The-Leader_1976-06-24

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41st YEAR No. 9 FREEPORT, NEW YORK. JUNE 24,1976 PRICE: 1S« PER COPY
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Seniors Graduate Sunday Freepori Featured Seek fminedfofe Response
At Roosevelt Field ^ - . ^ .V ^,
To Demands For Meeting
FREEPORT-The Freeport High School Class of 1976, numbering
583 sedois, wiH graduate Sunday, June 27, rain or shine, at 2 pm, at
Freeport Hii^ School. " ;.
Terri Glass. Class Valedictorian: Stephanift RaTtiitiowicz, Salatatori-an;
and Byron Keith Ulmer, Resident of the Class of '76, wDl address
.their das£mat^~and their guests. _ _;
:_Teirihia,M«acdrthc!,h?Jn6r'of~ of Sduth_ Grove:~Street.~"-She
Valedictorian with , aih ;academic
average of 97^048 and a weighted
average' of 112.576, to. make her
the number ono student.in' the.
..Senior Class. Presenily.Editori.
in-Chief of FLASHINGS, r the
. school's newspaper; Tenireccntr
achieved her rank aa( second high­est
student fa.the gradoa&g
class' with a 95.500 academic ave­rage
and.-a weighted .average of
" 109.825.' The winner of a Bausch
$nd.Lo|nb Science Medal, Stepha--
nle yriji/atteiid'lona. College fa"
FKEEPORT-On Monday, June
• 28. to.am to 10 pm, the Ffc^ort-
Spirit of '76 Bicentennial Commit­tee
and the Village of Freeport
will mount aneidUbitionln'the'
North Court, of Roosevelt, Held
Shoppfag- Mall., The display b
part of a month4ong Bicentennial
program, sponsored by the Town
of Hempstead, wherefa'each com­munity
withfa.the Township b
spotlighted one day..
The Bicentennial Cominittce's
booth will hlghUght ^ e Vmage'a
past while also; featuring items <
currently offered for sale at the
Bicentennial Boutique now locat­ed
to S«6et'« on South Main St.
. FREEPORT-Residents of the Bennfagton Park Urban Renewal a t^
'returned to Village Hall for the second consecutive week to ask for a
-meetfagwith :the-Freeport-Board of Trustees. - Appnuimately-one
dozen ^ them attended Monday night's public board meetfag to repeat
their demand for an answer to their written tad oral requests ror a
meetfag with the Mayor ajid the
j^r7~-^'»Ujrjjuftfaig'futqtcuf'Ftt. ^
•/- / dei^^'SS^tiiiUionifederalg^tV
i>tP.-x:-"s;5!wim:wlU btt»dfiast;ftoB«;the
;:;'-:-*rtthibitiorf-atfei tram nocni'to '1
' -•: '^' i tpm; Kfayor WilHam Wilfb will be
fatervicwed as will be Bicenten­nial
Committe'vDirector .Robert
Raynor.' and -.Heritage . Divbion
Chairwoman Dorb'Nickerson.
Board to discuss letters they had
fadividually received statfag they
had 60 days to whidi to vacate
.their dwellings.
. At the pre^ous Board meetfag,
June 14. the tenants daimed that
Jim Dunne, Director of Communi­ty
Development'who had written.
. the letters to them, had refused to
meet with them.' Mayor WilUam
'White poiiited out;-at that time.
the Freeport Family Center on '
Buffalo Avenue, asked for a more
spedfic answer ftbm; Dunne,-
ciaimfag that the tenants had .
asked to meet with him and. had
hid ho.reply and bad then asked
for .a'meeting with the Board (rf
Trustees and still had not yet re­ceived
a reply.--. "Can wc expect
Bome: kind of. commutdcadoft -
Wednesday .whethe'r-or hot tliere :
eadi^tenanti. individuany, *nd» <^ ?»^'»'T*»* P??*!*? ?!**y<'^^
that the''Asxlstaht Director, Harry
'::-. TeifI QUiss
ly was awarded the'BoiijjyipL-
. Franklfa Sdiolarship' at the Unl-
: • veraaty of Painsylvania/ where
she b eaorolled for the Fan semes­ter."^.
She b' tile 'daughter of ,Mr."
' and Mrs. Cbades.Glass.:of Irvfag-
.Avenue.' '••.-'• •• •"• . .-•;.,; •'•;. • 't;
, - Besides..: her activities with
• FLASHINOS/ where she has also'
bee&Newii Editor and.lAssbditte
Editor, Tetri.was'active, thrpu^-.
.out Iicrhlglv'schdol years, wHh"
the Spanish Chib, the Honor Sod-
. ety and thif'Buentehhial Gudinii^
tec. She:was'prendent ofthe
school's Science Qub and m her
'. junior yeiur was literary Editor of
-.- Vfatage, the FHS literary inaga--
' rine. Tern also worked on the
Senior Vaiiely Show;. :
Out of sdiool.: Teiri did volun-rteer
work ;with the Woodward
-Mental ^Health-Center for Emo--
tionally Distmbed Youth and was
favolved with ; tutorfag \ other
stndentsr^—^-^- — ' ^ -"''
On a fun scholarsh^. at the
r v.StephanieBartanowlcf
New Rochelfa, where she will
major,.in:chemistry.. She hopes
for a career fa the field of cdsmet-
, i c s i • ••.• - . ' • / - .• _
._In her nfath through deventb
; grades at Freeport Iflgh SdMol,
Stephanie'.^ras active with the
sd^ol's Chorus.^ She^was also a
member of the Marchfag Band's
Color Guard, the Red Cross Qub
jahd- b to the. Honor' Society.
She! partidpated to fatramural.
Jxjwlfag to her^ ninth grade and
'vdUc^ball the year after.' Stepha--
nie win address the audience on
.the "Values of Youth." " ,
''Th'« graduatfag dass wiU give,
the Hi^'Sdiool a cash gtft to be
-used to putdiase three ControUed
.^ Readtog Madifaes." The gift win
l)e'.presented by Senior Class
President Byron Keith Ulmer, son
- of Mr> and Mrs. Herman Ulmer of
E. Milton Street. Keith wffl
address hb fdlow dasanatcs on
- "Prbbtems of Today;":— T -—
/taxpayers Association^
Beets Officers
University of Pennsylvanb, Terri
Xvin pursue it prd-tned curriculom,
anddpatfag a career to the field
ofm^dne.
Among the other OTrards Frecr
fciA's top student has' accumnlat- •
ed to thb time are the Rennsalaer
Medal for Outstandfag Adiieve-meni
to Math and Science, the
PU Beta Kappa Awards an award
fromNewjday for ber'artide to
School Grounds
Close At Ten
. change- fa report-tion,.
and.. a Regents Sdn^-
sliip. 'At the graduation ceremo­nies,
she win speak on tlie "Chal­lenge
of the Future.".
Class Salutatorian Stephanie
Bartanowicz b the daugliter of
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Bartanowicz
FREEPpRT-AH school grounds
to the Freeport Sdiool - Dittrict
win be dosed at 10 pm. Thb di­rective
of the Freeport Sdxxil Dis­trict
b effective hnmediatdy. Any
FREEPORT-The recently form­ed
Freeport Tajpayer's Assoda-tion
held an organization .'and
de^itioh m.eettog Monday night, ~
June 21, at the Ch'urdi of God,
Babylon Turnpike; The group,
which was organized just pripr to
thb month's sdiool budget vote,
had endorsed and campaigned for
Jack RdgyVsoccessful'candidate
to meVreepoit Board of Educa­tion,
and iud caBed for, a "no"
vote on the sdiool budget as sub­mitted^
The budget was rejected
by the voters. ' ' '
Elected to head the assodaticm,
whose membership b reported to
piresentiy be 50 ftiniQes, was Jo-
,mer Rand.. Leon.Canalizo, Mike
Czaplinski and Frank Cleveland
were elected Assistant Chairmen.
-The other nficersare; Louise Mot"-^
rb. Treasurer; 'Victor Joseph,"
Fnndrabtog Chairman;: Jerry
Weaver, Fund.Rabtog Co-chair-nian;
Stan McCaffrey, Member­ship
Chairman; Jade ReiUy and
Geneva Parish, Membership Co-chairmen;
Edna Bettereich,
Waterfront Liaison; Kari Rona-szeki,
Bnsmess and Real Estate
- LIalsofl;~Trank~
Brewster, had/abd^ met with ;
them. ' l i i e Mayor had also 'ez-
Elained that, to many cases, houis-i
g h ^ been offered, some to the
Liberty Park Apartments, to the
tenants and. had been rejeded
by them.
At tW* Monday night's 9 pm
meettog, one tenant,- speakfag for
the others present, asked for an
answer to the letter submitted
the; previous week. Deputy
MayOT Ralph Franco, chairing the
meetfag in Wiiite's absence,
stated that he did not know what
the-Mayor had done sfaoe last
week except that he had talked
with Dunne.' Explainfag . that
nothfag concrete had been dedd- <
ed at that meettog, Dunne told
the residents that .he.and the
Mayor would meet agato.Wed-
• nesday mnntog^—
Cutis Adidb, an employe of
Jdicated that he would relate tb.lhe'
^^a^: that tile group should re-ceiie
!a?^!Bbmmunrc8tiaQ~fibm him
.wtthfa. a reasonable':; amount of
time. When prnstired by Addb
for a more definite time,.Franco
answered, "Thursday or Friday."
The Assbtant Director of Free-port's
EOC, Alvto Cooper, «
Roosevelt resident, told tiie Board
that thb matter bad been^gotog
on for "a definite length of time
and we should have a definite
time when we win meet because
the tenanb are concerned abbot.
many matters.'! He stated that
fht groiup meeting was necessary,
rather than meetings with fadiW-duals,-.,
because ; they wanted
answers to questions cdncernfag
. their finandbl rights, the riespon-sibUity
of.Urban Renewal to! relo­cate
them,'''*ahd finiihrial subs!-'
dies,__He firmly,«tajed» ''we. aie..
V (ConLoaEiceSO)
trlct buUdtogs should plan to con
dude their «6vitiesT^That hour.
Thb policy, the District ex­plains,
b consistent with the dos-fag
hour for Village ootdxxjr facfli-ties
and such County recreational
arearas Cow Meadow ParfcT
Cdhme, ~Senior .
Citizen Liaison; and Herb Rosen-bloom,
PuhEdty- .The new offi-_
a4hi_ ccrs' win serve^one-year tenns^
their avic responsibility. to the
community at large," starttog
withjhe primary objective of re­ducing
taxes. T^ey also asked for
a moratorium oh aS budget to-
(Cont, on Page 20)
THE OAVEL IS PASSED to Fraeporter Art Thompson (!•) who b taking
over as president ofrthe South f^assau Unlt-of the American Ctncar
Society, Thompson and Kay Mansollll, who had been president tor the
past four years, receive conflratufallons from Hempstead Town Presid­ing
Supervisor Francis Purcell (r.). The South Nassau Unit serves
Freeport, Oceanslde, Baldwin, Rockvllle Cen(re, Valley Stream, East
' Rockaway, Lynbrockand Malveme.