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VOL. 33 NO. 15 Wednesday, April 9,1986 30c PER COPY
East Rockaway, Lynbrook Schools
Receive Record Grant
BRINGING AID TO EAST ROCKAWAY. State Senator
Dean Skeios (right) last year obtained $40,000 in grants for
the East Rockaway Jr./Sr. High School to be used for the
Playgrounds and Computer Literacy Program. Senator
Skeios is pictured presenting the symbolic checks to Mr.
Robert Parry, Principal.
North Principal Nominated
For
State Senator Dean G.
Skeios (R/C; Rockville
Centre) and Assemblyman
Gregory R. Becker (R/C;
L y n b r o o k ) a n n o u n c ed
today the adoption of the
1986-1987 New York State
Budget, which includes a
$601.2 million increase in
state aid to education. This
increase boosts the State's
commitment to Nassau
County Schools to a record
$343,834,778.
"During the 15 months I
have served as your State
Senator," said Skeios, "we
hiive enjoyed a dramatic
increase in state aid to edu-cation.
This is particularly
rewarding for ine, since our
area schools have expe-rienced
substantial revenue
i n c r e a s e s due to this
St. John's To Hold Recital
James M. Lennon, prin-cipal
of the Lynbrook North
Middle School, has been
nominated for the 1986
National PTA Outstanding
Educator Award.
The nomination was
made by Charlene Faust-mann.
President of the Lyn-b
r o o k N o r t h P a r e nt
Teachers Association.
Mr. Lennon was cited for
his outstanding relationship
with students, parents and
community. Under his gui-dance,
the North "family"
has organized for the past
six years a Walk-A-Thon for
such worthwhile causes as
the local Fire Department
and the Statue of Liberty
restoration. He encouraged
North PTA to coordinate
an effort with Village,
County, and School Board
olficials which, after four
years, culminated in the
installation of a traffic safety
device in front of the school.
Each year. North students
entertain senior citizens with
a choral concert and drama
presentation. The entire
community enjoys North
Middle School's band at
special village events. After
school hours, Mr. Lennon
participates in such human-itarian
efforts as the Lyn-brook
Human Relations
Council, his Village's Broth-erhood
Committee, and the
International Games for the
Disabled.
Mr. Lennon has been
r e s p o n s i b l e for many
accomplishments during his
tenure with the Lynbrook
School District. He insti-tuted
Large Group Instruc-tion,
involving students and
s t a f f , and allowing for
expansion of resources and
sharing of ideas. He redeve-loped
the science program
f r om lecture format to
l a b o r a t o r y experience in
grades 6 through 8. In addi-tion
to organization the
popular Frost Valley Envir-onmental
Program, Mr.
Lennon has been the recip-
, ient of the Russ Beisswanger
Collegiate Basketball offi-cials
Association Leader-ship
Award; the New York
State PTA Distinguished
Service Award, and has
been selected by the
Department of Defense to
be a guest lecturer for the US
Army and US Air Force at
overseas commands in the
far east.
In summing up Mr. Len-non's
nominastiori, Mrs.
Faustmann stated "his
accomplishments and con-tribution
to our children
(Continued on Page 13)
A festive concert will be
presented at Saint John's
Lutheran Church in Lyn-brook
on Sunday afternoon,
April 13th, 1986, at 4:00 PM
by organ recitalists Claire
Arnold, daughter of Pastor
and Mjrs. Robert Hi Arnold,
Pastor of Saint John's and
Robert L. Wyatt, together
with the Saint John's Choir
under the direction of Eliza-beth
Johnson.
Claire Arnold has per-formed
on many of the fine
organs in the world, includ-ing
the organs at Saint
Mark's Lutheran Church in
Munich, Saint Patrick's
Cathedral in New York and
the National Shrine of the
Immaculate Conception in
Washington. A few weeks
ago. Miss Arnold accepted
the challenge of beginning a
multifaceted music program
at Saint Aloysius Church in
Great Neck. A variety of
activities began and the
results included concert
appearances in the New
York area and on television.
Claire Arnold earned her
master's degree in organ per-formance
at Queens Col-lege.
As a music student.
Miss Arnold studied in Aus-tria
and later returned to
Europe to study with Karl
Richter in Munich. Karl
Richter was one of the fore-most
musical minds and one
of the finest organists of our
tmie, as well as the founder-director
of the jMunich Bach^
Choir and Orchestra.
Robert H. Wyatt, inaddi-tion
to having played solo
organ recitals throughout
the United States and Can-ada,
has performed regularly
on radio and television as
organist, pianist, composer
and conductor and has.
many recordings to his
(Cktntinued on Page 13)
renewed commitment to
education."
"Once again," Skeios con-tinued,
"we have protected
the interests of suburban
school districts which were
threatened by the Gover-nor's
u^ifeanweig^hted budget
proposals. Nassau County
would have lost $9.4 million
under the Governor's'origi-nal
proposal. Instead, we
•have .successfully addressed
those needs which his pro-posed
budget had not fully
considered and for which it.
had provided too little
money."
A s s e m b l y m a n Becker
expanded on this by stating,
"I am verx pleased that
working together with Sena-tor
Skeios we were able to
deliver this much needed
funding for our schools.
Had the Governor's budget
proposals become reality,
the effects on the Nassau
County-educational, system
would have been devastating."
"Every single school sys-tem
in our area will receive
an increase in aid above
Governor's proposal as a
result of our efforts," said
both Skeios and Becker.
Lynbrook Schools, they
noted, willj^ceive $3,108,898
dollars "in state aid to educa-tion
this year, $761,263 dol-lars
more than proposed by
the Governor. East Rocka-way
Schools will receive
$2,449,008 dollars in state
aid, er $168,679 dollars
more than proposed by the
Oitim^ AHHrwml Carraat Parcant TaaaNao
m Aid Cbaaga ClUMia Aid
BafMa 11.203,271 10.887.378 815.883 5.82 149.385
East
Roctunny 2,41S.738 2.178.888 242,880 11.18 29.289
Fracpcrt ie.23B.t7S 14.180.788 2.055.118 14.49 228.781
Maud Park 1,471.801 1.442.288 29.243 2.03 10.084
Lyabraak 3,072.4SS 2.848,911 523.544 20.54 38.443
Oeaaasida 9.011,521 8,837,741 243.780 2.78 127.088
RockvHia
Cantra 3,872.268 3,413,398 158.888 4.85 22.908
Village Board Report
Benefit Game
Aids Rhame Avenue
Several weeks ago, the
Rhame Avenue Public
School in East Rockaway
had caught fire and was
severely damaged. Seeing
that it was quite incapable of
being utilized as a fully func-tioning
school building, The
Oceanside School District
permitted the use of its par-tially
vacant Merle Avenue
Junior School, which was
recently closed and sold to
t h e South Shore YM-YWHA.
To assist the East Rocka-way
School District in re-storing
their elementary
school to its original condi-tion,
Students Involved in
Community Change, a polit-ical
service and fundraising
club at Oceanside High
School, is sponsoring a fun-draising
volleyball tourna-ment
between the faculty of
both districts. It is to be hdd
at Oceanside High School in
the main gymnasium on
Friday, ApriL 18th at 7:30
p.m. There will be a $2.00
admission. All are welcome
to attend and enjoy an enter-taining
(and possibly amus-ing)
game. For further
information, please contact
Ms, Ellen Graba at 678-120,
extension 201.
by Annette Ling
A highlight of the Lyn-brook
Board of Trustees
Meeting of the Inc. Village
of Lynbrook held on Mon-day,
March 31, 1986 at 8
p.m. was the approval by the
Board of Trustees of a Bond
Resolution in the amount of
$142,5()0 to be used for the
purchase of new "pagers" to
be used by each member of
the Fire Department. The
"pagers", the latest in fire
f i g h t i n g equipment, will
greatly reduce the use of fire
sirens and horns with the
hope that most of the fire
horns will eventually be
phased out. The horns will
be chiefly used for Civil
Defense purposes in the
future.
At the request of anothr
candidate in the Village elec-tions
held on March 18th,
the vptes were recounted by
the Nassau County Board of
Elections and Trustee Nor-man
Dreyer was declared a
duly elected official for the
term of one year.
The Lyn-Rock Auxiliary
to Franklin General Hospi-tal
will grant the Board's
permission to hold a Garage
Sale fof the benefit of the
hospital at 70 Reyam Road,
Lynbrook on Saturday,
April 5th from 10 to 3.
The Nassau County
Board of Elections were
given permission to rent Vil-age
Hall for the Tuesday;
September 9th Primary and
(Continued on Page 13)
Governor.
"In the last two years,"
they explained, "we have
increased aid to education in
Lynbrook by $721,621 dol-lars
and in East Rockaway
by $420,440 dollars. These
increases contributed to a
record two year education
«id package for Lynbrook
totaling $5,657,809 and East
Rockaway totaling $4,625,897
(Continued on Page 13)
LENT INTERVIEWED WAVERLY PARK
SCHOOL. Congressman Norman F. Lent (R-East Rocka-way)
is interviewed by Robyn Mayer as cameraman Michael
Penn looks on. Congressman Lent visited the Waverly Park
School to discuss his early years in East Rockaway, and
answered questions concerning current legislation in Con-gress.
The show, which is produced and directed by the
students at Waverly Park, was shown during a regular
school broadcast.