Observer_1985-08-21; East Rockaway/Lynbrook Observer

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A TOWN HALL SUMMER. Hempstead Town Presiding
Supervisor Thomas S. Gulotta (seated) meets with intern
Edward Cook of Althouse Avenue, East Rockaway who
was employed in the Town Attorney's Office. Edward will be
returning to the College of William and Mary this autumn.
The East Rockaway
B o a r d of E d u c a t i on
appointed Dr. Kathleen
Semcrgieff as Principal of
the High School at its meet-ing
held on Monday, August
19.
Dr. Kathleen Semergieff
received her Bachelor of
Arts degree in History in
1967 from St. Joseph's Col-lege,
New York. She entered
her graduate assistanship at
St. John's University and
completed a Master of Arts
in Chinese Language in
1969. Her doctorate in Chi-nese
History was also
awarded by that university
in 1981. Her doctoral thesis
title was "The Changing
Role of Women in the Peo-ple's
Republic of China
1947-1969." In 1982 Dr.
Semergieff completed her
Professional Diploma in
Education, Administration
and Supervision.
"One Man's Trash... f f
By Mildred Roemer
"May be another man's
treasure," to complete the
old quote.
Last week one of our alert
D.P.W. workers noted a
small pile of paperback
booklets placed on the curb
f o r V i l l a g e p i c k - u p.
They had to do with the
Civil War and looked old.
He picked them up and
decided to bring them to the
Grist Mill Museum. The
discarded "trash" turned out
to be incomplete sets of the
"History of the Civil War,
with p h o t o g r a p h s by
"Brady, War Photographer"
and published in 1895; and
"Elson's New History" of
the war printed in 1912. The
older books had been water
damaged, but are still quite
readable and the 1912 ones
had many fine duplicates of
the Brady pictures. There
are also excellent full-color
reproductions of Civil War
paintings in each column.
"Trash"? It's all in the eye
of the beholder, and the
Museum was happy to add
these "treasures" to its large
collection of Civil War
memorabilia. This addition
has suggested that a special
exhibit on the War be dis-played
during the 1986
opening season.
Among the Museum's
Civil War "treasures" is a
flag actually carried in bat-tle,
a daguerreotype of the
first casualty in this area, a
12-year old drummer boy. A
statue of the boy is over his
grave, in Greenwood Ceme-tery
in Brooklyn. Veterans
still gather there on Memor-ial
Day. There is a letter to a
doctor from a soldier asking
to be relieved of his duties to
go back to his home; other
original documents as well
as a serieji of large copper
etchings on a typical soldi-er's
life in camp; also a col-lection
of powder horns,
a mortar and pestil, and
other "treasures", some that
just about escaped the "trash
heap."
Please check your "trash"
before tossing it away. It
might not be worth a lot to
others...but might be useful
in the Grist Mill Museum!
Dr. Kathleen Semergieff
Dr. Semergieff began her
t e a c h i n g - c a r e e r in~The
Sewanhaka Central High
School district in 1969.
There she taught Social
Studies courses 7-12 at the
New Hyde Park Memorial
High School until 1975.
After studying Chinese at
Middlebury College she
returned to that district in
1977 at the Elmont Memor-ial
High School to begin
classes in European History
advanced placement. In
1980 Dr. Semergieff headed
a districtwide committee to
investigate and develop a
program for G i f t e d / T a l -
ented students for the six
School Tax Rolls Released
F o r t y - e i g h t N a s s au
County school districts
experienced increases in
taxable assessed value and
only 14 showed decreases on
the 1985-86 Nassau County
School Tax Role, according
to the annual comparison
report released today by
Abe Seldin, Chairman of the
Nassau County Board of
Assessors.
The report shows the
increase or decrease in taxa-ble
assessed value for each of
Nassau County's school dis-tricts,
except Glen Cove.
The Glen Cove school dis-trict
bases its property taxes
on the City of Glen Cove's
assessment roll, not the
county's.
An increase in taxable
assessed value is good for
East Rockaway Man
Saves Son
An East Rockaway father
stabbed his Doberman
Pinscher to death in order to
save his one-year old son
from the dog's powerful
jaws,
Glenn Steubing was eat-ing^
his dinner with his wife
when the dog attacked his
son, Henry Steubing, who
was crawling along the kit-chen
floor shortly after 8 pm
on Monday, Au'^-ist 11. Mr.
Steubing leaped from his
chair and begain stabbing
the dog with a kitchen knife,
it is not known what made
the dog attack.
Little Henry was taken to
South Nassau Communities
Hospital, where he was
admitted for observation
with bite marks on the head
and face, according to Nas-sau
County Police.
high schools of the Sewan-haka
district. In 1981 she
was named Coordinator of
the Gifted/Talented Pro-gram
with the task of
implementing the new pro-gram
throughout the district
grades 7-12. In the summer
of 1983 she became principal
of the Sewanhaka district
summer school serving
1,400 students. In August of
1983 she was given the posi-tion
of Assistant Principal in
Lawrence High School
where she has remained
until taking the position at
East Rockaway High
School.
Dr. Semergieff resides
with her husband, a figura-tive
artist, in Park Slope,
New York.
In other personnel mat-ters,
the Board approved the
probationary appointments
of Ellen Kacerow as Math
teacher at the high school,
Laura Tuch. as Writing
C o o r d i n a t o r / English
teacher. Merrily Rosner as
English teacher, Gina Cap-pellino
as Italian/Spanish
teacher, Geraldine Espostio
as Speech and Language-
Therapist, and Josephine
Landolphi, Eileen Rogers
and Marjorie Breien as
t e a c h e r aides. It ' S so
approved the replacement
appointments of Judith
Joyce and Robin Ricken, as
well as the p a r t - t i me
appointment of Nancy
Hecker in the , field of
speech/language at the high
school.
The Board accepted with
"deep appreciation and
regret" the resignation of
Anne Cohn after 17 years as
Library Aide; Sobert Sim-ins,
Math teacher; Louise
Michal, Math teacher; and
Ciro Prudente, English
teacher.
S u p e r i n t e n d e n t of
S c h o o l s Robert Parry
reported that the bond issue
roof replacement at Rhame
Avenue School was "about
95% completed," with only
some last minute coping
needed. The oil tank^ are
being installed at the high
school, replacing the 10,000
gallon tank that leaked last
year, and renovation work is
being done at the Centre
Avenue Faculty Room and
the Girl's Locker Room at
Thame.
The next meeting of the
East Rockaway Board of
Education will be held on
Monday, September 16.
the taxpayers of a school
district because it means a
larger tax base to share the
tax burden.
In the local area, both
East Rockaway and Lyn-brook
showed declines in
total assessed valuation. At
$19,645,696, East Rocka-way
experienced a decrease
of $77,386 of assessed valua-tion,
or .39%. Lynbrook's
total of $54,102,986 was
$143,926, or .27% less than
last year's assessment.
Countywide, the. 1985-86
Nassau County school
assessment roll, released on
August 1, shows a total tax-able
value of $3,741,039,200.
This is an increase of
$27,110,442 for 1985-86 or
0.73% when compared with
last year's total taxable
value for school purposes of
$ 3 , 7 1 3 , 9 2 8 , 7 5 8 . The
increase is the third highest
in the last ten years.
Seldin attributed the
change primarily to new
construction. "Construction
is continuing at the same
impressive pace it has for the
past two years," he said. The
increase in taxable assessed
value for the 1984-85 school
tax year (1.04%) was slightly
higher than for 1985-86
primarily because of the
addition of European Amer-ican
Bank Plaza to the tax
rolls for 1984-85. Seldin
explained, "A building that
size isn't built every year."
Seldin said the increase in
the school assessment roll
was indicative of Nassau
County's healthy economy.
"Not only does the new con-struction
mean a larger tax
base, it also means new jobs
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FRANKLIN'S LYN-ROCK AUXILIARY: Lyn-Rock
Auxiliary members scored an impressive turn out for the
recent Auxiliary Awards Program held by Franklin General
Hospital. That's a $1,000 donation for Franklin being pres-ented
by Lyn-Rock Auxiliary President Elizabeth Sim-mons,
2nd from left, to Sylvia Kaminetsky. Other Lyn-Rock
Auxilians on hand to receive recognition by the 305 bed
community hospital, include from left, Judy Summerfield,
1985-86 Co-President Jean Dougherty, Rita Marks, Rose
Woletsky, Co-President Jean Corbelli, JoAnn McSherry
- a l l of Lynbrook - and Franklin's Auxiliary Coordinating
Council President Freda Rohsi^pe*