The-Helm_1970-06-11; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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Po»t Office, LvnbrooV, N. Y, LY 3-1300 THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER Thursday, June 11,1970
Vulcan Co. Installation
Chief F r ^ HUlgardner swears in the newly elected otticers of Vulcan Co. at their Annual InstaUation
Dinner. ^ I t to right) 2nd Lt Ed Murphy, 1st Lt. Ronnie Festa, Capt. John Bell & Chief Frank HUl-gardner.
The dinner was held recenUy at Vulcan Co. Fire House, Denton A ve., Lynbrook.
John Droge, 7th Grade student at Malverne's Grace Lutheran
School, is shown presenting a check for $450.00 to Reverend
Bernard Pankow, Pastor of the Lutheran Church of the Risen
Christ, Brooklyn. Looking on at the presentation are from left,
John G. Carajanes, co-pastor, Grace Lutheran Church; Thomas
W. Eifert, co-pastor, Grace Lutheran Church; and Richard L. Rath,
Director of Christian Education, Grace Lutheran Church.
This money represents a thank offering by the members and
friends of Grace Lutheran Church on the occasion of their school
building dedication. Pastor Pankow will use these funds to assist
his congregation in purchasing playground space adjacent to its
present church.
Personalities
At the Annual Installation Dinner of Vulcan Co., L.F J ) . Capt. John Bell (left) presents an Ex Captains
badge to outgoing Capt. Robert Raymond (right). In the background is Vulcan Company's new 1000 gal.
Young fire truck, delivered in time for the dinner.
Wrestling Awards
For the 15th consecutive year
the Becker Brothers Wrestling
Awards (voted on by Coach and
Wrestlers) were presented by
Mayor Francis X. Becker, at
the Annual Lynbrook H.S.
Varsity Club Dinner, sponsored
by the Dad's Club, held at Carl
Hoppl's, Baldwin on June 2,1970.
The awards were as following:
MOST IMPROVED WRESTLER
Award won by a boy in his
third year of varsity wrestling.
He made extremely fine
progress in becoming one of
the top wrestlers on the squad
after a so-so season last year.
Included in his seven victories
were four pins. He placed 4thf
in the Division Championship at
168 lbs.
The winner is Robert Havener.
OUTSTANDING WRESTLER
This award was won by a
young man who finished his
season with 8 victories and 2
draws in 13 matches. A de-voted
worker he was forced
to sit out his Junior year
as a result of an injury. How-ever
he returned in fine style
this year to gain a 2nd finish
in the Division IV Champion-ships
at 140 lbs.
The winner - Paul Seltzer.
Annette Ling
Dr. William K. Louis, Supt.
of Schools of Union Free School
District #19 comprising the Town
of Hempstead, East Rockaway,
a portion of Lynbrook, Bay Park
and Hewlett Point is a tall ener-getic
gentleman who seems to
embody the perfect qualities
necessary for his work and pro-fession.
He is slightly over 6
ft. tall, a well built strong 195
lbs. with blue eyes, brown hair,
glasses, and a quiet pleasant
manner.
Dr. Louis was born in Schen-echtady,
N.Y. and attended pub-lic
schools there, graduating
from Mont Pleasant High School.
He has his A.B. and Masters
in History from Duke University
and his Doctorate in Educational
Administration from Columbia
University. He taught for two
years at his old high school
before 1941 and then joined the
U.S. Air Force in the Pacific
Theatre of Operations and was
in service an actual 46 months.
He was an Air Force Squadron
Executive Officer and earned
the rank of full Colonel before
he was discharged. For a long
period of time he was stationed
in Saipan and vividly remem-bers
the first B-24's and later,
the longer range B-29's. The
Japanese bombed Saipan every
single night when they lost it
and he recalls the shock of all
the personnel when the war sud-denly
ended with Japan's capit-ulation
after the atomic bomb-ing
of both Hiroshima and Naga-saki
in a period of about two
weeks. Dr. Louis, the former
Colonel Louis remarked that the
glamorous Pacific Islands or
South Sea Islands are not at all
like one imagines with heat,
disease and many other draw-backs
to be combatted in the
daily battle of survival there,
although it is now a great deal
improved.
He was married to the former
Ada Rosati at Lowry Field
in Denver in 1942 and stated
that this was the high point of
his entire life. His love and
deep devotion for Mrs. Louis
is a wonderful thing and he
called her quote, "a living doll."
The Louis family have been
blessed with one fine son, Thom-as,
a teacher in Malverne Junior
High School.
After he was mustered out of
the service, Dr. Louis continued
to serve in the U.S. Air Force
Reserve and only retired two
years ago from his duties in the
Reserve.
He returned to his job at Mont
Pleasant High School and from
there spent one year in Albany
with the New York State Dept.
of Education. He was Asst. Supt.
of Schools in Nishayuna, N.Y.
until he came to School District
#19 and his present home on
Grant Ave.
His favorite) hobbies are the
same as his wife and they both
enjoy golf, gardening, and read-ing,
especially historical bio-graphies.
Dr. Louis and his
charming wife particularly like
Scandinavian Smorgasbord and
Dr. William K. Louis
after seeing a play in New York
drop in for their favorite type of
meal.
Both Dr. and Mrs. Louis are
the only child in their respective
families and Dr. Louis' father
and mother, William and Wil-helmina
are both deceased.
Dr. Louis is a member of the
American Assoc. of School Ad-ministrators,
New York State
Assoc. of School Supts., & Nas-sau
County Assoc. of School
Supts.
Dr. Louis feels that, "Today's
young people have every op-portunity
to be better informed,
and the most important thing is
that they exercise good judge-ment
in facing life's problems,
growing in maturity gradually
and under our democratic pro-cess."
This writer was impressed
with Dr. Louis. He is quite evi-dently
a first class administra-tor
as well as scholar and a
quiet and good person. He is
very dedicated and often takes
home work from his office and
comes in every Saturday morning
to clear up any odds and ends.
School District #19 has a very
special administrator and East
Rockaway, a most hard-working
and dedicated resident.
Lynbrook Week
June
22-28
Schedule
of Events
in next week's issue