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Island Trees Seeing Bethpage - Plainview - Island Trees - Plainedge - Seaford
Vol. 4 No. 52
Thursday, October 22, 1970
Old Bethpage
10e per copy
Town Picks Nine Residents
For Advisory Youth Board
PRETTY AS A PICTURE * Ann Meurer is preparing
the evening meal on an antique stove1, which will be
shown, H the Antique Fair, Flea Market, and Art Sale,
at Temple Sinai, 270 Clocks Blvd., Amityville. It will be
held on Saturday, October 24, 7 p.m. - 11 p.m., and
Sunday, October 25, 12 noon - 6 p.m. Proceeds will
benefit the Temple Sinai school building fund.
Mrs. Adeline B. Petito, widow of Michael N. Petito,
former Democratic supervisor of Oyster Bay Town
and Nassau Family Court Judge, talks to Hempstead
Town Presiding Supervisor Ralph G. Caso, Republican
candidate for Nassau County Executive, about the
Democrats for Caso breakfast she has planned for Oct.
25 at 10:30 a.m. at the Garden City Hotel. Mrs. Petito
has endorsed Caso's candidacy, praising his record
during 18 years in government.
LOONEY ELECTED VICE PRESIDENT OF IN-TERNATION
POLICE CHIEFS:—Nassau Police
Commissioner Francis B. Looney, left, is
congratulated by association President John Shryock,
police chief of Kettering, Ohio, while outgoing
President Curtis Brostron, retired Police Chief of St.
Louis, Mo. looks on. Looney was elected vice president
at the International Association of Chiefs-of Police
convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Oyster Bay Town Councilman
Warren M. Doolittle today an­nounced
that the Town Board has
approved the appointment of nine
people to the 13-member Ad­visory
Youth Board recently
created, by the Town. Doolittle
said the appointments were acted
upon following recommendations
from Town Supervisor John W.
Burke.
Four additional Advisory
Board members, which will in­clude
two youths under the age of
M, will be selected by a Town
Youth Coordinating Council
composed of members appointed
or elected from the 14 Youth
Councils organized by the Town
Youth Bureau.
The Advisory Youth Board,
which was proposed by Burke in
his campaign for election' 'last
year, will be an arm of the Youth
Bureau and the Town Board in
coordinating youth activities and
meeting youth problems in
Oyster Bay.
Doolittle, who serves as liaison
between the Youth Bureau and
the Town Board, said the Youth
Board will advise the Town
Board on youth service
programs; advise the Youth
Bureau's professional staff;
guide the Coordinating Council,
approve Youth; Service Projects
and' consult with officials on
needed legislation for youth.
The nine appointees include
representatives of the clergy,
legal and medical professions,
educators, activists in youth
organization work, a law en­forcement
representative and a
business man.
Reverend Samuel Walker, 18
West Iroquois Street,
Massapequa. Rev. Walker is
currently directing programs in
education for 168 parochial units
of the Department of Youth of the
Episcopal Diocese of Long
Island. He started the Suffolk
County Fresh Air Fund for under­privileged
youngsters; is a
Member of the United Fund of
Long Island's Board of Ad­missions
and Allocations for
Youth Agencies; Member of the
Youth Consultation Service,
Jamaica; worked with the Great
Neck Committee against Drug
Abuse; helped found the Great
Neck Community House for
Teenagers and is an ex-officio
member of "the Board of
Directors oL Camp DeWolfe
and the Episcopal Athletic
League which he established.
Frank Gelish, 51 West Walnut
Street, Farmingdale. Mr. Gelish
has been active for 18 years with
community service organizations
including the Farmingdale
Youth Councjl, Inc., which he
now serves as president for a
third term after serving three
terms as vice president and as a
member of its budget committee.
The Youth Council operates a
Big Brother program as well as a
youth counseling service. He. has
been active in Little League since
1954 and currently serves on its
Executive Committee as Ad­visor.
Gelish is also School and
Community Relations Chairman
for the Farmingdale P.T.A. and
has been active in this area since
1980. Mr. Gelish served three
terms as president of the West
Farmingdale Civic Association
and a s a district chairman for
the Boy Scout and Girl Scout
Fund drives.
William Kupec, 29 Narcissus
Drive, Syosset. Mr. Kupec has
been associated with the Central
School District No. 2, Syosset,
since 1948 when he bagan a
present Board Member of the
Hicksville Chamber of Com­merce.
His activities with Youth
include active participation in the
Little League section of the
Hicksville Baseball Association
for the past six years. He is also a
member of the Summer Camp
Advisory Committee for the
Police Boys Club for Nassau
County.
Thomas D. Peiffer, 148 North
Street, Locust Valley. Director of
Health, Physical Education,
Athletics and Recreation for
Central School District No. 3
(Bayville, Brookville, Locust
Valley). A former professional
baseball player with a broad
background in athletic and
career in education as a teacher recreation including 12 years of
in the Split Rock School. He is
presently principal of Willits
Elementary School. Mr. Kupec
wa^*«uB4jyrectQr ^»f the first
Syosset Teerfage Club (1949-51);
manager, coach and member of
the Board of Directors for Little
League baseball (1961-70);
Commissioner of the Syosset
Youth Athletic Council (SYAC)
from 1965-76; member of the
Board of Directors of the Nassau
Society for Crippled Children and
Adults and has served on
numerous panels and committees
involving youth and problems of
youth.
Stephanie Morel, 233 Shore Hill
Road, Old Westbury. Mrs. Morel,
24, is Counselor and Financial
Aid Officer for the State
University of New York College
at Old Westbury. A new resident
to the Town, she has compiled a
rich background in educational
honors including a four-year
honor scholarship to Washington
University, St. Louis, Mo. Her
employment experience reflects
positions as a teenage counselor,
employment as assistant in a
Headstart research program and
as administrative assistant to
Americans for Biafram Relief.
She is a member of Sierra Club
and Wilderness Society.
Stanley Teitel, 31 Devonshire
Street, Plainview, Dr. Teitel is a
clinical psychologist and
psychoanalyst who has been
active in private practice in
Hicksville for the past 12 years.
He is Associate Clinical
Professor in the Graduate
Division of Adelphi University's
Department of Psychology and
has been Chairman of the Ethics
Committee of Nassau County
Psychological Association for the
past two yea.-s.
Edward J. Morris, 22 Basket
Lane, Hicksville. Law secretary
to the Honorable Joseph A.
Suozzi, Justice of the Supreme
Court, Mr. Morris served'
Supreme Court Justice Mario
Pettoni in the same capacity and
is former Director of Franchise
for the County of Nassau. He is
also former President and
service in Locust Valley. Former
football and track coach at
Locust Valley High School, he
was Track Chairman (1965-67) of
27 schools in the North Shore
Athletic Association and Nassau
County Track Chairman (1968-
70(. He has served as playground
director, day camp director,
camp division head, beach
manager and recreation director
for various schools, camps and
municipalities. Peiffer has
served on numerous committees
as a Youth Chairman and
developed programs in baseball,
basketball, football and other
sports. His achievements at
Locust Valley High include
preparation of quality
curriculum guides and public
relations programs.
Eugene Flamm, 16 Silo Lane,
Levittown.' Mr. Flamm is a
member, of the Nassau County
Police Department's Juvenile
Aid Bureau. His work with youth
includes experience with the
Police Boy's Club as a basketball
coach. Junior High School
Football Coach at Levittown
Memorial High School, an
elementary school teacher in the
Syosset School District (1966) and
two years, as a • Red Cross
Swimming Instructor for the
Town of Hempstead. Flamm
received a degree in education
from the University of Virginia
and is currently attending the
State University of New York at
Farmingdale.
P. James Roosevelt, 1 Cove
Neck Road, Oyster Bay. Mr.
Roosevelt, a Harvard University
graduate, is a businessman who
has worked exclusively with Wall
Street-oriented firms since 1943.
In March of this year, Mr.
Roosevelt began operations in
Oyster Bay as a self-employed
advisor to a hadfull of clients of
many years standing and began
devoting himself to the problems
of youth even more than he had in
, the past. Roosevelt is present
Vice President of the Theodore
Roosevelt Association and a
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