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FREEPORT, NEW VORK. SEPTEMBER 20,1984
49th YEAR. No. 22 -
FRseroRi li V n-520 29 .
-PStCE 25* PER^OPy-
Meeting On Freeport School Sole
Large Attendance
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Six Nanied Merit Parents Question Principal
Semifinalists^ $iiaringrfeeX:tiafges
Public To Also Hear About
Proposed Bond Issue
FREEPORT - A proposed school bond lasue and the sale of the
Oeveland Avenue school will be the dual subiect* of a special meeting
10 be held this coming Tuesday, September 25, at 8 pm, at the Atkinson
School on Wesl Seaman Avenue.
Both the bond issue and the sale of the school must be approved by
considered &r Iat« November,
according to Dr. John E. Bier-wirth.
Freepott's Superintendent
of Schools.
Bierwirth noted that the two
EVANSTON
jroungslers have .Seen'
iiatoed semi-finalists in the 30th
annual Rational. Merit Scholar-
. ship Program.-. •" '• --^ , .' '.-.-.
: Five of the six attend Baldwin
. Senior High School; one ^^ Ed-
—Hwaigrhd- AScHhmooal ns en.—io rj. iT hae FBraeledpwoirnt
High'School seniors" named ~are-
Heidi L. Febert, Lauren Krtz,
Rebecca Nedostup, Louis C. Paul
and Andrea M. Robertson. .
The six are part of a group of
15,000 high school seniors nation­wide
who are eligible" for finalist
standing in order to continue in
the competition -for about 5,500
Merit Scholarships, valued at
over $20 million, to be awarded in
the spring of 1985.
F.H.S. Student
Concentrates unMusic
Edward Allmari has concen­trated
on music during his high
school years. A talented bass
player, he is a member of the
Freeport High School orchestra
and also sings with the school's
SelectChorale.
His musical abilities have
earned him a-variely of honors..
He has been a member of the
Long Island Youth Orchestca
_with which he toured the South
Pacific several summers ago; •
Based on rigorous auditions,
he has also been repeatedly
selected for the All-Conn^
and All-Sute Orchestras.
,In 1983, AUraan spent the
sunimer at the Saratoga School
of Orchestral Studies as principal
bass player. In the spring of
1984 be was a soloist with the
"Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony
Orchestra when it performed
at Freeport High School. That
spring he was also selected to
join the Youth Symphony of New
Yorit.
: This past summer, as a result
-. of competitive Boston University
auditions, Allman was selecto)
to. pedorw-with the_Tanglewood
Institute Young Artbts Orchestra
daring ilc eight-week session in
' TaFnogrle •tw iioiso( Cdc,oo Mnmti.atns)gs«a rycPheaauorse,e 6tA)t*sl.l' m ••a n
BALDWIN - Renewed oommitnity interest in school district activities
was in evidence at the Baldwin Board of Education's first regular
^monthly meeting for jhe 1984-85 school .year. The meeting was hf Id
"Wednesday; September 12i and a large' contingent of residents aUend-ed
incfoding parents from Brookside, MUburn and Steele Schools; rep-resentatives
of sdiool related •
groaps sucn as Us3s and ^6^\r- -
-ers,.Eriehdijif Jiiusic and FTA;-
as wen as Anthony Lombardo,
President of the BUdwin Teaclu
ers Association. " ^ -— -
Those present heard Baldwin
Superintendent of Schools
RoUand Jones outline the Dis­trict's
goals for 1984-85 and the
accomplishments of 1983-84.
Questiors from Uie audience
centered on the splitting of a
grade _ at Brookside -. School,
rumors of the possibility of shared
—prinopttt »t—Jhe yl^mcnljry '
that this included boilers, roofs
and windows, what he called "the
basics."
Blerwlrth suggested that the
renovations were a necessity.
1iefia~are~rel*ted and that the Soihe of the tte~ms had already
School Board would not want to outlived their normal lifetimes,
present one to the community said Bierwirth, and the renova-
^yJoan DBlaney—without- lhe-resident5? knowing—tlonf—woHtd"^tJo-b^"•ene^^'
level, a request to change the
policy regarding the charging of
fees'for such events as Band
Day, and the safety of schools
since suiiimer asbestos removal.
Dr. Jones noted that' steps
.have already' been taken to Im­plement
the 1984-85 goals. He
said that the census data is
presenljy being compiled and will
be analyzed to determine demo­graphic
changes and to more
. accurately project enrollment.
Jones said that there is *ihe
"feasibility" of "combining prin­cipals"
as well as rotating prin­cipals
at the elementary level.
He added that a study of the
Regents proposals has involved
the professional sta^and that one
aspect to be highlighted would
be thai of teadier performance
and evaluation systems.'
Jones also stressed that the
human relations prograou, pres-.
ehliy in place at the senior and
junior high schools, win be.
further studied and additional
implementation will occur at
the elementary ievei.
Regarding the gcals ac­complished
in the 19S3-ft4 school
• year. Jones BOted-that-after-a —
study tf standardized testing on
« district-wide' basis, it was
decided noi to .change tesU ppt.-.'
: to use' updated, venicms. of the'.
norm reference and scholastic
aptitude test* ptesenUy used. —'
Concerning the bond repairs, •
Jones outlined.the various areas
of repair including heating,
which is 95% ct)^ple.ted, roofs,
ventilation, eiecfficil work, and
other building renovations.
' In discussing safety and health
conditions, Jones noted that such
items are monitored on an on­going
basis. He'said that ill
asbestos has been either removed
or encapsulated and he described
tniuu;er.»oik jitbolh tlie Baldwin
details of the other
Proceeds of the sale of the
school would .go. toward repairs
and' renovations of the school
buildhigs, wbidi would alto-be
the subject of the bond Issue.
—teuen—to" community ~resF-
-denta about-the public-meeting
have already been prepared and
are in the mail and lists oL.Ihe
"ilems~id be'repalred with the
bond issue mil be available in the
district's various school buildings
beginning this Tbursday^or Fridy.
' The bond issue would be used
to finance needed capital renova­tions,
said Bierwirth. He noted
effective and thus save the dis­trict
money.
The total cost of the proposed
renovations. would be about
S5 million. Bienrirth hinted that
-the «ileT>fXleve«n«"Woni*Tfo{—
bring in any amount dose to ihat;~
He declined, however, to give a
sale price .figure nor even to .
divulge the proposed purchaser of
the building. He iioted only that,
the proposals were not for use of
the budding as an educational
facility — the firjt choice of a cili-tens'
committee that had ex-affllned
various altcmaUres.
Harbor Junior High and Meadow
Schools, where asbestos was re­moved
from the crawl space
areas, and Shubert School where
asbestos was removed from the
boiler area.
(Editor's Note:l In a phone
Interview with Richard Dopsovic,
AssisUmt Superintendent for
Business and newly appointed
District Safety Officer since
the retirement of Dr. Howard
Schivera, THE LEADER ques­tioned
the details of the asbestos
removal. According to 'Dc^psovic,
liie rentoval was completed under
the direction of Industrial Hygien-
Ist Sharon R. Speiber of the
Bronx, New York and the testing
and results were based on
NIOSH (National Institute of
Occupational Safety and Health)
standards which are more strin­gent
than eitiiFr EPA or OSHA
(C(3nt.onP»g«Ji
Two Charged With Slaying Of Cop
-ESSEX c6u^f^Yl" N J , - Two. vrctlnns inil hn prfvlnmly hren-
Freeporimen have been arrested
and charged In the gunshot stajr-
Ing of a New Jersey police officer
on Monday, September 17. >
. According to police sources,
Douglas Jerome Parsons, 27, of.
58 Weberfield Avenue, was
arrested soon after the. shooting
of Patrolmaii Daniel Smith,
27, on InlersUle 280 in East
Orange, New Jersey. '
Sniilh, police uy, had stopped
a Chevrolet on the road in order to
question the occupants — said
lobe Parsons and-«n unidentified
(een-age<l girl who was not held
—and was killed by one ahot with
« 12 gauge shotgun fired at close
range.
Parsons, who -allegedly sped
off but was nabbed about .30.
minutes later after he crashed the
car and fled on foot, is said to
have alre«dy served two terms fa)
jail on drag and handgun con-arrested
a total of nine times.
A telephone call to the Weber­field
address was answered by a
woman, who said that Parsons
had lived there several years
before, but she didn't want to talk
about him. ~
Later Monday evening, a
second Freeport man was arrest­ed
at his residence at' 66 Grand
Avenue. Gil Wjlliams, 4Uso 27,
was taken Into custody by Nasuu
detectives and now awslla trans­fer
to New Jersey. Williams.
' police sources say, was the
alleged source of the weapon.
Parsons was (tralgned in
Superior Court in Newark on
charges of murder, possession of
an unlawful weapon am) Intent to
.. use the unlawfijl weapon.
Williams has been charged
with mxiiAtT first degree and (on-
'spiracy to commit murder of a
polkeofiker.
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