Pequans Hopes Short Lived
In County Playoffs
Massapequa High's third place
finish in league play earned them
the last spot in County playoff
competition. A strong Uniondale
team took care of any hopes the
Chiefs may have had by coasting
past the Pequans by a score
of 59- 46 on a neutral court at
Calhoun last Friday,
After an 11- 11 first quarter,
the winners took a 28- 18 half-time
and a commanding 52 - 31'
third quarter lead.
Bob Elliott, with 13 points,
led the Chiefs in scoring.
Mods Too Much For Dandelions
In the tournament finale of
the Massapequa Teenage Basketball
League, the Mods triumphed
over the Dandelions by a
tight score of 46- 45. The game
was close throughout and the
deciding basket was made by
Dennis Dorsey in the last 10
seconds of the game. The Dandelions
had a chance for another
shot in the last two seconds,
but the shot was wide.
Joe DeVincent was high scorer
for the winners with 11 points
and James Goodman had 15 points
for the losers.
The Annual All Star Recreation
Basketball Game between Massapequa
High School and Berner
High School will be held next
Friday, . March 10th at 7: 00
p. m. in the Gymnasium of the
Massapequa High School.
Plainedge Dethroned
From Gymnast Title
After six years of domination,
the Plainedge High School gymnasts
were dethroned by Island
Trees for the Nassau County
championship last Saturday at
Locust Valley.
The winners scored 45 points,
followed by Oyster Bay with 30
and Plainedge with 26 points.
Students Named As Alternate
Scholarship Winners
Farmingdale High School Seniors
have been designated as
alternates in the 1967 Regents
Scholarship Examinations.
Charles Blanchf ield, Andrew
Brethauer, James Cook, Anthony
Famiglietti, Mark Goor, Noelle
Griffiths, Thomas Hartman, Edwin
Hollwedel, Gary James, Edward
Kajko, William Kinzler,
Robert Kott, Deborah Kraver,
Fred Lubow, Roger Moore, Dolores
Proto, Ellen Shapiro, Rona
Singer, Linda Walsh, Brian Wie-gand,
Robert Wilson and Russell
Wright.
Republic Awarded Contract
Procurement officials at the
Sacramento Air Materiel Area
with headquarters at McClellan
Air Force Base, California, disclosed
that an Air Force Contract
in the amount of $ 91,667.00
was placed with Republic Aviation
Division, Fairchild Hiller Corporation,
Farmingdale.
The award is for various forward
canopies and forgings for
F- 105 aircraft.
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Incumbent Trustee
James T. O'Neill
Candidate Vincent J. Calicchia
Performs In
College Symphony
Justine E. Purdy, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Purdy, 234
Von Huenfeld St., Massapequa,
performed a French horn solo
with the Crane Symphony Orchestra
in a concerto program
at The State University College
at Potsdam last Sunday. She is
a senior music education major
at the college.
Students Cited
At Awards Assembly
Over 150 Mill Lane Jr. High
School students received certificates,
letters and pins at an
awards assembly.
Principal J. Harlan Brown
congratulated the students who
had represented the school in
football, soccer, wrestling, basketball
and cheerleading.
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District 22
At the School District 22 ' Know
Your Board' meeting on Monday
evening, Trustee Vincent Simone
announced that he would not seek
reelection. Reasons given were
that his job calls for extensive
travel.
Trustee Bernard Lang presided
and all board members were
present. Lang called upon members
to explain the workings of
the Board and each of their committee
responsibilities. About
100 were present at the meeting.
A committee report was given
on " Innovations In Instruction,"
by Isidore Berglass. It was
brought out that every subject
area has some innovations. Some
need more facilities. Two conclusions
were stressed: ( a) District
22 is a forward looking District;
( b) Innovations should be followed
up and those who are destined to
continue should be supported with
the necessary facilities.
Sabbatical leaves were granted
to 16 staff members and 89 received
tenure. Richard Gleick
was appointed Clerk of the Works..
Ruth Cahill spoke for the
CTA, and told how the group
tries to work with the Board.
A spokesman for the PTA spoke
about cooperation with the School
Board and disseminating Board
information.
Sabbatical leaves were requested
by 30 staff members and
16 were approved. Those
granted- were: Sara Howitt, Helen
Mihalski, Mitchell Jaworski,
Eleanor Burgmaster, Catherine
Conneally, George Turner, Sheila
Dwyer, Sheila Eckstein, Hugo
Wolter, Helen Velcoff, Eleanor
Thomas, Thelma Sutton, Adrian
Pressman , Lena Moskal and
Meyer Sherman.
District 18
• The English program in the
Junior High School and the Eng-
• usn program m the senior Hign
School was discussed at the Curriculum
Meeting of the Plainedge
Board of Education held Thursday
night. The reports are as
follows.
The Junior High School
English Program ""
It is through language that the
cultural heritage is transmitted.
' Our pupils fail or succeed in
school and in life to the extent
they are able to achieve competence
in the four processes of
verbal communication: listening,
speaking, reading and writing.
And in a larger sense not only
the individual's success, but also
the success of our democracy
depends upon an informed and
articulate citizenry*
Competence in these four areas
of . language arts cannot be
achieved in pupils by any one
teacher or in any one year. The
scope of English is too broad to
hope for this. But steps toward
language competence can be
better achieved if the total secondary
school English program is
organized from grades 7 through
12. Each teacher then can more
thoroughly teach certain limited,
appropriate phases of English to
his grade level; he otherwise
may be attempting to teach all
English and simply covering
material without interclass coherence
and, thus, with little
pupil understanding. We have,
therefore, designed a guide to
provide the articulation necessary
for a good English program.
Certain minimal levels
have been established for each
junior high school grade and
level, and the guide is designed
to dovetail into the senior high
school English program. To
summarize in a few words, we
are simply o r g a n i z i n g and
systematizing for our students an
enriched New York State English
curriculum.
Competence in reading is a
basic requirement for any real
success in education and in life
itself. For most students this
competence has been acquired in
elementary school; where deficiencies
are noted, however,
special attention is given in the
junior high. Such seventh and
eighth grade students now have
a program in which one period
each day is devoted to reading
instruction; specially selected
teachers have at their disposal
in this unique program all our
reading skills texts and equipment
as well as the cooperation
of the department's reading
teacher.
Language per se ( grammar,
spelling, punctuation, etc.) is
taught as an organized dimension
of the study of English I. We
consider the Junior High years
as the time to coordinate all
the language teaching of the elementary
years in a formal study
of English as a language; thus
prepared the student can more
ably enter the deeper study of
English composition and literature
as well as foreign language
provided in the senior high.
Composition work in the junior
high begins a formal study of
the paragraph, narration, description,
and exposition as well
as further practice in letter
writing. Here again a sequence
has been established in our grade
curriculum guides to insure that
all students cover specific areas
in their junior high years.
Literature in the junior high is
centered around the well defined
reading interests of the pupils.
The junior high grades comprise
the period when the habit of
wide reading is most readily
formed, the period of adventure
and exploration in books. The
teacher is urged to seize every
opportunity to open up to each
individual pupil wider fields of
interest. Although formal study
of literary types begins in these
years, detailed analysis of literary
structure is avoided; enough
technical information and guidance
is given to promote understanding,
appreciation, and preparation
for high school work.
The teacher's approach, of
course, is differentiated according
to the level being taught.
hi order to further' coordination
of learning for all students,
the junior highs now have
standardized mid- year and final
English examinations for the
Regents students. This, we feel,
is a most concrete step in our
articulation of the 7 - 1 2 secondary
English program.
( 1) Mr. Squire, Executive
Secretary of the National Conference
of Teachers of English
reports: " Many English programs
seem to have abandoned
any formal and systematic study
of grammar Too much
of what presently passes for
language is little more than a
haphazard offering of sporadic
usage drills determined solely
by errors in students' speech
or writing, an important aspect
of English to be sure, but an
approach to language instruction
which is in itself so limited in
its conception of what needs to
be done that it is clearly out of
touch with the prevailing attitudes
of our scholars."
The Senior High School
English Program
During the last year the English
Department has been adapting
its curriculum so that it will
more appropriately satisfy the
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