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• - 4 , , mrmm St. Roccd's Feas See Page 13 i ^^.UO J.Vv. ”'i' Offtefal Newspaper Village ol Freeport Freeport School District < Baldwin ' - School Dislrict THi FBttPORT BAIDWIN -mm- m W IPO K T ICSMOEIAL LlBSAJaY L i A B a 54th YEAR^NO. 27 FREEPORT, NEW YORK JULY 7, 1988 , PRICE 25 * ^ER COPY y Summer computer use for students and adults / r ? Freeport HS students honored at the Freeport Library The Freeport Pdblic School* and the Freeport Memorial Library offer an innovative ser vice to children and adults who want to continue learning during the summer months. For almost two decades, the Freeport Public Schools have used .computers as an integral - part of the educational program. A combination of networks of terminals linked to minicompu ters and nucrocomputen have helped students leara Reading, Math, Language Arts and Com puter Programming. T h o s e n e tw o rks have expanded beyond the school. An upgraded system linking 12 Atari computers in the ChiMienh Wing of the library to the central computer in Cartriine G; AtUa^ son' School is in operation. The network will allow students and adults to progreM in their studies at a g u id^ rate. The Atari system also has a special program for students preparing for the S. A.T. In addition, the Children's Wing has four Apple computers with suitable software for learn ing and recreation. The school district has also placed three additional Apple computers in the expanded Job and Educadon Center in the adult section of the library. Apple and IBM compatible computers are available to. older students and adults who wish to learn word processing, spread sheet and database applications at the hbiaryh Job arid Educa tion Center. It is anticipated that additional software will be avail able to help meet the needs of adult students studying E q ^ h as a second language by tfat end The library's hours during the summer are: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 9 a.m. - 9 p.m.; Wednesday 10 a.m. - 9 p.m.; and Saturday 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. At the Freeport High School awards dinner held recently, the following students receiv^ awards; BRIAN ANSON - NYS Regents Scholarship, 'Freeport Leader-John Peter Zenger Jour nalism A.tjtard, Presidential Aca demic Htness Award. MARIA BARRERA - Free port High School English Department'Award. GEORGINA BOLDEN - Stu dent Council Scholarship. JEFFREY BOLLACKE - NYS Regents Scholarship, Stu dent Council Scholarship. MICHAEL BOLLACKE - Knights of Pythias Grand Lodge- Scholastic Progress Award, Marist College Choral Muric Scholarship. SAMANTHA BOULUKOS - NYS Regents Scholarslup, Rt. Rev. Eugene J. Crawfard'Ristory Award, Woodmen ~cd the World Araerienn History Award, Pr. Mervin L. Sphloss Foundation ' Scholarship, Pieridential Aca- denuc Fttness Awaid. MATTHEW BRAZ - NYS Regents Scholarriiip( Adelphi Univenity Trustee Achievement Award, John W. Dodd Junior High &hool PTA Scholarship, Dr. Mervin L. Schloss Founda tion Scholarship, Presidential Academic Fitness'Award. DEVIN BRICNONI - NYS Regents Scholarship. ROBERT BUMPUS • NYS Regents Scholarship, Elma Ven- . (res* Memorial Award, Rensse laer Polytechnic Institute Scho- lanhip,' U.S. Marine Corps. NROTC Scholarship, Carnegie- Mellon Scholarship, U.S. Air Force Academy Prep School Scholarship, Freeport Teachers' AssociatioD-Charte F. Delibel Memorial Scholarship, Presiden tial Academic Fitness Award. LISA BURRELL - Freeport School Administrators' Assoc.- Dr. John E. Gordon Memoriat Scholarship. SALVrrORE CASSONETTO • Ruth Floyd WoodhuU Chapter - NSDAR -Zella Holaday Home- makiiig Award. CHIFFON CHAPMAN - NYS Regents Scholarship, Free port Lions Club-Louis Neuwirth Scholarship, Rensselaer Poly technic Institute Scholarship, Blanck Family College Scholar ship Fund, Presidential Aca demic Fitness Award. KAREN CLA1<KE - South of Sunrise Civic A ssociation Award. -■ ELLEN CONNER - NYS Regents Scholarship, Adelaide Aims Memorial Award, Jerry Bagatelle Scholar-A thlete Award, Justice Lodge & C h a p ter-b'nai B 'ritb-Jerry Schleiffer Memorial Award, Bausch & Lomb Honorary Science Award, VFW of U.S. Merrick-Freeport Henry Theo dore Mohr Post 111310 Award, Kiwanis Club of Freeport- - Robert R. Schade Memorial Award, Presidential Academic Fitness Award. USA COPELAND - National Achievement Scholarship Pro gram for Outstanding Negro S tu d e n ts C o m m e n d a tion', Caniegie-MeUon Undergtaduare Grant, B&ck'Edueaibfs* Confe-- mittee of Freeport-Bryapt- Connor Award, Freeport Mem orial Library Jerome B. & Clara Mae Rosa SAolanhip. TAMARA DAVIS - Student Council Scholarship, Leo F. Gits tcontinuad on page 10) Woodward Center helps kids l>y Sue Morgan SHARING PtAYTlME with pmeehoelure In Woom—id I H m M i Cgfiter'a Earfy Bird P r o ^ n m ar* from Ml. Tarty iSlBe, aaaistant taachar, and Woodward's Exacuthsa Mroctor Nina Sloan. . Teens shoot baskets in the gym as tots nap in a nea^y room, murals of rainbows, mouhtains and a huge Donald Duck deco rate the bright hallways and younpters in classrooms enga^ in quiet conversation with their teachers. While the low brick building on Merrick Road housing these scenes resembles any number of smallish schools anoss Long Island, it is not an ordinary school It is Woodward Mental Health Center, a psychiatric day treatment center which blends concerned professional help and special edvcationforemotionally disturbed youngsters from three to 21 years of age. Woodward's Executive Direc tor, Nina Sloan, emphasizes that the center *fiu the program to the child, not the child to the pro gram,\ no small task given the wide range of emotional prob lems and behaviors, ages, and academic abilities of the youngs ters the center serves. ^ Woodward draws Us 'current enrollment of 65 studehtrfrom throughout Nassau, Queens and Western Suffolk. All are classi- fied as emattonaHy disturbed by jhe Committees of Special Edu cation o f their local schools. No youngster for whom the center's program is deemed appropriate is turned away. The types of education and treatment provided by Wood ward are as varied as the needs of its students,, whose beharidral disturbances may range from schizophrenia and psychoses to ' anxiety and depression. None are physically handicapped, but most have varying degrees of learning disability due to their eniotional difficulties. ‘ The center has a full range of academic courses from elemen- tafy through high school, and may award an accredited High School diploma or Individual- ized Education Program diploma to its graduates, a num ^ r of whom have successfully gone on to college. ■ 'TTie goal is not to stay here, howevpr,\ Mrs. Sloan says, adding that Woodward main streams four or five students per year back to the public schools. Most of these are younger siu- dents, however,'^, .because The older a child is, t ^ more difficult it is to go hack to public schooI,”^, she notes,. ... The center also offers voca-. tional programs in conjunction with Nassau County BOCES which include culinary skills and nursing, while Woodward itself has a spadous woodworking shop where projects in various. StagK of completion repose on the'work tables. Culinary stu dents prppare’a daily, hot lunch for all of the dudents, held a bake sale at Elks Plaza and last Thanksgiving treated staff and parents to a turkey dinner with all the trimmings. , ' Art is also ah important part of the Woodward program and,in addition to its therapeutic value, provides colorful hallway dis plays and special decorations for holiday events and graduations. K a inviting Tranquility garden\ nestled between interior walls of the school is si spot for sketching. the spring' flowers growing among benches for ritting. The physical education program includes rhythm, motorskills, gymnastics, and team sports. Elementary School 'subjects are studied by children in interage classes which , can vary by only three years, according to New York State requirements. ■ Pre-school children attend dii~ - . ’ ingKhool hours and Woodward . has received Freeport Comtniuw ■ tty’ Development Funds w ^ b ' (eohtinuRS on page 161 ;i ‘i ■: ■ / •W: - r' ■ ' ' ■ / /■ ■ ' V’ ( ■i •V -f I M-c.
