The-Leader_1977-09-29

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K.^aSAU CTT l:l3'rORlCAL tlUEEUa,
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EAST UEADO'a, N Y 11554
FREEPORT
BALDWIN
ROOSEVELT
MERRICK
FREEPORT'S
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NEWSPAPER
42nd YEAR No. 22 FREEPORT, NEW YORK. SEPTEMBER 29,1977 TRICE 15« PER COPY
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—Arthur Ta3e Raised
Arts Council jax Assessment District
" ••Daniel Plotkin' . , . Jonathan Nagler
Two HS. Seniors Named ^emifinalists
FREEPOfiT^'Twb fefcil hlglTscllobTSEuaenis Kive1>een nanied semi-finaiists
in this year's National M«it Sctblarship Corporation (NMSC)
program. Jonathan Nagler arid l)8yidHotmdbr-tte^F ffigb
-School seniors, are among the approximately 15,000 students who will
have an opportiirilty to continue m the competition for about 3,000
Merit Scholarships to be awarded in the sping of 1978. -
Both Nagler and Plotkin have • - -. ' -
shown great interest arid pro­ficiency
in mathematics during
their school years _ in • Freepprt;
Jonathan is captain of the Free-port
High School Mathletes team
which finished first in Nassau
-County last year. During the sum- -
irier of 1976 he attended a mathe­matics
workshop at Hampshire
College sponsored by the Nation­al
Science Foundation.-He has •
participated _in the U;S; Math,
Olympiad and been a member of
the Computer Qub. Among his
hobbies. Jonathan ; ' includes
chess,-tennis, reading and-phor
—tograpby,—During the 197(^-77
school year, he attended New
Presents Alley
Dqnce Group
FREEPORT - The Alvin Alley
Rcpertoo' EiisembteV one of the
components of the American
Dance Center — the official
school of the Alvin Alley Ameri­can
Dance Theater r—will be seen'
on-stage at the Freeport - High
.School Auditorium Saturday
night, October 1.
The ensemble is the first of
this season's series offerings by
the Freeport Arts Council. Tick-.
cts to the. program are 5till
available. . on a limited first-
" come, first-served basis, and can
be purchased prior to the 8:30
•pm showtime for $5 each.^ - . -' r
of 1976, His clarinet playing has
won him All-County rank.. Dur­ing
his high school ,years, he has
been involved in the Bowling.
Computer, German and Horti­culture
Clubs; ••— - •-• ~- -,'
The, semifinalists we're, named
from the over, 1 million students
enrolled in 17.500 high schools
-who entered the 1978 Merit
Prograqi by taking the-1976 Pre-liminaty''
: Scholastic Aptitude
Test/National Merit. Scholarship '
Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT).
. Semifinalists ,• are . the highest-
«imring <tiiHf ptg in parh staty; thp.
Created For Road Work
FREEPORT - Qose to 30 residents of water-logged Arthur Street
were present at a public hearing of the Village Board of Trustees
. Monday evening when the Board unaniniously approved a motion to
establish ii special assessment district for the area.
As several of the residents noted, it had been more than ten years
since the first discussions on rais- —
ing Arthur Street in Southwest '~
Freeport, The residents,' through
the special assessment district,
will now pay for their curbs,
sidewalks and driveways, while
the Village will pay to raise the
street itself. The residents of
Arthur Street, a peninsula sur­rounded
on three sides by water,
expressed little . disagreement
with the proposal.'
.,.,, Mayor William White explain-
,ed-that. there .had been several
meetings betwiecn the' Village's
Highway Commission and the
residents to explain the details of
the proposal. The Mayor stated
that he was prepared to answer
any questions that evening.
White -said the cost to the
homeowner, using prices recently
quoted. for other Village woA,
would probably be about SIO a
running foot for the concrete work
the contractors would have to do.
Because of the grading require­ments,
both street and sidewalk-wx)
uld have to be done as one job.
Individual homeowners could not
hire,their own contractors to do
the work separately. The assess:
ment would-be applied to the
.homeowner's tax roles and'be
paid, with their .taxes, twice, a
yeaf for five years r -
In answer-to Mr. Allegro, of
306 Arthur Streets the Mayor ex­plained
that the Village would
plan to have the Arthur Street job
completed within 1978. There is
no ."niainteiAnce" work that can
be'done now to prevent anjF flood-
:-„-(Cont. on Page 16)
York; University, enrul!nig~inran-
English course. „ v . ^
Daniel Plotkin is on the Free-port
High School Mathfete
team; He has also participated •
in several U.S. Math Olympiad
competitions. In his ninth rgrade.
Daniel spent the • summer, jn.
. training for the U.S. Math Olym­piad.
He also participated in the
National Scfence Foundafion's
Math Workshop, held. at_Hamp-
' shne College during the summer
. number named in a state is pro­portional
to that state's percent-
. age of the nation's total graduat-
-ing Senior class. The sefnifinalists-represent
the top half of one
percent of the nation's most aca­demically
talented young people.
~ • To'be consider^ for .scholar-'
shtps,.the-seminnarists must ad­vance
to finalist standing by
meeting such requirements as
a second-exariiination. The final-
(Coni.onPageS)' '' /
Supper Will Mark Museum Anniversary
FRFFPORT - To celebrate the through the eves of one whose
fifteenth anniversary of the Free-port
H'istorical Museum, an "old-fashioned"
Sunday night supper
wUl be held .October 23 at the ,
Parish House of the Church of the
Transfiguration. \
Planned by the Freepcrt His­torical
Society, the supper will
feature" a guest speaker whose
identity will be revealed at a later
date. Lillian Glaser. president of
the Society, describes their guest
.as someone "whoknows Freeport
—wefl-and4ias-¥fatched-it5-erga;th
grandfather did much in the shap­ing
of the village into a nautical
•village of distinction."
This year, the vilbge of Free-port
marks its 8Sth anniversary
of incorporation. The Church of
the Transfiguration and the Free-port
branch of Long Island Trust
Company will also celebrate their
85th anniversaries in 1977.
The Freeport H'istorical Society
would be interested in hearing
from any other' 8S-year old or­ganizations,
businesses or homes
in th>-v-illagf. :
DANCE OFFERING. The Alvln
Alley Repertory Eiibomtjia ujiiies
-to Freeport-this-coming-Satur­day
night as the first--In this
season's series offered by the:
Freeport Arts Council. Tickets, at
.S5 each, will be available on a
first-come, first-served basis to
, non-subscribers, at the door of
the Freeport High School audi-rlorium
before the 8:30 pm per­formance.
Pictured above are two
members of the ensemble In
''Myth." -•-, -
Since its inception in 1974. the
Repertory Ensemble has served
as an arena for perforraance exr
posure for 14 promising students
as well as a vehicle by which new
can be exposed to the arts.
Under the artistic direction of
Sylvia Waters, a former Alley
dancer, the group has studied
and performed worts from tht
standard Ailcy repertoire as well
as original works by students and
cfwreographers such as Milton
Myers. Christine Lawson, Gus
Solomon and Dianne Mclntyre.
In "addition, the ensembly at­tempts
to maintain an historical
perspective of the dance wrth the.
indiistrrn of dnnre clattics. r^
INSTALLATION CEREMONIES were held, this past Saturday nlghl,
for officers of the William Clinton Story Post #342 of the AmerJcan
Legion and their Ladies' Auxiliary. Joe Pelliccla (lop photo, r.) was
installed as Commander of the post by Ed LaJoIe past Tenth District
Commander. In the bottom photo, the happy group consist of (I, to r.)
Walton McDuffie, out-going commander; Joe - Pelliccla; Lucille
Nichollch, Incoming president of the Ladies Auxiliary; Grace Stumpf,
Ojif-gn(ng HiiTdiary president; FellclaAicDufflfl; and Fthf f Pftlllecla.