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FREEPORT UEUORIAL LIBRARY
• MERRICK RD
FREEPORT H Y 11520 6
FREEPORT. NEW YORK, MAY 16.1985
JlstYEAR, No.4- v-'ftEEPQRT MIIw^ORJAL LIBRARY
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Ddy-Long Fete At Freeport Library
Book Bruadh-Concetfr
Family Fun Af DedlcMon
FREEPORT • The newly expanded Freeport Memorial Library will
be dedicated on Sunday, May 19, with a day-long program of activi?
ties. In the tradition, of the library, the event will be a community
affair involving a variety of cultural, educational and recreational
offerings for people of all ages.
The dedication ceremonies, which lyill be attended by a number of
local dignitaries, will feature"'
Grant Held
Receives
PTA Award
FREEPORT -Grant Held,
a senior at Freeport High School,
was awarded a plaque on May 9
~fndlcaling1iis selecuonas'Naisau
County PTA's choice • for the
Stanley Marcus Humimitarian
Award for 198S.
As his'parents and a1)odt 300
PTA delegates to the annual
Spring Conference' witched,
Held's efforts to help a nursing
home patient receive her liigh
school equivalency diploma were
described'. ,
""'Held - wotted with Vivian
Toon, a patient at Soutlr Shore
Nursing Hoine, from August 19S3
until t)ie end of 1984, at first once
a week; then more cAen, as test­ing
time approached. Ms. Toon
has been virtually paralyzed with
rheumatoid arthritis since her
teens. '•
Also presented at the Spring
(Com. on Page 15)
Rohe, Jordan Take
School Board S^afs
BALDWIN - Residents of the Baldwin School District handily^passed
botli the 1985-86 School District and the Baldwin Public Library
budgets in voting Wednesday, May IS, at the Senior High School.
.. The school budget, which carries'with it'an increase of. $2,577 per
5100 assessed valuation, passed with 57% of the votes:.!,161 yes' and
870 no.
-The Baldwin Public Library.
. budget passed even more over­whelmingly.
Some 65% of those
who voted on the library budget
cast "yes" votes, outnumbering
Ihe Vno" votes 1,283-677. •
Victor Rohe, a past school
board member, and incumbent
trustee Robert Jordan polled al­most
identical votes, as they won
favor with the voters for the two
open seats on the Baldwin School
Board. Rohe came in first with
1,358 votes; Jordan was right
hi-hind'with 1.352 votes. The
third- candidate,—Wally-Young,-
lost with 621 votes. . . '
Running unopposed for re­election
to the Baldwin Public
Library Board of Trustees, Ingrid
Mahler received 1,367 votes.
The school district's Assistant
Superintendent for; Business,
Richard Dopso'vic,' who is leaving
the district after seven years, at
the end of this semester, noted
with some elation that all of his
budgets have passed and he is
"leaving with all loose ends
Uedup."
Baldwin Haifaor Residents ~
Ask For Help With BOCK SdiooV
j . byJoanPeianey
BALDWIN - Allen Schwartz and Edward Denneby, both residents of
the Baldwin Harbor area near the Baldwin BOCES facility, came to the
||ifQfginigf{CQ||0 Batdwin-Board-Dif-EdncaitiSinaHllng ot May-8th lo explam their
- problems and to seek assistance bom. the Board in appealing to the
, Town of Hempstearf. With petitions of 1,500 names to support them,
CIdSed Down t^e residents described the 15
remarks by library Board Presi­dent
Jeanette Klempner and' the
planting of .a tree, by Village
Mayor Dorothy Storm, in memory
of former Library Trustee ahd
Village Safety Director William
• Gillespie.: . . . . .
The day will begin ttl 12 noon
with a Book and Author Brunch
sponsoredby the Arts Council at
Freeport. The affair, coordinated
by Arts Council Board member
-George LoviU, will feature noted .
auttiOT Thomas Fleming and the. j
w'eO known Broadway actress
-"MariairSeldes";"
Ms. Seldes' book,~"Tbe Bright
Lights," is a fascinating memoir
of theatrical life among some cf
the most famous stage stars tf,
our time",
Fleming, best-selling author of
"The Officers' Wives," has now
.written "The Spoils, of -War,"
a dramatic historical novel ci
America in the crucial decades,
&om the fan of the Confederacy to'
the Spanish-American War.
Reservations. for the brunch,
which are. $12, are available from
the. Arts Council at 223^2522. The
general public is invited to hear
' the authors speak after the meal
. and to meet them at the'Tibraiy's
Open House, which is between i
an4 3 pm. The official dedication
ceremonies are anticipated to
take place about 2 pm- on the
Library grounds. ' "
Meanwhile the entire family
will find many treats in store for
them in'and around the Library — .
from clowns and clown face paint­ing
in the Children's Room; to
mimes. and magicians in the
- gallery; and robots and Renais- .
sance Music in the Adult area.
'. Refreshments will be provided
- vid served by the Friends of the
Library. _ • . _
Ai ihe Open ' House, back- "
ground music'win be provided'
1-3 pm, by the Da Capo En­semble.
The Da Capo Ensemble is a
group of up to eight recorder
players who have, during six
.years of playing together, added a
number- of other .'eariy instru­ments
to their performances of
Early Music.
The four members playing at
. the Open House will be Joan
-Behl, Robert and Marian
Hubbard, and Bonnie Stalzer. .
That day they win be playing at
- least six sizes of recorder, plus
knimhom, comamuse. gc^ic
harp, pshalteiy and assorted
"(Cont.'onPageiB)'''
FREEPORT - The Village's
Building Department has issued a
number of summonses to Oub
Interameridinp, II West Sunrise
Highway,' Freeport, and has
directed that the premises be
closed until the building viola­tions
are cleared up and the
necessary permits for a place of
public assembly are obtained.
In a series of visits to'the
premises this past weekend,
Friday through Monday. May 10-
13, Mike . Ruis de Zarate,
VUlage' Superintendent of Build­ings,,
and members of his staff,
Inspectors Dennis Flaumenbaum
and John Provenzano, were
accompanied at various times by
Village Police Officers Alberto
Villaneuva, George Do«dell,
Greg Moses and Howard Hart-mann.
and Police Sgt. Ronald
• (Cent, on Page 10)
year history of the BOCES facili­ty
and the situation over the
recent years which they said was
due to' a change in the type of
student now being .educated at
the facility.
According to statements made
in' a letter written to Jeffrey
L. Stadler, legal counsel to Hemp­stead
Town Presiding Supervisor
Thomas Gulotta, Schwartz indi­cated
that the school population
at BOCES now includes students
from 14-21 years old rather than
the initial population as pronded
for in the original lease, which
included only students ages Tive
through 14."
Schwartz also indicated thai
ori^naUy the transportation of
these students was to be from
their homes to the BOCES
facility itself. He alleges that
now some students are dropped
off on Atlantic Avenue and are
allowed to walk through the Soath
Baldwin Harbor area imsapeT-vised.
Some students also' arrive
at the school privately became
they have been expelled frcm-bus
transportation'due to their
"incorrigible and anti-sodal be-.^
havior":whi]e on the buses.
An additional ccoplaint re­ferred
to the "inadeqiute"
supervision of tlie students while
(hey are supposed to be at the
fadli^. The letter indicates that
the students are "permitted to
wander off from the BOCES
school ytupeity into the surroand-ing
neighborhood - withgat any
restraint but that offered by park
personnel. Schwartz described
the area as "under seige" by the
students and outlined numerous
' (Com. on Page 8)
STUDENTS WIN AT MATH FAIR. Competing against some of the
best Math and Computer Science students In Nassau and Suffolk
Counties In the final round of the Long Island Math Fair on April 26,
five Freefkirt High School students came away winners. Shown (above)
with FHS Math teachers Jack Ponio 0-) and Sara Menlkoff (2nd I.).and
FHS Mathematics and Computer Science Defiartment Head Ernest
Rugglero (r.) are Craig Schlechter (who won a Silver Medal for his
Math Project," Game Theory"), Kevin Rugg (Bronze Medal winner for
-fnath project on "The Konlgsberg Bridge Problem"), David Muslcant
(Bronze Medal for a computer project "Transformation Geometry"),
Tom Shetiar (Bronze Medal, Math Project, "Topology"), and Ian
Handel (Bronze Medal, Computer Project, "Artificial Intelligence").
The winning projects were t>ased on papers the students wrote In
Math Honorscoursestaughtby Menikoff and Porz'Kj.