1974-08-01

              A Prize Winning Weekly Serving The Greater Farmingdak Area Since 1920, 15Q
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An Official Newspaper for the Village of Farmingdak
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VOL. V44 1N O. 38 Second Cleats Postage Paid i _ , . . , . a- A
in Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, August I, 17/ 4
Copyright 1074 by
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Petitions Ready
For School Bd.
On Budget Vote
The Committee for the Resubmission of the Budget
reached its goal in obtaining in excess of 2,300
signatures on a petition to the Board of Education
calling for a third vote. A spokesman for the committee
told the Post last night, the committee members are
now preparing a presentation for the school board's
consideration at their regular meeting on Monday,
August 5.
Biidney Memorial
Game Saturday
ST. KILIAN'S PARISH Council President Jack McGory wishes Father Raphael Schooff " good luck"
after presenting him with the keys to a 1974 Chevrolet Nova as a parting gift from the parish. The
surprise presentation took place Monday evening at the rectory. After 19 years in Farmingdale, Fr.
Raphael will officially turn the parish over to the Rockville Centre Diocese and the new pastor, Rev.
Donald R. Shane, at noon today. [ Post Photo by Bob Starrett]
FYC Holds Penny Carnivals
As the Youth Council Summer
Program swings into its 5th
week, many recreation centers
are conducting their annual
Penny Carnivals. This is one of
the highlights of each playground
every summer.
At the Main Street center,
Larry Pinghera walked away
with the most prizes. Having
participated in the candle shoot,
penny pitch, numbers and other
contests.
Woodward Parkway, the
largest of the recreation centers
had over 40 games and contests
as part of thejr Penny Carnival
Day. In addition, pretzels, potato
chips, hot dogs ajid lillipops and
orange supreme were consumed
in countless numbers by the
participants. A few of those who
walked away with many
treasures were Mitch March,
Karen Kenney, Pam Girdice,
Doreen Hannon, Noreen
O'Connor, Dennis Ball, John
Nicklarz, Stuart Furbush, Susan
D'Vaehio, Eilene Cbheiv Jodi
Newman, Tom Johnson, Nancy
Trifaro, and Robert Kendedy
among others.
The wrestling clinic again
proved to be a Very popular
activity at Woodward with 35- 40
boys taking part last week.
At the Northside Penny Car­nival
top winner Monica Ahem
was awarded a half gallon of ice
cream from Friendly's. John
DeTomasso was top winner for
the boy's Puff Basketball and
also won a half gallon of ice
cream. In the annual Peanut and
Candy Hunt, Richard Reimer
took top honors having found 60
pieces.
The girl's softball team sur­prised
Woodward Parkway
winning by a score of 9- 1 forcing a
tie in the standings for 1st place.
Big contributor was Cindy
Mackin with a grand slam
homer. The boys 5th and 6th
grade basketball team lost their
1st game and now stand at 8- 1
still in 1st place.
Florgate Park's venture to
Putt- Putt Miniature Golf proved
to be very rewarding to Scott
Roden, John Apollo, Sheryl
McAffee and Gerri Lynn Bould.
Winners of the weekly Bingo was
Mike Carbonero, Allen Frish-man,
Peter Scarpinato, and Jen
Brans ton.
East Memorial was visited by a
Karate Team who put on an
exhibition in the art of self-defense,
this was directed by
Keith Stephans who also
demonstrated the unique art of
wood breaking by hand. The
attempt at brick breaking only
resulted in a bruised hand.
Also at East Memorial their
annual Penny Carnival seemed a
huge success. One of the main
attractions was the game called
" Drown the Councellor." This
game was done by rolling some
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The Steve Budney Memorial
Scholarship annual benefit
baseball game will be played
Saturday evening, August 3
starting at 8: 30 pm at Allen Park,
Farmingdale
The Steve Budney Memorial
Scholarship was established in
honor of Steve who was killed in a
car accident over a year ago. The
game will be played between
Steve's teammates ( Far­mingdale
High School Varsity
and Connie Mack) and the
present Farmingdale Connie
Mack team.
As part of the activities a girls'
softball game starting at 7: 30 pm
will be played between the
Farmingdale Baseball travelling
team and the National Bank of
North America " Eaglets".
The committee members hope
to be able to present more than
just the petitions to the board,
they are attempting to arrive at a
set of recommendations to ac­company
the signatures on the
petitions calling for a third vote.
The organizations represented
on the committee are , mainly
concerned with avoiding
austerity and its harsh man­datory
provisions under state
law. The group was formed
following after the Board of
Education announced its in­tention
not to submit the budget
for a third vote unless petitioned
to do so. The petitions circulated
call for the resubmission of the
same budget that was defeated
June 29. What other recom­mendations
are contemplated by
the committee are as yet
. unknown, since the committee
has not yet reached that decision.
One aspect in the petition drive
which surprised members of the
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Two Dept. Heads In State Posts
In a unique coincidence of
timing, two of the Farmingdale
schools program directors have
been chosen to head professional
associations in New York State.
M. Barbara Gilles, director of
reading, will serve as president
of the State Reading Association
and Paul Cincinnato, who directs
Paul Cincinnato
the district's foreign language
program, will be president of the
State Association of Foreign
Language Teachers.
Ms. Gilles has been with the
Farmingdale Schools for 13 years
and is a resident of West
Babylon. After graduation from
Colby College she earned her
masters degree at Boston
University. She has completed
additional studies at Columbia,
Harvard, Chicago and
Georgetown. Her teaching ex­perience
is varied; she has
taught in a one room school, in
Junior high school, college and
spent two years with the Armed
Forces Dependent Schools in
Germany. Her background in
reading includes work as a
clinician, remedial teacher and
consultant. She is past president
of the Nassau Reading Council
and has been active in the In­ternational
Reading Association.
Paul Cincinnato came to
Farmingdale ten years ago; he is
a graduate of Long Island
University and has a master's
degree from Columbia
University. He has completed
additional studies at New York
and Hofstra Universities. He has
served as assistant professor at
Long Island University, St.
John's and Hofstra. Cincinnato
has been active in language
associations at the local, state
and national levels.
M. Barbara Gilles