Margaret Lee Ames
Engaged To Michael Ward
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Mr. and Mrs. J. Lewis Ames
of 129 Rumson Road, Harbour
Green, Massapequa, announced
this week the engagement of their
daughter, Margaret Lee Ames,
to Michael R. Ward, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Royce F. Ward of Alexandria,
Virginia.
Miss Ames was graduated in
June from Ohio Wesleyan University
where she was a senior
student advisor and a member
of Delta Delta Delta and Kappa
Delta Pi ( National Educational
Honorary). Her father is a senior
officer of Lennen and Newell
and is president of the Massapequa
School Board and past
president of the Nassau- Suffolk
School Boards Association. He
is also a trustee of Randolph-
Macon College in Ashland, Virginia.
Her maternal grandfather,
the late Roland Kilbon, was well-known
in New York newspaper
circles, having been associated
with the Herald- Tribune for many
years before becominer chief editorial
writer for the Sun, and
Margaret Lee Ames
later, the World Telegram and
Sun.
Mr. Ward will be graduated in
December from Ohio Wesleyan
where he has completed his term
as president of Student Government.
He is a member of Sigma
Alpha Epsilon and OmicronDelta
Kappa ( National Leadership Fraternity).
His father is president
of the Watergate Improvement
Corp. in Washington, D. C.
Mary Bertram Engaged
to Albert Okler
Mary Ann Bertrar
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bertram
of Amilyville, have announced
the engagement of their daughter,
Miss Mary Ann Bertram to Pvt.
Albert Harold Okler, Jr. of Massapequa.
Miss Bertram is a graduate of
Amityville High School and attended
the State University at
Farmingdale. She is presently
employed by the New York Telephone
Company.
Pvt. Okler is a graduate of
Long Island Lutheran High School,
Brookville and attended the State
University at Farmingdale, is
presently completing his basic
training at Ft. Gordon, Ga., before
beginning his training as an
assistant with the U. S. Army
Chaplain Corp.
His father is editor of The Long
Island Lutheran publication at
Mill Neck.
Plans are being made for a fall
wedding.
Joyce Stier Engaged
to William Babisken
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert M. Stier
of 6 Michele Terrace, Massapequa,
announce the engagement
of their daughter, Joyce Margo,
to William A. Babiskin of 1600
Grand Ave., Baldwin.
Miss Stier is a senior education
student at State University
College at Cortland and was president
of Sigma Delta Phi Sorority.
Babiskin is a graduate of Cornell
University and holds a Bachelor's
degree in Industrial and
Labor Relations. He is presently
attending Cornell Law School.
Plans are being made for a wedding
next August.
TOB Slates Music
Programs At Parks
George Bernard Shaw, Gilbert
and Sullivan and rock and roll
music will highlight the Oyster
Bay Town Recreation Department's
special events for the
week of July 17th.
On Wednesday, July 17 from
8 - 1 0 p. m. the Long Island
Studio Theatre will present
George Bernard Shaw's " Arms
and the Man" at the Marjorie
R. Post Massapequa community
park, while the Battle of the
Bands winners will supply the
music for the teenage dance on
Thursday, July 18, from 7 - 10
p. m.
At the Bethpage community
park, Gilbert and Sullivan's " Io-lanthe"
will be presented at the
Wednesday session and the
C. Y. 0. Cultural Arts Festival
winners and band will perform for
the teenagers on Friday.
At Syosset - Woodbury community
park on Wednesday, the
Central Long Island Chapter of
Sweet Adelines, Inc. will present
" Summer in the Park" while on
Friday, teenagers will delight
to the beat of Clem De Rosa and
his College All Stars Band.
At the Plainview - Old Beth-page
community park, the Bel
Canto singers will offer a medley
of show tunes and operatic hi-lites
on Wednesday and the Pine
Hill singers will offer folk- rock
music for the teenagers on Friday.
THEHEMESBRIGADE
SOUTH BAY
Next Season
Dr. Carl Wit, President of the
Massapequa Symphony Society,
announced the names of the
soloists chosen for the four concerts
during the coming season.
They include Clarinetist, Stanley
Drucker of Massapequa, a member
of the New York Philharmonic
since 1948 and solo
clarinetist with that orchestra
since 1960; Suzanne Starr,
Pianist, second prize winner of
the Tchaikowsky Competition in
Moscow, whd' made her debut
with the Philadelphia Orchestra
at the age of six; Reginald Regis
Pasquier, 20 year old violinist,
and Catherine Christiansen,
Soprano of the Metropolitan
Opera Company.
Bill Grants
Boatmen Extension
A nine- month extension of time
to comply with the anti- pollution
requirements of New York's Navigation
Law has been granted
boatmen in a bill just signed
into law by Governor Rockefeller
Under the terms of this legislation
the deadline for the installation
of sewage treatment devices
on watercraft in New York
state has been postponed from
June 1, 1968 to March 1, 1969.
" This extension," said James
O'Brien, Director of the Conservation
Department's Division of
Motor Boats, " will allow the
manufacturers time to produce
satisfactory devices at a reasonable
price and give boatmen the
whole winter to make the installation."
The postponement of the deadline
resulted from discovery that
few sewage treatment devices
intended for use on small craft
did a satisfactory job. The
Navigation Law requires that the
pollution control device be " of
a type approved by the State-
Department of Health and Conservation."
Joint research by
the Departments have revealed
that there were no units immediately
available that would
comply with Health Department
standards.
At present a number of units
are being tested and it is anticipated
that a list of approved
types will be announced before the
end of the boating season.
Pequa Band
Continues
Music Series
The Massapequa Community
Band sponsored by the Massapequa
Recreation Department under
the direction of Adam B.
Shaffer will continue its series
of Wednesday evening concerts
at 8: 30 P. M. on the Mall at
Berner High School by introducing
soloist, Helen Lyons as
the feature attraction on Wednesday
July 10. Miss Lyons, a
Massapequa Park resident and
possessor of New York State's
highest musical award will perform
" Ballade", a lyrical composition
composed by Alfred Reed
for Solo E Flat Alto Saxophone
and Band, according to Shaffer.
Other selections will include
the " Overture to the Tsars
Bride", " Alegria", and " Music
For a Summer's Night". For
those devotees of the wonderful
music from Ireland, Band Director
Shaffer will perform several
parts of Leroy Anderson's
" Irish Suites", " Danny Boy",
" The Girl I Left Behind Me",
and " The Irish Washerwoman".
Community singing will consist
of such favorites as " Take Me
Out to the Ball Game" and the
program will conclude with a
tribute to Richard Rogers " A
Symphonic Portrait", in which
a medley of great Rogers tunes
including " There Is Nothing Like
A Dame", " Sound of Music",
" I Whistle a Happy Tune", ' iA
Wonderful Guy" and " Climb
Every Mountain" will be heard.
At St. Davids
Maureen Elsie Christiansen,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Charles Christianson, of 123
Haves Street, Massapequa Park,
became the bride of Donald
Arthur Dinero of Kenmore, New
York last Saturday at a ceremony
i conducted by the Reverend
Charles Greene at St.
Davids Lutheran Church at 2: 00
p. m.
The bride was graduated
with honors from the University
of Rochester and plans to teach
in the Greece, New York School
District.
Mr. Dinero graduated from
the University of Rochester last
year and is employed as an engineer
in Rochester.
The bride wore a long
white silk organza dress with
long pointed sleeves of peau de
Ange lace, encrusted with pearls
and sequins, and a peau de Ange
lace, chapel train with a shoulder
length veil.
Miss Christine Christianson
the bride's sister, was the
maid of honor.
Nancy Wendt, Mrs. Diane
Schieff, the groom's sister and
E l i z a b e t h Christianson, the
bride's sister were bridesmaids.
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Mrs. Donald Dinero
A reception was held at
Ziegie's Restaurant, Massapequa.
The newlyweds left for a t r ip to
the Virgin Islands and upon
their return will reside in
Rochester, New York.
Eileen Vallas To Wed
Vincent Tola
Mr. and Mrs. Simon Theodore
Vallas of 24 5th Avenue, South
Farmingdale announced this week
that their daughter, Eileen Edith
Vallas will be married on July
13 to Vincent P. Tola of 124
John StieetJMassapequa ataceremony
to be held at St. Kilian
R. C. Church.
The bride to be was graduated
from the Farmingdale Senior
High School. Her fiance attended
State University Agricultural and
Technical College at Farming-dale.
He is a cost accountant.
School Board Meeting ( continuedfrom page 5)
for children with reading deficiencies
for which Plainedge r e ceives
assistance from the State
on funding. He spoke of a project
investigator with a diagnostic
team approach to screen pre-kindergarden
early for identification
with student leaning difficulties.
A Sensitivity training
project wherein children achieve
poorly because they are labeled
as poor achievers as a possible
area for a study which would
receive outside funding. No recommendation
was made at this
time.
Pat Connors, Director of Pupil
Personnel described the project
of creating a guidance resource
center. It was also funded from
the State. He said that more
emphasis needed to be placed on
the non- college bound with
materials. 35% to 40% were not
going on to higher education.
Studies were being made on what
graduates termed helpful in their
high school years for determining
success and failures. He
wished to create a climate for
guidance helpfulness.
The program of COPES ( Conceptually
Oriented Program in
Elementary Science) was described.
Plainedge in carrying
out the program in cooperation
with SOBSEC and New York University.
A full year in- service
course will be held for 60 teachers
from the five school districts
to update the elementary teachers
in science.
Administration said that two
half days would be scheduled
next year for parents in an oral
reporting of their children's progress
on the elementary level.
The Board adopted a calendar
for educational meetings for
1968- 69.
The Plainedge Public Li-brary's
entire Board of Trustees,
Alfred Freundjthe Director
and attorney Leroy Van Nostrand
came to the Board with the
library's problem, as required
by law. Because of high bids, the
Plainedge Public Library had to
spend $ 40,000 over the bond issue
for the construction and furnishing
of the new Plainedge Library
building, which is Hearing
completion. Due to a State law,
only a school district board may
award contracts. The Library
Board had to ask the Board of
Education to approve the expenditure
of money in excess of the
bond issue and work out an agreement
of handling the specific
contracts. The School board
would pay out $ 21,800 of the
library bond issue for one contract,
since the library had r e ceived
an additional amount of
$ 13,214 in Federal Funds which
the State library authorized. The
funds were for the purpose of
funding libraries which had to
spend more than the bond issue.
The library would pay for three
additional furnishing contracts
in the amount of $ 27,620 for three
furnishing contracts. The library
had the funds in surplus and from
fines and fees.
The Board of Education also
had to approve the expenditure of
monies for change orders authorized
by the Library Board and
the architect. Trustee Gagliardo
vehemently objected to ratifying
something without learning about
the change order at the time they
were made. The architect explained
that there was only 1%
in change orders and that speed
was of the essence at times to
save on construction time as
well as money. After the motion
was passed, President Hammer
said " He wished he knew the
library Board's secret in getting
an architect to come after midnight
and who gave so few change
orders."
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
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