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Wednesday, February 25,1987 30^ PER COPY
Scholarship Deadline Approaching
CERTIFICATE OF MERIT. Congressman Ray McGrath
(R-VS), presents to Nassau County Police OfTicer William
Portz of East Rockaway, the Congressional Certificate of
Merit. Officer Portz along with fellow officers John Chot-kowski,
Richard Michels, Dennis O'Sulivan, and Thad
Smith not pictured, because of a complete and thorough
investigation, led to the arrest of a suspect who committed a
burglary in Elmont. Portz's name was placed in nomination
to receive Congressman McGrath's award by his superior
offlcers, and was approved by Commissioner of Police
SamuelJ. Rqzzi. He has also been nominated to receive the
Department's Meritorious Award. Also in attendance is
Commanding Officer, Inspector Raymond Crawford of the
Fifth Precinct where Officer Portz is assigned. The Con-gressman's
awards ceremony was held at the Valley Stream
Elks Lodge #2164.
Applicants for the East
R o c k a w a y / L y n b r o o k
Observer scholarship to
New York Institute of Tech-nology
should file their
applications as soon as pos-sible,
according to Editor
John Hambel.
Each student must submit
their application, along with
three (3) letters of recom-mendation
from community
residents, as quickly as pos-sible
so that my Committee
may review all applicants,"
stated Mr. Hambel. "An
application form appears in
this issue, and 1 urge all high
school seniors living in East
Rockaway and Lynbrook to
take advantage of this
offer."
The Observer is making
available one four year,
$5,000 scholarship to the
New York Institute of Tech-nology
beginning ih the
1987-88 school year.
Turning Back The Clock
Should really start this
article with the..quote: "Will
the true Tootsie' stand up."
For the Tootsie, with the
same name carefully paint-ed
on it that was in the East
Rockaway firemen's article
was "Tootsie the second"
and was a hosecart, unlike
that of the old pumper that
resides with dignity in the
Grist Mill Museum. Seems
that when the men from
Grant Avenue Fire House
split with Main Street they
bought the firecart. Gene
Torborg put us straight on
that. The houses seen in the
background of the photo
were the Baker home, still
s t a n d i n g on Althouse
Avenue, and the American
Legion building. This
according to Gene, Ernie
Bishop, Jane O'Hara, and
Morgan Williams who said
the Williams home now
stands on the spot where the
firecart photo was taken. At
that time Alice Court was an
open field.
E.R. POLICE
Names and stories about
the E.R. Police Department
have been coming in. Some
names of oldtiniers and oth-ers
who served just before
they merged with the 4th
Precinct.
Had a long talk with Emily
Bedell Lec who.se lather.
by Mildred Roemer
Fredrick Bedell, was the first
and lone law enforcement
officer in the Village. Mrs.
Lee stated that there were as
few as 200 year-round resi-dents
living here then,
"My father was concerned
about everyone," said Emily
Lee. "He even used to meet
the trains, especially after
dark, to escort the ladies
safely home. He used to be
teased about that." She
added that as a member of
the Fire Department in 1902
he used to "escort" his pri-soners
to the firehouse to be
locked up until they were
turned over to the County.
He had a motor bike and at
one time when rushing to an
accident discovered that he
was being filmed along with
actors and actresses by a
local film company. The
studio was located across
the Pearl Street bridge on
Rockaway Avenue. More about
movies taken In E.R. in
"coming events" in the
OBSERVER columns. Mrs.
Lee said that when patrons
of the White Cannon, or at
that time it may have been
called the "Harbor H\)use,"
became rowdy, Fred Bedell
would be called by the
County to make arrests. He
later joined the ranks of our
first E.R. Police as a motor-cycle
cop. Pay was $15 a
week.
Among the people who
called to give names of the
police who served was Ernie
Bishop who was born III
E.R. He especially noted, a
Nick Ford who one Sunday
morning entered the old
Hewlett House (empty at the
time) that was on the site of
the present post office. Boo-tleggers
were holed up in the
building. Ford was badly
beaten and left fpr dead;
however, he survived and
received generous support
for the rest of his life.
Among other names on
the early police force were
Joe Rudd, Herb Carter,
C a p t a i n Murphy, Ray
Howell and his two sons,
Billy and E d . , , W a l ly
Stembler, Arthur Lang,
Seaman^ond, Clarence and
Charles Simonson, Chief
Savage, Officer Maloney
Noah White, Walter White,
Bill Ruben, Chief Floyd
Johnson ... and more.
In a span of a little over
three decades, the New York
Institute of Technology has
become an institution of
remarkable diversity and
vitality.
Founded in 1955, the col-lege
has developed into a
major, multi-campus insti-tution
of higher education
and research whose impact
has been felt throughout the
world.
With two major campuses
on Long Island arid a center
in Manhattan, the college
has an enrollment of 14,000
students and more than'
28,000 alumni, many of
whom have risen to promi-nence
in their chosen fields.
N YIT offers more than 80
undergraduate, graduate,
professional and certificate
programs. Associate, bacca-
^ u r e a t | and master's
degrees can be earned in
such areas as computer
science, engineering, archi-tecture,
fine arts, business,
communication arts, train-ing
and learning technology,
and human relations.
The college has a medical
school, the New York Col-lege
of Osteopathic Medi-cine
(NYCOM) ~ the only
institution of its kind in the
s t a t e . G r a d u a t e s of
NYCOM, which occupies
modern facilities on the Old
Westbury campus, receive
the Doctor of Osteopathy
degree.
NY IT also operates a
number of major research
centers and laboratories that
have made major contribu-tions
to their fields. Among
these facilities are ones deal-ing
with computer graphics,
high-definition television
transmission, robotics, and
lasers, optics and holo-graphy.
The college's flagship
campus occupies a magnifi-cent
700-acre site in Old
Westbury that encompases
the former Cornelius Van-derbilt
Estate and other one-t
i m e " G o l d C o a s t"
properties.
One exciting development
on the Old Westbury cam-
Mother of the Year Contest
Lynbrook Elks Lodge's
Mother of the Year Contest
will close March 1, 1987, so
please hurry if .you want to
submit the name of a Lyn-brook,
East Rockaway or
Malverne mother whorri you
feel is worthy of the title.
Simply write a letter outlin-ing
your mother's achieve-ments
both inside and out-side
the home and send it to
Chairman AI Greser, Lyn-brook
Elks No. 1515, 57
Hempstead Avenue, Lyn-brook,
New York 11563.
The Mother of the Year will
be honored at the lodge's
annual St. Patrick's Night,
S a t u r d a y , March 14.
PLEASE ENTER NOW!
pus is the planned construc-tion
of a new library build-ing,
for which a $3 million
fundraising campaign is
under way. The new library
will double the square foot-age
of the existing library
facilities on campus, provid-ing
space for 200,000
volumes and 300 reader
iseats. Ground-breaking for
the project is scheduled for
April 1987.
In 1984 NYIT began
classes on its newest cam-pus,
in Central Islip. The
Central Islip campus, situ-ated
on a sprawling 515-acre
site, is NYITs first on-campus
residential facility.
When the campus
accepted its first 400 stu-dents
in 1984, it contained
one instructional facility,
three residence halls and a
student-activities center.
Today, the campus has a
student enrollment of more
than 1200, with 700 students
residing on campus in seven
residence halls, and has
t r i p l e d its s t r u c t u r al
facilities.
The Central Islip campus
now offers a wide range of
undergraduate, graduate
and special programs, with
additional programs sche-duled
to be established in the
near future. Undergraduate
programs currently offered
at Central Islip include
architectural technology,
accounting, business admin-istration,
computer science,
behavioral sciences, electri-cal
and mechanical technol-ogy,
hotel and restaurant
(Continued on Page 12)
To The Frolic
By Mildred Roemer
Planning the Frolic with Chairman Denis Motherway.
Left to right, front row: Bea Heenan, Mildred Roemer,
Olive Benardello, and Mary Gipson. Back row: Rosemary
Krull, Che Bell, Mr. Motherway, and Vincent Christiano.
Absent were Grist Mill committee members Flo Eaton,
Paula Yasenshack and Robert Sympson.
We have been turning
back the old historic clock
for many months in the
OBSERVER, but as the
walrus said in Alice in Won-derland,
"The time has come
to speak of many things,"
especially the upcoming
Huckleberry Frolic, the
Museum, and even the 300th
anniversary of the Mill in
1988.
The committee was
delighted to have Denis
Motherway, President of
the Kiwanis Club, as this
year's Frolic chairman.
John Krull, also a Kiwan-ian,
held that position last
year. Thanks!
The Frolic will be held on
June 20th and much of the
success and enthusiasiij for
the anniversary program
will depend on the work put
in by each and everyone this
year...sort of a stepping
stone for an affair that
should (and will in 1988) put
our Village on the map..all
over.