The-Helm_1963-07-11; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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Vol. 2, No. 13 Kntered as Second-Class Matter,
l^opt Office. Tyvnbrook. N. Y. LYNBROOK, N. Y., THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1963 10^ Per Copy
Fire Damages Lynbrook Home On Fourth
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Lynbrook's fire department battled a blaze on July 4th at the home of Eric Hansen, 54 Rowe Ave. The
fire of undetermined origin started in the attached garage and spread to the second floor. Fast acting volun-teers
were able to confine the blaze to the garage and second floor room. Damage was estibated at $2,500.
(Helm photo by P. Lobo)
Gatland To Head
Lynbrook Board
Of Education
The annual organization meeting
of the Lynbrook Board of Education
was held on Tuesday, July 2, to des-ignate
those members of the board
who will serve as officers for the
ensuing year.
Elected to office were Franklin
Z. Gatland, president; Mrs. Phyllis
Director, vice president and Watson
E. Morgan, secretary'.
Each of the newly elected olTi-cers
ex:iiressed appreciation to the
members of the board for tlie cfxnfi-dence
expressed in them by virtue
of their election to those positions
of leadership.
Other appointments whieli were
made at tliis meeting included: Fran-cis
A. Tully, treasurer; W. Wesley
Hill, attorney and Mrs. Renee
Braum, district clerk.
At the conclusion of the meeting
Mr. Gatland expressed confidence
in the school administration and all
elected ofl'icers.
Malverne School Bd.
To Seek Rehearing
With new organizations being formed, charges flying hot
and heavy, rumors circulating, it is difficult to get to the basic
truth in the present Malverne School District dilemma. Digging
and sifting through all the statements and charges this reporter
came up with two news items that actually bear on the problem.
• The Malverne School Board met
Turn-Off The Water
East .Rockaway Fire Chief Wih
liam J. Smillie, Jr., has urged that
all home owners co-operate with the
department during the dry summer
months in regulating their lawn
sprinklers. During the recent heat
wave, Smillie said, we had difficulty
with water pressure "at some of the
fires we responded to." "I urgently
retjuest hiomeowners who use sprink-lers
to TURN THEM OFF when
they hear the fire alarm go off in
the community," he said.
Chief Smillie went on to say that
residents in Lynbrook, Malverne and
o t h e r surrounding commimities
should also co-operate vdth their de-partments.
Remember when you hear the
fire alarm, TURN OFF your lawn
sprinkler to help maintain adequate
pressure in the fire hydrants.
last iVIonday night to act on specific
l^roposals that they would submit to
the State Education Department,
Due to the fact that Trustee Edward
Naiserowski was out of town attend-ing
a family funeral, no decisions
were made. It was revealed though
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See editorial "The Crisis in School
District #12," page 4.
New Jenkin Lloyd Jones Column Starts Today
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Jenkin Lloyd Jones, provocative, 1953, Jones won the William
and sometimes crusading editor of Allen Wliite Citation for Joumalis-the
Tulsa (Okla.) Tribune, today tic Merit, which is considered on^
starts his stimulating new column, of the highest honors in the field
AN EDITOR'S. OUTLOOK, which of journalism.
will run each Thursday in The "Jones and Typewriter" have
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The dynamic editor, who promises years. Wlien he isn't tied to his
that his column will be "politically news desk in Tulsa, he's off to far
impartial and nonpartisan," will places (some recent ones: Russia,
"cover all phases of human experi- the Arctic Circle, the jungles of Cen-ence"
as he sees it, but "will not tral and South America) shooting
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been likened to those of the late The editor of The HELM thinks
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of the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette, ing views of this hard-fisted editor
received high acclaim earlier in the as he shares AN EDITOR'S OUT-century
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Lynbrook Academy
Graduates Class of
Seventeen
Graduation exercises were held by
the Academy of Lynbrook in the
Louis XVI Suite at the Waldorf
Astoria. Assistant District Attorney
Aaron E. Koota of Kings County
delivered the commencement ad-dress.
Receiving diplomas from the Acad-emy,
which is considered one of
the finest private schools on L.I.,
were Lora Sue Doppelt, Woodmere;
Roy Louis Dower, Valley Stream;
Carol A. Ebner, Merrick; David E.
Feinberg, Lynbrook; Bonni Lee
Greenberg, Baldwin; Thomas D.
Holt, R.V.C.; John William Hub-bard,
Jr., West Hempstead; Nancy
Jacobs, Valley Stream; Howard
Bruce Korenman, Lynbrook; George
L. Krantz, R.V.C.; Barbara Nystrom,
Malverne; Ronald Matthew Polon,
Woodmere; Steven L. Rifkin, Wood-mere;
Sherman Jay Singer, R.V.C.;
Evelyn Soldinger, R.V.C.; Elaine
Barbara Stiler, Baldwin and Kathy
Weisman, Cedarhurst.
Local students receiving awards
were Howard Korenman, Citizen-ship
Award and David E. Feinberg,
the Athletic Association of Private
Schools Medal.
The Bennett Bassett Kirk Memo-rial
Plaque Award established by
the Headmaster, George Donus,
A.B., M.A., was presented to Steven
L. Rifkin the Valedictorian.
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that the School Board was notified
by the State Education Depart-ment's
Legal Division that the mat-ter
was now Ih the judicial realm
and board members could no Jonger
discuss alternatives with Allen in-formally
in his administrative capaci-ty.
School Board Acts
The school board met again on
Tuesday evening in emergency ses-sion
with all board members pres-ent.
After the closed door meeting
it was announced that they would
seek legal action for a rehearsing
before Commissioner Allen. Al-though
they declined to say what
proposals they were considering,
they felt confident that everyone in
the district would be happy with
their decision. A spokesman for the
board stated that their plan would
be released to the public after next
Monday.
TAP Writes Allen
The Taxpayers and Parents Asso-ciation
(TAP) on July 6th sent a let-ter
to Dr. Allen requesting that he
adopt their plan to solve the Mal-verne
School controversy and- to
rescind his June 17th order. The
plan ofl^ered by TAP is to have an
open enrollment in all schools, leav-ing
it up to the parent to decide
what school is best suited for their
child. The open enrollment wovild
be allowed only after the school
enrolled the children living in the
neighborhood, following the "neigh-borhood
school" concept. Children
living outside the area then would
be enrolled if vacancies exist in the
classrooms.
TAP also went on record with Dr.
Allen that unless their complaints
are heard and answered they would
be forced to harass, pressure, sue,
picket, sit-in, refuse to cooperate
with authorities and use otiier non-violent
means of drawing attention
to "the injustices they (State Ed.
Dept.) are bringing on our commu-nity."
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