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VOL. 32 NO. 26 Wednesday, May 22,1985 30c PER COPY
Board Postpones Honors Elimination
OPEN HOUSE. The East Rockaway Nursing Home held an
Open House on Sunday, May 19 as part of National Nursing
Home Week. From left to right are: East Rockaway Village
Trustee Anthony Santino; Marilyn and Bob Keon, Admin-istrator
of the Nursing Home; Mrs. Kay Baker, Recreation
Director; and East Rockaway Village Trustee Irving Shaw.
The East Rockaway
Board of Education in a 5-0
vote agreed to postpone
their decision to eliminate
Honors courses in grades 9,
10 and 11 in Social Studies
and English for one year
pending further study. The
action came about at the
Monday, May 20 meeting
held at Centre Avenue
School.
Board members Elaine
\Boll, Carol Burris, Richard
iMeagher and John Van
jHouten, who had voted last
hnonth to eliminate tracking,
stated that they were sup-porting
the resolution to
postpone the action despite
their beliefs that they had
East Rockaway Fire Department
Honors Chief Donza
The members of the East
Rockaway Fire Department
paid tribute to ex-Chief Guy
Donza at a Testimonial
Dinnerheld on Friday, May
17 at the Salisbury inn at
Eisenhower Park.
There was an inspection
of the Companies by the Vil-lage
Board and Mayor
R e i n h a r d and several
members of the Department
expressed their congratula-tions
and thanks to Chief
Donza.
A presentation of a grand-father's
clock was made to
Chief Donza as a token of
the thanks of the men of the
Department. In addition.
Mayor Reinhard presented
a gold shield to the Chief.
Former Chief Ken Klose,
who acted as the jnaster of
ceremonies, read the follow-ing
poem he wrote for the
occasion:
An Ode To An Ex
In 1935 was born a little
Guytano the fifth of six
bambinos
Who played with his tiny
toes none other than his
sister Rose
Irene helped him with his
prose while Millie wiped
his runny nose
His Father John was a Fun-eral
Director Brother
Ray-Ray was his protec-tor
Momma, Josephine would
could and clean and gave
him lots of love in
between
Soon along came little Joe
Who Guytano often
wondered "Where'd
go"
he
In 1953 He met a gal named
Marie
He met her in a Brooklyn
Candy store where he'd
often gone before
Their first date was at the
Paramount Theatre And
gave him his chance to sit
near her
Soon they became a regular
thing then he gave her an
engagement ring
In 1956 she became his wife
and they started a whole
new life
Along came Tom in '58 His
Father thought that was
great
A year later upon the scene
appeared his daughter
Josephine
In '62 was born his Liz His
remark was "Hey, Gee
Whiz"
From Brooklyn they had to
flee and moved to East
Rockaway in April, '63
He joined the Fire Dept. in
November a date he will
always remember
He served his neighbors long
and well and his knowl-edge
began to jell
His company recognized his
inspiration elected him to
office with admiration
In 1968 when things were
going pretty neat Chris-tine
was born and the
family was complete
He served on Committees
and the Fire Council and
gave the Chiefs his best
counsel
made the right decision. The
outpouring of community
sentiment against the move
persuaded them to study the
policy further. "I have grave
doubts that the move would
have any chance of success if
introduced now," stated
Board Vice President John
Van Houten, who proposed
the motion to postpone.
President Richard Meagher
stated that the regents scores
to be released in June of this
year will stand as more
information to be weighed
in considering the feasibility
of e l i m i n a t i n g honors
courses.
Board member Elaine
Boll expressed her wish that
more of the people who sup-p
o r t e d honors courses
attend more Board meet-ings,
and Jane Brezenoff,
who was the lone dissenter
at last month's vote thanked
the Board for proposing
what she called a "states-manlike
motion." Carol
Burris stated that she still
believed that reduced track-ing
would lead to better test
scores.
The few members of the
community in attendance
expressed their thanks to the
Board for their responsive-ness
to the opinions of the
community.
In other matters, the
Board accepted the retire-ment
of Helen McEntegart,
Rhame Avenue Elementary
School teacher, with thanks
for 20 years of dedicated
service, it approved an
extension of unpaid leave of
absence for High School
math teacher John Ryan,
accepted the resignation of
East Rockaway High
School language teacher
T h e r e s a Timony, and
announced that the District
would be abolishing three
teaching positions for the
1985-86 year: one in physi-cal
education, one in social
studies, and one in elemen-tary
school art. Mr. Harry
Friesleben, physical educa-tion
teacher at ERHS, spoke
at length in opposition to the
excessing of a member of his
department. Teachers John
Corio, Martine Curto and
Mignon Simonelli will be
placed on the district's pre-ferred
eligible list, with
rights of first recall should a
space be created in their field
during the next 6 years.
Acting Superintendent
Robert Parry announced
that at Rhame Avenue
School there had been no
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Jacqueline Carver Needs
Your Assistance
Jacqueline Carver is a
young girl living in our
community who is afflicted
by a very rare disease called
Goldenhar Syndrome. The
disease is named after the
man who did the first serious
research into the cases of
this disease which causes
severe facial deformity.
Young Jacqueline, des-pite
this facial deformity, is a
healthy and vibrant young
lady who is desparately seek-ing
to live a healthy and
normal life. Unfortunately,
her hopes and the hopes of
her family will be dashed
without a number of opera-tions
which, over the years
will restore her facial
appearance to a normal
condition.
As you can well-imagine,
the operations are very
expensive Jacqueline's fam-ily
has NO medical insu-rance,,
and therefore must
meet every medical bill
themselves. The Carvers are
hard-working people but
they would never be able to
meet the costs of these vital
operations.
The East Rockaway
Kiwanis Club has agreed to
donate the proceeds from
their Annual Spring Hoe
Down and Country Western
Dance to the Jacqueline
Carver Fund. The Kiwanis
'Club is hoping for the
enthusiastic support of the
community so that they may
be able to raise a bulk of the
fundinfi that Jacqueline will
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In the true spirit of the
Huckleberry Frolic (the big
fund-raising event for the
Museum on June 15) twelve
Boy Scouts from Troop 332
gave a brilliant "face lift" to
the twenty Frolic stands last
Saturday. The painting ses-sion
was held in the barn and
yard of the 1985 Frolic
chairpersons, Joan and
Chris Chiaffitelli on Morton
Street, with new Museum
committee member. Bob
Sympson, supervising. One
might imagine twelve spi-rited
scouts with various
vivid colors brushing away
at the stands to be a bit con-fusing,
but under Mr.
Sympson's guidance, the
By Mildred Roemei;
work was done in an orderly
fashion, but with some fun
thrown in Mr. Sympson is a
teacher in the Valley Stream
School system. The Frolic
stands, used by the organi-zations
who serve food or
conduct games, were con-structed
a number of years
ago by Troop 332 scouts
under the guidance of
Anthony Peippito. Scouts
who took part in the "pain-torama"
were: Timmy Mar-tin,
John Ferrara, Joe Car-roll,
Paul Dengel, Tom
Fleming, Chris Murray,
Dan Dengel, Greg Dengel,
Ralph Caputo, and Mat-thew
Mickiewicz.
Lions Hold Successful Breakfast
The Lions were up at the
crack of dawn on Saturday,
May 11 and headed for St.
James Church in Lynbrook.
Under the direction of
Howard Paterson, Chair-man,
the grill was greased
for the start of the Annual
Pancake Breakfast. Always'-
a popular event for senior
citizens and Lynbrook
shoppers, this Saturday was
no exception. A surprise
visit was paid by Carol Ber-man,
who is currently work-ing
for the New York State
Division of Housing.
The Leos, (the young
Lions) from Lynbrook High
School, assisted the Lions in
cooking and serving. This
year's president. Lion Rev.
Richmond, pastor of St. event. All proceeds of the
James, was beaming all Lynbrook/East Rockaway
morning at his Church Lion's Club will go to local
played host to this successful charities.
L E O S H E L P LIONS. From left to right arc Juitice Forte,
Jessica Cox, Roseanne Lerner, and Lisa Isaacs,