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Students for 60,000: People of Year in Education Their philanthropy has saved lzves changed minds, and made leaders BY JOSHUA DIAMANT Over 300 of Long Island's most gen- erous people are gathered in one room One after another gets up. descenbing a different service project he or she is spearheading and trying to recruit like- minded people to the cause They are ambitious undertakings rural elecinti- cation in latin America. a weekly tutoring program for Latino day labor- ers in Huntington and Farmingdale. tea hing them English as well as healthy cooking. building a \global vi lage\ in the Hamptons that will arm to «hange people s attitudes about pover tv by having them live hhe indigenous pepulatons for up to four days Sounds Ithe the annual board meet: ing of a major: philanthropic tounda:- tron right' Actually. at's a typical week's gathermg of Northport High S. hool's Students tor 60.000. one of the largest. busiest and most successful s hool «community -service organiza- tons in the country and The Times of Northport's People of the Year in Fducation While Peter White. the beloved social studies teacher who retired last year. was the club's adviser for the first 24 years of its existence. he credits its genesis to Dick Streb, who chaired the social studies department until 1981. 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Rosnche Aerus, Rearend, NY 11901. Memier NASD & SIPC 41036 Photo by Alan Pearlman Students for 60.000 members Kimberly Kiein, at left, and Krystal Tyska at the annual Shantytown outside Northport High School this past November. Students stay overnight in cardboard boxes to simulate the homeless experience. The event serves as a fundraiser as well as a way to arouse interest and awareness among participants and the public. curnculum. Streb influence, White said), especially In the 1986-87 school year, White working with the city's underprivi- was teaching the urban studies course, leged citizens. The following year, stu- and he placed priority on hands-on dents who had been in the previous learning in New York City (another class, along with some who hadn't taken it at any point, asked him if they could continue the projects they had worked on the year before. White agreed, and Students for 60.000 was born, named for the fact that there were at the time 60,000 homeless people in New York City. in 1s first year, the club consisted of about 20 students, a far cry from the hundreds who regularly attend meet- mgs today. Back then, the club raised a respectable $8,000 in a year to help the needy. The club gradually grew,. and with it its fundrarmsing: $17,000 the next year and $27,000 the year after that. In 1990, White organized a trip to Nicaragua. the second-poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. to partner with a large rural commumty called Chacraseca. Delegations from Students for 60,000 have returned to Chacraseca twice a year, every year, since then, for what has become the group's signature project. In the meantime. they have brought electricity, housing. schools, food and. most importantly, hope. The Nicaragua Project earned Students for 60,000 perhaps their most prominent accolade: an official citation on the floor of the House of Representatives by U.S. Congressman Gary Ackerman (D-Jamaica Estates), who represented Northport until dis- trict lines were redrawn in 2001. \These students do not want publicity for their efforts. They offer themselves as an example that, locally, every per- son can make a difference. That with Continued on page A15 Join Us for... The Stony Brook Gift Shop's ER CHRISTM AS SALE Fur a limited time only, we're able to offer newly reared omaments trom the Chnstopher Radko collection at | incredible savings of up to 50% ofl. This special opportunity toacquire and of limited aradabduy 1s strict} last! 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