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FREEPORT, NEW YORK. - JUNE20,1985
51st YEAR, No. 9
FREEPORT MEMORIAL LIBRARY
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Sunday's Big Day For H.S. Seniors
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IN 1960, TWA Flight 847 co-pllot Philip Maresca sat for a formal photo
of Baldwin High School's Chess'.CIub. The picture appeared in the
Class of 1960's Yearbook.
Trees, Pjonteis Are Gods
Off New Committee
FREEPOHT - A major curbside
tree planting . program and
another to remove existing tree
stumps at the curb are among the
goals rf the ViUage of Freeport's
jiewly jformed Properly Improve­ment
Conuniltec iKadedby Cathy
, Bntletfield.
According to - Butierfield,
"oar primary goal is to improve
the visual, image of the Village
through which thousands ' of
people pass each day on such
thoroughfares as Sunrise
Highway, Merrick Road, Atlantic
- Avenue, North and South Main
Streets and Mill Road. We want
to beanUfy these heavily traf-
' ficked areas with a major curbside
tree planting and the placing of
large concrete-like planters filled
with evergreens, trailing ivy and
colorful annuals in . suitable
Drug Airests
Stepped Up
areas. - •
Butierfield also said the
conumttee wili b» looking into the
possibility of a village-wide curb-side
tree stump removal program
at a minimal cost to homeowners.'
Another goal of the Property
Improvement Committee,
explains Bntleifield, is the
improvement of *'the bird's eye
view" seen by hundreds of d :^
commuters &om the Long Island
Rail Road.
The members' of the Property
Improvement Committee are Iris
Andujar, - Cathy DiCostanzo,
anna Feile, Jane Jersic, John
MilcheU, Judy ReiUy, Kay Slaros,
Patridc Variano and James
Wehram.
Residents are encouraged to
send their comments and ideas to
the Committee, care of ViUage
Hall, 46North Ocean Avenue.
Public Hearing
On Landmariis '
Commission
Maresca Family's
Spirits "Boosted"
By TV Film Clip
BALDWIN - The family of
TWA Flighl"847's co-pact, Philip
G. Maresca, received a "boost"
to .their own spirits .Wednesday
monung, June 19, when the 42-
year-old . former Baldwinite was
seen on a television film clip.
Maresca's brother, Peter, told
THE LEADER that at first he was
concerned that. . viewing his
brother on TV could upset their
mother, if the pQot looked as if he
bad been mistreated. But, Pete
Maresca, manager of Fred
ChaH's Marina in Freeport, said,
watijiing the film'. was _ "fan-
•tastici"; because -hi^^-brother
looked good and — on the film -^
was "his normal, witty self."
Pete. Maresca also'expressed
his fanaij's belief that his brolher
would come home safely.
Philip Maresca was on the first
week of an asked^for tour of duty
for TWA, which took him from
Nearly 1,000 Graduates
From Freeport, Baldwin
FREEPORT/BALDWIN - Some 475 high school seniors wiU receive
their'diplomas at commencement exercises at Freeport High School
while about 495 of their peers at Baldwin Senior High School nil] be
involved in the same traditional ceremony. Commencement exercises
will be held this Sunday, June 23, beginning at 2 pm, at both schools.
If the day's weather permits, ceremonies will be held outdoors on the
schools' athletic fields. If it rains.
Freeport seniors, their parents
and other family members and
guests, and school officials will
move into the high . school
gymnasium and tickets will be
required. -^
in, Baldnin, r^ny day cere­monies
will also be moyed off the
field into the school gym.
. The Freeport Commencement
program will feature three stu­dent
. speakers: Valedictorian
Anthony Scalamandre,' Salu-.
tatbiian' Timothy Canoll, and
Senior Class Present Cheryl
Swangin.
Scalamandre, whose speech is
entitled "Attaining Social Accept­ance,"
is graduating with a %.00
average. In the fali, he will attend
Rensselaer Pidytechmc Institute,
pursuing a. program in aerospace
engineering.
Timothy Carroll, graduating
with.an average of 94.19, win .
speak on "Overcoming Physical
Handicaips." . He . wOl attend
Yale University, in September,
majoring in engineering.
Cheryl Swank's speech is
entitled^ "Ctmqaamg Civil
Barriers. "T AH three students
speeches are based bit a state­ment
by Booker T. Washington:
"Success is to.be measured not
so much by the position that one
has reached in life as by the
obstacles which he has overcome
while trying to succeed."
. Baldwin's Student Speakers
At Baldwin High School's
Commencement Exercises, the
student speakers will be Louis
Paul, the Class Valedictorian, and
John Basedow, the Salutatorian.
Louis Paul, who distinguished
himself in the school's Honors
Program with a straight A/A-h
average, is a member of the "
National Honor Society and the
French Honor Society. An oboist
in the All-Cbonty Orchestra, he
was also a finalist in the presti­gious
Westinghouse Science.
competition. He will be attending
Princeton University,
John Basedow. is also an
Honors Program straight A/A-h
student. He has been.elected to
the National Honor Society and
the Spanish Honor Society. His
accompUshments include partid-patlon
in the Long Island Science
Congress, a member of the Math-^
letes and of the Tennis Team.
He will be attending Williams
College in the Fall.
SehotoTShips A OtherAvards
Freeport High School's Qass
of 1985 has received ' over
$550,000 in scholarships and
(Coiit. on Page 20)
- ' ^ FREEPORT---ArTests by Fn*- '==' FREEPORT - A pobHc hearing
port VQlage police officers on
. drug-related charges took, place
reently in both.north.and south
Sections of the village.
During the four day -period
between Thursday, June 13
through Sunday, June 16, police
made nine siicb arrests on drug-related
charges.
On Thursday, June 13, at about
lOJO pm, in the vicinity of 3-13
North Main Street, Police Officers
Al Gros and Steven Yodice arrest­ed
Norman Johnson, 34, of 38
(Cent, on Page 20)
to.hear comments oh proposed
legislation on Landmarlts Preser­vation
will be held by the Free-port
Village Board of Trustees on
Monday, June 24, at 8 pm, at
ViUage Hall.
The new local law wMild
establish a Landmarks Preser­vation
Commisdon, which would
review and recommend to the
Board certain places, sites, areas,
buildings and structures within
tilt ViUage to be designated as
.landmarks, landmark sites or a
historic district.
(Cent, on Page 20)
Philip Maresca
1960Yearbook
Baldwin High
Athens to.Rome, when Flight
847 was hijacked Friday, June 14,
by two Shiite.MosIem'giuunen.''
After the plane's crew was forced
to.bnd and take off and land
-again, the plane finally settled iir
Beinit, Lebanon, where apparent-.
ly the 30-40 passengers, not pre-,
viously released by the h^ackers,'
were reportedly taken off the
plane and sequestered in one or
more places in Beirut for what
Shiite Amal leader Nabih Bern
claimed, was their own pro­tection.
• For several days, the exact
whereabouts of Maresca and the
other members of the flight crew
(the stewardesses and other cabin
personnel had previously been
released) was not firmly known.
(Con), on Page 20)
EVERYONE WILL WANT one of the canoe race commemorative Ite.ins
on sale at the Freeport Chamber of Commerce office'In the'Elks Plaza
shopping center. West Merrick Road. The T-shirts, as well as hats and
-shorts, bear the logo of the Fabulous Freeport Great Canoe and Kayak
Races, which are l)elng sponsored for the IHh consecutive year by the
Freeport Chamt>er of Commerce: Race day Is Sunday, July 7, and
appllcallons for entries as well as sponsors are obtainable from the
Chambef^olfice, or by calling 378-7402. Displaying some of the T-shirts
are Village Mayor Dorothy Storm (4th I.). Chamber secretary Marlon
Knoeller (5th I.), residents and store owners and salespersons from
stores in the Elks Plaza: