The-Helm_1968-04-18; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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LYNBROOK IVIALVERNE EAST ROCKAWAY
VOL. 7 NO. 32 Entered as Second*ClaBS Matter
Post Office, Lynbrook, N.Y, L Y 3 - 1 3 00 THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1968 loe
Presenting the "Home Club" banner to Lt. Governor Andrew G.
Jerry of Lynbrook, left are Past Lt. Governor Anthony A. Scuderi,
and Louis Ambrose, A Past President of the Lynbrook Kiwanis
Club. Mr. ; Jer^y is divisional head of twelve clubs in the Long
Island ^utliwest* area and a past President of the Lynbrook Ki-wanis
Club serving during the years of 1961 and 1966. " '
Photo by Bove
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The Remarkable Mrs, Darmstadt
By Annette Ling
in the village. Mrs. Darmstadt
has a remarkable memory and
can recall the birthdays and an-niversaries
of every member of
her clan. Her hearing and her
eyesight are inipaired however,
and she is a very tiny little per-son
with snow white hair. She re-called
what she had to eat in 1888.
She has had a long and unusually
active life and despite the sever-ity
of Long Island winters seems
to thrive in Lynbrook, U.S.A. I
doubt if most of us will even ap-proach
this age but if we can with
the bright spirit of Mrs, Darm-stadt,
life will have been worth
living.
At Mrs, Elizabeth Darmstadt's
birthday celebration are: Left
to right (seated) Mrs. Darm-stadt,
104 years young, and Mr.
Kurt Arndt, Deputy Mayor of
Lynbrook, Standing is Mr. Kovel
from The Social Security Free-port
Office,
Deputy Mayor Kurt Arndt of
Lynbrook and this reporter visit-ed
a remarkable little lady in
residence in this area for over
80 years. Mrs. Elizabeth Darm-stadt
reached her 104th birthday
on April 11, 1968. She came to
Lynbrook over 80 years ago when
it was still Pearsall's Corners
and has been a continuous resi-dent
here ever since. She has
lived through the administration
of over 21 presidents, beginning
with that of Abraliam Lincoln in
1864, She has seen six major
wars and has w i t n e s s e d the
growth of rural America to the
space age. The oldest of her sur-viving
children is now 81 years
old. She has 10 grandchildren,
30 great-grandchildren, and 10
great-great grandchildren, Mr.
Kovel and Mr, Ferguson also
visited the remarkable lady with
a letter from the Social Security
Office congratulating her on her
birthday. The Deputy Mayor and
myself brought her a small birth-day
gift and a birthday cake pd
warmest congratulations from all
New Budget
For Lynbrook
By Annette Ling
The Village Board of Lynbrook
held a Public Meeting on Mon-day,
April 15, 1968 at 8:00 p.m.
at The Community Bank, 15 At-lantic
Ave., Lynbrook because
of the larger size of its main
floor area for residents and in-terested
taxpayers, etc. Rev.
Howard Crist of the Hendrick-son
Ave. Bible Church in Lyn-brook
opened the meeting with
a prayer. Mayor Francis X.
Becker mentioned that the en-tire
vill^e was saddened at the
death of "Tony" D'Auria and ask-ed
that the Village Clerk help
draft a resolution of condolence
to his widow, Gloria. Mr. D'Auria
had been the Chairman of the
Police Committee, one of the
eighteen committees made of
citizen volunteers who advise the
village on different matters. The
last Fire Department Report was
given by the popular and hard
working Chief PatCestone, as his
term of office expires. He was
commended by the Mayor and the
Board for his fine record in of-fice
and one of the busiest An-nual
Fire Dept. Reports record-ed
in a long time. A communica-tion
from the Lynbrook Fire Dept.
with a list of prospective Officers
for the coming year was submit-ted.
This list includes chiefs,
captains, etc. for the entire dept.
The Board unanimously accepted
the list and approved it.
The Lynbrook Librarian Mary
Berg gave her monthly report
and attempted to answer the May-or's
inquiry about the steady drop
in figures of residents using the
library. She maintained that
under a reciprocal agreement
with other Nassau County li-braries
we were losing readers to
the better stocked Hewlett and
Rockville Centre Libraries,
Roger Faut gave the Building
Dept. report. The Department
of Public Works Report by Floyd
Wilcox was given with the Mayor
requesting that he try to have
Nassau County move a bit faster
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St. Raymond's Parish, East Rockaway First ticket for ST. :
MOND'S SECOND ANNUAL SPRING DANCE is sold by Mr.
mond Harrington, Ticket Chairman L. to r. Mr. Raymond
rington, Mrs. Thomas Dolan, Rev. Thomas Colgan
Hew Village Clerk
By Annette Ling
There is a new Village Clerk
at Lynbrook's Municipal Building
and many people would like to
know something about him. His
name is Ernest Hansen of
Wyoming Ave., Lynbrook, a res-ident
for over seven years.
He was born in New York City
but grew up in Jamaica, Queens
where he attended the High School
of Music and Art. He is a grad-uate
of Adelphi University, where
he majored in Accounting. He
has been working for the village
since 1963 and has been trained
by Mrs. Dorothy McGuire, the
retiring Village Clerk. His wife,
Carol was born and raised in
Lynbrook and comes from the
Dickerson family of Earle Ave.
She is an extremely pretty young
lady and has a quiet charm of
manner that one rarely sees.
Renie and Carol have a lovely
little girl. Donna, age 5, who of
course, is the apple of her
father's eye, as is natural with
most little girls. The interesting
thing about Ernest Hansen is that
he is a fine musician and plays
over a haJf dozen instruments
very well. His father is
deceased and his mother lives
in Arizona. His hobbies reflect
his love of music and along with
this main interest, he is an
avid reader and goes through over
100 books a year. His favorite
color is blue and he is definitely
very conservative in his tastes.
He is a member of Alpha Sigma
Landa, a National Honor Society,
Treasurer of the Cerebral Palsey
Assoc. in Lynbrook, and has 3
brothers, 3 sisters, and 31 nieces ,
and nephews. He attends St.
Raymond's Church and is active
Ernest Hansen
in as many charitable endeavors
as he can.
That main thing that impresses
one a}x>ut Ernie Hansen is that
here is a quiet young man of
good taste, modest and self-affacing
who has fallen in love
with Lynbrook, U, S. A, and
promises to do an excellent job
for it's residents with cool de-termination.
He has light hair
and looks like the "boy next
door" one- might like to Have
marry a daughter. As an old
time resident, I was quite im-pressed
with Mr. Hansen and
felt that he is the kind of man
who will do a good job and
make an excellent public ser-vant.
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Mayor Francis X, Becker of Lynbrook acquainting Ernest Hanson,
Village Clerk with the many and various affairs of the wide-awake
and growing village of Lynbrook,