1972-06-15

              FARMINGDALE OBSERVER
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lie, N. Y Thursday, June 15, 1972
Scho . _. vrary Budgets in-
Weiss, Ranieri, Looney Win
Nineteen voters saved Farmingdale taxpayers some $ 4000. By this narrow
margin the $ 24.1 mil. school budget was approved, precluding another budget
vote which would have cost approx. that much. In comparison with the school
budget the library budget had an easier time of it: It won approval by 240 votes.
TOP GRADUATE: Patricia E. Reith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Raymond J. Reith, 93 Cedar Drive, Farmingdale, receives the
Faculty- Student Association medal from Dr. Charles W. Laffin, Jr.,
President of the College, in being named Valedictorian of the 1972
graduating class of 1700 during the 53rd State University of New
York at Farmingdale Commencement Exercises on the college
campus. Another Farmingdale lass, also to be given recognition
before the turnout of 6.000. was Denise Miles, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Nelson C. Miles, 3 Popular Avenue, who received the coveted
Alumni Association senior award for being the " Outstanding Female
Graduate."
This was the first time since
1966 that the school budget was
passed the first time around,
while for the library budget it
was the first time since 1967 that
it was approved at all. The fact
that the separate library
proposition, asking for an ad­ditional
expenditure of $ 50,000 for
book purchases, lost by 352 votes
diminished only slightly the
satisfaction of library board
president Irwin Jacovsky and
library director Orrin Dow, who
in the past had witnessed 12
consecutive defeats of library
budgets.
The Youth Council budget
coasted to its traditional and easy
victorv with a margin of 1393
votes. The other two propositions
on the ballot, calling for an
authorization to install fire
detection systems in elementary
schools and asking for approval
to rent the vacant Main Street
school to BOCES were also ac­cepted
by wide margins.
In the school and library board
races the score for the in­cumbents
was 1- 1, with in-
Ballot Box Score
School Budget
Library Budget
Library Supplemental Budget
Youth Council Budget
Fire Alarm Installation
Main St. School Lease
School Board
Proefriedt
Parcels
Ranieri
Weiss
Library Board
Foucek 22? 0
Looney 2m
One write- in vote was cast for William H. Desch in the school
board race.
YES
2621
2742
2421
3287
2939
3630
NO
2602
2502
2772
1894
2243
1183
2299
2070
2477
2588
As P. R. I. C. E. Turns Two: More
Members, Services and Problems
Two years ago, in May 1970, 20
residents of Farmingdale School
District 22 met to discuss the
problem of drug abuse among
teenagers in the area. Out of this
meeting, P R I C E . ( Prevention.
Referral. Information. Coun­seling,
Education) was formed.
Today. P R I C E , has a mem­bership
of over 900 families and a
program offering many types of
assistance to the community.
The philosophy of P R I C E , is
based on building on teenagers'
assets, stressing a positive self-image
through useful and
meaningful activities for and
with the community. P. R. I. C. E.
youngsters have volunteered
their services at Suffolk State and
Daleview Nursing Home and
have cooperated with other
community groups in various
worthwhile activities.
In August 1971. P. R. I. C. E.
opened its facility at 585 Main
Street. It has become a center for
hundreds of young people and
parents who come to the staff
with their problems. Individual
counselling and other services
are available to anyone who
requests help. The building is
also the headquarters for cultural
events, including poetry reading,
discussions with Father Hart man
of St James R. C. Church and
demonstrations of yoga, crafts,
eli-
Two major programs have also
been instituted in Farmingdale
High School in conjunction with
Michael Tartamella, Director of
Health Education in the School,
who is now a member of
theExecutive Board of
P. R. I. C. E. One is an in- service
course for teachers, offering
training in the nature and abuse
of drugs and innovative teaching
techniques for preventive
education. A peer leadership
program has trained 22 senior
high students in running rap
groups with elementary school
students.
Since its inception, the
P. R. I. C. E. prevention program
has also been involved with
hospitals in the area, such as the
South East Nassau Medical
Clinic, which has given medical
and psychological outpatient
care to people in the program.
The staff has also referred youth
to therapeutic communities.
P. R. I. C. E.' 8 expanding
program led to the need for a full-time
Director. As of May 1972. the
organization acquired the ser­vices
of Edgar Hoover who has
been involved with the drug
problem for H) yrs. Under his
leadership. P. R. I. C. E. has re­organized
its services: new
parent groups have been formed;
youth rap groups have been
strengthened and reorganized
These groups deal not so much
with narcotics as with honest v.
responsibility, love, anger,
inadequacy, depression and other
personal aspects that every
person must handle to his own
and others' satisfaction if life is to
have a positive meaning.
Until the doors of the facility
can be closed because there is no
longer a problem, the
organization will have to seek
support and assistance from the
community to continue its work.
cum bent school board member
Robert I. Weiss staying on top of
his opponent Raymond Parcels
by 518 votes, and incumbent
library trustee Rose Foucek
going under with 2270 votes
against 2630 votes for her op­ponent
Jean Looney.
In the other school board
contest, where Frank Ranieri
and Louise Proefriedt were vying
for the seat vacated by Thomas
Lavan, Ranieri won the election
by 178 votes.
The voter turnout did just about
reach 50 per cent of the 10,550
registered voters, with 5392
ballots counted after the voting
machines at Weldon E. Howitt
JHS were locked. Election day
got off to a very slow start, with
only 4925 votes in at 9 p. m., after
the polls were open 11 hours.
Last year's school budget vote.
OCCASION TO REFLECT PRICE, founders. Marcia Rubin,
now president, and Evelyn DiCapua look over their scrapbook
showing newspaper articles covering the activities of the
organization since its inception two years ago
with some 450 less registrants,
brought out 5692 residents, who
defeated the budget by the
sizeable margine of 1352. At its
second try the budget, which was
resubmitted unchanged, stum­bled
again and made it only the
third time around after some
expenditure and tax rate
reductions.
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Farmingdale High
Says Bon Voyage
To 1,000 Seniors
The fifty- sixth Annual Com­mencement
Exercises of the
Farmingdale Senior High School
will be held Sunday, June 18, at
4.00 P. M., on the school grounds
at the rear of the building.
This year's class numbers
about 1000 graduates, ap­proximately
75 percent of whom
are planning to continue with
various types of post- high school
training.
Reverend Kenneth Hoover of
the Farmingdale United
Methodist Church will deliver the
Invocation. The Salutatory will
be given by Vicki Schwartz and
the Valedictory by Lynn Levitt.
The members of the Class of
1972 will be presented by Dr.
William A. Kiuzler. superin­tendent
of schools. Robert
Campbell, president of the board
of education, will present the
diplomas. The High School band
will play under the direction of
Alfred Fiore.
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