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An Official Newspaper of The Incorporated Village of Farmingdale — Serving Greater Farmingdale, Bethpage and Melville
Vol. 7 No. 35 Second Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, April 23, 1970
EARTH DAY A SUCCESS
Farmingdale schools engaged in Earth Day on Wednesday with
special programs and ' teach- ins.' Various members of the school staff
made presentations on environment, as well as showing of films.
Eight programs, one for each period of the day was conducted for
the benefit of all students. The lecture hall attracted 2400 of the 2,900
students who were given the opportunity of learning about Earth Day
on a voluntary basis.
The Science Department Lab squad were engaged in cleaning up
the pond near the high school after lunch.
In the elementary schools, there were various Earth Day activities.
At Main Street, Mrs. Pat Desche, Principal, organized a Village pick
up. she had some classes write letters to their State legislators; some
wrWe poems.
Dr. Weitman, Assistant principal at Woodward Parkway organized
a cleanup of the park in back of the school; they had trucks from
Nassau County cart away the trash and they managed to take school
children for a before and after look. They made posters, etc.
At East Memorial School Dr. Saltzman, Principal, had an assembly
to define ecology and pollution. They also cleaned up the ground of the
aUt « * 4. The third grade under Mrs. Holtz put on a play to dramatize
the subject and Miss Florence constructed a diarama to illustrate
ecology and the effect of pollution. They also constructed a huge
scrapbook with all the articles from magazines and newspapers that
they could find and every display case in the building was devoted to
Earth Day.
Over at Northside, Mrs. Samuels, Principal, had the Student
Council broadcast to the entire building. John Monaco, a Science
Teacher, spoke to the entire student body about conservation and
ecology. He plans to have a followup and will plant rock gardens and
various other plants around the school. Some of the classes at Nor­thside
engaged in a general cleanup of the grounds, and the school
" looks cleaner than it has looked in a long time," according to Mrs.
Samuels. One of the students, Henry Scheleichkorn premiered a film
he had been working on for the past month. There was a poster contest
and the Music Department presented a folk concert regarding en­vironment.
At Albany Avenue, the approach was slightly different. Each
teacher handled Earth Day in their own way. Some had units lasting a
week or more on the general subject of conservation.
At Parkway Oaks, from first grade through sixth grades, students
cleaned their rooms and desks and made posters and art work; they
had daily discussions on ecology on air, water and land and discussed
ways they could help with their own environment. If everyone took
care of their own environment, larger environment would take care of
itself. r- fvoted display cases to projects illustrating problems oa
ecology. Music teachers wrote a song and music " Science of
Ecology" Librarians distributed bibliographies of books; sixth grade
collected articles from magazines; first grade wrote poems. All
brought their brooms and rakes, and planted trees.
Students from SAVE ( Students Against Violence to the En­vironment)
marched from the Farmingdale High School to the Main
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More Earth Day Photos on Page 7
^ « in front of Main Street school on Wednesday", Earth Day" following a march
where they picked up refuse and debris from the streets of Farmingdale from the
high school They are listening to speakers on a truck platform including Edward
Glazer, Deputy Supervisor of the Town of Oyster Bay; James Kelly, Dean of the
11th grade Students, John McLennan, Principal of the Farmingdale Senior High
School and Caroline Klesh, Chairman of the Town of Oyster Bay Beautification
| Committee, Farmingdale area and Farmingdale Village Historian. Among the
' young people in the foreground are: Dan Scharfman. Dianne Abato, and Artie
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