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SIX THE EAST HAMPTON STAR, EAST HAMPTON, N.Y., MAY 11, 1978 Bridgehampton Mary Cummings 537-0683 The Bridge Hampton Historical So ciety has announced its program for the testimonial dinner to be held on May 13 at the Community House in honor of Russell Simons. Two movies by Larry Ruddell of Southampton will be shown. The first was made in 1915 and shows scenes of Southampton, including a parade down Main Street. The second, made in 1940, is in full color and also shows scenes of South ampton. Golf Benefit The Hampton Library will benefit from a golf tournament next Tuesday at the Bridgehampton Golf Club. Men, women, and mixed foursomes have been invited to compete. Gross, net, longest drive, and nearest-to-pin prizes will be awarded and there will also be “pot of gold” prizes. Mary Brennan, Box 671, Bridge hampton, has been in charge of ar rangements for the Library’s women’s committee. Homemade refreshments will be available for a small donation at the half-way point or at the end of play. May 17 has been set as a rain date. Budget Meeting The Bridgehampton Board of Educa tion will hold a special meeting to discuss the District budget for 1978- 1979 on Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the School. This will be the last session at which the public will be invited to make budgetary suggestions and participate in formulating the budget, before the annual meeting. The meeting will be held on June 13, with voting the following day from 2 to 8 p.m. Registration to vote will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. on June 5. Petitions for anyone interested in running for election to the School Board are due by May 13. Last Monday, the Board held a regular meeting and heard Dr. Frank McGowan give a glowing report of student activities. He said everything went according to schedule during spring vacation when the senior class traveled to Orlando, Fla., the basket ball banquet, held on May 5, was well attended and successful; grades seven through 12 enjoyed their trip to East Hampton for a performance of “The Wiz,” and plans for the Honor Society induction on Tuesday, May 9, were proceeding without any problems. Career Day on April 20 went well and, even during the spring recess, the premises had been put to good use for the sale of James Jones’s personal library, donated to the Hampton Li brary when the author died last year, he reported. Summer Program Proceeding to “old business,” the Board touched briefly on the familiar topic of the summer program. A letter from Bridgehampton’s athletic director, strongly advocating that the program be included in the budget, was read by John Niles, Board president. It was pointed out in the letter that a similar situation in East Hampton— defeat of the school budget several years ago—had never resulted in a decision to drop the summer program from the budget, and that the decision to include the program in subsequent years had not caused the budget to be defeated. A figure of $8,921 was given for the program and, once again, Board members expressed support for it and for including it in the budget. Dr. McGowan brought up another topic for discussion which, he told the Board, was a matter of increasing importance in Bridgehampton. Next year, he informed them, 20 students, all “desperately in need,” would be recommended for handicapped place ment. This year there were 17. “This is becoming significant for us,” he said, adding that the $5,100 cost per student is practically the price of a year at Harvard. Busing Finally, it was agreed that a letter should be sent out by the Board informing the District of a change in policy regarding transportation. In the past, buses to both St. Andrew’s in Sag Harbor and Our Lady of Poland in Southampton have been provided at public expense from the Bridgehamp ton District. Though bus transporta tion to only one parochial school is mandated, Our Lady of Poland was designated a second school because St. Andrew’s enrollment had been closed. Now that condition no longer exists and St. Andrew’s can accommodate the 14 students now attending Our Lady of Poland. The Bridgehampton District will, therefore, provide transportation for just the one school next year—St. Andrew’s. A proposition may, how ever, be entered on the ballot separate ly, if so desired by interested residents. Mary Cummings Sag Harbor Mrs. Ray Harris 725-1909 A son was born on May 3 at the Southampton Hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Cerrato of Sag Harbor. Lieutenant Junior Grade Gregory J. MacGarva USCG, son of Captain Richard J. MacGarva, USCG retired, and of Mrs. MacGarva of North Haven, was accepted for June 19 admission into a graduate program in naval architecture and marine engineering at the University of Michigan. Lieutenant MacGarva is an assistant engineer aboard the cutter Sherman, out of Boston, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. James Ficorelli have returned from a Florida vacation. Mrs. Alvin Rossuck has returned from visiting relatives in Palm Springs and Walnut Creek, Cal. Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Brandt and family of Kings Park recently visited Mrs. Brandt’s mother, Mrs. Max Mat- les of Madison Street. Mrs. Frank Morobito of Wilmington, Del., has been staying with her aunt, Miss Ellen A. Bates, and visiting her mother, Mrs. Sadie Paterson, who is a patient in the Southampton Hospital this week. Recent guests of Miss Dorothy Simon were her cousins, Mrs. Max Mandell, and Miss Beatrice R. Simon, of Patchogue. The Sag Harbor Yacht Club opened for the season on May 1 with Edward King as dockmaster, assisted by Scott Aldrich and George Butts Jr. Mr. King and his mother, Mrs. L. King, recently returned from Deerfield Beach, Fla., where they spent the winter. The Fire Department will hold its annual inspection dinner and dance at Pulaski Hall, Southampton, on May 20, beginning at 7 p.m. Nora Cox, who attends Mount St. Mary College in Newburgh, N.Y., was home last week to attend the funeral of her father, Arnold Cox. Mrs. Nathaniel Hildreth, Mrs. Claude Guerin, Walter B. Stearns, and Claude Jones are patients in Southampton Hospital. A ham dinner will be served at the Methodist Church Saturday at 5:30 and 7 p.m. A daughter, Jennifer, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Milton George Monday night at Southampton Hospital. Library Doings The Friends of the John Jermain Library are planning a “new members’ tea,” to be held from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. next Thursday, May 18, at the Library. On June 7, the Friends will sponsor a bus trip to Manhattan and back. In other Library news, a “good selection” of children’s phonograph records is now being circulated, some of which complement books. If the record library proves popular, Jean Young, librarian, has said she will order more discs. Fashion Show Baron’s Cove Inn will be the scene of a fashion show and lunch next Wed nesday being sponsored by the Eastern Long Island Chapter of Hadassah. Billings Country Shop, Southamp ton, will provide the clothes. Mrs. Samuel Margolis of Southampton is head of reservations. Her committee members include Dorothy Simon, Mrs. Saul Steiner, Mrs. Arthur Printz, and Mrs. Wallace Kendell. The event will start at noon. SELF-HELP: Milton Orshefsky of Wainscott and John Brooks of North Haven are among some 75 writers who have joined to establish the John Steinbeck Room for writers at Southampton College which will include a computer terminal for research. Party For Writers A wine and cheese party to help raise some of the $40,000 needed to install a computer terminal that will give writ ers access to the bibliographies of Long Island University, the New York Library, and the Library of Congress will be held at the Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, on Friday, May 19, from 5 to 8 p.m. The party is the second fund-raising event for the John Steinbeck Room of the Southampton College Library. A committee of writers of which Linda Bird Francke, Michael M. Mooney, and Alden Whitman are organizers, hopes to raise some $25,000 in the community and the remaining funds from grants from the State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Hu manities. Jean Stafford and Elaine Steinbeck, the widow of the late author for whom the Room will be named, are honorary co-chairwomen. The party will include a preview of the first exhibition of the season at the Gallery and some of the writers are expected to autograph recently-published books. Tickets may be ordered in advance from the College News Bureau or will be available at the door. They are tax-deductible. Meeting On Stock Farm The North Haven Village Improve ment Society, of which Harold W. Dingee is president, has scheduled a meeting for Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in the First National Bank on Main Street, Sag Harbor, to discuss the “North Haven Hills” subdivision pro posal for the Stock Farm on North Haven. Mr. Dingee, in an announcement, said the present development map would be discussed and pro and con statements or questions welcomed. The discussion will follow a short business meeting. The question of the future of Barcelona Neck will be the subject of another meeting the same time at 8 p.m. sponsored by the Sag Harbor Conservation and Planning Alliance. East Hampton Town Board members will present their views on a panel along with Nancy Goell, director of the Group for America’s South Fork. All Town Board members are expected to attend. Nancy Willey, president, has called the forum “Barcelona—Development or Open Space?” The public will be welcomed to the session, in the hall of the Sag Harbor Presbyterian Church. HARBOR HOUSING Continued From Page 1 who spoke after him in favor of the zoning change, identified himself as a long-time resident of the Village, and heaped praise upon Mr. Ward, who he said “would not do anything that’s not right.” “John Ward was one of the finest Mayors Sag Harbor ever had, even better than the one that’s sitting up there now,” said another admirer, Robert Remkus. “He hasn’t got a selfish bone on his body . . . he’s doing this for the senior citizens,” he said. Mr. Remkus also picked up on the theme that Sag Harbor needed “more housing and less red tape.” No Zoning Nonsense “When I was born here we never had any of this zoning nonsense or this business about sewage killing the fish and detergents in the water. . . The biggest scallops and the biggest oysters come from right there at the end of the sewer pipe at the end of Main Street,” he said, adding that he had eaten them and was there to talk about it. “And the Japanese, what do you think they’ve used for fertilizer all these years? Let’s get down to basics,” he said, adding, before he resumed his seat, that Mr. Pine “take his paperwork and shove it.” David Lee and Paul Vey, a Noyac resident active in the local Chapter of the American Association of Retired Persons, also spoke favorably of the project, although the latter cautioned that the Village should prohibit animals in the apartments to keep the place clean, and that senior citizens and Special Meeting The proposed amendment to the Sag Harbor zoning ordinance that would set up a senior citizen housing district on the site of the old lumber yard there was initiated by the Board of Trustees. The notice advertising the hearing held last week to discuss the proposal was dated April 11, and subsequently published in the Sag Harbor Ex press. Mayor Fred Runco said the Trustees passed a resolution sched uling the hearing at a special meeting for which there had been no public notice that they held in early April. He explained that the Trust ees do not always wait for their regularly scheduled meetings, which are public, to schedule hearings since such a practice would involve too much delay. T.N. younger families with children not be mixed. “The senior citizens can’t take the noise,” he said. “Help, Not Hurt” Mr. Ward touted his project as well, saying he was “trying to help the Village, not hurt it,” and explaining that before he purchased the property he discussed his plans with the County Planning Board and Board of Health, both of which “saw no reason why I couldn’t have 22 units there.” It was only when he approached officials in Sag Harbor, “my own Village,” he said, that he ran into opposition. Initially Mr. Ward wanted to build 22 units on the parcel, but was turned down by the Village Planning Board a few years ago on the density issue. The proposed amendment to the zoning ordinance was initiated by the Board of Trustees, not the Planning Board, several Village officials said, and appears to have the Trustees’ firm support. Mayor Runco said the senior citizen zone had been suggested to the Trustees by Kerron Barnes, director of Community Development for Suffolk County, as a means for helping the Village obtain various HUD funds for community projects, such as the Main Street sewer line. Piece of Property The amendment, Mr. Runco said a couple of times, “has nothing to do with John Ward.” It concerns a particular piece of property, the old lumber yard, which happens to be owned by Mr. Ward, and which was “suited” to a multi-housing development because of its location next to Village property, the Mayor said. Aside from helping the Village obtain Federal monies, he added, it would help improve the appearance of the property and provide much needed housing for the elderly. “This is a practical solution to a lot of our problems,” he said. Tim Neale £ Y > » Ferry Rates To Be Heard An “informal” hearing, to listen to public views on the proposed increase in ferry fares from North Haven to Shelter Island, will be held at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Justice Hall, Route 114, Shelter Island. The session, arranged by County Legislator Denis R. Hurley, will be preliminary to a formal hearing on the South Ferry Inc. application, set for the Riverhead County Center at 10:30 a.m. on May 23. According to the application, the Clark family, which operates South Ferry, seeks permission to increase rates now from $2 to $2.50 for a car and driver one way and from $2.50 to $3.50 for a car and driver, round trip, with comparable increases for other modes of travel, although the passenger rate would remain at 25 cents. The applica tion also seeks an increase as of Jan. 1, 1980 to $2.75 for a car and driver one way, $3.75 round trip, and 30 cents per passenger. Southampton Summer Session A four-week first session for the Southampton College summer program has been announced. Its dates are May 22 to June 16 and it will offer under graduate courses in many subjects and one graduate course in “Social Cultural Change: Single Life Style.” The College’s summer office has complete details, and a listing appears elsewhere in this issue. Subsequent sessions will bring grad uate teacher-education courses, one and two-week intensive programs, a summer art program, one in musical performance with Arthur Whittemore and Jack Lowe, and a “Major Writers’ Conference,” with Edward Albee and James Baldwin among others. As in previous summers the College will also offer “personal enrichment courses” for adults without credit and summer camp programs for children, all of which will be announced later. Sunday Concert The Madrigal - Instrumental En semble and the Classic Guitar Ensemble will present a spring recital in the Fine Arts Theater of Southampton College at 4 p.m. Sunday. The recital is the tenth annual spring program by College musicians. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas White on May 6 at the Southampton Hospital. The Tower Gallery here will open with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. May 27. The first exhibition will include paintings by Suzanne Weisberg and collages by Harriet Witkin. Help Old People Inc. this week announced that it was seeking dona tions of books, clothing, household articles and other items which it could sell at its booth at Southampton College’s June 24 “flea market.” Inter ested donors can call the organization’s Southampton office. Sergeant Willie M. Spellmon Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Willie M. Spellmon of 115 Halsey Avenue, has arrived for Air Force duty at Osan, Korea. He is a radio operator, previously served in Maryland, and is a 1973 graduate of Southampton High School. At The College “The Dinizulu Tradition,” a program of African dance, song, and drumming, will appear at the College’s Fine Arts Theater Saturday night at 8 p.m. The event is being sponsored by the Black Student Union at the College, without charge to students and with only a nominal admission fee for others. Another event in the Fine Arts Building will be a reception to open an exhibition of art work by Mark Fuhlbrugge and Judy Smestad at 8 p.m. Monday. The two are candidates for the bachelor of fine arts degree. Mr. Fuhlbrugge will show paintings, draw ings, ceramics, and sculpture, Ms. Smestad, watercolors. A summer swimming program, to be offered at the Southampton Health Club for 13 weeks, under College sponsorship for children 7 to 15 is still seeking participants. Daily practice and swimming meets will be offered through the Special Sessions Office of the College. Tryouts will be held on Sunday, May 14, and Sunday, May 21. The singers will offer a set of rounds by Ravenscroft and part songs by Mozart. The program will also include a flute quartet by F.F. Abel, with Patricia Paradis flute soloist, and a guitar quartet by Gilbert Biberian. RAMESHWAR DAS (James Lytton), whose photographs have appeared frequently in the Star, will be one of 17 photographers showing work, including this self-portrait, this season at the Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton. The five-month season opening May 20 will include work by 96 artists and craftsmen in various group and one-person shows. “SPIRAL STAIRCASE:” The Spindrift Players production will open June 9 at the Bridgehampton Community House, where Players members gathered recently for this photograph. Front, from left, Patricia Thayer Hope, Elsa Drake, Joanne Smith, and James Lennon; second row, Emery Lightbourne, Peggy Parry, and Jon Schlessel; rear, Garret Tinsman and Jeannine Eckert. Stuart Vorphal Joan Ward TOWN TRUSTEES Continued From Page 2 passed a motion putting them on record against the development of Barcelona Neck, a 530-acre parcel in Northwest. The County has been thinking about buying 343 of the’acres for a park, but the East Hampton Town Board recently voted informally again st such an acquisition on the grounds that it would take too much land off the public tax rolls. Road Access Mr. Vorpahl thought the Trustees should go further in their resolution, and take whatever steps were neces sary to “protect” an unimproved road which runs through Barcelona Neck to the beach. The fishermen have used the road continuously for years, he said, and the Town should make sure it does not lose that access if the property is developed. Under the “highway use laws,” he said, any thoroughfare used by the public over a long period of time auto matically becomes a public road, so the Town had a legal basis for claiming the road. The other Trustees listened to Mr. Vorpahl’s arguments, but did not take any action on them. The final person to speak at the meeting was Mr. Miller, who urged the Trustees to “take action” to remove the Bay Constables from politics. If the Constables were appointed by the Trustees, rather than elected by the people of the Town, the Trustees would have more control over them, he said. “It would make for better law enforcement because they would have specified duties. Now they come and go as they please,” Mr. Miller said. He also recommended that the Constables be equipped with short-wave radios and four-wheel-drive vehicles, as were the Southampton Constables, who, he add ed, were also appointed rather than elected. The Trustees seemed interested in the idea and agreed to write to the Town Board about it. Tim Neale At the Benson
