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FRntPOBT ICBUOEIAL LIB&UiY
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54th YEAR^NO. 27 FREEPORT. NEW YORK JULY 7. 1988 , PRICE 2 5 * ^ E R COPY
Summer computer use
for students and adults
at the Freeport Library
Hw Freeport Public Schools
and the Freeport Memorial
Library offer an innovative ser­vice
to children and adults who
want to continue learning during
the suntmer months.
For almost two decades, the
Freeport Public Schools have
used .computers as an integral '
part of the educational program.
A combination of networi:s of
terminals linked to minicoinpu-ten
and oucrocomputen have
helped students learn Reading,
Math, Language Arts and Com­puter
Pr<^ramming.
Those networks have
expanded beyond the school.
An upgraded system Uikking 12
Atari compaten ia the Children's
Wing of the libriiry to the central
compiitn i s Caroline' G: Atkiiil
son' School is in operation. The
network will allow students and
adults to progress in their studies
at a guided rate. The Atari system
also has a special progmm for
students preparing for the S. A.T.
Ill addition, the Children^
Wing has four Applis computers '
with suiuble software for. learn­ing
and recreation.
The school district has also
placed three additional Apple
computers in the expanded Job
aitd Education Center in the
adult section of the library.
Apple and IBM compatible
computers are available to.older
students and adults who wish to
learn word procesring, spread
sheet and database applications
at the library's Job and Educa­tion
Center. It is antkipated that
additional software will be availr
able to kelp meet the needs of
adult stodentt sntdying Eiq^h
as a second toaguage by tht end|
The library'^ hours during the
summer are: Monday, Tuesday,
Thursday and Friday 9 a.m. - 9
p.m.; Wednesday 10 a.m. - 9
p.m.; and Saturday 9 a.m. - 1
p.m.
Freeport HS students honored
At the Freeport High School
awards dinner held recently,
the following students received
awards:
BRIAN ANSON ,- NYS
Regents Scholarship, Freeport
Leader-John Peter Zenger Jour­nalism
A.^rd, Presidential Aca­demic
Fitness Award.
MARIA BARRERA - Free-port
High School English
Department-Award.
OEOROINA BOLDEN - Stu­dent
Council Scholarship.
JEFFREY BOLLACKE -
NYS Regents Scholarship, Stu­dent
Council Scholarship.
MICHAEL BOLLACKE -
Knights of Pythias Grand Lodge-
Scholastic Progress Award,
Marist College Choiai Munc
Scholarship.
SAMANTHA BOULUKOS •
NYS Recenu Schdarsfaip, Rt.
Rev. Eugeee J. Ctawfotd'History
Award, Woodmen of the Woiid
Araeiieaa History Award, Or.
Mervin L. Sphloss Foundation
' Scholarship, Presidential Aca­demic
Fitness A««rd.
MATTHEW BRAZ - NYS
Regents Scholarslup^ Adelphi
University Trustee Achievement
Award, John W. Dodd Junior
High School PTA Scholarship,
Dr. Mervin L. Schloss Founda­tion
Scholarship, Presidential
Academic FItness'Award.
DEVIN BRIONONI - NYS
Regents Scholarship.
ROBERT BUMPUS - NYS
Regents Scholarship, Elma Ven-
. tress Memorial Award, Rensse­laer
Polytechnic Institute Scho­larship,'
U.S. Marine Corps.
NROTC Scholarship, Carnegie-
Mellon Scholarship, U.S. Air
Force Academy Prep School
Scholarship, Freeport Teachers'
Association-Charles F. Duibel
Memorial Scholanhip, Presiden­tial
Academic Fitness Award.
LISA BURRELL - Freeport
School Administrators' Assoc.-
Dr. John E. Gordon Memorial
Scholarship.
S ALVITORE CASSONETTO
- Ruth Floyd Woodhuil Chapter
-NSDARIfeUaKoiaday Home-
, makiag Award.
CHIFFON CHAPMAN -
NYS Regenu Scholarship, Free-port
Lions Club-Louis Neuwirth
Scholarship, Rensselaer Poly­technic
Institute Scholarship,
Blanck Family College Scholar­ship
Fund, Presidential Aca­demic
Fitness Award.
KAREN CLARKE-South of
Sunrise Civic Association
Award. -•
ELLEN CONNER - NYS
Regents Scholarship, Adelaide
Aims Memorial Award, Jerry
Bagatelle Scholar-Athlete
Award, Justice Lodge &
Chapter-b'nai B'rith-Jerry
Schleiffer Memorial Award,
Bausch SL Lomb Honorary
Science Award, VFW of U.S.
Merrick-Freeport Henry Theo­dore
Mohr Post 01310 Award,
Kiwanis Club of Freeport- -
Robert R. Schade Memorial
Award, Presidential Academic
Fitness Award.
USA COPELAND -National
Achievement Scholarship Pro­gmm
for Ouutanding . Negro
Students Commendation',.
CanMgie-MeUon Undergraduate
Grant, Black Edueitors' Coni<~-
mittee of Freeport-Bryaiit-
Connor Award, Freeport Mem­orial
Library Jerome B. & Clara
Mae Ross Sdiolarship.
TAMARA DAVIS - Student
' Council Scholanhip. Leo F.Oib^
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Woodward Center helps kkis
by Sue Morgan
SHARING PtAYTIME wWi pnachaelf ki \
H»«lth C«tW« E«rfy Bird PKiBram art from tait. Taitf I
aatittant tMehar. and Woodward't Ex««uiii« CHMctor Nina
Sloan. • .
Teens shoot baskets in the
gym as tots nap in a nearby room,
murals of rainbows, inouhtains
and a huge Donald Duck deco­rate
the bright hallways and
youngsters in classrooms engage
in quiet conversation with their
teachers.
While the low brick building
on Merrick Road housing these
scenes resembles any number of
smallish schools across Long
Island, it is not an ordinary
school It is Woodward Mental
Health Center, a psychiatric day
treatment center which blends
concerned professional help and
special edvcaUon for emotionally
disturbed youngsters from three
to 21 years of age.
Woodward'^ Executive Direc­tor,
Nina Sloan, emphasizes that
the center fit* the program to the
child, not the child to the pro­gram,"
no small task given the
wide range of emotional prob­lems
and behaviors, ages, and
academic Abilities of the youngs­ters
the center sems. ^
Woodward draws its curitnt
enrollment of 65 studenurffoih
throughout Nassau, Queens and
Western Suffolk. AH are classi­fied
as emotionally disturbed by
tiiC Committees of Special Edu­cation
of their local schools. No
youngster for whom the center's
program is deemed appropriate is
ttimed away.
The types of education and
treatment provided by Wood­ward
are as varied as the needs of
its students,. whose behavioral
disturbances may range from
schizophrenia and psychoses to
anxiety and depression. None are
physically handicapped, bu t most
have var^ng degrees of learning
disability due to their eniotional
diiticulties. '
The center has a full range of
academic courses from elemen­t
a l through high school, and
may award an accredited High
School diploma or Individual­ized
Education Program diploma
to its graduates, a number of
whom have successfully gone on
to college.
' "The goal is not to stay here,
howevpr," Mrs. Sloan says,
adding that Woodward main­streams
four or five students per
year back to the public schools.
Most of these are younger stu­dents,
however,"; .because 'xhe
older a child is, tEe more difficult
it is to go ^ek to public school,"
she notes,. .. • ., . •
The center also oflTen voca­tional
programs in conjunction
vrith Nassau County BOCES
which include culinary skUls and
nursing, while Woodward itself
has a spaoous woodworking
shop where projects in various.
stages of completion repose on
the'work tables. Culinary stu­dents
prppare'a daily.hot lunch
for all of the students, held a bake
sale at Elks Plaza and last
' Thanks^ving treated staff and
parents to a turkey dinner with all
the trimmings. ,
' Art is'also ail important part of
the Woodward program and,in
addition to its therapeuUc value,
provides colorful hallway dis­plays
and special decorations for
holiday events and ^duations.
An inviting "tranquility garden"
nestled between interior walls of
the school is i spot for sketching.
the spring- flowers growing
among benches for sitting. The
physical education program
includes rhythm, motorskills,
gymnastics.aod team sports.
Elementary School 'subjects
are studied by children in interage
chutes which , can vary
by only three years, according to .
Nei^ York State requirements.
Pre-scbool children attend iis~ •
' ing Khool hours and Woodward-has
received Freeport ComntUK -
ity "Development Funds wh«h >'
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