The-Helm_1966-06-30; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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Vol. 5, No. 42 B i i K T f d HB S«. ()I1(I < "lasM M a t t er
P o s t O f f i c e , T . y n l i r o o k . N. T Lynbrook, New York, T h u r s d a y , June 30, 1966 LY 3-1300 l6<;i P e r Copy
LYNBROOK ROTARY INSTALLATION: Last week the Lynbrook
Rotary Club held their annual installation. Pictured above Oe^t to
right) Gene Morfesi, Chairman of the evening; Hank Roth, Secretary;
Sandy Wessler, Vice-President, and Lou Mirando, President, look
over the evening's program.
W e r n e r Amelingmeier New
Community Sr. V.P.
Werner Amelingmeier, a pr-ominent
South Shore auto dealer
who helped organize the Comm-unity
Bank in 1961, has been
named Senior Vice President of
the Bank which has offices in
Lynbrook and West Hempstead.
He is the owner and president
of Ted Rowland Inc., a Ford
4 Dealership in Lynbrook.
Mr. Amelingmeier succeeds
John Coughlin who will assume
the presidency of the bank on
July 1st when veteran banker
William A, Kielmann r e t i r e s . The
bank's new Senior Vice Presi-dent
has been a director and
Audit Committee Chairman of the
Institution since it was organized.
An immigrant youth who went
to work at the age of 14 as a
copy boy in Bernarr McFadden's
New York Daily Graphic, Mr.
Amelingmeier continued his edu-cation
at night, graduating from
Washington Irving High School as
the "outstanding student of his
c l a s s . " He later studied account-ing
at City College of New York.
After five years experience in
the automobile business, Mr.
k Amelingmeier and Theodore Ro-wland
established the Lynbrook
auto firm In 1941 just as the war
clouds were gathering over this
nation. After World War II they
developed their business into one
of the highest regarded firms of
its kind on Long Island.
Extremely active In civic, f r -
aternal, professional and chari-table
organizations, Mr. Ame-lingmeier
who lives at 54 Park
Ave., E. Merrick, with his wife,
is a past president of the Lyn-brook
Board of Trade, the Lyn-brook
Lions Club and the Nassau-
Suffolk Ford Dealers Assn. He
is presently a vice president of
the Lynbrook Chamber of Com-merce.
The auto industry leader, tur-ned
banker, has displayed a nat-ural
affinity to the field of finance.
Besides his studies in accounting
and finance, he has been a life-long
coin collector. Research into
the various monetary systems
and their viccissltudes has nur-tured
his intense Interest in the
field of banking.
Mr. Amelingmeier is widely-known
on Long Island's South
Shore. For more than a decade
he has travelled north to stalk
deer for the Annual Lions Club
Venison Dinner, and for more
tlian a decade there has always
been meat on the table.
The Amelingmeiers have two
sons and a daughter: Peter, an
engineering sophomore at Color-ado
University; Robert, a sopho-more
at Calhoun High School In
Merrick; and Mrs. Georglne Ol-son,
wife of William Olson, an
insurance underwriter of Park
Ridge, ni.
ROAD FIGHT Americanism Lyn. Hosts
GAINS SPEED
At a meeting held Monday
evening, June 27th, Committee
Chairmen, group leaders and ac-tive
citizens furthered plans for
fighting the County's proposal to
widen East Rockaway Road. Rep-resentatives
of the unincorpor-ated
area of Hewlett and the Vil-lages
of Hewlett Harbor, Hewlett
Bay Park and East Rockaway
were in attendance. All opposit-ion
groups have united under a
Coordinating Committee of the
East Rockaway Civic Association
which, as a chartered organiza-tion,
was able to legally function
immediately.
The various areas will be b r -
oken down into sections and a
Captain assigned to each to con-duct
a personal campaign of a l e r -
ting residents of exactly what af-fect
the proposal will have on the
individual home owner and the
community as a whole. It is ex-pected
that within the next few
weeks, through current contacts
and the Telephone Squad, several
thousand people in personal at-tendance
could demonstrate the
strength of those opposed to the
widening.
East Rockaway Village Trus-tee
Edward O. Lerner in addres-sing
a recent meeting of the East
Rockaway Civic Association said
that no resident in the Village
could consider himself untouched
by the 80-foot acquisition of the
Road by the County, that in ad-dition
to the factors of safety and
aesthetics, the tax structure of
the entire Village would be af-fected.
The East Rockaway Civic
Association President, Hal U.
The East Rockaway Church of
the Nazarene will hold Ameri-canism
Day on July 3rd starting
at 10 A.M. State Senator Norman
F. Lent of the 6th District will
speak on the subjeot, "The Ch-ristian
and His Duty Toward
His Government," and the pas-tor
R, J. Cerrato, will speak on
the "American Dream." The ch-ildren
of the Junior Choir will
sing a number of patriotic songs
for the occasion, and several men
of the congregation, who were
born in other countries will tell
what being a citizen means to
them. Representatives of veter-ans
organizations will be pres-ent.
Friends of the community
are invited to attend this day
that has been set aside to re-appraise
the values which have
been given to us in the Declar-ation
of Independence and the
meaning of the phrase, "One
Nation Under God." Flags and
copies of the Declaration of In-dependence
will be given to all
who attend.
Fisher, has said that "this will
be a long and costly fight" but
workers at Monday night's meet-ing
reported that donations had
been coming In steadily and they
are confident that "the threat of
the road widening can be settled
once and for all If we work to-gether
and continue to find res-idents
so eager to join us In
this fight."
Donations may be mailed to
the East Rockaway Civic Assoc-iation
at P. O. Box 122, East
Rockaway. For further informa-tion
call Mrs. Georgia Tabor
at LY 9-8349 or Mrs. Alice
Morell at FR 4-2631.
Foreign Students
Lynbrook familieswillbehost
to 40 American Field Service
students and 2 chaperones from
2 p.m. Wednesday, July 13 to
9 a.m. Sunday, July 17.
These students, who repre-sent
20 countries, have con4)Ie-ted
a year in various h i ^ sch-ools
in the state of Washington,
and have been touring the United
States by 13US.
The Lynbrook American Field
Service Chapter has planned var-ious
activities for their visit
A panel discussion will be held
at the Hewlett-East Rockaway
Jewish Centre on Wednesday,
July 13, at 8:30 p.m., to which
the community is invited.
The students will be guests of
El Patio Beach Club, AUantic
Beach, for the entire day, Thurs-day,
July 14. Transportation will
be furnished by Veteran's Trans-portation
Company of Valley St-ream.
Friday, July 15, will be spent
sightseeing In New York City,
visiting the Stock Exchange, Ch-inatown,
Greenwich Village, U-nited
Nations, Rockefeller Centre
and Lincoln Centre.
From Lynbrook, these stu-dents
go to Washington, D.C.,
for a few days at which time they
are invited to the White House.
After their stay in our capital,
they depart for their native co-untries.
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At a recent meeting of the Malverne Fire Department, Deputy William Sheeser was presented with a
plaque for his assistance while he was Fire Commissioner in 1965. Pictured, left to right, at the pre-sentation
are: present Fire Commissioner Thomas DriscoU, Mayor Morton Stein, Mr. Sheeser, Ex-
Chief George Grossman, and Chief Carl Rebhahn.