1971-01-07

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An Officlaf Newspaper of The Incorporated Village of Farmingdale — Serving Greater Farmingdale, Bethpage and Melville
Vol. 8 No. 20 Second Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale. N. Y. 11735. Thursday, January 7,1971
Main St. Will Have
Bus Service Again
Clara Leigh, Inc. Replaces Mid- Island
The Public Service Commission granted a tem­porary
certificate of public convenience and necessity
to Clara Leigh, Inc., for the operation of an omnibus
route between Bar Harbor Shopping Center at
Massapequa Park, via Farmingdale, and Huntington,
Suffolk County.
NEW AGGIE HEALTH AND PHYSICAL ED COMPLEX: Architect's rendering of the $ 4,076,900
Health and Physical Education / Swimming Pool Building now being constructed on the State
University at Farmingdale Campus. When completed in the Spring of 1972. the multi- million dollar
complex will include six- lane swimming pool, four full- sized basketball courts, four handball courts
< 4- wall), four squash courts, a rubberized indoor track and a tartan surface floor in which baseball,
lacrosse, football and soccer can be played during inclement weather outdoors. It also will include a
practice wrestling room, four varsity team rooms, three visiting team rooms, class rooms and 19
offices for the staff.
Knowledge Rewarded
Three High School Seniors Receive English Teachers Award
Three Farmingdale High School seniors who received awards in the
National Council of English Teachers Competition were introduced
at the School Board Meeting on Monday evening.
Debra Karlan was the winner,
and Deborah Woodford and
Jeanne Fanning runners- up in
the competition based primarily
on writing ability. Farmingdale
had nominated 7 students to
compete with 8000 others from
across the country, for a total of
872 awards. One of the runners up
commented that at the time she
wondered why she was com­peting
but is since very glad she
did. Among other things it helped
her win a scholarship.
At the Board meeting Trustee
Roy Spenetta announced that the
open swim sessions will be limited
to Thursday evenings only. The
other sessions are being dropped
since the program has been
running at a loss. If this one
session continues to show a
financial loss it too will be
The Library is Proud of
Its Young Patron Esther
The Farmingdale Public
Library is extremely proud of one
of its young patrons, Esther
Brost, of 2 Dale Drive, Far­mingdale.
Thirteen year old Esther
represented the Farmingdale
Public Library with three ar­ticles
in Scrutinize, a magazine
for young adults, published by the
Nassau Library System.
The young lady reviewed three
books, each dealing with a dif­ferent
period in American
history. She very succinctly
summarized the contents of each
book and gave her reasons for
liking it and recommending it to
other readers.
Scrutinize consists entirely of
publications submitted by young
people between the ages of thir­teen
and eighteen who reside in
Nassau County. Their writings, in
poetry or pose, reviews of books,
films, theater, music and
recordings, and opinions on
current events are published
under their name and that of the
library they represent.
The Library Administration
urges all young adult readers of
Farmingdale to bring their
manuscripts for submission to
Scrutinize and perhaps they too
will see their name in print.
Scrutinize is available, free of
charge, at both the Main Street
and the South Farmingdale
Branch of the Public Library.
discontinued after 4 weeks. The
loss so far is over $ 1000 according
to Spinetta.
Driver Education, a course in
which over 900 seniors are in­volved,
was discussed by Edward
Armbuster, director of the
program. He showed a television
tape of the students and an actual
film used by the simulator in the
Driver Ed course.
The 16 unit simulator gives
students a chance to learn basic
skills before they take an actual
car on the road. The economy of
the simulator was emphasized by
Superintendent, Dr. William
Kinzler and Board President
Terry Weathers. Using it, a
teacher can handle a much larger
number of students, 64 per
semester, as compared to 40
without the simulator. The
simulator costs about $ 7500 per
year for the first five years on a
lease- purchase basis. After the
initial five years the only cost is
maintenance.
Because of the greater student
capacity the simulator could
eliminate the need for three
additional teachers for the school
year which would be an average
saving of $ 30,000 plus cutting
down the number of summer
school teachers needed for the
course. Students who complete
and pass the Driver's Ed course
at the high school are able to get
their regular driver's license at
age 17 instead of the usual 18 year
old minimum age.
Marilyn Hainetz
The 20- mile bus line will
traverse much of the route for­merly
operated by the now
defunct Mid- Island Transit
System, Inc., and will serve
various communities in the
easterly end of Nassau County
and the westerly end of Suffolk
County. It will extend the bus
route currently operated by
Clara Leigh between Amityville
and Walt Whitman Shopping
Center via Main Street in Far­mingdale,
Nassau County, and
Route 110 and Old Country Road
in Melville, Suffolk County.
Service on the new route is
expected to be on an hourly
basis; the first bus leaving Bar
Harbor at 7 A. M. and the last bus
leaving Huntington at 6 P. M.
There will be no service on
Sundays or holidays. The
proposed one- way adult fare for
the seven- zone route is 95 cents,
with an initial zone fare of 35
cents.
PSC Examiner Albert A.
Vallone, who conducted the
public hearing relative to the
Clara Leigh petition, reported to
the Commission that " there is an
urgent and immediate need for
an omnibus route as proposed
herein and the granting of a
tern porary certificate therefor
would serve the public interest."
The authority granted by the
Commission today is effective up
to and including June 13, 1971.
The company may seek per­manent
operating authority from
the PSC later, if it so desires.
Adult Education
Winter Program
The Continuing Education Program of the Farmingdale School
District is about to begin another semester - the winter semester
1971. Unless otherwise indicated classes will be held at Farmingdale
Senior High School.
The semester begins January 25 with most of the classes running
from 8: 00 - 10: 00 p. m- Registration days are January 18, 19, and 20.,
the place is the cafeteria of the Senior High School and the time is
7: 00 - 9: 00 p. m. For information call CH 9- 7600, Ext. 232 d u r i n g ^
day and CH 9- 7771 evenings.
Following is the semester line- up of the Continuing Education
Program:
MONDAY
Automobile Mechanicsl Auto Shop
Bead Crocheting and Designing H- 161
Bookkeeping II ( continuation
r
BookkeepingDText Kit $ 6.00
Cake Decorating- Beginner
Contract Bridge- Beginner
( Mrs. Epstein)
Crewel Embroidery
English for the Foreign Born-
Beginner
Folk Guitar- Beginner
Guitar II
Judo and Self- Defense ( co- ed)
Men's Recreation
Modern Table Tennis-
Mr. Stanley Wishniowski
Oil Painting
Piano by Ear
Sewing- Beginner ( Mrs. J. Casen)
Spanish- Elementary Text $ 4.50
Typewriting- Inter mediate-
7: 30- 9: 30 P. M.
Tailoring and Advanced Sewing
Yoga
TUESDAY
Automobile Mechanics 11
English for the Foreign Born
Advanced
C- 110
Cafe " B "
Faculty Cafeteria
G- 154
G- 158
B- 107
B- 108
Mill Lane Jr. High
Boy's Gym
Mill Lane Jr. High
H 160
Mill Lane Jr. High
F- 240
G156
C- 115
F- 239
Girl's Gym
Auto Shop
G- 158
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