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VOL. 7 NO. 33 Thursday, July 5,1973 10 cents per copy
Levine's Consumer Bill Becomes \ M j w p ^ ^ i ,
Bethpage School Board Report
By Mary McCutcheon and Lorraine Carley
BETHPAGE LEGISLATOR'S CONSUMER PROTECTION BIIX
SIGNED INTO LAW: Assemblyman Stuart R. Levine (R-Betfapage)
is shown testifying at a public hearing held earlier this year by the
New York State Consumer Protection Board on legislation designed
to provide greater protection to consumers of prescription drugs.
Levine's bill, requiring the labeling of prescription drugs so that the
brand name of the drug enclosed, the amount contained in the
package and the strength of the drug are placed on the label, has
been signed into law by Governor Rockefeller.
The regular monthly meeting
of the Bethpage Board of
Education was held on Tuesday
June 26, 1973 with . all Board
members present except for Mr.
Miklas. Approximately 20 tax-,
payers were in attendance.""
Open Campus
Committee
Four students from the Open
Campus Committee reappeared
before the Board to give a report
c i their recent observances of
two school .districts who
currently have; open campus for
students. The students had
visited Plainview-Old Bethpage
High School and Syosset High
School on June 8th. Mr. John
Murphy, spokesman for the
students, described - the open
campus at Plainview-Old Beth­page,
where the program has
been in effect for 4 years in the
junior and senior nigh schools
during the 4th, 5th and 6th
periods. The program in the
junior high requires .written
parental permission and school I.
D. cards to enter and leave the
building through an assigned
exit; also, out of a student body of
1300 students, 500 registered for
the open campus with 150 using it
on a regular basis. Last year,
only 2 to 3 complaint calls were
received. Regarding the high
school, the open campus status is
the same as the junior high ex­cept
no I.D. cards are required
,but.there iure.assigned^jatfc The
home room period is reassigned
to the last few minutes of the first
period. The students cited some
sample opinions from the
teachers, students and lunch aids
at Plainview-Old Bethpage, such
as: "better that students get out,
everybody's happy in Plainview
the program is o.k. as long as it
doesn't interfere with class. . ."
The committee's personal ob­servations
concerning the
Plainview-Old Bethpage
program was that the cafeteria
was filthy and that the open
campus did not meet the stan­dards
they would like to establish
'"•in Bethpage.
Syosset's open campus
program is unique in that the
high school is set on SO acres of
ground, i The program was
established 5 years ago and has
presented absolutely no
problems. There are no I.D.
cards issued, nor passes, since
students are not permitted off
school grounds. The students are
Following the presentation, the
committee made recom­mendations
for the Bethpage
program: An assigned exit for
orderly departure and entrance
TrfistrjdeTitST sigW du^eeteTTDr""
cards; cutting classes a serious
offense, resulting in loss of open
campus privileges; utilization of
Cherry Avenue lawn for student
body; discouraging students
from congregating in halls except
in the main lobby where there are
no classooms nearby. Several
Board members questioned the
desirability of instituting an open
campus in Bethpage. Mr. LoFaso
asked, "As a committee, what do
you feel you will get from open
campus in an educational Sen­se?"
John Murphy replied.
."release of tension, six hours in
a school building is less than
optimum • ' .absence ot tension
allows tne student to function
better in thocia^ron^ ••JBiff'K
Mr. LoFaso questmnexlftv UJere™
weren't areas in the school to do
this, John Murphy answered,". .
.only the library which i s strictly
regulared and limited in books,
also every other room in the
building is being used including
the little theater". Mr. Iannello
permitted out during lunch and noted from the presentation that
free periods. The students ob- the committee described the
served that the school is neat and
the cafeteria spotless'.
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Plainedge Voters To
Re-Tackle Bond Issue
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The 1073 Fund-raising Campaign of th'i Long Island Chapter,
Leukemia Society of Ameica, raised |187,770 in a three-month
campaign, compared with a Six-month campaign total of $194,827 in
1972, it was reported at the annual meeting of the Chapter by
Douglass R. Roesch, Chapter President. Roesch (r.) received .,
reports from Timothy J. Mcinemey (c), lOT&.'Gjbqieral Campaign
Chairman, covering the residential, commerce & industry, coin
board and memorial phases of the drive. Also sharing in the good,
news is James G. Smith, Vice-chairman, Franklin National Bank
and Vice President of the Long Island Chapter. '•'
"With 'contributions-in-transit' and previous gifts still unreported,
we expect to pass the $200,000 mark with ease", Mclnerney,
executive vice-president of the Long Island Builders Institute, an­nounced.
The major part of the funds raised by the L.I. Chapter and
its counterparts go for scholarship and research grants in the effort
to find i>. cure for Leukemia, which takes the lives of more children
than any other disease, and strikes down even more adults than
children.
Roesch, vice-president of the Suburbia 1» rAeral Savings & Loan
Association, was re-elected president of the Chapter. The
Headquarters of the L.l. Chapter are at 265 Old, Country Road,
Hicksville.
At the last meeting of the
current school year, held June
28th in the Plainedge High
School, the Plainedge School
'"Board unanimously voted to
submit the district's Renovation
Bond Issue, before taxpayers once
again, in September or October.
; The; Bond Issue had been
defeated by Plainedge voters on
June 13th despite passage of the
district's $13.5 million budget.
Trustee Dominick Gagliardo,
initiating the resolution, stated
that the Bond Issue's defeat two
weeks ago was "by a fairly close
vote."
Echoing outgoing School Board
President terri Bahnken's pre­election
comment, Gagliardo
also- admitted that the com­munity
was not given sufficient
information prior to the vote and
that-the board itself was "not
together on it" at the time.
The Renovation Bond Issue is a
$350,000 bond to provide funds for
major repairs to the district's
eight school buildings.
Gagliardo said that "greater
explanations" would be given
prior to the new vote, that special
board meetings would be set
aside for this specific purpose,
and that the vote would probably
-By Richard Wood
occur sometime in September or
October.
A TEMPORARY
SUPERINTENDENT
The Board also voted to appoint
Assistant Superintendent Gerald
Bretton as acting district
superintendent.
Bretton, who has served the
district for 18 years, will hold the
top position until the board votes
on a new individual to replace
outgoing Superintendent John
Rinehart.
The board has-commissioned a
professional screening com­mittee,
consisting of Dr. Philip
Pitruzzello of New York
University and Dr. Williard S.
Elsbree of Columbia University,
to recommend "six or seven"
candidates for the vacant
position. Their recommendations
are expected in early July.
CENTRAL OFFICE
REORGANIZATION
Board President Terri
Bahnken revealed that the board
had voted in a prior session to
eliminate one positkw £» the
district's Central Office ad­ministrative
staff. But she also
withdrew a resolution calling for
reorganization of the district's
administrative set-up with the
implication that it would be more
logical for the new Superin­tendent
to decide which of the
positions should be eliminated.
CAP PROGRAMS
Additionally, the board voted to
adopt 8 of the staff's 23 recom­mended
CAP projects. CAP is an
acronym for Cooperative Area
Program. CAPs are innovative
projects and programs developed
by the district's highly creative
staff of teachers and educators.
According to Dr. Rinehart and
Board Vice-President Donald
Kanter, each of the 23 projects
were also adopted by the New
York State Department of
Education, a highly laudable and
remarkable feat in itself.
"Budgetary limitations" was
offered as the reason for adopting
only 8 of the 23. Of the 8 adopted,
such programs as the following
were included: enhancement of
reading skills, creation of an 8th
grade math lab, a 9th grade
Asian and African culture series,
and a highly innovative program
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