Editorial
More Vandalism
Another school in this area has been vandalized.
This time it was Mill Lane Junior High in
District 22. Other nearby school districts have
been experiencing the same fate.
Despite security precautions, somehow the taxpayer
continues to become more and more victimized.
The smashing of windows, doors and display
cases and the playing of water games with the school
fire hose cannot be considered innocent pranks.
We hope that the school officials will take stern
action when and if the offenders are apprehended.
Defeat Costs More
The Farmingdale Public Library tax appropriation
which was defeated earlier this month would have
lowered the tax rate slightly. Although the defeat
was not quite as resounding as the school budget,
it was convincing enough for the library board to
exercise an option. They chose not to resubmit
it and instead will revert to last year's higher
tax appropriation. This is one time that a voted
down budget request will cost the taxpayer's
more money. Not much, but enough to ask, why
voters behaved as they did.
iai Day
Memorial Day marks the unofficial opening of
summer. Town beaches and parks will reopen
and vacation nostalgia begins setting in for students.
Why not take the family to one of the several
Memorial Day parades being held in this area.
The family will enjoy it. Wouldnt it be nice if
everyone displayed the flag to commemorate the
occasion ?
for The
To have capitulated to the petition that school
district 22 received from the awsome number of
taxpayers, numbering over 3,000 would be giving
in to rumours just because of the huge number of
taxpayers being taken in. We applaud Trustee
Robert Campbell and others who stood up to
principle. This Wyandanch issue has gotten so
out of hand that it may again defeat the school
budget. At least we think that the budget has more
chance by not having the Wyandanch issue on the
ballot.
Again may we reiterate there are no monies
in the budget which have anything to do with Wyandanch.
We are still amazed at the people who
thought the transportation budget provided for
busing Wyandanch children in and Farmingdale
children out of the District. This is false, false,
false.
Welcome
Welcome to Waldbaum's. The community has
been greatly improved by the coming of Waldbaum's.
Not only have they spent a great deal
of money on the store but on putting in new
cesspools and installing a new surface to the
parking area of the entire Cross Roads Shopping
Center. From its auspicious beginning, it can
mean a boom to Farmingdale.
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letters To
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Dear Editor:
I write In praise of Paul Til-ford
whose abilities, foresight,
intelligence and service to the
community have been duly appreciated
by only a small percentage
of the people of Farmingdale.
Unfortunately, all those misinformed
people who voted instead
for Mr. Gorton's candidate, Mr.
Altmann, have not been witness
to Mr. Tilford's accomplishments.
The Library Budget, not passed
because of the cunning misrepresentations
of Gorton, Altmann et
al was formulated under Mr. Til-ford's
leadership. It was lower
than that of the year before.
For many years Paul Tilford
has been active In all types of
school and community affairs.
To my knowledge he gave of his
tim3 and energy to every school
advisory committee, rendering
outstanding service. Where was
Mr. Altmann during allthattime?
At the last Library Board meeting,
Mr. Gorton searched but
couldnt find a way to decrease
the Library Budget except by
increasing fines and fees for
overdue books to five cents a
day. This has not achieved its
goal in other communities and
may defeat its purpose entirely.
Also at the last meeting our
John Birchers and debt supporters
were so hard put to find an
issue against the library that
they had to hold up two amusing
posters, stolen from library employees,
who had placed them in
their private work areas. To those
of us who wonder at the business
in which Mr. Gorton is occupied -
is he interested in becoming an
interior decorator? If so, he surely
lacks a sense of humor in
decoration. How petty can he get?
So, my friends and neighbors -
you voted against Paul Tilford -
a fine, upstanding, civic- minded
person of proven integrity, ability
and sincerity. His absence
from tne Library " Board wfiT u< r
sorely missed by all of us who
revere communication of ideas
through truthfulness and scholarship.
Lucille Rosen
As We See It
By HiMard P, Boss and
Charles Gerston
0. K., so Lang, Jones and Tilford
were defeated and the school
and library budgets went down to
crashing defeats. The citizens of
Farmingdale are left with De
Haan, Spinetta, Altmann, 2 defeated
budgets, and a scandal
sheet called DEBT. What now???
The library situation doesn't
look too bad. Responsible elements
will still hold a 3- 2 majority,
even though any doubt as to
trustee- elect Altmann's convictions
were erased when Bircher
Gorton remarked " after July 1
my motions will at least be
seconded." As for fiscal matters,
the library won't feel any financial
pressure since the voters
in their orgy of negativism voted
down an appropriation which was
$ 2800 less than last years.
The school board has been
actively wrestling with the task of
preparing a new budget for submission.
On May 13, at the first
public meeting after the defeat
of the budget, the board made
two important announcements: 1)
a new budget will be submitted
to the voters on June 22; and
2) a Citizens Finance Advisory
Committee was created to work
on that budget. This committee
is to be composed of 9 members,
one appointed by each of the
current board members and the
trustees- elect. The names of the
committee members were announced
two days later at the
public budget hearing. The committee,
which has already met
twice, is in the process of going
over the defeated budget item by
item and will make recommendations
to the board.
The Citizens Advisory Committee
has already made one significant
recommendation which
the school board has adopted.
Next year, Farmingdale will join
the Nassau County Board of Cooperative
Education Service
( BOCES). Participation in this
program will cost an initial
$ 10,000 membership fee, and this
amount will be added to the revised
budget in June, but membership
will bring in over
$ 200,000 in 1969- 1970 in additional
state aid for vocational and
special education. It is interesting
to note that neither trustee-elect
Spinetta nor his appointee
to the committee voiced any criticism
of this program, though
candidate Spinetta, in announcing
his platform before the election,
said that he would work to keep
an expanded vocational education
program right here in little old
Farmingdale.
While irresponsible elements
have been hacking away at the
school budget and raising phony
issues, current members of the
Board and truly interested citizens
have been busy. Trustee
Lang, for instance, refused to
accept the high bid for busing,
and his vigilance has seemed
to pay off since another bus
company has recently submitted
a bid which would save the tax
payers $ 94,000 per year on a
three year contract. In addition,
constant pressure on the state
legislature has paid off to the extent
of $ 127,000 in increased
state aid. These two items alone
represent a savings to the tax
payer of over $ 220,000, or approximately
20 cents per hundred
dollars of assessed valuation.
It is important to remember
that these savings would have
been achieved even if the budget
was passed.
Name Mill Lane Honor Roll
Dear Editor:
I would like a students view
known of what happens when a
school budget is not passed and the
school district would have to go
on an austerity budget. Number
one- no free school books would
have to be paid by parents. Number
two- No school buses, parents
would have to drive children to
school every single morning of
the school year. Number three-
No hot lunches, having the convenience
of having hot lunch in
school ruled out.
Number four- No after school
activities, I think this is the
most important to die student
Educational clubs that bring fame
to the school district. Sports
which is healthy competition with
other schools. What would a
student be doing during the time
which he does not participate in
an activity on a street corner.
I think it is worth a few dollars
more for a parent to pay for a
better education for a student. If
you add it up. Being on austerity
costs the parent just as much or
more as being a passed school
budget
A Student in Farmingdale
GiiAB£
Nina Aleshin; Barbara Carter;
Susan. Chin; Lyle Ciapetti;
Robert Coni; Toby Elbaum;
Dawn Franits; Ellen Germain;
Karen Gregor, Laura Greenfield;
Richard Guardiola; Howard
Hoffman; Natalie Karmel;
Kevin Klutchko; Jean Korch-owsky;
Gary Lederman; Ellen
Mackler; Susan Magruder; Anna
Manthos; Susan Moll; Michele
Morgenheim; Ted Nilsson;
Kathi Paige; Edward Pawlak;
Joseph Pennacchio; Susan
Rappaport; Marie Riccio; Pamela,
Roenrig; Christine Rugino;
Donna Serniak; Robert Serrian;
Louise Smallwood; Aian Solomon;
Meryl Steinberg; John
Suler; Richard Vitolo; Steven
Wolfson; and Seth Zarney.
GRADE 8
Diane Abato; Barbara Bodof-sky;
Steven Botkin; Gregory
Boyce; John DiGaudio; Steven
Fine; Gerry Fox; Patricia
Greening; Mitchell Held; Joyce
Heilig; Karen Hesse; Lynn
Levitt; Dale Licata; Mona
Me-^ arita; Michael Martin;
Barbara McClorey; Susan
Metzger; Ellen Meltzer; Roni
Pelzman; Robert Pleva; Marc
Pomerantz; Marsha Resnick;
Robert Rowman; Barbara
Sagar; Richard Schneider; Steven
Schuster; Francine
Schwartz; Vickj Schwartz;
Ellen Seeberger, Jeffrey
Seigel; Jane Siegel; Jeanne
Staugaitis; Donna Tiedemann;
and Marc Weinblatt.
GRADE 9
Randy Abrams; Claudia
Ahrens; Barbara Castellano;
Richard Civil; Ileen Crestol;
Mary Ellen DiGiacinto; Paul
Dinas; Janet Dodds; Carol
Friend; Diane Godfrey; Donald,
Gordon; John Holmes; Judy
Jorgensen; Debra Karlan;
Richard Kassler; Raymond
Kremer; Lorraine Lebits;
Barbara Lefsky; Frank Lo-
Manto; Marguerite Luck;
Stephanie Ramnick Alan, Rob-bins;
Robin Rothman; Sandra
Simon and Deborah Woodford.
Former Student To Be Ordained
cultural
Dolphin Green Civic
Assoc* Receives Notice
Of Zone Change Denial
30 people attended the second
meeting of the Dolphin Green
C ivic Association held at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. F. Schulz of
19 Dolphin Drive, Farmingdale.
The Association received notice
from the Town of Oyster Bay
that the Board had denied a zone
change from Business F to Business
G of property adjacent to
the Long Island Railroad tracks
behind Greenway to certain commercial
enterprises.
An outstanding campus figure
during his college days at the
State University Agricultural and
Technical College at Farmingdale,
Joseph Stanichar,
class of 1958, is to be ordained as
a priest at Saint Patrick's Cathedral,
New York City on Saturday,
June 1, 1968, by Archbishop
Terence J. Cooke.
The former Aggie student will
celebrate his first Mass on Sunday,
June 2nd at Holy Trinity
Church, Yonkers, New York.
Joe, who majored in Poultry
Husbandry, part of the Agri-
Play School Held Open House
The Amityville Playschool,
Inc., held an Open House on
Saturday in their new facility at
the State University in Farming-dale.
The event was well attended
and many children registered for
the 1968- 69 school year.
As in the past years, a scholarship
based on need will be offered
for the 1968- 69 school year.
In order to be eligible for the
scholarship, a child must reach*
his fourth birthday by December
division of the Farmingdale
College, occupied many
important positions at the college
while he was a student. A-mong
them were President of the
Newman Club; Secretary of the
Poultry Club; Editor of the student
yearbook, the Islander; and a
member of the Student Council.
Following his graduation from
the A & T College at Farmingdale,
he launched his training for the
ministry by attending Saint Joseph's
Seminary, Dunwoodie, New
York, the major seminary of the
Archdiocese of New York.
1, 1968 and have a parent who is
willing to cooperate twice per
month in school activities.
Those wishing to apply should
send a letter to the school. Box
252, Amityville, N. Y. 11701 stating
their reasons for desiring a
scholarship. There are a few
openings for next year in the three
and four old groups. Those desiring
information about registering
may call Mrs. Crichton at 694-
0987.
Farmingdale OBSERVER - Thursday, May 23, 1968
