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VOL. 6 No. 51 Thursday, November 2 , 1 9 72 10 cents per copy
Campaign Button Revue
At County Museum
Jim Twombly: Young Hope For Democrats
The political fever and color of
Presidential election campaigns,
from the current Nixon -
McGovern to the Roosevelt
campaigns, have been captured
by the Friends of the Nassau
County Museum in original
political buttons available to the
public in the gift shop of the
Nassau County Historical
Museum in Eisenhower Park,
East Meadow.
The historic buttons, in all
sizes, have been provided by the
Friends in connection with a new
and timely exhibit at the museum
entitled "Long Islanders' Elect a
President." The exhibit features
a view of Presidential campaigns
held on Long Island from George
Washington's candidacy to the
present campaign for our
nation's highest government
position. The exhibit will be open
at the museum through January,
1973.
Friends President Gerald
Kessler said that the buttons are
providing "added lustre to the
exhibition and provide a means
for each visitor to take back a
piece of political history."
Included in the assortment of
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At the age of 16, Jim Twombly,
who liyes on Barbara Street in
Bethpage, already has a record
of accomplishments that bodes
great things for him in the future.
Way back in 1970, Jim
organized the Bethpage In­dependent
Teen Democrats at the
Twombly home. Jim took the job
of drawing up the first con­stitution,
patterning the club
after the Hicksville Teen Dems.
"With the 1970 campaigns
already started, we had to hold
off our own elections so that we
could help the campaigns of
Arthur Goldberg and Richard
Ottinger, as well as lend a hand
for our local candidates," ex­plains.
Jim., j^allingJhfi^eUibZs. ,„
beginnings.
Under Jim's leadership, the
B e t h p a g e Independent
Democrats have been active
raising money for charities and
in performing civically beneficial
tasks.
"The B.I.D. has helped
organize antUpoUutiflta drives,
Softball games for -the" Amiif*****
S< y, and h -
candidates nighfe,--to give,. --—-
residents a" chance to hear what
the,people running for office had
to say."
Little wonder that the B.I.D.
has seen itsv membership grow
while becoming the focal point of
much constructive activity for
the young people of the village.
One of the projects which Jim
DEMOCRATS MEET Gerard Twombly of Bethpage,
10th Assembly District Democratic State Com­mitteeman,
greets former Long Island Congressman
Herbert Tenzer a t a recent fund raising event for the
McGovern campaign. Tenzer, long active in Jewish
affairs, emphasized George McGovern's commit|m;e»t
t o Israel Twombly .campaigningtorTo^aT^emocratic
ated^Long Islanders van not
arid B.I.D. have planned ifor
example, is organizing a 285th
Anniversary Celebration for the
village of Bethpage.
"Our ultimate goal is to
organize a Long Island Teen Dem
Congress of all the teen dem
groups on Long Island," said
Jim, adding a politically-wise
note by saying that "with the new
18 year old vote, the role of B.I.D.
now more important then ever."
Lastly, the B.I.D. has been
active, in the- campaign to elect
Carter Bales to Congress in the
3rd CD,
NIXON IN NASSAU: Assemblyman Joseph M.
Margiotta, Chairman of the Nassau County Republican
Committee, joins with President Nixon in accepting a
roaring greeting from more than 20,000 supporters who
jammed the Nassau County Veterans Memorial
Coliseum in Uniondale at the recent Republican rally.
Also enjoying the audience reaction are Nassau County
Executive Ralph G. Caso and the First Lady, Pat
Nixon.
Plainedge Remedial Programs
March To New Hickory Stick
By Richard Wood
...Reading' and writin' and
'rithmetic, taught to the tune of a
hickory stick...
So go those two familiar lines to
that old traditional song we've all
heard sung at one time or
DEBATING THE ISSUES: At a Babylon League of
Women Voters "Meet the Candidates" night, Stuart
Levine, Republican candidate for Assemblyman in the
10th A.D., speaks out on the issues with moderator
Carol Wilder sitting along side. At the debate, Levine
reemphasized his opposition to forced school busing,
development of high-rise projects on Long Island, and
granting, teachers the right to strike.
But "if thev words remain
familiar to some of us, the con­cept
does not. The concept, for
better or worse, appears dead.
Today's teachers are busy at
work toughening a child's ego-image
and self-esteem rather
than his backside. The hickory
. stick era has apparently ended.
At an Educational Meeting of
the Plainedge School Board last
Thursday evening, October 26,
Assistant Superintendent of
Schools, James Reiley, presented
13 members of his special ser­vices
group, all of whom agreed
on one thing: that learning can't
survive on fear, threat, or guilt;
that teaching must eliminate its
dependency on old-fahioned
methods of motivation.
It was District No. 18's second
Educational Meeting of the 1972-
73 school year.
Last month the Plainedge
Board presented its Speech and
Psychological Services programs
to the public. Last Thursday the
Board was to present its
Remedial- Ueadiu& and. Tutorial
Mathematics programs.
"Some of you have children in
these programs and others of you
know of the programs by
heresay," said Assistant Super­intendent
Reiley, addressing a
modest audience of fifty, by far
the; smallest audience of the
current school year'.
"^Tle"cfamfo^rtBiR3her isr^a*
generalist," Reiley said,
"Tonight you will meet the people
we call specialists, the service
people."
Reiley then presented the
teachers who constituted the two
special contingents.
The remedial reading
specialists included Mrs. Grace
Ackerman, Mr. Philip D'Amico,
Mrs. Fern Vezzani, Mrs. Marian
Kokot, Mrs. Helen Comer, Mr.
Anthony Palumbo, and Mr.
Philip Mottola.
The mathematics tutors in­cluded
Mrs. Elaine Mintz, Mrs.
Libby Bangel, Mrs. Helen Feder,
Mrs. Theresa Grace, Mrs.
Simone Katz, and Mrs. Nancy
Leib.
REMEDIAL READING
Mrs. Ackerman distributed a
booklet to each member of the
audience entitled "How Your
Child Learns To Read: A Primer
For Parents."
"Reading is a very comr
plicated process," said Mrs.
Ackerman. "Every child has the
right to read and the right to
enjoy reading. This booklet will
give each of you some insight into
the mental processes your child
goes through in learning to -'-*
read."
The booklet, published by
Houghton-Mifflin, concentrated
particularly on the basis of
" rfatfftig; thattrf*makjt*g=sense«ut.?=**
of symbols.
"Our job," continued Mrs.
Ackerman. "is to help children
who have ^reading difficulties
now, and to prevent more serious,
reading difficulties from
developing later on."
Mrs. Ackerman revealed that
370 elementary children are
involved in the Plainedge
remedial reading program and
that the teachers meet with the
children in small classes two to
three times weekly for periods of
forty to fifty minutes.
The most common reading
problem ? Difficulty in per­ception,
reversing works, i.e.,
pronouncing "saw" for "was,"
and confusing similar sounds.
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL
ASPECT
Mrs. Fern Vezzani brought the
psychological aspect into play.
"Put yourself," she said to the
audience, "in a situation of
limited success for five days a
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