The-Helm_1974-05-01; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

              Vol. 13 No. 48 Entered a s Second—Class Matter
• P o s t Office, Lynbrook, N.Y. LY 3-1300 THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER Wednesday, May I, 1974 lOe
Committee members for the South Nassau Unit, American Cancer Society, First Annual Cocktail
Party, Buffet and Dance meet Harry Goz, star of Broadway's "Fiddler on the Roof." and his wife
Margaret, popular stage and TV performer. Mr. and Mrs. Goz are Honorary Co-Chairmen for the affair
which will be held at the Malibu Beach Club, Lido Beach on Sunday, May 5, from 3 to 7. Both will en-tertain
that afternoon.
I. to R: Richard Overgaard,Co-Chairman; Lorna Richards, President of Lynbrook - East Rockaway
Branch; Margaret and Harry Goz, Honorary Co-Chairmen; Mrs. Fredrick Mize, mother of Ron Mize
and Charles W. Koenig, General Chairman.
The affair will be held in memory of Ron Mize of Massapequa, a model and actor, who died at the
young age of 26 on August 6,1973 following a brief battle with cancer. Ron's name will represent all who
have died of cancer in the South Nassau Unit area.
Tickets are being sold by Branch chairmen at $12.50 per person. Call ACS 48:}-5775 for information.
Proceeds will be directed towards research in the hope that we will conquer cancer in our lifetime.
Gala Lynbrook Week
The annual gala Lynbrook
Week celebration has been
carefully planned by the Lyn-brook
Week Committee under the
capable direction of Chairman
Frank Hillgardner and this event
which has become a tradition of
civic pride and community spirit
will be bigger and better than
ever this year.
Monday night will be Lynbrook
Night at Roosevelt Raceway with
four buses standing by at the
Earle Ave. Parking Field on
Monday. June 24, 1974. Tickets
include bus transportation and a
complete dinner at the Cloud
Casino. The cost is $10.50 per
person and the tickets must be
obtained from the Village Hall.
Buses will leave at 6:30 p.m.
sharp. First two buses will leave
earlier and the others be on
stand-by for those who wish to
come to Earle Ave. by 7:00 p.m.
Many people will prefer to bring
their own cars by the price is the
same and there is an entire block
of seats for the Lynbrook folks
who will be all sitting together.
There is also a Lynbrook Stake
by Annette Ling
Race in honor of Lynbrook,
U.S.A.
All Monday morning from 6:30
a.m. until 10:00 p.m. coffee and
doughnuts will be served to
commuters at the Lynbrook
Railroad station by Mayor
Becker and the Board of Trustees
of Lynbrook. Mon. they will be at
the Lynbrook Railway Long
Island Station to greet com-muters.
Tuesday morning the Mayor
and Trustees will serve coffee
and doughnuts at the Westwood
Station of the Long Island
Railroad and on Wed. morning of
Lynbrook week from 6:30 a.m. on
they will be doing the same at the
East Rockaway Center Ave.
Station.
Thursday evening, will be
Community Night honoring
Lynbrook's Senior Citizens with
the "All-American Blue Grass"
Band of Country-Western Music
at Lynbrook High School
beginning at 8:00 p.m. "The Long
Island Sounds Barber Shop
Quartet" will also entertain.
Friday evening, the Lynbrook
Recreation Commission will
present a fine evening of Dancing
under the Stars and good music
provided by the Country Squares
Band to be followed by the
awarding and honoring of the
Honorary Lynbrook Resident of
the Year and also the Lynbrook
Resident of the Year. It is
possible that there will be two
awards for each in both
categories. Pllase bring your own
folding chairs and in the event of
rain it will be held at Our Lady of
Peace Auditorium.
Friday evening is the Gala
Block Party which will cover
Forest Ave. and Earle Ave. in
various sections with both a
Rock-N-Roll Band and The Play
Boys which have a Big Band
Sound for dancing for the young
in heart. There will be food, fun
and entertainment available with
the whole area brilliantly lit up
and food, beverages etc. to be
bought if anyone is hungry. It
begins at about 7:00 p.m. until
late in the evening.
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Principal To Retire
From Lynbrooii School
Mr. Clarence A. Day, Principal
of the Marion Street School in
Lynbrook, will retire on June 30,
1974. He came to Lynbrook as a
science teacher in 1936 after
teaching and coaching in Central
Islip for six years. Day became
Principal in 1952 succeeding Miss
Florence Ramsdell. Soon after
his arrival in Lynbrook he was
appointed Commissioner of the
Boy Scouts of America and
continued in that capacity until
he enlisted in the Navy. Day
remained in the Navy Reserve
program as a commander and
was Personnel Officer for
N.R.O.S. at Freeport until 1962.
Having been a professional
athlete, he coached in the Lyn-brook
School system and after
becoming Principal coached the
Lynbrook Mur - Lees Baseball
Club for twenty years. His suc-cess
with the team is well known
as they won many Long Island,
New York State and Eastern
Championships. Many of his
athletes went into pro ball and
college and high school coaching.
During his days in public
education. Day was President of
the Lynbrook Teacher's
Association for two terms and
President of the Long Island
E l e m e n t a r y P r i n c i p a ls
Association for two terms. He
also served the school district #20
as Chairman of the Lynbrook
Health Council and many years
as Chairman of the Health Im-provement
Fund.
Day is a member of the Lyn-brook
Lions Club, American
Legion Post m5. Long Island
Principal's Association, New
York State Association of School
Administrators, National
E l e m e n t a r y P r i n c i p a ls
Association, and the New York
State Association for Supervision
and Curnculurn Development.
District No. 12 Announces
Proposed Change In
Guidance Service
Two guidance counselors are
being dropped from the Malverne
High School faculty next school
year, according to an an-nouncement
made at District 12's
April 16 School Board meeting by
Board President John Lewis. The
650 students in the school
currently are served by three
counselors, with a fourth
assigned to the attendance office.
Proposed changes in guidance
services include hooking into a
Board of Cooperative
Educational Services (BOCES)
computer to obtain information
about the 40,000 colleges in the
nation. Members of the Malverne
Teachers Association have ex-pressed
concern that Malverne's
students are "again to be used as
guinea pigs in an experiment."
When a parent at the meeting
asked where such computerized
guidance is now in use, a District
official said, "Mineola." MTA
President Herb Walther says,
however, that further checking
by his organization has deter-mined
that such a system is not in
use in Mineola, though Mineola
Free Cancer Tests
The 'South Nassau Unit,
American Cancer Society, in
cooperation with Mercy Hospital,
Rockville Centre, is offering a
free breast examination and Pap
smear.
This examination, by doctors,
will be given at Mercy Hospital,
on Saturday, May 18th, between
the hours of 9 AM and 3 PM.
Examination by appointment
only, on a first call basis. Women,
may phone for time on Monday,
thru Friday, May 6-10, between
the hours of 1 and 4 pm only.
does plan to employ the com-puterized
data next year to
assist, but not replace, its present
guidance counselors.
Walther, who says the MTA has
presented its own proposals to the
members of the Board to improve
the utilization of guidance per-sonnel,
calls the reduction in
g u i d a n c e s e r v i c es
"dehumanizing." An editorial in
a recent issue of the student
newspaper, The Voice, decried
the January removal of par-titions
between counselors'
desks, saying that the result is a
lack of privacy during personal
conferences.
Other changes in counseling
procedures included in the
Board's proposals are the use of
peer ^roup counseling and the
assignment of academic coun-seling
to Department Chairmen.
"My Department Chairman is in
charge of kindergarten through
grade 12 and is in the building
about 30 minutes a day at the
most," says one High School
teacher. "At every meeting we
have, he speaks of how busy and
harassed he is. How's he going to
find time to coonsel students
about anything?"
Guidance services in
Malverne High have been
reorganized each year for the
past several years, the MTA
points out, including the
elimination of the positions of two
counselors in 1973. A subsequent
ruling by then-Acting N.Y. State
Commissioner of Education
Gordon Ambach termed the
procedure a "meaningless
change of job description" and
ordered the two counselors re-instated
with a restitution of
back-pay.