The students then; took these
survey forms and had friends,
neighbors and relatives answer
the questions.
When the students returned to
school after their Easter
Vacation, they scored- the
completed survey forms during a
Driver Education theory class.
These scored sheets were then
tallied by students enrolled-in the
Bethpage High School Office
Practice class.
This test is an adaption of the
slide comparison test developed
by two college students working
on an air pollution project at Cal
Tech during the summer of 1968.
It was felt that the results of a
test such as this "would be useful
to legislators and community
action groups in their fight
against air pollution." The
results obtained by the driver
education students at Bethpage
High School are being passed on
to legislators at both 'ocal and
national levels.
While conducting the survey it
was brought to light- that many
people were unaware of any
alternatives to the internal
combustion engine. Lubell is
trying to convince either the
National Air Pollution Control
Administration or the television
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