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VOL. 10 NO. 13 PPoositf oOlffff®ice S. eLevonnbrdo-oCVl8 . 8N8. MY,a tter LY 3 - 1 3 0 0 THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER Thursday, August 2 7 , 1 9 7 0 100
Bank Merger Signed
Community Bank Declares
85<t Cash Dividend
Community Bank, Lynbrook &
W. Hempstead, whose stock-holders
are expected to ap-prove
a merger with Marine
Midland Grace Trust Co. of
New York, at a special meeting
on September 17th, has declared
an 85^5 cash dividend to share-holders
of record as of August
20th.
The dividend is payable on
August 24th, and coincides
with the dividend Marine Mid-land
would have paid Com-munity's
stockholders if the
merger had been consumated
at this time.
Community shareholders will
be given two shares of Marine
Midland stock for each Com-munity
Bank share.
Grass Roots Award
WESTBURY, N.Y., August 27-
The Nassau County Press Asso-ciation,
comprising 41 member
weekly newspapers, will present
its annual "Grass Roots Award"
to Governor Nelson Rockefeller,
at the NOP A's annual dinner on
Sunday, October 4.
In making the announcement,
the association's president, Mar-tin
E. Weiss, editor and publisher
of The Westbury Times, said the
NCPA's decision to vote the a-ward
to Mr, Rockefeller was
based on the ''Freedom of In-formation
Bill for Newsmen"
which the governor signed into
law this year.
The legislation makes New
York the only state in the union
which both protects the public's
right to know and the First
Amendment rights of journalists
and broadcasters.
In signing the landmark bill,
which protects newsmen from
Gov. Nelson RockeMler
charges of contempt in proceed-ings
brought under state law, the
governor termed freedom of the
press "one of the foundations
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m Personalities
BANK MERGER: Signing the agreement (In principal) to merge the ten-year-old Community Bank (Lyn-brook
& W. Hempstead) into Marine Midland Grace Trust Company of New York, are: Herbert Busch-man,
(seated Right) Community's Board Chairman; Robert Decker, Senior V,P. and Comptroller of
Marine Midland Grace, (seated center), and Leo J. Coslow (seated left), Vice-Chairman of the Board;
Looking on are two other Community Bank Officers: John T. Coughlin, Oeft) President; and Francis X.
Becker, a Director and Counsel. Approval of the Merger has been received from State and Federal bank
regulatory agencies, and the Community Bank stockholders will vote on the merger at a special meeting
scheduled for Sept. 17th in the Lynbrook office of the bank. (Graphic News Photo)
Annette Ling
Veterans
For Case
A distinguished array of Nas-sau
veterans are joining the Ralph
G. Caso band wagon for Nassau
County Executive,
A. Holly Patterson, Nassau
Citizens for Caso Committee
chairman, announced that C,
Howard Larsen of Baldwin,
retired deputy director of the
State Division of Veterans Af-fairs
and past Nassau American
Legion commander, will chair-man
a Veterans for Caso Com-mittee,
SerA'ing with Larsen as co—
chairman will be John R. Ray
of Farmingdale, former Nassau
and state commander of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars. He
also is past president of the Long
Island United Veterans Organiza-tion,
"All you have to do is look
around the Town of Hempstead at
all the pools and recreational
facilities to be proud to have a
leader of Presiding Supervisor
Caso's caliber as County Execu-tive,"
explained Larsen, who is
a past commander of the Free-port
American Legion Post 342
and currently serves as national
sergeant-at-arms for the Legion.
Other prominent veterans who
will be serving on the com-mittee
include John Keenan of
Bayville, former State Ameri-can
Legion commander; James
N. MacLean of Brookville, past
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Henry Francis Gavin
Henry Francis Gavin, Grand
Knight of St. Mary's Council
Knights of Columbus in Lynbrook
is serving his second term in
office.
He was the youngest of five
children born to the late John
Joseph Gavin and Anna Gavin
from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn and
three cWdren survive. His
brother, Joseph is still a res-ident
of Bay Ridge and his sis-ter,
Marion, Mrs, Leonard Ver-nal
is the mother of seven fine
children and a resident of New
Jersey where she makes her
home with her husband and fam-ily.
Henry graduated from St, Eph-raim's
Parochial School and then
attended St. Joseph's High School
in Metuchen, New Jersey run
by the Brothers of the Sacred
Heart. He was inspired to en-roll
at St. Ephraim's by an in-spiring
talk and recruitment
given by one of the Sacred Heart
Brothers. He was an excellent
athlete and student at St. Jo-seph's
and graduated from there
in the top form of his class.
He graduated from college in
Spring Hill, Alabama, run by
the Jesuit Fathers.
He became a Novice Brother
in the Order of the Sacred Heart
in 1935 and was with his Order
until 1956,
He began his teaching in Alex-andria
in the heart of Louisiana
at Coindre Hall and spent 10
years teaching in different parts
of the South, Coindre Hall was
named for the founder of his
Order, who was French-Canadi-an.
He returned to this part
of the' United States in 1951
and taught at his old Alma mater
high school, St, Joseph's in Met-uchen,
New Jersey,
He married the former Dor-othy
Ann Mullins, a truly beau-tiful,
auburn haired, blue-eyed
lady in 1957, The couple live
in the Unincorporated part of
Lynbrook in a lovely home fur-nished
with exquisite good taste.
Mrs, Gavin is a talented artist
and loves Oriental antiques as
well as the best in Irish Belleek
China, She has a sparkling, war m
personality and great grace and
natural charm. When this writer
met her, the old urge to take up
my old brush and oil paints
rose once more and do her por-trait,
but she deserves to be
painted by a far more accom-plished
artist. Her face mir-rors
the kindness of her nature
and she is such a lovely woman.
Grand Knight Henry is 6 ft,,
1 in, tall with a rugged build which
points to his prowess with athlet-ics
from his earliest years such
as baseball, football, basketball
and many others. He has white
hair and glasses and brown eyes
which don't miss a thing as he
is very perceptive and patient.
He has been a member of the
fine teaching profession for thir-ty
years and it seems that many
teachers seem to develop a per-fect
knack in handling people,
especially students through their
years of handling hundreds of
students.
The Gavins have lived here
since 1959, when he first joined
the Knights of Columbus. He
plays golf, and ball, and not
just spectator sports either,
keeping very fit coaching and
playing in the schools or with
friends. He likes classical mu-sic
and reading and because of
his wife, has become quite an
ardent opera buff.
The Gavins have traveled a
good deal and regard Rio
DeJaneiro as the most beauti-ful
city they have visited. They
have been to Ireland, Scotland,
England, and most every part of
Europe and particularly enjoyed
their visit to South America to
Brazil, Colombia and Peru. In
Peru, they described the place
and city high in the Andes where
many Long Island students were
killed recently as a sort of Shan-gri-
La from Lost Horizons and
extremely beautiful and remote
with such a high altitude it both-ered
them quite a bit.
Beau Gavin owns the Gavins
and is a rather large black dog
full of affection and bounding
leaps with a splendid coat of
shaggy fur and a friendly at-titude
to any visitor.
According to Henry Gavin,
teaching is one of the most re-warding
professions and expe-riences
in life. He has been
a Social Studies teacher in Co-plague
for the past twelve years,
Copiague High is an integrated
high school and Mr, Gavin feels
that there must be something
else we are failing to do in
building better race relations
and yet most communities have
not found a true answer as yet.
He definitely does not believe
in forced school busing of chil-dren
to other areas in order
to insure integration as a solu-tion
to the national problem.
The main aims of the Knights
of Columbus are to promote fra-ternallsm
among Catholic lay-men
and to work for the ultimate
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