Observer_1985-02-13; East Rockaway/Lynbrook Observer

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VOL. 33 NO. 12 Wednesday, February 13,1985 30c PER COPY
The Board of Education
of the East Rockaway Pub-lic
Schools at its February 5,
1985 meeting accepted the
resignation of Michael A.
Maiden as its Superintend-ent
of Schools, which resig-nation
took effect immediately.-
Maiden Resigns
The Board designated
Robert Parry, the district's
high school principal, as its
acting superintendent, while
the district concludes its
search for a new Superin-tendent
of Schools.
Michael Maiden will con-
Campaign Issues
Dominate Board Meeting
by Annette Ling
In what appeared to be handle the job of Deputy
LENT NOMINATES EAST ROCKAWAY MEN. Con-gressman
Norman F. Lent (R-East Rockaway), second
right, congratulates his military academy nominees from
East Rockaway, who are, from left to right: Michael Glenis-ter.
Naval Academy; Charles Gresalfi, Merchant Marine
Academy; and Marc Acampora, West Point. Congressman
Lent nominated forty candidates to the four military
academies from over applicants in the FoiiHh Congres-sional
District. Not shown but nominated to West Point is
Vincent Spinnato, Jr., also of East Rockaway.
the opening salvo of the
1985 Village election cam-paign
contest between can-d
i d a t e s for the Good
Government and Lynbrook
I n d e p e n d e n t P a r t i e s,
members of the Board of
Trustee clashed with Mayor
William Geier and passed
m'^iia Jiui
ming. Clara's daughter gave
it to the Museum. Only
repair needed was the chif-fon
that tore.The date was
1906. Another E.R. bride
was Ida Merritt Emert who
lived in a frame house across
from St. Raymond Church.
Her wedding was in 1910
and she wore a traditional
white gown with an 18-inch
waist. Another handsome
gown donated anonymously
to the Museum was worn in
1930 and is of slipper satin
trimmed with seed pearls
and having a long train.
by Mildred Roemer
The yellowing slipper-satin
and delicate lace on
wedding gowns worn in the
early nineteen hundreds and
earlier may not seem as ele-gant
as the bridal outfits
shown in the Valentine's
issue of the Observer.
However, when members ol
the Grist Mill Museum
committee work on and
touch these precious gowns,
memories are brought to
mind of the ways of wed-dings
in the "olden days"
and of he ladies who wore
them. These garments are
stored in East Rockaway's
Senior Citizen's Home on
James Street.
Most weddings were held
in the bride's spacious home.
The rooms were bedecked
with flowers and a soprano
usually sang "Oh, Promise
Me" accompanied by a
pump organ. The presiding
clergyman was certain to
stress the words "Love,
Honor and OBEY" in the
ceremony and many of these
marriages lasted a lifetime.
Not all brides wore the tradi-tional
long trained white
gown. Clara ( J o h n s on
Houtsch), of a prominent
E.R. family was dressed in a
lavender-grey taffeta, long-sleeved
corseted dress with
white chiffon at the throat
and with rose ribbon trim- Father Lemieux
function in office.
The fireworks began
when Mayor Geier announc-ed
his intention of naming
newly appointed Trustee
Norman Dreyer as Lyn-brook's
Deputy Mayor.
Trustee Eugene Scarpato,
who is running for reelection
this March, stated that he
believed that as a new Trus-tee,
Mr. Dreyer would find it
hard to assume the duties of
the Mayor should the need
arise. He stated his belief
that the current "lame duck"
board is of little conse-quence,
and for the sake of
continuity. Trustee Maurice
Ornstein should be named
Deputy Mayor.
Mayor Geier reminded
Trustee Scarpato 4hat the
appointment of the Deputy
Mayor was the perogative of
the Mayor, and that he . be-lieved
that Trustee Scarpa-to's
remarks "concerning the
ability of Norm Dreyer to
Nocturnal Adoration Communion Breakfast
St. Raymond's Nocturnal
Adoration Society will have
a Communion Breakfast,
Sunday, February 17th after
the 9:00 A.M. Mass. This
Mass will be dedicated to all
deceased Noctumalists from
our Society. The Commun-ion
Breakfast will be held in
St. Raymond's Cafeteria.
The guest speaker will be
R e v e r e n d H e c t o r C.
Lemieux, S.S.S. former
National Director of all
Nocturnal Adoration Socie-ties.
Following the 9:00
A.M. Mass, both Reverend
Andrew Miller, Spiritual
Director for St. Raymond's
N o c t u r n a l A d o r a t i on
tmue to serve as consultant
to the district for the period
through June 30, 1985.
Maiden's tenure in office
has been the object of con-troversy
within the com-munity
for some time. Fol-lowing
the defeat of a
p r o p o s e d bond issue
endorsed by the Superin-tendent
and a sharp increase
in school taxes' necessitated
by a bureaucratic miscalcu-lation
and an unforseen oil
spill, a petition calling for
Superintendent Maiden's
removal from olffice^. signed
by more than 650 commun-ity
residents, was presented
to the Board of Education.
Several months ago, Mr.
Maiden announced his
intentions to leave the Dis-trict
when his contract
expired in June, 1985.
Mayor borders on an
affront." He reaffirmed his
faith in Trustee Dreyer's
ability to assume the office
of Mayor should the need
arise, and remarked that
Trustee Scarpato's state-ment
was "offensive to
Norm Dreyer and the Vil-resolutions
which seemingly lage of Lynbrook." Trustee
curb the Mayor's ability to Scarpato answered that his
remarks were offered as a
suggestion and did not
reflect on his evaluation of
Trustee Dreyer.
During the portion of the
evening titled "Good and
Welfare," Trustee Peter
Ledwith in an unusual move
offered two resolutions; the
first required that any gen-eral
mailing from the Mayor
and Board of Trustees be
made available for review by
all members of the Board
before mailing, and the
second required Mayor
Geier to give to each
member of the board every
communication that he
receives as Mayor. The
move was unusual in that
resolutions are made under
that portion of the evening
devoted to resolutions.
Mayor Geier claimed that he
had received the proposed
resolutions just 5 minutes
prior to the Board meeting
and that the Board had not
had any time to evaluate
even the legality of the pro-posed
acts, much less the
desireability os such acts.
Mayor Geier stated that in
his two years in office, he
had provided an open and
responsive administration
and that the Board of Trus-tees
always had ample input
into all communications
from Village Hall.
When put to a vote, the
resolutions passed by a vote
of 3 to I, with Trustees Led-with,
Scarpato and Ornstein
voting in favor of the resolu-tion,
Mayor Geier in opposi-tion,
and Trustee Dreyer
abstaining. Mayor Geier
stated that he will consult
the opinion of Village
Attorney Jay Korth with
regards to the legality of the
two resolutions.
Robert Barra from 95
Scranton Avenue, Lyn-brook
was appointed the
Deputy Village Clerk and
the Board approved his
appointment.
The new fire truck was
approved and accepted for
service in the village after
being carefully checked over
by the D.P.W. and the Fire
Dept.
The Board approved the
allocation of $7,000 for the
Lynbrook Fire Prevention
Bureau to aid in their excel-lent
coverage of the com-mercial
area of the village
and heard from Michael
C h i a r m o n t e from the
Bureau about aspect of their
vital work in finding chemi-cals
that might be cause for
severe fires or other disaster
in our area. The extra fund-
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Observer Bridal
Contest Winners
S o c i e t y , and F a t h er
Lemieux will install all new
Noctumalists into our
Society.
Everyone is invited to
come! There is no charge;
this is your opportunity to
listen to a well known
speaker. Come one, come
all.
As usual, our Commun-ion
Breakfast will be a fam-ily
affair. If you plan to
come; please contact Fred
Webster, Corresponding
Secretary, at 599-4121 or
drop him a line at 91 Jarvis
Place, Lynbrook.
Hope to see you at the
Communion Breakfast. John and Leo Giambnino