Observer_1983-10-26; East Rockaway/Lynbrook Observer

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INCORPORATED VILUGE
East Rockaway
SCHOOL DISTRICT
INCORPORATED VILUGE
Lynbrook
SCHOOL DISTRICT
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VOL. 31 NO. 50 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26,1983 25c PER COPY
What's Your Opinion?
The decision of the East
R o c k a w a y B o a r d of
Education has caused great
c o n f u s i o n a m o n g the
residents of our community.
M a n y who f a i t h f u l ly
s u p p o r t r e q u e s t s f or
a d d i t i o n a l monies to
improve the quality of
education within the district
are reluctant to incur the
e x p e n s e of two new
elementary schools.
Since last week's issue of
the Observer, many people
have called or written
concerning this important
issue. Many dismayed by the
fact that they are not
allowed to express their
o p i n i o n s on the v i t al
question oi renovation and
contend that a substantial
majority of the electorate
support renovation rather
than replacement.
We'd like to know how
t h e p e o p l e of East
Rockaway feel about this
c r u c i a l subject. At the
bottom of this article is a
coupon. We would like all
interested persons to fill out
this coupon and return it to
our'office (either in person
or by mail). We will tabulate
the results and print them in
a future issue before the
referendum vote.
We hope that by giving
t h i s o p p o r t u n i t y to the
people of the community, all
opinions and voices will be
h e a r d . So w h a t ' s your
opinion. We'd like to know.
• YES, I believe that the school district needs 2 new elementary
schools. The bond issue should be passed.
• N O , ! do not believe that the district needs two new schools, but
! instead favor a less expensive plan to renovate our schools.
• NO, 1 do not believe that the district needs two new schools and I
do not favor the renovation program either.
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Lynbrook Village Board Report
The L y n b r o o k Village
Board met at the Village
Hall on Monday, October
17.
Mayor William Geier
administered the oath of
office to Lynbrook's new
A u x i l i a r y Policemen. In
a d d i t i o n , t h e M a y or
p r e s e n t e d a c i t a t i o n to
Shirley Moskowitz for her
many years of service to the
c o m m u n i t y as Assistant
Treasurer of the Village of
Lynbrook.
The Board granted the
petition to hold a walk-a-t
h o n at North Middle
School, and voted to erect a
stop sign on Lenox Avenue.
T h i s last p e t i t i o n was
presented by area residents
at last month's meeting to
a l l e v i a t e t h e t r a f f ic
conditions that existed on
the block.
The next meeting of the
L y n b r o o k Village Board
will be held on Monday,
November 7,
Fund Drive Underway
The annual Lynbrook
High School P.T.A. Scho-l
a r s h i p Fund Drive is
underway, with families and
local merchants being soli-cited
to support the drive by
purchasing tickets to the
football game to be held
Saturday, October 29, 1983
at 1:30 P.M. between the-
Lynbrook Owls and Carey
High School.
Our generous co-sponsors
this year are Flinch & Bruns,
Lynbrook Hardware and
Mur-Lee's.
Since only the proceeds
This Isn't War, It Is Murder!
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by Hank Bialick
The death of our Marines in Lebanon is an act of
murder, not war. As we received the news on Sunday
morning, the feelings of despair, anger, frustration,
sadness for the loss of these fine young men and sym-pathy
for the shocked families of these casualties were
some of the emotions evoked. A major question to be
asked is where does an alleged splinter group suspected
of this heinous deed obtain several thousand pounds of
explosives? The fact is that this group of terrorists exists
in an area controlled by Syria. Let us not blame other
Middle Eastern countries for this deed, when we are
sure that in back of all this vis-a-vis Syri^, the dreadful
long a rm of the Soviets, might be responsible by supply-ing
Syria with arms and the means for this type of
destruction.
Clemenceau, the Premier of France during World
War I, stated that "War is t o o important to be left to
Generals." I believe this to be true in this case. As a
combat soldier in World .War H, we were always trained
never to bunch up together. In fact, there were never
more than two soldiers in one foxhole in order to min-imize
casualties.
What type of planning went into the Marine positions
to place all of those unfortunate Marines in a high-riser
building, especially when they were taking fire from
snipers and had casualties before? Didn't they suspect
that cannon fire could have hit this position, too? I can
never understand taking an elite combat trained unit
like the Marines and placing them in a defensive posi-tion
without the ability to respond to a threat. Either
give them the green light to fight, or pull them out! Our
boys lives are much too precious to expend needlessly.
The U.S. policy to have a peace-keeping force is right.
We must support the President as the unification of
Lebanon is. vital to U.S. interests. The fact that the
Administration is not shooting f r om the hip in retalia-tion
is proper, as the response must be one of purpose
and resolve.
To the families of the dead Marines and wounded
heros, we offer our deepest concern and sympathy, and
pray that they gave their lives for a just cause.
Lynbrook Sponsors Conference Day
received from pre-game
sales can be credited to the
Scholarship Fund, success
of the drive depends on the
support of everyone in the
comrhunity.
Past support has enabled
the Lynbrook High School
P.T.A. to award over 200
grants to graduates. For the
1982-83 school year, 12
P.T.A. Scholarships were
awarded. All contributions
are tax deductible.
For information or tickets
call Rochelle Knobloch at
374-6396.
Technology and Educa-tion
is the theme of this
y e a r ' s S u p e r i n t e n d e n t 's
Conference Day in Lyn-brook,
to be held on Tues-day,
November 8 at 9 A.M.
The program will consist of
workshops to run f r om 10 to
l l : 1 5 A . M . a n d l 2 : 1 5 t o l : 30
P . M . Keynote speaker,
George Z.F. Beredey, pro-fessor
of juvenile law, soci-ology
and education at
Teachers College, Columbia
U n i v e r s i t y , will discuss,
"Excellence in Education in
aQ Age of Technology."
A' native of Poland, Dr.
Bereday holds Bachelor of
Arts and Master of Arts
degrees in history from the
University of Oxford, a
Bachelor of Science Degree
in sociology from the Uni-versity
of London, a Docto-rate
in Philosophy in sociol-o
g y and c o m p a r a t i ve
education from Harvard,
and a Doctor Juris degree in
law f r om Columbia Univer-sity.
A specialist in compara-tive
juvenile law, Dr. Bere-day
combines his study
interests with comparative
education, sociology of edu-cation,
sociology of the fam-ily
domestic relations law,
sociology of stratification
and wills and trusts law. He
was consultant to the Center
on Law and Education at
R u t g e r s U n i v e r s i t y , a
researcher of the Child Wel-fare
League, and court aide
to Judge Nanette Dembitz
of the Manhattan Family
Court.
Workshops on the agenda
will be "Scriptwriter" with
Leonard Davenport, a class
with a full function word
processor based on the PET
c o m p u t e r ; " I n s t r u c t i o n al
Television and Critical Tel-evision
Viewing Skills" with
Madelon Roth of Channel
13, a guide .to educators in
the selection and use of
i n s t r u c t i o n a l television;
"Choosing and Using Tech-nology"
with Ms. Roth, to
p r o v i d e e d u c a t o r s with
g u i d e l i n e s for selecting
appropriate technology for
tfse in the classroom; "Pas-cal"
with Louis Prevet, the
1984 Educational Testing
Service AP examination in
computer science; "Main-streaming
the ESL students"
w i t h P a u l i n e W i p f l e r,
m e t h o d s which teachers
may use to help their LEP
students tn regular classes;
"Stress Management" with
Dr. L. Vernon Allwood,
identifying the sources of
stress and learning stress
management and preventive
r
strategies; "Teaching Prob-ability
and Statistics at the
E l e m e n t a r y Level" with
Joan Failla, consultant for
Addison-Wesley, designed
to help teachers develop
activities and materials for
t e a c h i n g p r o b a b i l i t y and
statistics.
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NEW RESIDENTS NIGHT: Lynbrook Mayor William P.
Geier along with Michael Schindler, left, Communications
Commissioner, and Steve Grogan, right. Director of Public
Relations, go over the agenda for New Residents' Night
which was held on October 26 at Village Hall. New Resi-dents'
Night gives new residents the opportunity to meet
village ofncials, tour village hall and learn about Lynbrook
and the fine services that Lynbrook offers to its residents.