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VOL. 36 NO. 1 Wednesday, January 18, 1989 35c PER COPY
Lynbrook Village Board Meeting
SWORN IN. East Rockaway Executive Leader Phil Christ (center, rear) offers his
congratulations to the officers of the East Rockaway Republican club at their swearing
in on January 10, 1989. They are, from left to right: Roseanne Zampardi, Treasurer;
Katherine Quinn, 1st Vice President; John Hambel, 2nd Vice President; Ed Schenk,
President; Phil Christ; Ethel Brenner, Financial Secretary; Norman Janowitz, Recording
Secretary; and Louise Miller, Corresponding Secretary.
Memories of Dr. Bormann
By Annette Ling
The first Village Board of
Trustees Meeting for 1989
was held at Village Hall at
8 p.m., Monday, January
9th with several interesting
items on the agenda.
The village will start giv-ing
out 8,000 plastic contain-ers
in the village colors of
blue and silver for recycling
of botles and tin containers
of all sizes. This will start
very shortly and residents
will be notified about the
program and dates for put-ting
out. Mayor Geier called
it "Phase II of the Lynbrook
Recycling Program and
mentioned that garbage dis-posal
will go up in cost from
$30 a ton to around $70 a
ton because it will have to
be trucked to a site in upstate
New York with Long Island
landfills rlosfd heraiisf of
capacity tonnage. He called
it the most serious problem
facing Long Island residents
in the future. Pamplets will
be sent to all Lynbrook
residents explaining pick-up
dates and how to make use
of the containers. Mayor
Geier praised Lynbrook res-idents
for the success of the
newspaper recycling pick-ups
which was Phase I of the
recycling.
The Board passed the
necessary SEQRA resolu-tion
on 135 Sunrise Highway
and it was noted that the
Nassau County Planning
Board has denied the appli-cation
to build at condom-inium
at the site with 114
units. They rejected it
because of traffic and over-intensification
of the prop-erty.
It will take a "super"
majority vote of 4 to approve
by Mildred Roemer
Dr. Henry H. Bormann,
83, died in his retirement
home in Hightstown, N.J.
on December 2. He is sur-vived
by his wife, Pauline.
He had been a First Lieut-enant
in the Army Air
Corps, stationed at Casab-lanca
during WWII.
Dr. Bormann, who grad-uated
Phi Beta Kappa from
New York University,
became principal of both
Rhame Avenue and Centre
Avenue Schools, serving
both at the same time. He
later was principal of East
Rockaway High School,
retiring in 1961, completing
a total of 32 years in our
school system.
Dr. Bormann was seated
in his office in Rhame
Avenue School dictating to
his secretary, Mary Healy
(now Mrs. Edward Carter),
when I first met him. I had
come to register my two
older boys, Lynn and Dou-glas,
for the Fall school
session. Later a third son,
Kenneth, also attended the
school. Douglas was placed
in the Kindergarten with
Estelle Richard and Lynn
with Dorothy Otis in the
First Grade,
A year later I was flattered
to be asked to become pres-ident
of the Parent-Teacher
Association. Afterwards 1
learned that the nominating
committee had been having
a difficult time trying to find
someone to take the posi-tion!
Having lived in Brook-lyn
near the Children's
Garden connected with the
Botanic Gardens, 1 glanced
over the vast "wasted"
school-ground property and
suggested we have a school
Victory Garden. As these
were war times. Dr. Bor-mann
seemed more used to
having the ladies permission
for holding a cake sale than
this "grandiose" idea, but he
said he would appeal to the
School Board. They were
applauded; however, he
stated that the play must be
of "educational" value.
Finally it was decided to
present a story of old East
Rockaway. Mrs. Murray
agreed to write the script if
I would do all of the
research, costumes, and
scenery with an able com-mittee.
Week by week Dr.
Bormann reviewed the script
and the Historical Pageant
was a success. It also caused
a "died-in-the-wool" Brook-lynite
to later become His-torian
of the Village of East
Rockaway due to the inten-sive
research on the PTA
project.
Dr. Bormann was a strict
disciplinarian but fair, lis-tening
to both sides of every
story. Some say he counted
each paper clip before being
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Student Selected To Attend
Inauguration
From January 17 to 21,
1989, Eileen Verity of East
Rockaway will join approx-imately
five hundred out-standing
high school stu-dents
from across the
country for a rare opportun-ity.
Eileen will experience
the presidential inaugura-tion
in both an educational
and civic context through
the 1989 Youth Inaugural
Conference sponsored by
the Congressional Youth
Leadership Council.
Eileen, who has been spe-cially
selected by her high
school principal based on
demonstrated academic
achievement, leadership and
citizenship, will serve as the
representative of her school
and community while in our
nation's capital. She cur-rently
attends East Rocka-way
Jr & Sr H S.
Mother of the Year Contest
Dr. Henry H. Bormann
lukewarm, but said if we
could raise money for a fence
around it, we might have it.
Depression times were still
with us and this was a BIG
order! We knew a cake sale
wouldn't do it! A general
meeting of the members was
called. (All suggestions fell
fiat until Mrs. Dennis Mur-ray,
a member, suggested
producing a show of some
kind. The mother of movie
star Don Murray had herself
been a Ziegfeld Follies star
and her husband was a dance
director for the then popular
"Hell's A 'Poppin." Dr.
Borman must have paled
visibly as all others
Once again Lynbrook
Elks Lodge No. 1515 is
holding its annual contest to
find a local resident (Lyn-brook,
Malverne, East
Rockaway) who qualifies as
"Mother of the Year."
Mothers who were entered
before and did not win are
encouraged to try again.
Qualifications
Generally, a mother is
sought who has excelled
both inside and outside the
home. Outside activities may
include such pursuits as
hospital work, scouting,
community church or syn-agogue
work, athletic
leagues and PTA.
Locals are invited to sub-mit
in printed or typed form
a resume of their candidate,
outlining why they feel she
is most deserving. Submis-sions
will be accepted until
February 15, 1989.
All submissions and
accompanying letters will
become the property of the
lodge and cannot be
returned. All materials sub-mitted
will be kept strictly
confidential. Sponsors
should include their names
and telephone numbers. The
mother choscn will be
announced Saturday,
March 18, 1989.
Send entries to William
Bock, Chairman, Lynbrook
Elks 57 Hempstead Avenue,
Lynbrook, New York 11563.
Eileen Verity
Eileen will meet with
Members of Congress, exec-utives
officials, historians,
academicians, and leading
journalists to gain a deeper
understanding of the his-tory,
tradition and signifi-cance
of the American elec-toral
process and the
inauguration. In addition to
the swearing-in ceremony of
the 41st president of the
United States, program
highlights will include a
congressional inaugural
breakfast with Members of
Congress, a black tie dinner
and performance at the
Kennedy Center, and partic
ipation in the Youth Inaug-ural
Ball.
"While our planning
efforts besan in earlv 1987,
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the Special Exception for the
condominium complex
because Trustee Eugene
Natale abstains from either
Ihe hearing or the actual
voting on the project
because of a conflict of
interest. (His law firm is
engaged in litigation with the
applicant.)
Kate Adams, Director of
Cablevision's Marketing
and Public Affairs Director,
gave an update on services
offered by Cablevision
which has taken over
Adams-Rusell on Ocean
Avenue, Lynbrook, Prior to
her report, Adams-
Kusell paid a franchise tax
to Lynbrook of $45,700,
which was accepted earlier in
the Board Meeting in lieu of
Real Estate Taxes.
Cablevision offers a better
picture quality, many special
features, such as WSBK
from Boston, MovieTime.
access to the four-event Pay
For-View Channel, govern-ment
access channels, C-Span
11 and 24-hour emer-gency
service according to
Mrs. Adams. Subscribers
will have to options of
exchanging their old box for
a new converter system, or
upgrading their system to
acquire remote A Trunk and
B Trunk control and volume
control. Rates will vary with
the subscribers paying $3.50
a month to $6.25 a month
but the special rates for
senior citizens will be in
effect. The rate adjustments
will go into effect sometime
in March, 1989.
A donation of $100 from
an anonymous donor was
accepted for the Lynbrook
Police Department.
The fees paid to Election
officials were raised in each
category and approved by
the Board. Election Inspec-tors
and Election Registra-tors
will get from $50 to $90
for their work. The Election
Inspectors will meet at Vil-lage
Hall on March 9, 1989.
The Board designated
March 21, 1989 as Election
Day in Lynbrook with pol-ling
places open from 7:30
a.m. to 9:00 p.m. The elec-tion
of two Trustees and One
Village Justice will be on the
ballot.
A bid of $82,500 for a
D.P.W. Sweeper was
accepted by the Board and
turned over to the D.P.W.
for further evaluation.
A one-hour parking sign
will be placed on Bi^l^y
Heath to help with their ull-day
parking problem, '^"wo
stop signs will be placco at
Christable Street and I riv-
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