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Island Trees Serving Bethpage Plainview - Island Trees - Plainedge - Seaford
VOL. 6 No. 26
Old Bethpage
Thursday, May 4, 1972 10c per copy
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Foreign Exchange Program
TRANSPORTATION SURVEY: Oyster Bay Town
Supervisor John W. Burke, left, is briefed on a survey
of Bethpage's transportation needs by Bethpage High
School students Claudia Steinhardt, right, and Mary
Alice Mazzara, and by David Lubell, director of work-study
programs in the school district. The survey was
developed by the school's ecology club, SAVE
(Students against Violence to the Environment printed
by the BETHPAGE TRIBUNE, and conducted by 100
driver education students. The survey objective is to
develop the data needed for improving the com­munity's
mass transportation. Burke promised to
bring results of the study to the attention of responsible
state and county authorities.
OPENING DAY Last Saturday was opening day for the
Bethpage South Little League at Borella Field. On
hand were (1. to r.): Bob Maiello, manager of Bethpage
Tool and Hardware, Curt Sloan, President Bethpage
Baseball Assn., Don Bohner, manager of Buddy
IV .izzara, and Leo Schottland, sponsor and friend of
baseball in Bethpage. Up front (1. to r.) are starting
pitchers John Grew and John McDonnell. (For opening
day scores, see page 7).
Long Island's first school- to-school
_ Student Exchange
Program was launched in
Plainview last week with the
welcoming of a student from
Dusseldorf, West Germany, and
the farewell to a Plainview
student going to that school in
West Germany.
Both students, Laura Fenwick
15, a 10th grader at the American
International School of
Dusseldorf and Stacy Widelitz 16,
an eleventh grader at the John F.
Kennedy High School here, were
welcomed April 28 by Dr. Robert
F. Savitt, Superintendent of
Schools for Plainview - Old Beth­page,
Central School District No.
4.
Miss Fenwick (pronounced
Fenick) was "thrilled at, coming
to the United States alone at the
age of fifteen.. She was im­pressed
with the "open layouts"
of American homes and noted the
same "mini-skirt" customs as in
Dusseldorf. Miss Fenwick urged
Stacy Widelitz to be sure and see
Cologne and visit the Altstadt, the
old and colorful section of
Dusseldorf.
Widelitz's first question to Miss
F.enwick was "will there be a
piano for me to play on?" He has
been playing the piano for seven
years and hopes for a career in
music. He was to leave from
Kennedy Airport, Monday
evening May 1.
Dr. Savitt asked both students
Medical Center Hosts
Vocational Program
Several thousands junior and
senior high school students from
Nassau will visit McRae
Auditorium at the Nassau County
Medical Center in East Meadow
during Annual Hospital Week,
May 8 through 12.
Geared to provide career in­formation
and guidance into the
many job opportunities available
in the health field, exhibitors will
demonstrate the latest
techniques in Rehabilitation
Medicine, Comprehensive
Community Mental Health,
Social Service, Poison Control,
Anesthesiology, Inhalation
Therapy, Radiology, Data
Processing, Nursing, Medical
Library procedures, and others.
Nassau County's modern
, Police Ambulance cardioalert
communication system also will
be on display.
Other organizations scheduled
to -exhibit include Nassau
Community College, Molloy
College, the Board of Cooperative
Educational Services (BOCES),
and the Nassau Community Care
Center at In wood.
Everyone is invited to visit the
exhibition, celebrated unnually in
conjunction with National
Hospital Week. Admission is free.
to give him their "candid ap­praisals"
about the differences in
the two schools so that he could
strengthen the programs where
necessary. He invited Miss
Fenwick to attend a meeting of
the Board of Education, which he
said is reputed to be the "best
show in town and is a showcase of
democracy in action."
Dr. Savitt said that School
District No. 4 had been selected
by United States State Depart­ment
in a protocol program
pairing outstanding American
schools with outstanding schools
in other countries. A grant of
$7,000 is enabling the District to
participate jointly with selected
schools in Hamburg and
Dusseldorf.
economic impact of the school-to-
school student exchange
program. "Our students, living a
suburban life, have a strong
tendency to be provincial," he
explained, "and many of them
don't even visit New York City.
This exchange will give them an
opportunity to learn about the
lives and customs of people in
other lands, through
correspondence and overseas pen
pals."
On the political front, Dr. Savitt
observed that the State Depart­ment
had been experiencing
some difficulty with overseas
embassies and officials whose
children were being educated in
foreign schools. "This student
exchange" he sa,id, "which will
be expanded to include staff and
administrators, will be beneficial
to both school systems while
assuring our overseas em-missaries
of comparable and
adequate educational standards
for their youngsters."
Similarly, Dr. Savitt observed,
"American businesses with
foreign branches have been
confronted with ap-prehensiveness
of executves with
school age children to settle in
other countries because of the
"image" of inferior schools."
Exchange programs such as
initiated in our District should
prove to be of considerable m
Mickey Mouse and Donald
Duck are the stars of a nostalgic
and fascinating display on view
at the Bethpage Public Library
during May. Mr. Winthrop Jack-man,
of Bethpage, began
collecting Walt Disney
memorabilia as a hobby about
five years ago. His job as'a sales
representative takes him all over
the United States and evening
lay-over hours are usually spent
visiting antique shops.
Among the items to be
displayed, all of which were
made in the 1930's and featuring
one or more Disney characters,
are toys, dolls, napkin holders,
banks, pencil sharpeners and a
Mickey Mouse Halloween mask.
Several books featuring Mickey
and Donald (and of course, Huey,
Dewey and Louie - remember
them?) are also in the collection.
The exhibit may be seen at the
Bethpage Public Library, 47
Powell Avenue (off Broadway)
Bethpage, during regular hours -
weekdays 10 A.M. to 9 P.M.,
Saturdays 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.
District had been selected from
among the finest schools in the
U.S., to represent the nation in
the exchange program.. He said
that the Fall program would be
stepped up to include exchange
of teachers and administrators,
and would be augmented by video
tapes demonstrating classroom
techniques and task forces in
special areas such as reading
instruction.
Miss Fenwick will be staying at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Donald.
Russell, 47 Cornell Drive,
Plainview. Widelitz will be hosted
by Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Strong of
Dusseldorf.