The-Leader_1985-01-17

              eREItPORT r/iZ:.10niAL LIBRARY,
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. Freeport -
School District
.Baldwin •
School District
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Board Appoints Sformi
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J^ . FREEPORT-The Village ot freeport now has a feminine
. » . .— - „ • — o ^ luttidatits •
.helm. Dofothjr Stam, who bad been Depaty Mayor for the past eight
years, was ele'cled by the village's Board c* Trustees, at its^ Monday, _
-January l4thweeUy meeting, toserveasmayor'unta April 1. V
Mrs.-StormrthgfUstaumaqtffScrve'lSYgilige Iwisgem Freeport,"^
Campion, Senkus, Nex# Decision O^^uH,
Umoftrlhe'yillages tirsv.temale"
mayor and is, apparently,lhe first
fiiU-time .mayor of her sex on
Long Island and possibly in the
state.
..Storm's election, by a 4-0 vo(e
-of Uie Board," fills the vatancy
Aside from her position as
•peputy Mayor, Storm has served .
as liaison Trustee to tht^ Recrea­tion
Department, the PoUce and
Fire Departments, the' Freeport.
-.Housing - Authority. the '-(ira-
Fnmi:prLine"
FRFFTORT - - •_ The neweat
' political ' orgaiiixatido' "oii ~ (he.
village of Freepott's 19&5 election
scene, the F.U.T.U.8.E. Party,
has now oSdally aimouttced Ha
slate (^.candidates to irm on
•MarchW.
In ramfirmjtimi of' ramonrt
iyJoihCfelana][.
. BALDWIN - The highHght of the January 9th Baldwin foard of
Education meeting was the report on the cqjicept tf a Ml day oT..exr-.
- tended kihdergartenpnigTtinTContlucted Dy Assistant Superintendent
of Schools Gene Laiizarp and Shubert Sdiool Principal Frances O'Con­nor,
the prcsentatioii focused primarily on the Baldwin Educational
Assembly (BEA) and PTA re­ports
which were developed _-'Garr, school psychologist from
this year after-committee work the .North Merrick Elementary
by berth groups. - - ' .'
Laiiuiu uplaliked that aiter an
^.^^:^i^ R'^^.^"',^^^ admMslralig r e ^ l a s t . ^ ^ .
.(THE- LEADER, issue of JanT";
10,198S, p. 1), Vincent Campion;
a life-long resident of the village
- has been bamed the party's
mayoralty candidate. Christina
-Hapoli Senkos and Gordon Orlow
"~WUltuMtbr the'two viliaRe trustee
seals.
The party will not run a candi-
. datcr for vUIage judge.' A party
spokesperson has confirmed that
party officials believe, present
Village Judge Ralifti. Franco" has
.done an excellent job and would
endorse his reelection.
Campion, a resident of Rutland
the Board of £ducation in March
of 1 ^ had directed the adminis-traljon
to obtain community
feedback on the subject, to imple­ment-
parent information pro-mendationsr'
"This jneeting
(PHASE I) focused on the results •
oMhat group and on at-large in-
DUI.
.While's decision to resign before
ibeend of:Ms'terta-UrbrdeOd"
accept'a position with the Town of
Hempstead.
Mn. Storm will hold the post.
uiiiU April 1, .when the winner'of
the' March 19th village.election
will take the oath of office. She
hs already announced her inten­tion
to seek the Republican
nomination and mn for election
•Schonl ni<lnV<; fynn Pnmb»,.vn for A&jlfcgr year term.
on Ipave.from the Baldwifi Schod 7 ( l l w iH be,-at the least, a four^
« . . . j - . - _ j - .;., ^..^^~tj—way race. Also annoonceo. as
candidates are Uonel Souvenir,
iaon ot the
Environment,_ the Bcautificatioh
'Committee""^in3 the Freep«xt
Chaml;er of Commerce.
Prior-to serving as a trustee,
she was a Freeport Parks.
Commissio'nfcr.
- -• Maytff Storm and ber husband.
If the School Board-was to ap­prove
continued study on the sub­ject,
a PHASE nwould~ begin.
In January and February,- that
would invoKe the development of
Road, b a textbook Manager for kindergarten^ prograinj ^'^i^^'^l^^^^^^^Zr^mt^'M^ii-fi^^^S'^'^'"^^^^^
Barnes & Noble at Stony Brook -(extended and-fullday)-and-cos.t--^"-^_,",j"-^^'^^^ ^ . . . . t . -—'--,
University." "A^ Freeport High esUmates. CpnUnuing Board ap- •"«» couldn t find negaUvc te- mmg^SS^^L^-^
proval would then lead to staff
D'lstrict and'curretiUy serving-fe^'
an assistant administrator of
the Jericho School District; and
Valerie Webb, a Baldwin kinder­garten
teacher with prior fuU'day
• experience Tin the - Ro<sevelt__
"SchoolDistrtct. . r -
Meinbers of the committee
also made -on-site visits to pro- -
^ams in tawrence and Ocean- .
side, reviewed the January,
1954 Baldwin School District pro­posal
and studied articles aiid
' pamphlets on the subject. In
later audience comments, a resi­dent
questioned the' one-sided
•pro" approach to the research
expected to'be named the Demo-,
cralic Party's candidate at its
convention . next -TTiursday,'
January 24;-fted_Hager,:-gha^
already has the deSgnation of the
Home Role Party; and Vincent
Campion^ who tUs week received
the ofiidal designation of the
F.U.T.U.R.E. Party.) —
Mayor Storm was ori^nally
appointed to the Village Board by
White in 1973, when a job trans­fer
caused the resignation of an
elected.trustee. She won election
in 1974 and re-election in 1977-
• School graduate, the' only time
Campion did not live in the village
was during his service in the'
.U.S. Army. 'He, and his wife
Francine, have two children, and'
have been active in the North
East Freeport Ovic Association
(NEFCA), of which both arc
charter jntmbeis. Mr. Campion
has also been very active in the
Freeport Citizens' Civilian Patrol.
He is a member of the Freeport
-4)cffloe^tie Club..
Christina Napoti Senkus has
been a resident of Freeport for
21 years, attended Freeport
elementary schools and gradu­ated
from Freeport High School.
Presently she is a secretary in a
local business firm.
Senkus, a charter member of
the Nortft East Freeport Qvic"
,sso«atfons—is—«—member vf-
NEFCA's CivilUn Patrol. She
lives on Hixding Place, -
Gordon Orlow has lived on
{Cont. on Paga 20)
training and curriculum develop­ment.
A final Board decision
would be needed by March in
order to begin" May and June
parent. - information meetings
and orientations. However, the
Board refrained from voting on
the issucj delaying the vote until
Janaury 16. .
The Kindergarten Report bcr
gan with a presenution by
-they
search or speakers.
. Savoca outlined areas of con­cern,
some of which were later
mentioned in the PTA report.
The question of the falique
of the children seemed to be'
answered by the observation tftal
-actual ei^riencc does not
demonstrate this to be a problem.
It also-appears that (here is no
hard data to statistically support
or negate the effectiveness of
- tlw-extended ut full ilay program
since casting longituditial stud­ies
regarding carry-over effect
rarely go beyond the second
grade.
Benefits of such programs in­clude
the ability to employ the
discovery approach to learning
as well as to allow for- earlier
Mayor Dorothy Storm
Robert, are parents of four
children and have been resident
p^nt. on Paae 2DI
»> , ..:;
the BEA Kindergarten Commit­tee.
Savoca read the group's
interim report which had been ap-prm-
ed by an 8-1 committee vote.
He noted that the committee
was charged with studying al­ternative
forms of extended and/
or full day programs and with " " " T ~ T"":,--.'_ .......mi.iii mm:
m—a-vliin-og— Lr•eAco,mmmm»e,n^d^a.lttiro.nl^s .—o7^n— id..e..u.t.iif,i.c.a,_il.u.i-i. ,.•o,f- ,;e..W. l-dnft,-ft-, --.w ith • Mpraevsoerm Weihniwten '
-IhcTuitabilitj-trf-such-l-progfam—team^g-dtsaWrticsr-rhe-ques- ""W Ti""^-.
for Baldwin. • uon of cost (later-vaguely men-
The commiUee had seven work- ^°"<^ ^^ ""= ^°^ member as
ing sessions and'heard resource *' '«"' J27S,000 ) was noted,
speakers including Dr. Howard (Cont.onPagaS)
A SPECIAL COOKIE. In his last photograph as mayor of the Villaae
Cl Freeport, William White again launched the Annual Freeport
Girl Scouts' Cookie Drive. Mindlul of the occasion, the young ladles
wiin an overgifsa eaokie inscribed "GOOO tucfc,
.—,. — Photographed wfth Whlte-'are (standing, I. to r.)
Cookie Drive Chairwoman Janena Suchan and Seoul* Donna Suchan,
Nicole Evans and Tricia Mayers. Seven varieties of cookies are cur­rently
on sale through local Scouts at $2 per'txu. The proceeds go to
tKSih-local troops and to ()ie Nassau Council to maintain camping
facilities and other activities^ , '