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Mf amKlMMii FREEPORT. NEW YORK, MAY30
51st YEAR. No. ^ :
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Plan 5 Hom^s On
Baldwin HigK's Top
i985Gradl$ Named
Freeport.Twlrllng ^O"'* P o " ! Voled/cfOr/an.
Team Wins John Basedow Salufatoriqn
Developers Revise Concept
For Waterfronf Locaflon
FREEPORT - After a meeting Tuesday evetung. May 28, between
Ben Bsenbe^,.one of the prindpals of Ferban Associates, purchaser
of the site of Gay Lombardo's home, John DeGrazia, chairman of'the
Village's Plajnning Board, called Ferban's latest plans for development
• of the property "impressive."
Eisenberg and his partner. Gene Ferraro. a Freeport resident, had
' bought the famed deceased shoW'
New York State
Championship
FREEPORT, "^ The village's '
twirling team, the Freeport Re­creations,
has won the Senior,
Larger Dance Twirl Team Sute"
Championship - in competitions
run in Central Islip May 23-24.
The Re-Creations. which are
sponsored by the Freeport Recre-ation
Department, will-go on to'
compete on June 8 in the Eastern
Regional Competitionsjn Eliza­beth
.Town, PA., and to the
national competition to be held in
Indianapolis on July 29.
jni Comerford, the team's
manager/coach, noted that the
team has -been doing .well this
year, so will go to Indianpolis.
The team members have been
working together since they were
about eight years old, when —
in 1977 — they started as The
Apache Twiilers.
Competing with the team in
Central blip were Lauren Franco,
16; Tracy Wolfe, 15; -Raquel
Rodriguez, 15; Usa Festa, 14;"
KJ. DeBekker, 14; Michele
Hirsch. 16; Tanya BeU, 16;
and Natalie Comerford. 16. PJ.
Lewis, a team member, could not
make the competition because of
a family wedding, but Lorie
Comerford, the team's co-director.
fiDed in for her.
Throughout their years as a
team, the twiriets have made
Freeport proud as they have
taken various state and regional
titles bat. this year, the Indi­anapolis
competition will be their
first national event.
In order to pay for the various
competition _ expenses, lod^g
and travel, the girls pay annual
• dues of $80 and do a lot of fund-raising.
They also run a compe­tition
at the Recreation Center.
Much of the expenses of the In­dianapolis
trip will have to be
paid by the individual girls and
their families and community
(Com. on Page 16)
BALDWIN • Louis Paul has been d'esigoated as valedictorian and -
John Basedow named Salutatorian for Baldwin Senior High School's
aassofl985. '
Dr. Peter K. Lynch, principal of the tugh school; sud of Paul that he
"has distingmshed t&iself in the Honors Ffbgncm with a straight
A/A-1-average." ' '• -^•».-i^-.-^~- -
Louis Paul was elected to the
National Honor Society and the
French Honor Society, selected as
an oboist in the All-County
Orchestra, and chosen as a
flnalist in.the prestigious West-inghouse
Science compeUtion.'
. t^Louis_ is_spefial,'!_sai(1 Dr.
Lynch. His self-motivation and
dedication to purpose-afe well
dociimented: The ability to relate
to others, coupled with a sense
of humor, also serve to set him
apart. We are certain his suc­cesses
will be replicated' at
Princeton University in the Fall."
John Basedow is also an
Honors Prograni straight A/A-1-
stodent. He has been elected to
the National Honor Society and
the Spanish Honor , Society.
Ampng his many accomplish­ments
are participation in the
Long Island Science Congress,
member of the Mathletes and the
Tennis Team, and Gold Medal
winner {'83) and Silver Medal
winner ('84) at the Long Island
Math Fair. Basedow will be at­tending
William College in the
Fall. •
The High Honor Graduates of
the Class of 19&5, who will wear
special stoles daring Commence-
. ment Exerdses to symbolize their
academic excellence achieved in
high sdiool,' ihddde (alpha­betically)
John Basedow, Midiele
Bolognese, Andrew Cadel,
Heather Campbell, Yeelin Chan,
Sarah' Chumsky. Raymond
Cunningham, - Heidi Febert,
-Steven- Greenberg, - Beth -Jsaac- -
son'P' Barbara Jaeger, A&oz
Jafar and Debra Javeline.
Also Todd Krichmar, Lauren
Kriz, Michele Libman, James
Murphy, Rebecca- .Nedostap,
Loiiis Paul, Alexander ' Press.
Susan Raskin, Steven Rubin,
Jefeey Schwartz, Paul Walsh
- and Alysa Zalma.
In addition/the following sen­iors
are Class of 198S Honor
Graduates, who have been a
credit to the high school in their
academic achievements. They are
(alphabetically) Barbara Ascher,
Fabio Bard. Thomas Brickel.
Thomas Bym, Diane Carillion,-
Suzanne Delaney, Unda Gercken,
David Grill, Ian Harris, Jamey
. Hecht, Unda Helms, Diane
Judge, Thomas Kelley, Deborah
Milsomi Jennifer Murray, Julie
Pottak. Aiidrea Robertson, Brian
Robinson, Sheryl Schmidti Paul
Siragusa, Theresa Sollito, Amy
Sugin, Debra Waters. Debra
Weiss, and Kevin Whiston.
man's home and property on Guy
Lombardo Avenue for $225,000
and orginally proposed the con­struction
of ten one-fam^y condo­minium
town houses on the land.
Because the land is zoned "Resi­dential
A,". Ferban sought a
change to a "Condonunium
Zone."
Community input, induding
two dvic associations was nega­tive
on the condo proposal,,
however, in October of last year
and the. Planning Board unani­mously
voted, to recommend that
- the plan be turned down.
Eisenberg, Ferraro iand archi­tect
Ray Feldman went back to
their'boards and qow have come
up with a plan to build five one-family
. "contemporary high
DiGrazia says, a public meeting
of the Planning Board will be held
as-soon as the proper leigal notice
can be given.
According to Eisenberg, the
five homes will sell for a mini­mum
of $200,000 each. All will be
watetftoht property, all bulk-headed,
and all. will have two car
garages, each with a driveway
leading out to Guy Lombardo
Avenue. The homes will eadi
- have four or more bedrooms.
The exteriOT of the houses —
three of which will be on 60 x 150
plots and two on 50 x 150 plots ^—
_ will be of wgod with brick fornts.
No action by the village would
be necessary if three or few-er
homes were to be built on the
ranch'-^homeSi-The new proposal— property, but the village-has-to-
"delightcd"' DiGraria and the approve the plans for the con-rest
of the Planning Board and, struction of five homes.
. FHS Valedictorian Wins Another Award
Ethnic Festival This Sunday, June 2
FREEPORT - Sponsored by
Athena • Club of Freeport,
Anthony Scalamandre, vale-dictorian
of Freeport High
School's class of 1985, won a $500
Education Award given' by the
Long Island Federation of
Women's aubs (UFWC) at its
90th anniversary convention held
May 17, at Salisbury-on-the-
Green in Eisenhower Park.
This year, the UFWC gave five
of its prestigious Education
Awards, to winning seniors in
Nassau County. The, prizes are
rotated annually to Nassau,
Jul
Suffolk and Queens counties and
will not be given again in Nassau
-until 1988.
Scalamandre's resume,, sub­mitted
to UFWC by Athena's
historian and education liaison
Heloise Ringer, was subjected to
the intense scrutiny of UFWC
judges in, competition with
seniors from other Nassau County
schools.
-vMrs. Millard Pollack, chairman,
of the selection committee, read
•Tony Scalamandre's impressive
list of achievements, and was con-
XConl.onPageie)
FREEPORT - The Arts Council
at Freeport, in conjunction with
the Freeport Recreation Center,
is presenting its first Ethnic
Festival on Sunday. June 2, 12-6
pm, at the Recreation Center.
Crafts from all over the world,
which will be displayed, demon­strated
and sold, indude Early
American quilts and woodcarv-ings;
Scandinavian Rosemailing,
Rya weaving, stitchety, Christ­mas
ornaments and woodcarving:
Grecian jewelry; Turkish glass­ware;
Jewish pottery induding
Mezznzahs and Seder plates;
and Hebrew calligraphy induding
Ketubot (marriage contracts).
. TTie preparation • of ethnic
delicacies win be demonstrated
and a variety of foods — Jamai­can,
Phillipme, Greek, Middle
Eastern, Scandinavian, Mexican
and Columbian — win be sold.
In addition, throughout the
day performances will be offered
by community as weH as pro-tConl.
onPagelS)
SCHOLARSHIP WINNER. Anthony Scalamandre (c.), this year's
Freeport High School valedictorian, received a $500 Education Award
from.4he Long Island Federation of Women's Clubs. Present at the
awards ceremony were Tony'* mother. Mrs. Joseph Scalamandre (r.),
and Ruth NIclterson of Athena Club of Freeport, which sponsored the
youth. (See story, this page.) ' . .