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January 10, 2019

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What’s inside Commack teacher sues district for alleged racial discrimination A3 Town seeks Smithtown residents’ input on new website design A5 East Bulls boys basketball comes up short against Centereach A7

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Through their leadership, Kings Park schools established a mental health theme for 2018-19 school year of Everyone Matters in Kings Park. Some of the goals they established include: • Provide a team-based approach to facilitate effective coordination of mental health services and interventions. • Enhance the health curriculum to integrate social emotional skills and recognize the signs of mental health conditions. • Engage families and community providers as meaningful partners in providing mental health support and generalizing strategies and practices into the community and home. • Implement schoolwide frameworks for creating and maintaining a positive school climate while decreasing the stigma related to mental health. • Develop and implement a guidance plan that enhances the social emotional skills of each student through personalized educational and career plans. To accomplish these goals, monthly areas of emphasis were established across the district. For example, the area of emphasis for October 2018 was Bullying Stops Here. The theme for February 2019 will be Healthy Relationships.

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Education Teacher sues Commack school district for alleged racial discrimination BY SARA-MEGAN WALSH SARA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM A teacher is suing the Commack school district stating it has fostered an atmosphere of racial harassment and discrimination against her for more than 17 years. Andrea Bryan, of Bay Shore, filed a lawsuit Dec. 19 in the U.S. District Court of Eastern New York against Commack Union Free School District saying administrators “exhibited a deliberate indifference” when she reported her fellow faculty and students were racially harassing her, according to the lawsuit. Bryan, who is described only as a “black female of Caribbean descent” in the lawsuit, has worked as English teacher at Commack High School since 2002. She alleges the racial harassment began prior to 2015, when a faculty colleague first told her a bag of peanuts was “for whites only.” The teacher said she reported a complaint with her supervisor, according to court records. “The Commack school district takes any allegation of discrimination seriously and, as a matter of policy and practice, acts swiftly in response to any claim,” district spokeswoman Brenda Lentsch said. Bryan alleges that the racial discrimination

Commack High School. Photo from Google Maps

against her, as “the only black teacher in the entire school district,” has only escalated since then. In the lawsuit, she details an alleged incident where she was asked to “translate slave talk” by the same co-worker while English students were studying Arthur Miller’s play, “The Crucible,” which features a character named Tituba who is an enslaved black woman. Bryan also claims to have received a bottle of hand sanitizer during a Secret Santa gift giving between co-workers with a $50 spending limit, that she took indicated the co-worker thought she was “dirty” due to her race.

The district’s spokesperson said that the school’s administration have been made aware of the incidents alleged by Bryan over recent years. “We can say that all of her claims were investigated and, to the extent appropriate, promptly addressed,” Lentsch said in a statement. “Several of these allegations were first raised many years ago and were resolved at that time. Many of the allegations in the lawsuit are false.” While unwilling to discuss specific details citing privacy requirements, the district’s spokeswoman said Bryan’s claim that she is the only black teacher in Commack school district

is “incorrect.” But the English teacher said the racially motivated insults and harassment she experienced went beyond the faculty and administration, and began to trickle down to students in her classroom. Bryan alleges a student once came to school in blackface makeup dressed as Aunt Jemima, a caricature of “a devoted and submissive plantation slave” depicted on a line of pancake syrup and breakfast foods put out by The Quaker Oats Company. For several years, the teacher claims students have called her Aunt Jemima in the school’s classrooms, hallways and cafeteria causing her to be “greatly humiliated, embarrassed and degraded.” Commack school district’s Code of Conduct states that “intimidation or abuse based on a person’s actual or perceived race, color, weight, national origin, ethnic group, religion, religious practice, disability, sexual orientation, gender (identity or expression), or sex” will not be tolerated, according to Lentsch. Through the lawsuit, Bryan is seeking monetary damages from the district for the racial discrimination, though the documents don’t specify a dollar amount. Her attorney, Peter Romero of Hauppauge, said he had no comment given the matter is currently pending litigation. A jury trial has been demanded.

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Town

Iconic bull statue involved in single-car accident BY DAVID LUCES DLUCES@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

Smithtown’s iconic Whisper the Bull, a 5-foot-tall statue located at the intersection of Route 25 and Route 25A in Smithtown, narrowly avoided damage in a single-car accident Dec. 24. On Christmas Eve, a driver veered off road near the intersection into the green space, colliding into the base wall. The unidentiﬁed driver was transported to the hospital with critical injuries, according to town ofﬁcials. The bronze statue avoided any major damage and the base wall and the area around the monument sustained minor damage, according to Smithtown spokeswoman Nicole Garguilo. “Thankfully there was no damage to the statue or its base,” Garguilo said. “The concrete around the landscape wall, a Christmas sign as well as a wooden menorah were the only things damaged.” The iconic statue was recently ruled eligible for landmark status on the New York State and National Register of Historic Places run by New York State Department of Parks, Recreation

and Historic Preservation. The monument commemorates the legend of the town’s origins that claims founder Richard Smythe rode a bull to establish the town’s boundaries. Smithtown resident Corey Geske appealed to Smithtown town officials in December to sign off on a formal application for the registry as the official owners of the monument. Geske said she was relieved to hear the statue and the surrounding area avoided serious damage, though suggested it would good to keep an eye on it and to get experts to look at it. “The base [of the statue] seems to have been saved,” Geske said. “The brick landscape wall surrounding the statue looks to have kept it from any damage.” There were already plans in place to repair the base of the statue prior to the accident, according to Garguilo. These repairs included fixing a visible crack along “Smithtown” in the inscription and can be seen running from front to back of the platform as well as additional landscaping. Garguilo said after the incident the town will try to speed up the planned renovations to

the statue’s base. Since 2017, Geske has been working on a three-part plan for the revitalization of downtown Smithtown, which includes preservation of the statue as part of a proposed historic corridor. One of the criteria the state park’s department will consider when evaluating the monument for placement on the state Register of Historic Places includes its “artistic value” and current condition, according to the state’s website. Repairing the crack in the statue’s base will not have any impact on Whisper’s eligibility, according to Garguilo, but any damage to the statue itself could have negatively affected its ability to qualify for landmark status. “This is part of the legacy of the community and the town,” Geske said. “It would be a shame if it was lost for future generations.”

Above, the statue of Whisper the Bull in Smithtown after the Dec. 24 accident; and inset, a closeup of the damage done to the retaining wall. Photo by Corey Geske

Smithtown oﬃcials launch survey for input on new town website BY DAVID LUCES DLUCES@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Town of Smithtown ofﬁcials are looking for input from the community on what they would like to see in a remodeled town website. Supervisor Ed Wehrheim (R) said in a statement that the redesign of the town’s website is long overdue. “Many residents have asked that our website be a little more modern, easier to use and visually appealing,” Wehrheim said. “We hope this survey will give those who have suggestions or ideas the chance to share them with our web design team and later the community.” Smithtown’s website was last updated eight years ago, according to town spokeswoman Nicole Garguilo. “One of the primary things I’ve wanted to see get done was the remodeling of the town’s website,” she said. “I spoke with our IT director and he agreed with the plans to update the website.” When it came to decide how the town would update the website, Garguilo said the town board considered a few options, including WordPress and other web-design services. However, it decided to stay with CivicPlus, a web development business that specializes in building city and county e-government communication systems that currently maintains the website. “We have worked with them for quite some time,” she said. “They offered to upgrade our

A screenshot of the Town of Smithtown’s current website homepage as of Jan. 9. Photo from Town of Smithtown

current web page and we thought it would be more efﬁcient.” As part of the remodeling, the town has put out a survey for residents to complete by Jan. 11. Kenneth Burke, the town’s IT director, said the main goal of the survey is to see what residents like and don’t like in a new website. “We want to address residents’ needs and kind of build a road map of how we are going redesign the website,” Burke said.

The community survey consists of 10 questions that ask respondents to answer how frequently they visit the town’s website, the ease of ﬁnding information, what pages they visit the most often and what features they would like to see included in the redesign. There is also a section where residents can give written answers to any special needs they have regarding webpage browsing and suggested changes. He estimated the redesign would be

approximately a six-month project and hopes to roll out the new website in June. The town has also reached out to local online groups, such as Smithtown Moms, to get their opinions on a new website. Once the final results of the survey come in, town employees will start data mining and compiling content for the new website. Garguilo said the content creation side of the new website should take about four to five months to be completed because of back-end organizing, which includes record transfers and archival data. The new interface should take less time to be completed. “We are working on a 30-second teaser video for the Town of Smithtown,” the town spokesperson said. “It will be like an about us video right off the bat when you get on the website.” Garguilo said that the video will include important facts and pictures of landmarks to showcase the town. Another plan the town has is the creation of an app that can work in conjunction with the new website. “Lets just say a resident wanted to report something — they can go to the app and fill out a form — and that’ll be sent right to our system,” Garguilo said. “This will lead to faster results and hopefully residents are happier.” To participate, visit www.surveymonkey. com/r/SmithtownWebsiteRedesign through Jan. 11.

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County

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Suffolk County police and elected representatives are saying if you think the person on the other end of a phone call may be a scam, hang up as quickly as possible and call the authorities. According to Suffolk County officials, 2018 has seen a steady increase of telephone and digital scams, especially those targeting the elderly and non-English speakers. In 2018, there were 68 incidents reported, and the largest amount of money taken was $800,000 between 2017 and 2018. Of the 68 victims, 40 were elderly. In 2019, nearly half of all calls to mobile phones will be scammers looking County Executive Steve Bellone, center, SCPD Commissioner Geraldine Hart, left, and Chief of Department Stuart Cameron, to fraudulent gain access to financial right, present common phone scams. Photo by David Luces information, according to a report from telecommunications firm First Orion. At the press conference Suffolk County Police At a press conference Jan. 4, Suffolk Commissioner Geraldine Hart also informed the County Executive Steve Bellone (D) said the public on five robberies — one as recent as New trend is alarming. Year’s Eve — involving the LetGo app, a digital “Simply put, this is the 21st century marketplace that allows users to buy and sells definition of highway robbery,” Bellone said. items locally on their phones. “These scammers are targeting a vulnerable Four out of the five robberies involved meeting group of people.” up to purchase an iPhone, according to Hart. According to the U.S. Federal Trade “In every case we are going to tell people if Commission, the median loss people experienced they are utilizing an app like LetGo to please do from a phone-based scam in 2017 was $720. it in a public place, meet in daylight hours and Bellone said thieves will sometimes call don’t go by yourself,” Hart said. “Make sure victims using an automated message to demand you can verify the seller.” money or threaten to call the local authorities. A majority of the robberies occurred in “Our message to the public is to not give the Mastic Beach area beginning in August personal financial information when someone is 2018. During that month, a victim arranged calling you over the phone,” Bellone said. to sell a cellphone to someone outside a home Suffolk County Police Department chief in Mastic Beach at 10 p.m. The suspect took Stuart Cameron said these scammers call the phone and told the victim he would return. threatening to stop certain utilities, claiming The suspect fled into the backyard and never bills were unpaid. With tax season close by, returned with the money. Cameron cautioned the public to be on the On Nov. 30, a suspect and a victim agreed to lookout for scams mentioning the IRS as well. meet to sell an iPhone. The suspect showed an “They also call claiming a relative is seriously iPhone in a box and the victim gave him $400. injured or in danger,” the chief said. The suspect told the victim he had to get a SIM It is difficult to hold these scammers card and fled through a backyard and onto an accountable because most are either out of state adjacent street. or out of the country and are using technology The most recent incident occurred at the to mask their identity. Mastic-Shirley train station. The victim gave the Cameron said payment is usually requested suspect money and was pushed to the ground. When the victim attempted to follow the through gift cards. “No government agencies are going to ask suspect, a second man threatened to shoot him. “Thankfully no one was seriously injured,” for gift cards,” Cameron said. “If you get a call Hart said. like this, call law enforcement.” The suspects involved appear to be connected Bellone mentioned that many of these crimes go unreported because victims feel embarrassed to all five robberies and got away with several thousand dollars. or simply ignore the calls. Officials said if residents have information “We are trying to do everything we can to protect residents from these scams,” the county on phone scams and the robberies to call 800220-TIPS (8477). executive said.

Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and 4th Precinct Crime Section officers are seeking the public’s help to identify and locate the man who allegedly stole merchandise from a Commack store in November. A man allegedly stole a Craftsman drill from Lowe’s, located on the Long Island Expressway, Nov. 28 at approximately 2:30 p.m. The merchandise is valued at $149. Crime Stoppers offers a cash reward of up to $5,000 for information that leads to an arrest. Anyone with information about this crime is asked to call anonymously to Crime Stoppers at 800-220-TIPS (8477). All calls will be kept confidential.

— Sara-Megan Walsh

Suffolk police suspect the above-pictured man of allegedly stealing a drill. Photo from SCPD

Cops: Generator theft under investigation Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and 4th Precinct Crime Section officers are seeking the public’s help to identify and locate two men who allegedly stole merchandise from a store in Commack. The men entered Lowe’s, located on North Service Road, Dec. 10 at approximately 8:45 p.m. The men allegedly took a Craftsman 3300W inverter generator. A cash reward of up to $5,000 is offered by Crime Stoppers for information that leads to an arrest. Anyone with information about this crime is asked to call anonymously to Crime Stoppers at 800-220-TIPS (8477). All calls will be kept confidential.

— Sara-Megan Walsh

Suffolk police are seeking the public’s help identifying the above-pictured men. Photo from SCPD

Home Depot in Commack targeted by robbers Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and 4th Squad detectives are seeking the public’s help to identify and locate the man who allegedly stole merchandise from a Commack store. A man entered Home Depot, located on Crooked Hill Road, and stole three sinks, two ceiling fans and two light fixtures and then fled in a black SUV Nov. 27 at 1:36 p.m. The merchandise is valued at $1,843. The suspect is described as black, 5 feet, 8 inches tall, who was wearing a black baseball cap, gray hooded jacket, blue jeans and black sneakers. Crime Stoppers offers a cash reward of up to $5,000 for information that leads to an arrest. Anyone with information about this crime is asked to call anonymously to Crime Stoppers at 800-220-TIPS (8477). All calls will be kept confidential.

— Sara-Megan Walsh

Suffolk police are looking to question this man about an incident on Nov. 27. Photo from SCPD

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Centereach holds off East Bulls, 50-45 Smithtown East Bulls charged against Centereach but fell short, losing 50-45 at home Jan. 3. Senior Marcin Termena

banked 3 triples and a pair of field goals for the Bulls, leading the way with 13 points. The loss drops the East Bulls to 2-2, 3-5 overall early in the season. Pictured, clockwise from left: senior guard Termena powers his way to the rim; senior guard James Peters hits a jumper against visiting Centereach Jan. 3; senior forward Mike Makowski drives on a Centereach defender; and senior guard Jack Sanderson makes an inside pass. The East Bulls will hit the road to take on North Babylon Jan. 11 at 4 p.m. in the west gymnasium.

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Opinion

Editorial

Bridges, not walls

Additions to requests of the governor

Thank you for the wish list you ran in the Dec. 20 editions of TBR newspapers, “Dear Santa of NYS” (aka Gov. Andrew Cuomo). You had some very good ideas. Thank you for calling attention to the greatly reduced deduction homeowners who pay in excess of $10,000 in property taxes [and state income taxes] each year will face. High property taxes are one reason for a continuing exodus of retirees to southern climes. No, it’s not just the weather. You wrote, “By [the state] increasing school funding, it will hopefully help keep future school budget increases low.” Really? You’d need to address that issue with the local school superintendents. As enrollment declines, costs continue to rise. I’m with you on the cost of electricity on Long Island. Something needs to be done.

However, “push through legislation that would allow municipalities and school districts who [sic] lose a tax base from utilities, such as LIPA, to access reserved state funds to offset the impact on Suffolk taxpayers” is not an idea I can go along with as an area resident for more than 45 years. Taxpayers in those municipalities and districts enjoyed significant savings for years, while those of us in districts with virtually no commercial tax base have been paying full freight. Welcome to the real world. I’d like to add a few additional wishes, if I may. The rules for voting in New York State do not match the relatively progressive nature of our government. It’s time for an update. Especially as regards early voting and casting ballots by mail to make it easier for New Yorkers to execute

their responsibility to vote. (Notice I did not say “right.”) In the 2018 election a record number of us cast ballots: about 50 percent of us. I think that is shameful. And it should absolutely not require an eight-month time frame to change your party affiliation in order to be eligible to vote in a primary. The rules for elected leaders could use some scrutiny as well. A lack of term limits has enabled a stodgy and sometimes corrupt system. New blood and fresh ideas can bring vitality to any institution, though I’m guessing it will be difficult to get any traction for the idea. A mandatory retirement age, perhaps? Donna Newman Stony Brook Editor’s note: Donna Newman is the former editor of The Village Times Herald

Setting the record straight on Zeldin In the generous spirit of a holiday season, it seemed only right to postpone responding to Shoshana Hershkowitz’s anti-Zeldin Nov. 15 letter, “Keep a close eye on Zeldin this term,” in The Times of Smithtown. But now it’s time to correct the record. While Ms. Hershkowitz seemed righteously indignant over awful graffiti painted on signs of Lee Zeldin’s opponent, she failed to mention the congressman strongly denounced both the vandalism and anyone connected to it. By comparison, it’s interesting to note two things. When a Nesconset man was arrested for threatening to kill Zeldin supporters and nearly hit a campaign worker with his car, both she and her candidate remained mute. The Democratic nominee did, however, find his voice when supporting a widely distributed, hide the young children, vile mailer that displayed a wire coat hanger with the words, underlined in red, “Lee Zeldin’s plan for women’s healthcare.” Ms. Hershkowitz’s claim Lee’s never served in the minority and “has not formed relationships across the aisle” is misleading. When Zeldin ran for state Senate in 2010, Albany was fully controlled by the Democratic Party. After Zeldin’s win the GOP took tenuous control over the upper body but remained in the minority

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Imagine if your week’s paycheck were hung on a hook from a high ceiling, dangling there within sight but not within reach, all because your boss wanted something the rest of the company said he couldn’t have. The federal government has not had a spending bill pass the House of Representatives for approximately three weeks, and for that stretch of time, hundreds of thousands have been furloughed, been sent home or have had to work without pay as of press time. That includes thousands of Transportation Security Administration officers at airports and air traffic controllers. It’s hard to estimate how many Long Islanders have been affected by the shutdown, but they are certainly out there. Recently, the Suffolk Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals announced it would provide free pet food to government workers who couldn’t afford it due to the shutdown. Long Island Cares, a Hauppauge-based nonprofit food bank, said Jan. 4 it was reaching out to federal employees affected by the shutdown to provide food assistance. This is the third government shutdown in the past decade and the longest running. There are 800,000 federal workers furloughed or working without pay because of the shutdown, and experts have said there may be a multiplier effect the longer the shutdown goes on, considering the family members of those government workers going without pay. The problem may even impact the larger local economy, harming businesses whose customers must cut back on spending, along with the tourism and travel industries with reports that thousands of TSA officers are calling out sick rather than work without pay. This latest shutdown has been caused by a laser-targeted policy decision, namely $5.7 billion in funding for a wall on the U.S. and Mexico border. This policy has been near-singularly championed by one official, President Donald Trump (R). Trump got on national television Jan. 8 to explain to the nation his reasoning on why the U.S. needs a border wall. He made a number of points that have already been fact checked by other news organizations, but suffice it say he claimed, “The federal government remains shutdown for one reason and one reason only: Because Democrats will not fund border security.” This is simply untrue. Democrats put up a $1.3 billion funding bill for border security measures, including additional surveillance and more fortified fencing. The president would not sign it. It didn’t fund a 2,000-mile border wall. And that’s what it comes down to — a wall — whether the U.S. will spend billions of dollars on a wall. This is hostage politics. The Democrats in Congress simply won’t support a wall. The exact specifications for the wall aren’t even set down on paper, and the president is asking the American taxpayer to foot the bill for something immigration experts have outright said will have limited effect on border crossings. Long Islanders should tell our representatives like U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley) to pressure the president to end this dispute, otherwise the effects of a government shutdown will only multiply. As a country, we have gotten over shutdowns before, and we will get over this one, but while we at TBR News Media feel it is imperative that the border be policed, we believe in bridges, not walls.

Letters to the editor

Congressman Lee Zeldin celebrates after his win this past November.

overall. In spite of that, he was able to find common ground on some extremely critical legislation. During his tenure the MTA payroll tax was dramatically reduced; the Joseph P. Dwyer program for veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder was begun; middle class tax rates reached their lowest rates in decades; and a 2 percent property tax cap was passed. Running for Congress in 2014, Mr. Zeldin once again defeated an incumbent Democrat whose party had control of all

three branches of government. Hardly expecting the House and Senate would flip, he campaigned on a record of crossing the aisle on behalf of his constituents. In spite of D.C.’s polarized political climate, Zeldin still managed to work with such stridently partisan Democrats as senators Schumer and Gillibrand and Gov. Cuomo. They’ve reached agreement on important CD1 issues, including but not limited to the Long Island Sound, Suffolk County’s Francis S. Gabreski Airport and funding for counterterrorism and emergency preparedness. Most recently, and for the fourth straight Christmas, Rep. Zeldin was part of a bi-partisan group of House members visiting American troops deployed in the Middle East. The representatives served lunch and dinner, with Lee providing our hometown heroes with delicious chocolate chip cookies from Long Island’s very own Tate’s Bake Shop. For eight years Lee Zeldin has successfully worked with Democrats on issues he thought would benefit his constituents. As an Iraq War veteran, and now major in the Army Reserve, Zeldin has shown not just a willingness to fight for his district but for his country. All in all, that’s a pretty good resume. Jim Soviero Setauket

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Opinion

College essay reveals the whiff of a winner

have no doubt “Alice,” which is not her real name, is a dedicated dancer. I haven’t seen her perform, I haven’t read reviews of a show or even seen a sparkling résumé with copious awards. I also have no way, just by looking at her, of recognizing whether her movements are so reﬁned and controlled that she clearly expresses the majesty of music through movement. How do I know about her talent? A recent family acquaintance, AlD. None ice is a senior in of the above high school who BY DANIEL DUNAIEF is applying to college. When I asked about her essay, she generously shared it. As a condition for reading her work and writing about

it, I agreed to allow her to remain anonymous. The college application process forces young adults to distill their lives onto the lines of a page. They have the unenviable task of sifting through experiences, memories, hopes and aspirations as they try to figure out what to include and what to exclude. The latter is perhaps more challenging. Most of us could tell stories about our lives, mentioning the day of the week, the time of year, the names of other people on a trip to New Zealand or the food we ate that day. Those details could be relevant if they indicate something specific about the writer, or they could provide a dense fog through which a reader struggles to find a truth, passion or personal meaning. Tempting as it might have been for Alice to mention her dancing success or memorable performances, she excluded those details. Alice honed in on a sensory experience linked to her practices, performances and passion for dance: the smell of her shoes. Indeed, the first line of her essay draws the reader into her world

immediately, suggesting that she’s worried about the foul aroma of her shoes spreading through her car. Beginning an essay with a sensory experience generates an immediately relatable experience, even among those of us who have never stood under hot lights on stage and contorted our bodies in carefully choreographed productions. Readers, whether they are admissions officers, high school teachers or contest judges, have all had moments when they worry a smell can give us away. It doesn’t have to be an unpleasant scent, as we may have cooked a surprise dinner for our partner and don’t want that person to know about it until mealtime. Alice goes on to describe how the smell reflects the hard work, pain and beauty connected with her dancing. We all have seen the bright light moments when people perform, whether they’re dancing ballet, catching a ball on a Major League Baseball field or sharing a poem they’ve written. These moments and concerns in between the

performances occur more frequently and capture more about Alice’s inner thoughts and drive. The smell becomes an unpleasant but hard-earned badge of honor. Alice goes on to describe how these shoes mirror her participation in a pursuit that requires her to reach a level of perfection she suggests the body doesn’t achieve naturally. She adds an awareness of the individual nature of the performance, coupled with the fact that she’s never alone, surrounded by others whose feet have the same smell. Through descriptions like these, Alice is revealing ﬁne details of what she’s doing, the by-product of the effort she exerts and the shared sense of purpose she has with her fellow dancers. College essays require a mental perspiration akin to that which affected Alice’s shoes. Through those efforts, however, writers not only reveal more about themselves, but they also create lasting impressions for readers searching for evidence of commitment and passion.

Women: older, wiser and (sometimes) leading the way

his new year may come to be known as the Year of the Older Woman. That was my thought as I read The New York Times article by Jessica Bennett, “I am (an older) woman. Hear me roar.” The story goes on to cite Nancy Pelosi, Glenn Close and Susan Zirinsky, the newly named head of CBS News, among others, as examples of powerful women over 60 in the spotlight. IT’S ABOUT TIME. Pelosi survived a serious challenge to her leadBetween ership from the you and me energetic freshBY LEAH S. DUNAIEF men Democratic members, to once again become speaker of the House of Representatives. That makes her the most powerful

elected woman in the United States. Pelosi is 78. Long-serving Representative Maxine Waters (D-California), is the first woman, and incidentally the first African-American, to chair the Financial Services Committee. Waters is 80. Donna Shalala (D-Florida) is the oldest freshman in the House. Shalala is almost 78. Zirinsky, who worked at CBS in almost every conceivable news position for 40 years, is not being shunted into retirement. Instead she is now the first woman to head the prestigious news division. She is also the oldest person to hold that position. Zirinsky is 66. Glenn Close, regarded as an underdog in the best actress in a motion picture, drama category of the Golden Globes, beat out four younger women. Close, long a favorite actress of mine, is 71. How much of this has been as a result of the #MeToo tsunami? Older men have long held power into their 70s and 80s. But some of them have been spectacularly toppled: Charlie Rose is 77 and Les Moonves, newly ousted from CBS Corporation, is 69. So age, of in itself, has not been seen as a barrier to power, but gender has.

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Those fallen men have vacated positions at the top that now can be ﬁlled by equally qualiﬁed women. Christiane Amanpour, who will be 61 this week, has replaced Rose on PBS. Gender coupled with age was always toxic for female advancement, but not in every culture. Native Americans, I believe I recall, would admit only post-menopausal women to the highest circles of power within their tribes. Slowly the rest of our country seems to be realizing the value of older, and presumably wiser, women for positions of leadership. This is most encouraging for the women over 50, of whom there are more than at any time in our U.S. history. And why shouldn’t they have the same opportunities at leadership and power as men? They are healthier, working longer and earning more than ever. Well, in fact, it seems like they are advancing. In the words of Susan Douglas, a professor of communications at the University of Michigan, according to The Times, “a demographic revolution” is occurring. More women are working into their 60s

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and beyond, and are being appreciated for their talents and experience. In the late 1980s, some 15 percent were still working. Today it is nearly one-third of those 65-69. Those 7074 and working have jumped from 8 percent to 18 percent. The Times article goes on to point out that working longer is more common among women with higher education and savings. Presumably some are in the workforce by choice and are valued there. This all reminds me of an exchange that occurred shortly after we started The Village Times, our first newspaper, in 1976. I was 35-years-old, with more gray hairs than now, and hiring staff, when a man came to interview for one of the positions. After a positive conversation in my office, I was about to hire him when he paused, then asked, “Are you the boss?” When I told him that I supposed I was, he looked confused, then explained, “I’m sorry, I didn’t realize. I couldn’t work for a woman boss.” With that he stood, picked up his coat and hurried away. I didn’t even know enough then to be flabbergasted.

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