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PLAINVIEW PLAINEDGE SEAFORD
VOL. 8 NO. 9 Thursday, January 17, 1974 10 cents per copy
Moving Up Cold Sandwiches
and Duplicating Paper - -
Or, Terri Bahnken
Where Are You?
HAPPY NEW YEAR is mirrored in faces of two top level officers of
the Long Island National Bank being .. congratulated on their
promotions by James C. Dinkelacker (left) president of the 57-year-old
independent bank. The elevated officers are: Raymond J. Beers
(right) of Bethpage, who was advanced from Vice President-Branch
Administration to Vice President-General Administration; and
Arthur H. Jong of Garden City, from Vice President to Vice
President-Data Processing Dept. (Graphic News Photos.)
Raymond J. Beers of Bethpage
a 20-year veteran in banking, who
for the past five years has been in
charge of the administration of
the Long Island National Bank's
branch offices, has been
promoted to the post of Vice
P r e s i d e n t - G e n e r a l Ad­ministration.
According to James C.
Dinkelacker, president of the 67-
year-old independent bank, who
announced the promotion, Mr.
Beers' new title was previously
held by Walter A. Drescher who
retired at the end of 1973.
Mr. Beers had five years of
banking experience before
serving in the Marine Corps from
1952 to 1954, including a year in
Korea. Following his discharge,
he joined Long Island National
Bank as a teller. In 1959 he
became assistant cashier and a
year later was named branch
manager in Bethpage. In 1961 he
was appointed Assistant Vice
President in charge of the bank's
first Suffolk County branch in
Huntington. After five years
there, and a year as manager of
the Manetto Hill Branch in
Plainview, he was appointed Vice
P r e s i d e n t - B r a n c h Ad­ministration.
In 1969 he was
named to the branch ad­ministration
and business
development post.
Mr. Beers attended Hofstra
University and is presently at­tending
the Stoner Graduate
School of Banking at Rutgers
University. He also completed a
course at the N.Y. State Bankers
Association School of Executive
Development. He is president of
the Plainview Kiwanis Club, and
holds memberships in the First
Marine Division Association; The
New Haven Colony Historical
Society;and the Connecticut
Society of Geneologists.
He resides with his wife, the
former Mary Tedesco of
Hicksville, and a daughter and
three sons, at 9 John St., Beth­page.
Bethpage Panthers Feted By Rotary
On Saturday, January 12, 1974,
The Bethpage Rotary Club once
again demonstrated its'
benevolence to the Bethpage
Community. This time the Senior
Squad of the Bethpage.
Association of Midget Football
were the recipients of the Beth­page
Rotary Clubs' generosity.
This season the Senior Squad
was not able to participate in a
Bowl Game. For many of the
players this was their last season
as Bethpage Panthers. Most of
these boys have been playing
football together for five years.
In an effort to make this last
season a meiriorable one for the
team Head Coach Marc Seiben
and the team parents enlisted the
aid of Mr. Daniel Schiavetta and
the Bethpage Rotary Club. We
have a tendency to take these
men and the services they
provide .for the community for
granted because so many of their
services pass by unheralded.
Due to the efforts of Mr. Daniel
Schiavetta and the Bethpage
Rotary Club the entire Senior
Panther Squad (football players
and cheerleaders) were feted to a
fine post season celebration
party. The Bethpage Rotary Club
brought forth its' Horn of Plenty
and provided all the food and
beverages for the celebration.
The Coaching Staff and the
Parents of the Bethpage Panther
Senior Squad cannot express
enough of our gratitude and
appreciation to the members of
the Bethpage Rotary Club. The
greatest tribute we can bestow
upon these fine men and the
organization they represent
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An opinion by
Richard Wood
Franklyn J. McGrath,
president, wore a dark brown
suit, a brown and white striped
shirt and a solid gold tie.
Don Kanter, vice-president,
wore a tan suit, an orange shirt
and a brown and gold plaid tie.
Board members Edelmann,
Weber and Cimino wore olive
green, charcoal grey and brown-checked
suits, respectively^
Mr. Gagliardo wore aolue
checked shirt, dark blue pants
and a royal blue sweater.
Aside from this descritpion,
little else could be said about the
Plainedge Board of Education's
January 10th meeting.
Oh yes, a contract award for
"prepared" cold sandwiches was
awarded by the Plainedge Board
to Quick-Snack Industrial
Caterers, Inc. because, a district
spokesman said, the previous
contractor was "not successful,
for taste or whatever."
And yes, Xerox Corporation
received the district's contract
award for duplicating paper.
But, to be sure, other events
did, in fact, transpire during the
board's brief 45-minute public
session.
Eric Besser's contract as
Public Relations Coordinator for
the Plainedge School District was
amended to reflect the fact that
Mr. Besser will receive $1,500 for
his services. The previous motion
approving Besser's contract
contained no hint of salary.
Mr. Besser is, of course, the
publisher of the Massapequan
Observer.
The new motion to amend the
previous motion was
unquestionably the result of .Ira
Cahn's outburst during the
board's last meeting.
Mr. Cahn is, of course, the
publisher of the Massapequa
Post. J
The Bethpage Tribune, along
with the Massapequan Observer
and Massapequa Post, are the
three weeklies that cover
Plainedge activities. Needless to
say, there exist feelings of
animosity, or more
euphemistically, feelings of
competition.
HEALTH LEAVE, ETC, ETC
The board also amended the
district's health leave policy,
placing a one-year limit on such
leaves of absence, approved the
appointment of a new chairman
for the Foreign Languages
Department, and passed a bill to
remunerate the New York
University Screening eommWefe
team for finding the district its
new Superintendent of Schools,
Dr. Raymond Blank.
But other than the above, and
approving new senior and junior
high school electives, the board
accomplished little else at its
scheduled bi-monthly public
meeting, bringing thoughts of the
"Bahnken Board" to the fringes
of most people's minds.
REFLECTION
Ever since the "Bahnken
Board" was dispossessed of
power amidst last year's school
elections, Plainedge School
Board,meetings have diminished
in their intensity. The con­troversies,
the excitement, the
rages are long since gone.
Although many may praise and
relish the new turn of events,
audience attendance is dropping
off accordingly, and con­siderably.
•
I'm sure Plainedge residents
remember when seven-hundred
people jammed the High School
auditorium during the Baldwin
School debates less than two
years ago, or when hundreds
squeezed in to hear about the
Tillie Stein and Dr. John
Rinehart affairs.
Yet during recent months, the
board'is fortunate if it attracts as
much as fifty people to its public
meetings. And as may be the
ultimate barometer, teacher
attendance has fallen off
remarkably.
This is nofto say that a return
to calmness - if it is that - is bad.
Oh the contrary, the board has
presented many fine, interesting
and stimulating educational
meetings in recent months.
But it is to say that involvement
and enthusiasm on the part of the
community are lessening - and
that such a situation is never a
good thing, whatever the criteria.
I'm sure that memories of the
"Bahnken Board" conjure up
feelings of ambiguity in most
people's minds. On one hand it
was a fast-moving, exciting,
On the" otner, it was labelled
' ' s e c r e t i v e , ' ' '' n o n -
c o m m u n i c a t i v e , " and
"propagandist."
But while the "Bahnken
Board" may have commited its
share of mistakes in both the
Rinehart and Stein affairs, it
displayed a unique sense of
courage and individuality.
On the flip side, the "McGrath
Board" has yet to show anything-anything,
that is, to which one
could attach a label.
Now I shun labels as much as
anyone else - maybe more - yet I
can't dismiss the fact that labels
provide a sense of definition, of
context, of direction. And, ex­panding
on that, of involvement,
enthusiasm, controversy, ex­citement,
and the rest.
And as Charlie Brown knows,
ambiguity never attracted a
following. And if there's a
message there somewhere, it's
purely intentional.
COMING ATTRACTIONS
Dr. Raymond Blank,
Plainedge's new Superintendent
of Schools, will be honored at a
public reception at Plainedge
High School on the evening of
January 24th. The public is most
cordially invited to attend.
The next two public meetings of
the Plainedge Board, the latter
being a special educational
meeting, will take place on the
evenings of February 7th and
28th, respectively, at the High
School-
Plainedge Announces Spring Adult Courses
The Plainedge School District
announced its Spring schedule of
adult education courses this
An informative booklet
describing the more than tiiirty
courses that will be offered has
been mailed to each district
residence.
Courses ranging from
bookkeeping to ceramics to fly-tying
to golf to Mah Jongg to IV
repair to social dartstng are of^
fered.
Registration deadlines are
January 25th for mail applicants
and January 14th and 16th for m-person
applicants.
The district has noted that
since Plainedge schools are
operating on reduced tem­peratures
during the energy
crisis; Adult Continuing
Education classes will be can-
•fcvj
celled oit vvthdawK^e«tremely cold
days that would require extra~
fuel consumption." Cancellation
announcements, said a district
spokesman, will be. made via
radio stations WGBB and WHLI
in addition to telephone
pyramids.
The program, under the
direction of M.E. Schumacher,
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