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s a £ CO s lii a Q (C Ui Q < If Happened,,, Years Ago! | I other sources. V on £. M«f2 f oorl Villa ^ 0 Historian X From contemporary newspapers and other soi Clinton E. Melt __ F/oeporl Village Historian PUBUCSCHOOL ADDED GRADUATE COURSES IN 95 As our community's sole \public school,\ the one on Grwe Street needed only that two-word name in I 89 S when VValter Mervin Nichols graduated. He and five other teenagers received diplomas June 23,— the first eighth graders'fo qualify for a four-year high'school course in dassrootns added at the new building on the southeast cornet of Grove and Rne Street. ' . .. Gerald Nichols, director of Freeport Memorial Library, has his grandfather Walter's diploma hanging on his office wall. Walter Mervin Nichols established, in 1823, a rug-cleaning plant here, which he ran for many years. He was succeeded by his son, the late Walter James Nichols, who sold the business at 66 East Sunrise Highway to Wade Lawrence, a grandson of the first proprietor and present owner and operator, in 1 9^. The founder, a drygoods salesman in his younger days, originally planned a warehouse at the site, but decided to open a rug-cleaning plant instead. ■> Signed by all five Board of Education members, the . diploma — dated June, 23, 1895 — carries signatures of Hiram R. Smith, presi dent; Lewis H. Ross, secretafy: Henry P. Libby. William G. Miller and William S. Hall, besides Principal Charles H. Oley. It reads: “The Public School. This certifies that Walter Mervin Nichols has completed with considerable diligence and proficienqr the course of instruction prescribed for the above named institution and has passeda satisfactory examination in the same, as an evidence of his scholastic attainments and good characters.” Other graduates in the class included (marriage names in parenthesis):. Jennie Mkdison, Catherine Raynor (Cogswell), Roscoe Conklin, Eugenia Smith (married Charles P. Smith) and Martha Cornelius (Johnson). Gerald’s mother, Mabel Nichols Gangemi, restored the 86-year-old diploma to good condition and had it framed. ' _ n , u Overcrowding at the comer schoolhouse was relieved in 1924 by constniction-of a new Senior High School next door on Pine Street. UNICEF Film 1 ^ 1 . from P » o e i) han^capplfig conditions, the Hew York State Education Pepartment recommended that the organiat' tion tndude the Dodd Sthooi's mainstream program for the Guerra twins; The Freeport juoior high school thus became involved in a production filmed in Latin America. Asia ^ d Afri<». as well as in the United States. ^ a production that vrill have world* wide distribution in the summer ofl982. This month, the UNICEF crew visited the Guerras at home, as well as shooting footage of Steven with his BOCES teacher ^ e has Mrs. Corinne Morris, an itinerant Special Education teacher for one period each day), with his ciass* mates and in the Computer Lab. Steven and Frank are the o: O PE N C H R I S T M A S D A Y TO SERVE YOU ....... from the LARGEST MENU IN FREEPORT (The Leaderl MACK ELECTED VILLAGE PARTY PRESIDENT Attendance of over 150 persons was reported at a general member ship meeting held by the Village Party in the Knights of Columbus building on Broadway. John Roosevelt, only Republican son of ex- President Franklin D. Koosevelt, discussed “ Good Government on the Village Level.** The following were elected to office: JohnB. Mack Jr., president; Henry M. Altengarten. chairman of the executive board; Richard Fonunato. executive secretary; Paul Garbo, Robert Sweeny, Horace Carpenter. Mannie Messing. John Greene and Stanley Roth, vice-presidents: Catherine Danziger.' administrative secretary; Marion Clifford, recording secretary; Ros corresponding secretarya)and Leon Radin, treasurer. LEA5ESUP, TOWN LETS HOMEO}VNERS STAY AWHILE East Point residents look forward to seeing documents which permit themjokeep their South Grove Street homes, on the site of a proposed million-dollar park and marina planned by Hempstead Town, until actual construction is about to begin. ' Leonard RIvkin, attorney for the East Pointers, gave his approval to the papers, which in their present form declared that before evictions start, preparations for the Town project must be all ready to carry out. Directors of the East Point Civic Association also gave their approval. All leases for the land expired under an agreement between Rivkin and Town Attorney John Morhouse. Full titleito the houses reverts immediately to the owners, about 50 of wfSfiibuilt and improved them at their own expense. ^ children of Stephanie and Frank'''rte Guerra and, while Mrs. Guerra Sq expressed a great deal of pride that the Freeport School District and Dodd in particular had been chosen to show success in main streaming, Pr. John E. Bierwirth, Freeport's Superintendent of Schools, paid an equal compli ment to the family. He pointed out that Mrs. Giierra’s work with her own children was being duplicated by her present work on the district’s Committee for the Handicapped. Those people in the village who know the Guerra family well show little surprise that Steven and Frank were chosen for the film. The picture might be about main- streaming in schools, but the Guerra twins have always been “mainstreamed” into life since their infancy, by caring parents. 9 H i|)e)ua£ D i m & 63 W. 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