The-Helm_1972-01-27; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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Vcl. 11 No. 36 Bflt«r«d Saeond—Class Matter
Poat Orrie*. Ljndmok. N.Y. LY 3-1300 THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER Thursiday, January 27,1912 10^
Nassau District
Judge Dies Suddenly
Personalities
by Annette Linp!
Nassau District Judge
Anthony Scuderi, 61,
died suddenly Sunday,
January 23rd., in his
home of a heart attack.
He had just begun his
term on the bench at the
beginning of the mouth.
Scuderi was attorney
to the Village of Lyn-brook
from 1963 to 1967
and was a former presi-dent
of the Lynbrook Re-publican
Club. He also
had been the first presi-dent
of the Lynbrook Ki-wanis,
a lieutenant gov-ernor
in the county Ki-wanis
and a Lynbrck)k
acting police justice. He
had conducted a law
practice from offices at
54 Forest Ave. here be-fore
being named by
County Executive Caso
to fill a judicial vacancy.
He lived on Rocklyn
Avenue and presided at
Second District Court,
Hempstead.
Scuderi collapsed
shortly after returning
home from a Nassau
Criminal Bar Associa-
AnthMy Scntferi
tion dinner^ Efforts by
the L)mbrook Rescue
Squad failed to save him.
Born in Brooklyn,
Scuderi graduated from
St. John's University
Law School and was ad-mitted
to the State Bar
in 1935. He practiced
law in Brooklyn before
moving to Ljoibrook a-round
1950. He had
chaired local Korean
relief efforts and, a-mong
his other activi-ties,
belonged to the
Lynbrook Elks Lodge
and served as president
of the Sons of Italy Lodge
No. 2180.
Scuderi* s tentative
appointment to the coun-ty
judiciary was an-nounced
last Nov. 18 by
the office of Nassau Re-publican
Chairman Jos-eph
M, Margiotta, after
endorsement by the
Hempstead Town Re-publican
Committee.
Formal approval by the
Nassau Bar Association
and Caso followed.
Scuderi's ' survivors
include his wife. Rose;
two daughters, Mrs.
Josephine Guida and
Mrs. Rosalie Becker;
two grandchildren;
three sisters, and a
brother.
Mass of the Resur-rection
was offered at
St. Raymond's R.C.
Church, EastRockaway,
on Wednesday. Inter-ment
followed at Holy
Rood, Westbury.
EVANGELICAL MISSIONARIES left to right: Mr.
Bernard "Bim" Maxwell holding his son, Clinton,
age 3, his wife, Barbara holding baby son, Brett
with their daughter, Kristina, age 4 next to her
nnother and a lovely Gua/anni Indian girl, Binda.
Hennpstead Town Presiding Supervisor Francis T, Purcell, r . , reads from pro-gram
at testimonial dinner honoring Walter Kerzner, retiredMalverne Police
chief. Malverne Mayor Thomas Driscoll and Kerzner listen intently.
Two of what might be called,
"God's People" have been
staying here in Lynbrook, U. S. A.
for the past few weeks enjoying a
reunion with family and friends
and a brief furlough before
starting out for Missouri and
linguistic school. Mr. and Mrs.
Bernard Maxwell, Missionaries
of the Evangelical Missions or
New Tribes Missions are
visiting Mrs. Maxwell's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Dillon of
the Old Church on Denton Ave.
Mrs. Maxwell is the former
Barbara Dillon, a trained nurse
and a young woman who has
grown up right here in this
village. They must go to
linguistic school to learn the
Guayami Indian language which
has just recently been translated
into a working useable written
language by a fellow missionary
who has spent many years in the
mission field, t h e Maxwells are
missionaries who work primarily
with tribal people who need help
including medical help and who
are from very remote areas of
the world.
Barbara is a "walking medical
«iission" because she has to
carry in her nurse's kit and
medical pack, remedies for
diseases that are seldom en-countered
here in the United
States. The Guayami Indians are
among the poorest of any tribes
in the whole of Central or even
South America because they can
catch very little wild game or
even fish to supplement their diet
of corn and rice with an oc-casional
hummingbird, parrot or
a rare squirrel or two. The In-dians
will not touch snakes or
attempt to eat them and in our
conversation I mentioned that
this might be traced to their
tribal memories of the Sacred
Snake God of the Aztecs or a
lingering superstition or tabu.
Barbara's husband had survival
training in the U. S. military
service and had often eaten
snake. He tried to convince them
that many snakes are actually
edible and even quite a gourmet
item in various parts of the world
but their stock answer was, "If
you wish to eat snakes go right
ahead, but not us," with great
disgust. There is a high incidence
of T. B. among the Indians and
they are quite a small people with
some of the married ladies ac-tually
only a bare 4 ft. 3" in
height. The women wear long
flowing dresses and the men as
little as possible because of the
climate etc. Both Barbara and
her husband speak excellent
Spanish but the Guayami Indians
do not recognize their own
language when they see it in print
because they have never been to
school and carry on com-munication
with a mixture of
native spoken Guayami and
Spanish.
The Old Church is Barbara's
home church and quite a few
missionaries from that church
are active in the mission field
right now all over the world. Her
husband's family were U.S. Navy
people and he went to school in
many many different parts of the
world but considers Panama as
his second home and the whole
area of the Canal Zone because
he has spent so many of his
earlier years in that area. Mr.
Dillon, Barbara's Dad is Church
organist of the Old Church and
her parents long-time Lynbrook
residents of many years.
The young missionary couple
live in Tol% but go out into the
jungle and even remoter areas on
regular rounds to reach the
people who need them.
The Guayamis call Mr.
Maxwell, "Edo" or "Little
Preacher" and Barbara
"Medici." Their home in Tole in
Panama is a crossroads for tribal
people and they have built guest
huts for shelter and keep a few
chickens. Barbara's problems
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