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PLAINVIEW PLAINEDGE SEAfORD
VOL. 9 NO. 31 Thursday, June 26, 1975 10 cents per copy
To the graduates of 1975 - you are here - You are
young, alert, healthy, strong and filled with curiosity
and enthusiasm - You are on the threshold of
adulthood ... You have made a giant step forward into
your future ... You have graduated! The world is
yours! ,
That world is mighty big out there ... It is strange ...
yet, inviting.
It is a world of sorrows, joys, the unexpected, the
mundane, the complex, the routine, the mysterious
and the fascinating elements of life.
It is your turn now to add to its history and growth.
You can make it a better world and help heal its ills.
It is a beautiful world ... if your education has let you
to see not only with your eyes but with your mind and
heart.
Beauty is all around you ... it is in nature; the soft
blues in the sky, the whisper of the grass, the sway of
the trees and the song of the skylarks. It is in the
chuckle of a baby, the smile of a mother, the grin on the.
worn face of an old man. Beauty is reflected in sun­shine
and rain ... in the refrain of music and paint on a
canvas. It is all there to see. Touch the world and truly
become a part of it.
You have graduated... another step along the way of
life. May all the good things be yours. May you develop
the strength and character to accept the challenges
that come your way. Remember a sense of humor will
see you through many a hard day ... learn to laugh at
yourself and don't always take yourself too seriously.
Learn to forgive ... hold no grudge ... and remember
we are all God's children ... even the greatest of us
have feet of clay ...
What more can be said dear graduates but ENJOY,
ENJOY, ENJOY!
Florence M. Cullem
And Staff
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Bethpage Graduation Review
Grandmother Graduates
. . . with honors!
"At long last." says Mrs.
Ciofalo. "Some dreams are
fulfilled early in life and some
take a little longer."
At the graduation exercises
which will take place on tha
campus of the State University of
New York at Farmingdale on
May 28, 1975, Joanne L. Ciofalo,
of 556 Mansfield Avenue, Island
Trees, having majored in Liberal
Arts, will receive her Associate in
Arts degree.
She enrolled in the Evening
College at Farmingdale in
September 1970, just three
months after she started working
at the college as secretary for the
Criminal Justice Department.
Attending school two evenings a
week and studying two subjects
each semester, with a summer
course in mathematics, some
independent study in English
literature, credit by examination
in one of the fine arts, she spent
almost five years in constant
study and research. Spurred on
by her children and aided by her
husband, whose forbearance
"with all this nonsense" made it
possible for her to devote so much
of her time at home to her
studies, not only has Joanne
achieved her purpose in getting
her degree from Farmingdale,
but she has already enrolled in
the Empire State College to work
toward a degree of Bachelor of
Arts, with a concentration in
journalism. This she hopes to
achieve in one year.
Unable to complete her high
school studies as a teenager,
Joanne attended evening school
at the Bay Ridge Evening High
School, studied stenography and
typing and thus was able to ob­tain
employment and aid her'
aging parents during the
depression years. She finally
received her High School
Equivalency diploma in 1947.
Having served in the Women's
Army Corps during World War
II, she decided, while her two
children were youngsters, to
utilize her G.I. Bill of Rights to
study for a new career. In 1951
she enrolled at the Brooklyn
Conservatory of Music, and after
four years of attending school
four nights a week, (while her
husband Michael took care of the
little children) to study piano,
composition, orchestration, sight
reading, score reading, con­ducting,
etc., she finally received
a Professional Diploma in
Composition. When the family
moved to Levittown in 1955, there
were not many families who
owned pianos and fewer it
seemed, who could afford music
lessons, so Joanne sought em­ployment
elsewhere. She began
by working part time for a local
mortgage company and ten years
later ended her career with them
as a vice president of their
branch in Puerto Rico, where she
had been sent to help establish
the office and train the
secretarial staff. During this
period she managed to keep in
close contact with her family by
commuting weekly, arriving
home on Friday and returning to
Puerto Rico on Monday.
Whenever their school schedules
permitted, she took her daughter
Joanna and her son Michael down
with her, not only to enjoy the
sunshine, but to learn something
of the people and the culture of
the island. The friendships Mrs.
Ciofalo made at that time still
flourish, and these were renewed
and strengthened by her visit to
the sunny island during at­tendance
at the Casals festival.
In addition to her studies, Mrs.
Ciofalo has found time to be of
service to her community. Since
1955 she has been active on many
school committees Coj" the Island
Trees School District. After her
service career in the Women's
Army Corp she initiated and was
the first president of Brooklyn
Chapter 21 of the WAC Veterans
Association. She is a past
president and now a member of
the Board of Directors of the
Soroptimist International Club of
East Nassau. Fond of music,
young people and travel, she has
accompanied the American
Youth Symphony and Chorus on a
number of their goodwill concert
tours abroad, serving in a public
relations capacity. She has for
some years been a member of
their National Board of Direc­tors.'
Grumman Scholarship Winners
477 Bethpage High
School Seniors graduated
last Sunday afternoon,
June 22, 1975 at the
twentieth annual com­mencement
day exercises.
The class of '75 received
their diplomas in the
ceremony held on the High
School athletic field,
beginning promptly at
four o'clock, as scheduled.
The program included the
traditional entrance of the
students to "Pomp and
Circumstance" as per­formed
by the High School
band. The invocation was
given by Rev. Robert
Osgood of the United
Methodist Church of Beth-page.
Following the in­vocation
Ann Hmelovsky
presented the Salutatory
address and Gerald
Mitchell the Valedictory
address. Dr. Roper L.
Larsen made his com­mencement
remarks to
the graduates and their
guests.
This years presentation
of diplomas was by An­thony
J. LoFaso, president
of the Board of Education;
Dr. Larsen, Sup't of
Schools; Mr. George
McElroy, High School
principal; and Mr. Vincent
Parlato, High School
assistant principal. The
program concluded with
Rabbi Kenneth Poplack,
Bethpage Jewish Com­munity
Center, offering
h i s b e n e d i c t i o n.
Congratulations to all the
graduates!
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CEL^¥RATE^
The Bicentennial
Oavid N. Mallenbaum
AndrewJ. Mendelsohn, Jay R.
Kretzing and David N. Mallen­baum
- all from John F. Kennedy
High School in Plainview - have
won three of the ten 1975
Grumman Corporation
Engineering Scholarships. Each
award is worth about $13,500.
It marks one of the very few
times in the 31-year history of the
competition that one school has
garnered three of the coveted
scholarships in the same year.
Each of the ten winners will
receive full tuition and payment
Andrew J. Mendelsohn
of laboratory fees at any ac­credited
engineering college of
his or her choice. This will
average out to about $13,500 -
believed to be the most valuable
scholarship on Long Island, and
one of the most valuable
throughout the country. This
year's awards bring to 330 the
number of scholarships granted
since Grumman smarted the
program in 1944.
The company offers these
scholarships to encourage
talented and ambitious high
Jay R. Kretzing
school seniors living in Nassau or
Suffolk to study engineering. The
student may choose to specialize
in either aeronautical,
mechanical, civil or electrical
engineering, provided the
youngster's primary interest is in
a long-term career in engineering
or supporting fields in aerospace.
At least three of the ten awards
go to dependents of Grumman
employees.
All three of the Kennedy High
School seniors have well-
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