Observer_1985-07-10; East Rockaway/Lynbrook Observer

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VOL. 32 NO. 33 Wednesday, July 10,1985 30c PER COPY
Van Houten Elected Board President
REACHING THE 10,000 MARK Nancy Conforte, of East
Rockaway, President of St. Raymond's Young Adult Group
(right), and Eileen Duggan, of Lynbrook, Treasurer, deliver
another carton of bottles and cans to Richard Blass, Man-ager
of Lynbrook U.S.A. Beverage on Sunrise Highway in
Lynbrook on their way to reaching the 10,000 mark in their
bottle and can drive. The proceeds from last month's collec-tion
$450.85 went to Fr. Tom Maloney's mission in El
Cercado. June's proceeds will go to St. Raymond's School
Science Department. Containers are accepted on Sundays
behind St. Raymond's rectory from 9;00a.m.-1:00p.m.
John Van Houten has
been elected the President of
the East Rockaway Board of
education, succeeding Dr.
Richard Meagher, who
remains on the Board. Van
Houten, nonminated by Dr.
M e a g h e r , t h a n k e d the
former President, stating
"You did an exceptional
j o b . " Elaine Boll was
unanimously chosen to
serve as the Board Vice
President.
The actions occurred at
the July 2 Organization
Meeting of the East Rocka-way
Board of Education,
held at the High School.
The following standing
committees were formed:
Legislation — Mary Jane
Brezenoff, Elaine Boll;
Community Relations —
Carol Burris; Bond Issue/-
Maintenance — John Van
Houten; Budget - Richard
Play Ball by Mildred Roemer
East Rockaway wives in
the twenties did not have to
fuss about their husbands
being glued to TV sets on
weekends watching ball
games. Oh, the men still
l o v e d the games, but
watched them in the open
air...their own home team,
the Rocks! First they played
in the open field near the
Long Beach Water Tank
that was next to the Centre
Avenue railroad station, but
later moved to the large
expanse of ground across
from the Rhame Avenue
School. The area ran north
from Dart Street between
Rhame and Baisley Avenues
and up to a few old houses
near Main Street. This
information came to Ye
Town H i s t o r i a n from
native-born Ernest Bishop
of Nicholas Avenue, who
said:
"The Rocks became quite
a popular team in Long
Island, playing the Union
City Blues, Penn Red Caps,
Springfield Grays, Baldwin
Buccaneers, Lynbrook Elks,
and many others. They even
played the famous House of
David team that sported
long hair and beards and
who often played at Ebbets
Field in Brooklyn. Henry
Torborg (Gene's father)
served one time as manager.
The late Eddie Mayer was
one of the umpires and Ken-neth
Frost was a well-known
pitcher. Brad Wellwood was
also one of the local players.
The team also slipped in a
'ringer' or hired pitchers
from other teams that would
come for the big games.
Games were played every
Sunday during the season
and occasionally on Satur-days
too."
In checking over one of
the many scrapbooks in the
Grist Mill Museum, Pine
Pearsall was pictured as one
of the players, visitors are
welcome to browse through
the scrap books any wee-kend
from 1 to 5 p.m. when
the Museum is open.
Meagher. Carolyn Schempp
was appointed School Dis-trict
Treasurer, Anne Juli-ano
was appointed District
Clerk, with Mary Jane
BrezenofT approved as Dep-uty
District Clerk and Carol
Burris as Deputy District
Treassurer.
The firm of Jaspan, Gins-berg,
Ehrlich, Reich and
Levin was appointed school
district attorneys for counsel
and negotiations.
The East Rockaway/-
Lynbrook Observer and the
Local News were designated
as newspapers authorized
for the publication of school
district legal notices.
The following appoint-
Spector
Reelected
Charles Spector has been
re-elected President of the
Lynbrook Board of Educa-tion
for the 1985-86 year, at
the reorganization meeting
on July 2. Also elected were
Mrs. Joan Hines, vice presi-dent
and Susan Ruchman,
secretary.
Appointed were Joseph
LaRocco as treasurer of the
Lynbrook School District,
Barbara Sabbagh, District
c l e r k , and L e o n a rd
Minches, District Attorney.
The next Board of Educa-tion
meeting will be held on
Wednesday, August 7.
Lynbrook Village Board Report
by Annette Ling
The Lynbrook Board of
Trustees Meeting held at
Village Hall on Monday,
June 24th at 8 p.m. was a
rather quiet one with routine
Departmental reports and
the appointment of Deputy
Village Clerk Robert Barra
as the new Handicapped
Compliance Officer for the
Village in compliance with
federal law which requires
such a coverage with an
appropriate official.
The L y n b r o o k Fire
department report for the
month of May was given by
Mayor Geier because the
Fire Chiefs were away at a
convention upstate. There
were 13 Still Alarms, 11
General Alarms, 84 ambu-lance
and rescue calls, 12
Chiefs Orders and one
major fire in which the
department had to use most
of their chemical foam to
extinguish a deisel oil spill.
The Lynbrook Library
report for May showed a
total of 7703 registered bor-rowers,
with a circulation of
9,261 and 82,983 in actual
holdings. Mrs. Ruth Dick-erson
from the Lynbrook
Library Board gave the
report.
The Chairman of the
Recreation Commission Bill
Robinson read the report of
the Recreation Activities for
the month of May as fol-lows:
Senior Citizens met 4
times with a total attendance
of 404, the Painting and
Ceramics classes met 4 times
with attendance 51 and 34
respectively. There were two
Arts and Crafts, 2 sessions
for Pre-school Children ages
3 to 5 and one half years old,
and 15 girls took the Red
Cross Baby Sitting Course
on Saturday mornings.
Formation of a new Base-ball
Program will be held in
July for ages 8 to 12 years
and in Aug. T-Ball instruc-tion
on the different posi-ments
were made:
Attendance officers: Con-stance
Pollion, Linda Cof-fey,
Denise Sand berg, and
Elizabeth Shannon; School
Physicians: Robert Abel
and Usha George; Student
Funds Auditor: Carolyn
Schempp; Student Funds
Treasurer: Shirley Ross
(ERHS), Irene Ratidazzo
(Centre) and Betty Johnston
( R h a m e ) ; D e p o s i t o r i e s:
N a t i o n a l Westminster
Bank, Barclay's Bank of
New York, Ei^ropean/
American Bank, Chemical
Bank of New York, and
Chase Manhattan Bank;
School District Auditors:
Peat, Marwick, Mitchell &
Co.; Purchasing Agent:
Stanley Germain.
The Board also approved
the following personnel
matters: Appointed Lor-raine
Liberti as elementary
classroom teacher at Rhame
Avenue and accepted her
request for a one year leave
of absence from her current
position as Speech/Lan-guage
therapist; appointed
Diane Rafferty as elemen-tary
classroom teacher at
Centre Avenue; accepted
with regret the request for a
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RVC Takes Trophy
At Lynbrook Parade
Members of the Fourth Bat-talion
paraded proudly
down Merrick Road in
Lynbrook on Saturday
night, June 29. In addition
to the local firemen, includ-ing
Valley Stream, conting-ents
from Wurtsboro and
White Lake, New York, also
participated. First place was
won by Rockville Centre,
with Lynbrook second and
Lakeview third.
tions in playing baseball for
the young fans of the game.
Supt. Bruno Arena gave a
concise Building Depart-ment
Report for May and
reported among other items,
16 alterations and additions
and the issuing of 39 various
types of permits etc. The
total estimated cost of the
alterations and additons was
$106,120.
The D.P.W. Report was
read by Mayor Geier due to
the vacation of Supt. Jack
Woessner. There were 1734
tons of refuse and rubbish
collected, 951 Special stops
for the pick-up of unwanted
household and other dis-carded
items, 62 loads of
street sweeping with a total
of 853 miles covered, 125
street signs painted, and
many other miscellaneous
activities.
Mayor Geier in reading
the Report of the Village
Justice for May stated that
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Chief Robert CitKovic salutes the ofncers of the Fourth
Battalion followed by his Deputies, left to right: Robert
Gleason, Peter Skeris and Richard Neidecker.
Grand Marshall Charles Smithers, Ex-Captain of Vulcan
Company leads the parade in the 1924 Ford Truck restored
by Tally Ho and driven by Fred Pearsall. Jim Grimser
provides the balance on the rear step. Vulcan Company
celebrated its 75th anniversary this year of which Charlie has
served for 43.