The-Helm_1966-03-10; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

              East Rockaway Lynbrook • Malverne
Vol. 5, No. 26 M. V. Lynbrook, N. Y., Thursday, March 10, 1966 LY 3-1300 10^ Per Copy
RESCUE SQUAD HONORED: Last Saturday night the East Rockaway
VFW honored the Rescue Squad of the East Rockaway Fire Depart-ment.
Pictured above, Richard Boll, Captain of the Squad, and Harry
Shamroth, First Lieutenant, receive a plaque from VFW Commander
Joe Ledner, with Vice Commander Charles Frothingham looking on.
Districtl2 Counseling
Vocational and educational
counseling service for out-of-school
youths of District 12 will
be available each Wednesday eve-ning
during March at the Mal-verne
High School by the sch-ool's
guidance department.
Young men and women of
the District are encouraged to
telephone LY 3-4200 for app-ointments
to obtain information
and advice.
Occupational and specialized
vocational training information
will provide the job-seeker and
the worker who seeks advance-ment
with facts necessary for
their individual success.
HEMPSTEAD TOWN PRESIDING SUPERVISOR RALPH G. CASO
Oeft) who has been urging Long Islanders to write to him in pro-test
to a proposed New York City income tax on non-residents
working in the City, meets in his home recently with State Senator
Norman F. Lent to turn over the 1,500 responses he has received.
Lent will hand them on to Town representatives in Albany. Caso's
three year old daughter, Jolisa, wandered over to help her father
with the tabulation.
CLERGY
SPEAK
Our community has experi-enced
strife, tension and hostil-ity
for the past three years.
The Courts have now ruled. It
is time to permit our community
to bind up its woulds.
We endorse the efforts of
those groups who seek a posi-tive,
constructive approach to
our problems and are moving for- ^
ward to provide the best possi-ble
education for our children.
We believe that this goal of
academic excellence can be achi-eved
with the united effort of all
our citizens.
At the suggestion of mem-bers
of the School Board, we
recently wrote to Deputy Com-missioner
Ewald B. Nyquist con-cerning
the possibility of our
School District receiving finan-cial
assistance for the task of
achieving outstanding schools.
The Commissioner's response
was favorable and he suggested
that his office would help us in
seeking such funds. We under-stand
that the Committee of 80
has been exploring avenues for
such financial support.
However, Commissioner Ny-quist
emphasized that «the pre-requisite
for outside help...is
evidence of determination within
the community to work toward a
meaningful program".
We urge the School Board of
District #12 to exercise positive
leadership in this direction. When
that leadership will be forthcom-ing,
we are confident that we
shall be able to successfully
apply for financial assistance
from a number of sources.
We have great faith in our
community and our schools work-ing
in cooperation. We shall
yet be able to achieve our goals.
Rabbi Samuel Chlel
The Rev. William Flaherty
The Rev. W. M. Gillespie
The Rev. Martin Geehan
Father Frederic Harrer
The Rev. David Hickey
The Rev. William Murray
Rabbi Yechiel Orenstein
The Rev. Henry Ressmeyer
Rabbi Harold Saperstein
The Rev. Wilmert Wolf, Jr.
The Rev. Andrew Yoggy
Children's Matinee
The West End PTA of Lyn-brook,
will present a full-length
technicolor movie on Saturday,
March 12th at 1:30 p.m. at the
school. The film will be the
"Pied Piper of Hamlin", star-ring
Van Johnson. Admission
is fifty cents and refreshments
will be available. Mothers ac-companying
pre-schoolers, will
be admitted without charge. Pro-ceeds
will benefit PTA's endeav-ors.
THANK YOU FOR
HER LIFE
A few months ago, the res-idents
of East Rockaway and
Lynbrook were called upon to
perform an act of charity for a
little neighbor who needed help.
Little Winifred Kennedy is a
three year old who required open
heart surgery to correct a con-dition
which has been with her
since birth. Winifred's mother
and father were in no position
to finance this operation that
was vital if Winifred were to
continue living.
Only recently had a surgical
procedure been perfected which
could aid "Little Yank" and that
by a Canadian surgeon who later
successfully operated on the lit-tle
girl. Because the delicate
operation was performed outside
the U. S., no Federal or State
funds were available to the Ken-nedy's.
Representatives from Civic,
Fraternal and Service organiza-tions
in Lynbrook and East Rock-away
formed a committee to raise
the necessary funds for "Little
Yank." The committee adopted
the title of HER LIFE (Help East
Rockaway-Lynbrook Inter-com-munity
Fund Endeavor). The co-mmittee
called upon all the good
people of these two villages to
assist in helping this lovely little
girl. The response was over-whelming,
coming from all over
Long Island, as the following
financial statement proves:
Gross Income-$3388.65, Ex-penses
-$1067.00, Cost of Opera-tion
-$1431.55, Left for future
operations $890.10.
Additional donations(made out
to HER-LIFE and sent to Frank
Nulty, 309 Earle Ave., Lynbrook,
or George L. Perry, 16 Colum-bia
Ave., East Rockaway) will
be placed in the savings account
by the Financial Committee.
Frank Nulty and George L.
Perry, co-chairmen, and the en-tire
committee wish to extend
their sincere thanks to the won-derful
people of the communi-ties
for the fine charitable and
neighborly way in which they
responded.
The Kennedy's express their
thanks to everyone in the fol-lowing
statement:
"We would like to take this
opportunity to publicly thank all
the wonderful people and organi-zations
responsible for the suc-cess
of our "Little Yank's" op-eration.
If it had not been for
the time, effort and generosity
of all these people our Wini-fred's
future would still be bleak.
"To the "Her Life" commit-tee
itself, which formed and ran
the affair, our unforgettable grat-itude.
"For the warm personal let-ters
we received at home, which
meant so much, our deep appre-ciation.
"To the local service, civic
and religious organizations, who
stood so firmly behind the com-mittee
and made the entire affair
a success - we thank you.
"To the HELM and the other
publications which donated space
for this appeal, and to the people
and organizations which perfor-med
at the final party, our warm-est
thanks.
"And most of all, to YOU - the
public - the friends, neighbors
and strangers who opened your
hearts and made an otherwise
impossible situation become a
reality, we are forever indebted.
"As we watch our little dau-ghter
grow stronger each day,
our hearts grow full with the re-alization
that her future is prac-tically
guaranteed due to your
wonderful generosity. The latest
medical reports have shown the
operation to have been much more
successful than originally figu-red.
Rather than the additional
3 or 4 operations thought needed,
one more may suffice.
"We thank God each night for
each and every one of you. Words
seem futile as we try to thank
you and wish we could clasp every
hand that helped us.
"Again, from deep in our hea-rts,
and for our little Winifred-
God Bless You, Everyone."
St. Raymond's Holy
Name Soc.
The Holy Name Society of
St. Raymond's will receive Cor-porate
Communion next Sunday,
March 13, at the 8 o'clock Mass.
Immediately after Mass, in
the school cafeteria, the regular
monthly meetlngwill be held, with
a light breakfast being served.
Guest speaker at the meeting will
be Father Lucian Ducie, C. P.,
of the Passionlst Monestery, who
is also retreat director of the
Bishop Molloy Retreat House.
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