Observer_1983-06-30; East Rockaway/Lynbrook Observer

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VOL. X V I , NO. 34 E:AST ROCKAWAY. NEW YORK 11S18, THURSDAY. JUNE 30. 1983 15^ PER COPY
John Beyrer New LHS Principal
Robert Delmond, president
of the Lynbrook Board of Edu-cation,
and Dr. Bern Seiderman,
superintendent of schools, have
announced the appointment of
Dr. John Beyrer as the new
principal of Lynbrook High
School. Dr. Beyrer, currently
chairman of the Guidance Dept.
at the high school, succeeds Dr.
Joseph Doohan, who announced
his retirement last month.
The new principal was one of
five finalists selected from more
than 80 applications received.
Recommendations to the Board
of Education were made by a
Principal's Selection Committee,
consisting of teachers, adminis-trators
and parents. Members of
the Board and the Superintend-ent
commented on the "ex-cellent
quality" of the finalists
interviewed by the Board, in-cluding
three "outstanding mem-bers
of the present Lynbrook
staff.
Beyrer, chairman of Guidance
since 1980, served as a guidance
counselor from 1970 to 1979.
He was also a part-time adjunct
instructor of English at New
York Institute of Technology,
principal of Lynbrook Summer
High School and a teacher of
English at the evening schools
at W.C. Bryant, Washington Irv-ing
and Yeshiva of Forest Hills.
An author of two books deal-ing
with grammar and usage,
Beyrer is currently under con-tract
to write a parent guide to
the college admissions process;
he developed curriculum in ad-vanced
placement English, super-vised
eight student teachers, all
of whom are currently employed
at the h i ^ school or college
level, and is involved in a tea-cher
training project sponsored
by the Peace Corps and Colum-bia
University.
Dr. Beyrer is an advisor to
the award-winning' senior year-book,
school newspaper, literary
magazine and the National
Honor Society. He has had
district-wide responsibility for
curriculum development in guid-ance
and was chairman of a
school-wide committee dealing
with gifted and talented stu-dents.
He was coordinator of an
independent study program, re-sponsible
for development of a
computerized master schedule
and a consultant to doctoral
candidates.
An active participant in com-munity
activities. Dr. Beyrer re-sides
in Rockville Centre with
his wife and family.
Lynbrook Week
As reported last week, Lynbrook's Man and Woman of the Year
were named at the Board Meeting of June 20th - the honors going to
Emanuel Sunn and Alice Haas. Beautification awards were also made
at the meeting and reported on. The two big remaining activities of
Lynbrook Week were the Softball Game between Mayor William
Geier's Lynbrook All-Stars and Jim Jensen's CBS All-Stars for the
benefit of Timmy Spelmah, a Lynbrook CP patient, who is in need
of a voice computer; and the St. Anthony's Feast.. (See Page 9)
Lynbrook Mayor William Geier (1) presents plaques to Man and
Woman of the Year - Emanuel Sunn and Alice Haas.
E.R. House Fire Claims A Life
At approximately 5:52 a.m.
on June 25th, a fire of undeter-mined
origin swept through a
house at 26 Donald PI., East
Rockaway, claiming the life of
20 year old Joseph Crawford.
At the time in question, a
neighbor saw smoke and alerted
everyone inside and five people
escaped the fire, which left the
second floor gutted. East Rocka-way
firemen, arriving on a signal
"10" were hampered by intense
heat and smoke in fighting the
blaze.
The homeowner, Eileen
Mclntyre, resided in the down-stairs
portion of the house, with
the remaining unrelated people
in various rooms upstairs on the
second floor.
The deceased, one of the
second floor residents, was
found after the fire was ex-tinguished
by the ERFD.
Detective Rozzi of the Nassau
County Arson Squad is investi-gating
the cause of the fire.
Photos by Andy Ferretti
Mayor William Geier and Jim Jensen meet with Timmy Spehnan
priot to the game, the proceeds from which were donated to Timmy.
Lynbrook Elks Carnivol
Lynbrook Elks Lodge 1515
wUl conduct a Carnival in the
Lodge parking field at 57 Hemp-stead
Ave., Lynbrook, on the
evenings of July 7, 8, 9 & 10.
Admission is free and there will
Honor
America
July 4
be rides, games and refreshments
The proceeds of the Carnival
will be used to support the many
community oriented activities of
the Lynbrook Elks. Lynbrook
Lodge presently sponsors Boy
Scout Troop 1515, conducts a
busy youth activities program,
makes monthly awards to the
teenager of the month at three
local high schools, awards
scholarships to deserving stu-dents,
and vists and entertains
veterans at various hospitals.
At the close of the 1982-83
Lodge year, Lynbrook Lodge
presented 19 local and national
charities with checks totaling
$2,000. This did not include a
$2,500 contribution to the New
York State Elks Mj^or Project,
Cerebral Palsy.