Bethpage-Tribune_1971-06-03

              Island Trees
VOL. 5 NO. 30
Serving B e t h , ^ . Wamview - Wand Tree, - Piainedge - Seaford
Thursday, June 3 , 1 9 71
Old Bethpage
Bird's Eye View of School
Elections and Budgets
™™E2iJ?« UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT 21
VOTINGDATE-Wed. June 9th, between the hours of
TA V'R A?S? »: 0 ° P m - a t ^ Bethpage High School.
Aot iS^F?' Pr°P°8e<l tax rate is $12,346 per $100 of
i T ^ 5 , ? V a l u a t i o n - Last year's tax rate was $11,592
per $100. of Assessed Valuation.
J5CHOOL BOARD ELECTION - There are 3 seats
available on the school board - vacated by - Joseph
Dawson Sol Fink, and Lee Hilton. Richard Gorman,
Arthur J. Paretti and Robert Santangelo are running
tor Mr. Dawson's seat. Eileen Garren, Elizabeth
Regan and Alan G. Vorwala are running for Mr. Fink's
seat. Paul Krinsky and Herman Slavin are running for
Mr. Hilton's s«at._ „ -
LIBRARY BOARD EEECTION - Muriel Taylor and
Louis Silverman are running for the seat vacated by
Jacob Scheaf.
ISLAND TREES UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
VOTING DATE - June 9th, between the hours of 12:00
p.m. and9:00 p.m., at the Island Trees High School.
TAX RATE - $13.35 per $100 of Assessed Valuation is
the proposed tax rate. Last years tax rate was $1^.74
per $100. of Assessed Valuation.
SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS - Incumbent Anthony
Pfarrer is being opposed by James Tucci, Incumbent
Lawrence Berke is being opposed by Louis Dimitri.
LIBRARY BOARD - The Library Board seat vacated
by Benjamin Erlich has two candidates running - they
are Carolyn Stbwe and Harold Craig, Jr.
PLAINVIEW CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT No. 4
Budget defeated on Tax Rate (proposed) of $15,994
per $100. of Assessed Valuation.
VOTING DATE - June 17th, between the hours of
10:00 a.m. and 10:00p.m. (this is the second vote on the
budget) at the Jamaica Avenue School, Joyce Road
School and Old Bethpage School.
SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS - The new board
members who were voted in on the previous election
are - Dennis Keneely, who defeated Board President
Simon Ghitelman, Mitchell Laub, who filled empty
seat, and Harv$jf Brickman current Vice-President re­elected.
The Library seats remain unchanged.
HON FREji SCHOOL DISTRICT 18
June9uvbetween the Hours of 12:00
at Nbrthedge School, Eastplain
School Southedge School and Picken
jjposed tax rate is $14.98 per $100 of
Last year* tax rate was $13.48 per
PLAINEDGE
VOTING D ATI
p.m. and 10:00b
School, John w f
School.
TAX RATE v
Assessed ValuatI
$100 of Assessed Valuation.
SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION - Two seats are being
vacated on the?school board. Charles F. Connery and
Franklyn J. McGrath are running for the seat vacated
by Hugh Burr. Babette Cantor and James H.
Edelmann are running for the seat vacated by James
Miller.
LIBRARY BOARD ELECTION - Mrs. Ruth Frankel
is the incumbent running unopposed.
BOCES
Graduate
Twenty-nine Bethpage High
School students, in ceremonies
June 12, will receive certificates
of course completion from the
Nassau Board of Cooperative
Educational Services (BOCES)
The students, who divide their
time between their home high
school and one of the five BOCES
occupational education centers
are among 1000-odd Nassau
teenagers who will receive
certificates beginning at 11 a m
at Newbridge Ro a d P a r k'
Bellmore. More than 70 of the
youngsters will receive out­standing
student awards.
Outstanding student awards
will be presented to Anthony
Carpentiere, student of Computer
Operations and Programming- at
the BOCES County Center, and
Thomas N. CaJabro, student of
Refrigeration and Air Con­ditioning
at the BOCES Southeast
Area Center.
Certificates of course com­pletion
will be awarded to these
students:
BOCES County Center: Robert
Ahlers, Arthur Cacciapaglia,
Charles Cacciapaglia, Anthony
Carpentiere, Dawn Digeronimo,
Donna Holden, Walter Lange,
Joann Marolda, Mary Ann
Ruggiero, Thomas Rooney,
Thomas Reilly.
BOCES Northeast Area Cen­ter:
Brian Cochrane, Dena S.
Clunan, Stephen Esposito, John
J. Fiorino, Kathleen Fowler,
Joan M. Maier, Veronica
McGovern, Michael Marrara,
Joanne Nazzaro, Susan G. Roth,
Catherine Rich, Peter Stuart,
Philip W._ Seniuk, Walter F.
Steigele, Gail T. Young, Patricia
Zeiler.
BOCES Southeast Area Center:
Thomas Calabro, James
LaFlare.
For Art s Sake
by Ann White
As I read CASO'S CORNER in the
Tribune last week, I was
reminded once again of Lewis
Carrolls "Through the Looking
Glass, and what Alice found
there":
"A slow sort of County," said
the Queen,
Now, here you see, it takes all
the running you can do, to
keep in the same place. If you
want to get somewhere else,
you must run at least twice as
fast as mat!"
Now that the office of Per­forming
and Pine arte has been
replaced by the creation o£ a
to learn that we may look foward
to an expansion of cultural
programs which will be offered
by the - county; such as new
committees which, will deal with
problems facing orchestra's, and
an expanded fine arts program,
including a long awaited
designated county facility for the
professional fine arts. This in­terim
arts facility is an effective,
immediate and economical
forward step whichwill enable the
county to establish a permanent
art collection. Why not use the
same imagination and
initiative to find existing county
facilities which may be used as
interim Cultural centers for the
expansion of Nassau County
orchestras and the development
of a Nassau County Repertory
Theatre Company ?
The article also mentions that
the office will present or co-sponsor
professional per­formances
by dance, drama,
opera, and symphonic and jazz
groups. It fails to indicate,
however, if the co-sponsors of
F.A.C.T. (For All Concerned Townspeople) Candidates
for the Bethpage School Board, smiling at the
tremendous response of the Bethpage Community and
friends who have made an Investment in Quality
Education by purchasing raffle books to help support
the three Candidates. Drawing to be held on June 15th.
these events will be other County
agencies, the business com­munity
or the state and Federal
Arts' Council's. In culture,
QUALITY rather than quantity
should be the goal. Professional
performances of QUALITY
would serve to stimulate interest
and to develope audiences for
THE JOHN F. KENNEDY
CULTURAL CENTER *(at
Mitchell Field,) which was first
introduced ten years ago. If the
responsibility for selecting the
professional performances to be
offered to the public is handled by
The, '
tattoos appeal to and tovnlw the
County's youth. We cannot hope
to build audiences for the future,
unless our young people are in­spired
to gravitate to the
programs offered.
Counry Executive Caso also
spoke of a "sense of identity",
which must be created for all who
enjoy participation in the art's."
"A sense of identity"—"Ay,
there's the rub!"... Other than a
central office through which
support for the programs can be
channelled, no other references is
made as to how this "sense of
identity" is to be developed. The
vast majority of the County's
residents to me then that the
central office should also act as
clearing house for suggestions
and complaints. In this way "a
sense of identity "may be
created, and popular support for
the programs established.
The article further states that
under the direction of John W.
Maerhofer, "the cultural
development office will move
immediately to act as an ad­visory
agency, reflecting the
view of the people in the cultural
community, who in the past have
not had a say in the program."
My personal experience with the
cultural growth of the community
dates back to 1960, when as a
committee of one, I waved the.
white flag of quote CULTURE,
unquote-loud and long, and as I
spearheaded many of the early
efforts which paved the way for
the still controversial John F.
Kennedy Cultural community
clearly and enthusiastically
stated their views, and made
clear their needs, over and over
again. Now, once more, from the
top, it may be a better time to
establish identity (?) —Perhaps
now someone is listening-perhaps
now the time is right-perhaps
now-perhaps—.
The article also stated that the
office will go into the schools with
seminar programs aimed at
developing future audiences.
Well planned, and dynamically
executed seminars on the arts,
can be very valuable; especially,
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