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Second Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, June 18, 1970
GORTON WANTS DOW
FIRING ON AGENDA See Story Page 3
School, Library Budgets To Be Resubmitted
At a Special meeting on Wednesday night, the District 22 Board of
Education made a $ 55,105 reduction in the June 10 defeated budget to
be submitted to the voters on June 27. The new budget figure is
$ 21,614,981.
According to Finance Chairman Trustee A. Terry Weathers, six
items were cut. In the teacher salary allocation the average hiring
salary of 17 teachers was reduced to give a figure of $ 144,500 instead of
$ 168,000. The amount of money allocated for Sabbatical leaves was
reduced by $ 22,405; $ 2,000 was cut in a revision of salary allocations
for an additional psychologist; $ 4,000 was cut from the transportation
of students on field trips and $ 1,000 was eliminated from the budgeted
amount for the District water bill; and $ 2,200 was cut budgeted
monies for the District negotiators.
The revised tax rates estimate, according to Weathers will be a
reduction of six cents in the Town of Oyster Bay sector of the District
with the rate now estimated at $ 11.91 instead of $ 11.97. In the Babylon
Town area of the district the rate will now be $ 18.53 while the previous
os ti mate was $ 18.62.
Registration will be held this Saturday, June 20 from 10 a. m. to 6
p. m. A budget hearing is set for Thursday, June 25 after a special
meeting at the Farmingdale Senior High School.
According to Weathers, if this budget is not approved, the District
would have to go on an austerity budget as of July 1. One of the first
programs that the State would mandate be eliminated would be that
of Driver Education. Weathers said that 400 students have already
enrolled in this program.
838 Seniors To Graduate This Sunday
838 seniors will be graduated this Sunday from Farmingdale Senior
High in outdoor ceremonies slated for 4 p. m.
Mark Allen Reiner will be salutatorian and Carol Lynn Molmia will
be valedictorian.
Mrs. Lucille Goulding President of the Board will present the
diplomas.
The Reverend Kenneth Hoover, Pastor of the Farmingdale
Methodist Church will deliver the invocation and the benediction.
6,000 At State U.
Graduation
AGGIE 50- YEAR GRADUATES: Four members of the Class of 1920, including two localities, are
among honored guests at the 51st annual Commencement Exercises held at State University at
Farmingdale last Friday. Lett to right. Eric Paterson of Farmingdale, who is retiring from the
College faculty after 44 years; William Powers, William Wot more, and George Franko, Far
An assemblage of close to 6,000
attended the 51st Com­mencement
Exercises last
Friday at State University at
Farmingdale at which time a
record senior class of 1,300
received their Associate Degrees
in Science and Applied Science.
Governor Nelson A.
Rockefeller, who arrived on the
College campus by jet helicopter,
was the principal speaker. He
told the audience that " we must
recognize the completely new
impulse on the part of your
generation today. You look for
spiritual values that you don't
find and you're dissatisfied with
the material values you do find,"
he went on. While older people
can be satisfied with existence
today, " much of your generation
can't stand ordinary life in the old
patterns. They want to pass over
to a new thresh ] of con
sciousness," added Rockefeller.
Then he announced his youth
panel plan. The panel, which
Could be composed of
representatives from different
colleges, will have as its purpose
" to open up direct com­munication
with the young people
of the state, to transform an area
of confrontation into an area of
cooperation."
While Rockefeller emphasized
the importance of com­municating
with students, it was
the Valedictorian, 19- year- old
Joseph Chouinard, who attracted
considerable attention in his six-minute
Valedictorian Address.
The honor student emphasized
thai " upon the education of the
people of this country, the fate of
tins country depends," a quote
from Benjamin Disraeli.
He reminded his colleagues,
" Highly concerned groups are
attempting to point out to one
another the fact that the country
is not perfect That problems are
everywhere in the form of
pollution, crime, injustice,
economic uncertainty and un­justified
restraints on certain
elements of the population; not to
mention our involvement in
Foreign Affairs."
He reminded them that " these
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