The Village Times Herald - December 13, 2018

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December 13, 2018

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Three Village parade lights up the night – photos A9 Evelyn Berezin

Computer pioneer dies at 93

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PAGE A2 • THE VILLAGE TIMES HERALD • DECEMBER 13, 2018 EMMA S. CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY

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Emma S. Clark Memorial Library • Emma Clark Library recently announced extended hours starting January 2019. The library will now be open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays instead of noon to 5 p.m. • The community is invited to attend the next meeting of The Travel Presentation Club at the library on Tuesday, Dec. 18, at 7:30 p.m. Guest speaker Leslie G. Fishbone will make a presentation titled “Trekking in the Andes Mountains of Peru to Machu Picchu.” Questions about the club may be directed to 3vtravel@gmail.com.

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Thank You to All Our Sponsors, Participants & The Community

On behalf of the 3 Village Parade Committee, we would like to thank and congratulate our 2018 Holiday Parade Grand Marshal, John Tsunis. John is a longtime resident of the Three Village community and involved with many local charitable organizations as well as being a board member of the Three Village Chamber of Commerce and Stony Brook University Seawolves United. In 2011 he was awarded “ Man of the Year” by The Village Times Herald. John is the founder of Gold Coast Bank as well as the owner of the Stony Brook Holiday Inn as well as being very active in his Church. Thank you John for your dedication to our community. We would also like to recognize and thank Aronica Lawn and Tree Care for their spectacular job decorating the Kiwanis Park for the holidays and Miller-Mohr Signs for our new parade signage.

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History Close at Hand

Shopping with a twist of history this holiday season BY BEVERLY C. TYLER There are plenty of places in the historic Three Village community and surrounding areas that give a sense of place. The upcoming Christmas and winter holiday are good times to purchase a few of the wonderful gifts and books about the local area and to pay a relaxing visit to a few notfor-profit shops that deserve special support.

Three Village Historical Society History Center & Gift Shop, 93 North Country Road, Setauket

Gallery North, 90 North Country Road, Setauket

Gallery North is diagonally across the street from the historical society. It is easy to park at one and walk across the street to the other. The entire gallery is a gift shop with many wonderful paintings and gift pieces by local artists for sale. The current exhibit is Deck the Halls. Local artists and artisans have created beautiful paintings, drawings, handmade jewelry, pottery, glass, decorations and much more. Gallery North also is showcasing a diverse range of Long Island art and has Holiday POP-UP Shopping. On Thursdays, Dec. 13 and 20, from 4 to 7 p.m., join them for a glass of wine and refreshment while you meet the artists and shop. Each Thursday evening a different selection of artists and artisans will be offering their handcrafted gifts, jewelry, art and more. Gallery North is open Wednesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday noon to 5 p.m. Deck the Halls exhibit through Dec 22. For more information, call 631-751-2676

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The society’s gift shop is expanded to complement the exhibit SPIES! How a Group of Long Island Patriots Helped George Washington Win the Revolution. There you will find gifts including many books, booklets and pamphlets on local history. A new children’s book “Kayleigh and Connor Detectives Inc. and King the Spy Dog” is written and illustrated by Dana Lynn Zotter. Two youngsters visiting their grandfather in Stony Brook discover an abandoned gravestone for a dog and learn about the Culper Spy Ring as they search for the black dog they think is a ghost. Another wonderful book for children is “I Survived the American Revolution, 1776” by Lauren Tarshis, illustrated by Scott Dawson and published by Scholastic Inc. This is the best book for youth I’ve ever read on the Battle of Brooklyn. Here we follow a young boy who is caught up in the battle. Both of these books are thoroughly researched, well-written and illustrated. The gift shop is open Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and the gift shop and exhibits are open every Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. (Closed from Dec. 20 to Jan. 2.) For more information, call 631-751-3730 or visit www.threevillagehistoricalsociety.org.

Three Village Historical Society office manager Sandy White helps a customer at the society’s History Center & Gift Shop.

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The Long Island Museum, 1200 Route 25A, Stony Brook The gift shop in the Visitors Center includes books and prints on The Long Island Museum’s exhibits and permanent collections. There are also jewelry, pottery and hand-blown glass items made by local artists as well as hand-turned wood items by local artist Harry Wicks. The Visitors Center includes children’s Revolutionary War era gift items. The current exhibition, Elias Pelletreau: Long Island Silversmith & Entrepreneur, will close Dec. 30, along with the companion exhibition Shaping Silver: Contemporary Metalsmithing. The museum, Visitors Center and gift shop are open Thursday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday noon to 5 pm. (Closed Dec. 24 and 25 and Jan.1.) Visit www. longislandmuseum. org for more information.

Reboli Center, 64 Main St., Stony Brook

The Reboli Center has a large collection of wonderful paintings by Joe Reboli. Around the Reboli Center are four sculptures by Long Island artist/sculptor David Haussler. The current exhibit The Gift of Art celebrates the amazing contribution to civilization that art gives, the wonderful gift to friends and family of a piece of art and the generous donors of this year’s gifts to the Reboli Center art collection. In

the Reboli Center, wonderful art and crafts are available for visitors to enjoy; and in the Design Shop, paintings, folk art, craft and sculpture are available for purchase as gifts or to decorate your home for this or any season. The Reboli Center is open Tuesday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays 1 to 5 p.m. (Closed Dec. 25 and Jan. 1.) For more information, call 631-751-7707, or visit the Reboli website at www.rebolicenter.org.

St. James General Store, 516 Moriches Road, St. James This “old-fashioned” general store is run by the Suffolk County Parks Department, Division of Historical Services. Here are two floors of 19th- and 20th-century goods and lots of homemade goodies. They have an extensive collection of old-style candies, many brands dating back to the 19th century. Be sure to try one of their delicious molasses pops. On the second floor are books on Long Island covering many local communities, as well as lots of wonderful children’s books. This is now one good, close, independent bookstore. The back room has an extensive collection of ornaments, some of which are reproductions of antique decorations. Back on the first floor, there is a large selection of toys, dolls and games for children that also harken back to the 19th century. The St. James General Store is open every day 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Closed

Dec. 25 and Jan. 1 and open until 3 p.m. Dec. 24 and Dec. 31.) For more information, call 631-854-3740 or visit www.facebook.com/ St.JamesGeneralStore. There are lots of unusual gifts at these five gift shops. If you are buying a gift for someone, you will almost certainly find something to suit every taste. There are many other wonderful local shops in the Stony Brook Village Shopping Center and in Setauket and East Setauket. In the Village of Port Jefferson, along and around Main Street and East Main Street are many wonderful and unusual shops and restaurants. A special one in Port Jefferson is Secret Garden Tea Room on Main Street. Have a cup of tea, maybe a scone and jam or a delicious lunch and look over their selection of unusual and tea-based gifts. Open 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Sundays 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Closed Tuesday and Wednesday. For more information or reservations, call 631-476-8327 or visit www.thesecretgardentearoom.com. Finding a special or unusual gift is not only a good idea, it also supports our local businesses and brings us closer together as a community. And you never know who you will run into by shopping locally. Beverly C. Tyler is Three Village Historical Society historian and author of books available from the society at 93 North Country Road, Setauket. For more information, call 631-7513730 or visit www.tvhs.org.

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Obituaries

Evelyn Berezin, computer pioneer, Poquott resident Evelyn Berezin, formerly of Poquott, died Dec. 8 at the Mary Manning Walsh Home in New York City. She was 93 years old. She was a computer pioneer who built and marketed the first computerized word processor and the founder and president of the tech start-up Redactron Corporation, which manufactured and sold word processors. Among the honors she received in her lifetime were inductions into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame in Los Angeles in 2011 and the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, in 2015. In an interview with The Village Times Herald in 2015, Berezin said when she was younger she thought she would pursue a career in physics, not computer science. “I got into it by accident,” Berezin said. “It was so early in the game, I didn’t know what it was.” Berezin was born April 12, 1925, in the Bronx. She was 15 years old when she graduated from high school and went on to study at Hunter College where she developed an interest in physics. She said the day after Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941, her high school

physics teacher offered her a research job. Since she was 16, she had to lie about her age in order to get the position. “Every boy in the country was given a number to be drafted,” Berezin said. “I happened to be there at the right time.” Berezin worked in a lab while attending college at night and went on to study math at Brooklyn Polytech, physics and chemistry at New York University and English at Hunter. In the April 10, 2015, Village Times Herald article, Berezin said while talking to a recruiter about a government job she discovered that there weren’t many positions in physics, so she asked about computers, something she admitted she never heard of at the time. Berezin went on to work for a few companies designing computers before opening Redactron. “In 1969 I decided I would never get to be vice president because I was a woman,” Berezin said. “I decided to start my own company.” From 1969 to 1975, Redactron grew to employ 500 workers. In 1976, she decided to sell the company to the Burroughs Corporation and joined the company as president of its Redactron division, a position she held until about 1980. After leaving Burroughs, Berezin became involved in a number of start-up

companies and moved to Long Island. Berezin became a member of the Stony Brook Foundation in 1985, according to the Stony Brook University website. She served on the investment committee and was a member of Brookhaven Science Associates, served on the board of overseers of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of New York University and held a board position with the Sion Power Corporation. She became a member of the John S. Toll Heritage Society at Stony Brook and established the Berezin-Wilenitz Endowment. “I feel that Stony Brook has given and continues to give a great education to children from low income families and particularly to children of immigrants,” Berezin is quoted as saying on the SBU website. She and her husband of 51 years, Israel Wilenitz, a chemical engineer, also funded the Sam and Rose Berezin Endowed Scholarship, named after her parents. “Evelyn Berezin spent a lifetime defying expectations and pushing the boundaries of what is possible, and her guidance and generosity have helped empower Stony Brook University and its students to do the same,” SBU President Dr. Samuel L. Stanley Jr. said in a statement. “Her friendship has made Stony Brook a stronger institution, and we will

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forever be grateful to her.” Berezin’s husband predeceased her in 2003. Funeral services were held Dec. 11 at the Riverside Memorial Chapel in New York City.

BY VICKY STEWART

Dr. Edmunde Andrew Cameron Stewart, 80, died Dec. 6 in St. Charles Hospital in Port Jefferson, surrounded by the love of his family. Stewart had been fighting pneumonia. For the past several years, after being diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, his lungs were compromised. The Stewart family is most known for living on Old Field Road for many years, where he and his wife, Norma, raised their three children. Stewart was an orthopedic surgeon working at St. Charles Hospital and Mather Hospital, serving as the chief of orthopedics at Mather, for many years, and as a past president of the medical staff at both St. Charles and Mather. He had a private practice on Elm Street in Port Jefferson. Stewart was also an exceptional equestrian and had a passion for foxhunting. He was the master of the Smithtown Hunt Club and a president of the Smithtown Hunt Horse Show. He is remembered affectionately by fellow foxhunters as “Doc” as he would often help injured riders, during a foxhunt. For many years, he moderated the hunt breakfast, to benefit the museums at Stony Brook. He also

served three terms as a trustee for the Village of Old Field. Although medicine and horses were his passions, his greatest love was his family. Right until the end, with family by his side, he was letting them know how much he loved them. His legacy will live on through his loving family, who adored him. He leaves behind his wife of 56 years, Norma; his son Greg; daughters Victoria and Gillian; and son-in-law Juan. He was a loving grandpa to his four grandchildren, Olivia, Cameron, Benjamin and Emilia, all who affectionately called him “Deda.” Stewart was a native of Dundee, Scotland. He was predeceased by his father Andrew Stewart, mother Winifred Byrd Lennox and sister Winifred Lennox Govan. Stewart entered St. Andrew’s University Medical School in Scotland at the age of 17. Upon graduation in 1961, he did two specialty residences in Scotland: internal medicine and orthopedics. In 1962-63, he taught anatomy at St. Andrew’s University. He came to the United States in 1963 and served his residency in orthopedics at Nassau Hospital, Meadowbrook Hospital and here at St. Charles. He became a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic

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Dr. Edmunde Stewart, former Old Field trustee, resident

Dr. Edmunde Stewart had a passion for riding horses.

Surgeons in 1971, and the following year he received his fellow of American College of Surgeons. He also served in the Army Reserve, as a reserve commissioned officer for the United States Army. The doctor was a man of many talents. His

children remember him playing the trumpet and the piano. Prior to entering medical school, he had spent many years on the stage, as a member of the Dundee Repertory Theatre, with starring roles in productions of “Oliver Twist” and “Great Expectations,” to name a few. At the same time, although busy on the stage and with his studies, Stewart managed to find some time to participate in one of his favorite sports. For two years, he was the junior champion of the West End Lawn Tennis Club, a prominent private tennis club in his native Dundee. While at St. Andrews, Stewart was a member of the university’s fencing team, touring England, Ireland and Scotland and in the process obtaining his “full blue” for the university. He was laid to rest Dec. 10 at the Caroline Church of Brookhaven in Setauket, on a beautiful sunny day, with a bagpiper playing “Amazing Grace,” in the distance. “Every man dies, not every man lives” is a quote he was fond of, by William Wallace, a freedom fighter from Scotland near the end of the 13th century. This quote is a great testament to the fact that Stewart truly lived and lived with passion, until the very end. His fighting spirit and love for life will live on in all who knew him.

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“I’m hoping to be the conduit between the department and the community,” he stated. The new fire commissioner said while soliciting signatures for his run many residents said they didn’t know the new firehouse on Route 25A would be as large as it is. Wastiewiz said when it comes to the new building he would like there to be more oversight before it’s completed. This is the second time Wastiewiz, a nearly 41-year volunteer with the department, will serve as commissioner. He served previously from 1991 to 2006. His new five-year term will begin Jan. 1, 2019.

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Harold Metcalf, right, poses with a few students from India, China and Lithuania he and his wife have hosted through the years as volunteers with Stony Brook University’s Host Family Program.

Community members work with SBU to reinstate family hosting program

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A Stony Brook University program is taking a gap year of sorts, and residents are working together with SBU representatives to reinstate it. For more than 40 years, Stony Brook University’s Host Family Program has been providing opportunities for international students to learn about the United States and the local area by having them develop relationships with volunteer families. Formerly under the direction of Rhona Goldman, of Stony Brook, the program was put on hiatus this year. Several members are in discussions with SBU representatives to bring the program back in the fall of 2019. According to a statement from the university’s spokesperson Lauren Sheprow, “Stony Brook University’s Host Family Program has been relocated within the Division of International Academic Programs & Services, and thus is being reconfigured to adjust to the expressed needs of our international student population. The evaluation and new configuration should conclude within this academic year, and the program relaunched in preparation for students coming to Stony Brook in the fall of 2019.” “We are very excited about the prospect of this relaunch, and are grateful to be working with community members who are engaged and interested in supporting this program,” she added. Harold Metcalf, a Stony Brook faculty member, and his wife, Marilyn, have been hosting students since the early 1970s. He said the number of students a family hosts is usually about one or two an academic year but sometimes more. The majority are graduate students at SBU, but every once in a while an undergrad takes part in the program. Metcalf said host families help with a variety of activities like taking students to social events, driving them to the mall and even helping them navigate the U.S. banking

system and postal service, adding that many of the graduate students haven’t traveled outside of their countries or even seen snow. “One student said, ‘If I go out when the temperature is below freezing, I’m afraid my blood will freeze,’” he said. Metcalf said the students and host families benefit in turn from the program. “We bring students to our houses for dinners and celebrations and all kinds of things, and in exchange we have the culture of the world brought into our homes,” he said. Once a student is assigned to a family, it is up to them as to how much time to invest in activities with their host family. Metcalf said many of the students he has hosted through the decades have become a part of his family, and he is still in touch with many of them. Recently he visited with a student he hosted in the ’70s and had the opportunity to meet the man’s grandchildren. “That’s how long these relationships last,” he said, adding from time to time he’ll receive a letter or email from someone asking if he remembers him or her. Based on discussions with university representatives, Metcalf is optimistic the program will return, but he said there are no guarantees. Forrest McMullen, of South Setauket, said he and his wife Doris Anne started participating in the program in 1986 and just recently stopped hosting students. He said they have shared their stories with SBU representatives and hope to see the host program reinstated. Some of his fondest memories include walking a former student down the aisle at her wedding, and he remembers one young man who brought a new girlfriend to his house to meet them, and then asking him what he thought of her. “For some of these students, it’s just a lifelong thing,” McMullen said. “We feel we have international grandkids now, because some of them have had children.”

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Community News Setauket Fire Department

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Santa’s helpers

Setauket firefighters were on hand to assist with Full Throttle Magazine’s Santa run Dec. 2. The volunteers brought cheer to children of the Child Life Program at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital. Selden Fire Department hosted this year’s event, and Dec. 2 opened its doors to the volunteers and led a caravan of trucks and bikes with fire department vehicles, including from Setauket Fire Department, to SBCH. The caravan carried thousands of toys for the children.

Spying the holidays

Members of the Anna Smith Strong Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, based in Setauket, proudly displayed their patriotic spirit Dec. 2 as they marched in The Ward Melville Heritage Organization’s Holiday Festival Processional, Legends and Spies, in Stony Brook Village Center. Chapter members and their families marched carrying a 14-foot puppet of the chapter’s namesake, Anna Smith Strong, who was believed to be the female spy in the Culper Spy Ring identified as “a 355” by Maj. Benjamin Talmadge, the spy ringleader, in his alpha-numeric coded messages he sent secretly to Gen. George Washington.

In addition to the 14-foot puppet, the chapter members carried a clothesline of Anna’s laundry with her famous black petticoat attached, which was the secret signal that Caleb Brewster was in town and ready to meet up with Abraham Woodhull who would pass on to him information discreetly collected on British troop locations and movements on British-held Long Island, which Caleb then passed on to Talmadge. The chapter’s goals are to promote historical, educational, patriotic and commemorative initiatives within the local community. For more information, contact National Society Daughters of the American Revolution at www.dar.org.

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whale has the same skeleton, as do we. We see helping where help is needed. We see curiosity in the young. We see the bonds of family connection.” Highlights of the evening included hors d’oeuvres and desserts provided by the Old Field Club, wine, tables of baskets for a basket auction and more. The culmination of the evening was the raffle of a beautiful pastel, “Stony Brook Harbor Sunset,” by Mary Jane van Zeijts. “We were thrilled to see so many friends and supporters at the event,” said Alice D’Amico, chair of the Celebration Committee. “As our major fundraiser of the year, it is critical to help support our preservation projects, especially this year the restoration of the newly acquired Smith-deZafra House and the Patriots Hollow State Forest stewardship agreement recently signed with New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.”

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The Three Village Community Trust drew a record-breaking 141 guests to its 14th Annual Celebration An Evening with Carl Safina at the Old Field Club Nov. 14. Safina, an awardwinning author, founder of the Safina Center in Setauket and holder of the Endowed Chair for Nature and Humanity at Stony Brook University, gave a moving illustrated talk revealing examples of the emotional life of animals and also entertained the gathering playing on his drums with the Trust Jazz Trio, compliments of Tom Manuel and The Jazz Loft. During Safina’s talk he discussed how we share this planet with other creatures that evolved alongside of us. He touched on such questions as, Are the capacities of the human mind unique to us? What are other creatures doing with their brains that are after all made from some of those same parts? “We are kin under the skin,” Safina said. “The elephant has the same skeleton, the killer

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Sports — Game of the week

Patriots nipped Newfield

Ward Melville squared off against the Newfield Wolverines out on the strip Dec. 8 in a three-way bout with Brentwood. The Patriots had their hands full with a surging Newfield squad but edged the Wolverines 16-11 to remain unbeaten 3-0 in Suffolk League II. Newfield senior Jacob Braxton, above left, battles Ward Melville senior Regan St. Clair. Right, Newfield’s Matthew Hu, right, scores a touch on Ward Melville freshman Will Lehr.

The Patriots are back out on the strip Dec. 13 where they’ll host Centereach starting at 5 p.m. at Ward Melville High School. The Patriots and Wolverines will also compete in a holiday tournament invitational Dec. 15 at Brentwood High School. First bout scheduled for 9 a.m. For more photos from the game, visit www. tbrnewsmedia.com.

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Three Village parade lights the way to holiday season

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Setauket was filled with merriment and lights Dec. 9 as hundreds lined Route 25A to catch a glimpse of the Three Village Electric Holiday Parade. More than 30 participants including schools, Scout troops, musket men, dancers, the Stony Brook University Marching Band and Wolfie, SBU’s mascot, marched along the route or rode in floats decorated with holiday

lights. This year John Tsunis, owner of the Holiday Inn Express in Stony Brook, a partner at Tsunis Gasparis, LLP and chairman and CEO of Gold Coast Bank, served as grand marshal. Residents wearing Santa hats and lighted headgear and necklaces added to the festive mood. At the end of the route, attendees gathered at East Setauket Pond Park near Shore Road for a tree lighting where Santa was on hand to greet children, and Fratelli’s Bagel Express served free hot chocolate to help everyone warm up after a chilly night.

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Editor’s note: Every Saturday two groups stand on the corners of Route 25A and Bennetts Road, and 25A and North Country Road. We invited members of both groups to write in and tell us why they return every Saturday. Below is a letter from the North Country Peace Group. The North Country Peace Group demonstrates Saturday mornings at the corner of Route 25A & Bennetts Road in Setauket. We’ve been keeping vigil there, “standing for peace and justice,” every Saturday since December 2002. Alarmed by talk of the U.S. invading Iraq — based on what we now know to be false information — local residents began gathering in solidarity with people worldwide who opposed the war. The war in Afghanistan was already raging. After 16 years, these wars — along with our involvement in Syria, Yemen, Libya, Niger and Somalia — are still being fought. Countless numbers of troops and civilians have died. These countries have been thoroughly destabilized, creating power voids for organizations like ISIS. Our veterans, many suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, return home to a

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Cleary School for the Deaf in Nesconset is the only statesupported school in Suffolk County for more than 50 preschool children who are deaf or profoundly hearing impaired. It has become apparently clear to us the state assistance it does receive doesn’t seem to be nearly enough. As a parent pointed out, Cleary’s full-time students ages 3 to 7, despite being young, are keenly aware that they are different from their peers. While facing the challenges of learning how to overcome hearing loss, often in combination with visual impairments and other disabilities, they are separated from peers. This is a classic case of separate but not equal. Cleary School for the Deaf was forced to take down its 30-year-old wooden playgrounds and has taken to GoFundMe to raise the money needed to replace them. Young children have a natural desire to want to run, jump and play outside. A playground provides them with the opportunity not only to get exercise and build gross motor skills as they try to negotiate the monkey bars, but a chance for social interaction as well. In taking the risk of asking another child to play, they learn how to negotiate making friends and, unfortunately, deal with rejection. It can also be a chance to be creative by playing make believe. Parents researching various preschool and kindergarten programs have every reason to want to know what activities and resources will be available to their children — including what opportunities will be available for play. Katie Kerzner, principal at Cleary, said she’s already faced the difficult questions from parents such as “Will my preschool or kindergarten-aged child have the same opportunity as those at public schools? The opportunity to play on a playground?” The answer, we all know, should be an unequivocal “Yes.” Unfortunately, the future isn’t so clear. The state-supported school’s staff say enrollment has boomed in the last five years and state aid isn’t keeping up. Parents of Cleary’s students have launched a GoFundMe campaign in an effort to raise the funds necessary to build a playground. In addition, the school hosted fundraising breakfasts and raffles while local businesses and community members have stepped forward to help, but it’s not yet clear if their fundraising efforts will be enough. New York State officials need to get on this, provide support and do more. It’s not right to have children who already feel different as they fight to overcome disabilities left out on a fundamental part of growing up. Our Long Island schools, both public and state-supported, need to receive their fair part of state funding. It’s a battle cry we hear from teachers and school administrators at the start of every budget season in January. This time, we’re sounding the rally cry early for Cleary and its students.

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We stand on the corner for peace deplorable shortage of the services they need and deserve. The Army suicide rate has never been higher. The cost of this state of perpetual war — lives lost, families destroyed, trillions of dollars that could be funding vital human needs at home — is horrific. Only war profiteers like weapons manufacturers benefit from this misery. We recall the words of President Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower who in 1953 said: “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms ... is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. ... Is there no other way the world may live?” The NCPG believes there is another way. We resist the culture of permanent war, the institutionalization of violence and the militarization of our society. We question a national budget that allocates $32.08 million every hour for the total cost of wars since 2001, according to National Priorities Project website. We work to end the interlocking injustices

of militarism, racism and economic exploitation — what the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. called “the triplets of evil” — along with the violence of voter suppression, anti-labor and anti-worker rights laws. We reject hateful rhetoric and discrimination against fellow Americans based on immigration status, sexual identity, socioeconomic status, religion and gender. We stand with America’s working people facing an assault on their rights that is unprecedented in recent history. We support efforts to combat climate change and to enact common-sense gun control legislation. We reject the poverty draft and the killing of unarmed black and brown people in poor communities. We also oppose the corporate takeover of our government — many elected officials are beholden to wealthy donors for a price our democracy cannot afford. We keep vigil each week because we care deeply about our country and will not rest until justice and equality are a reality for all Americans. We welcome you to join us, any Saturday, 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. North Country Peace Group

LIRR fare hikes vital to keep trains running On April 24, 1834, the Long Island Rail Road was officially chartered by the State of New York. In 1900, the Pennsylvania Railroad bought a controlling interest as part of its plan for direct access to Manhattan which began on Sept. 8, 1910. The Pennsylvania Railroad subsidized the LIRR into the late 1940s. This provided the financial basis for support of expansion and upgrades to service and infrastructure. At the end of World War II, there began a decline of our LIRR with a corresponding loss of fare-box revenues. The Pennsylvania Railroad began to reduce financial support as well. This played a part in the LIRR going into receivership in 1949. In recognition of the role the LIRR played in the economy of both Long Island and New York City, the state began providing financial assistance to the LIRR in the 1950s and ’60s. Prior to 1965, the line of the “Dashing Dan” and “Dashing Dottie” logos derived almost 100 percent of its funding for

both capital and operating expenses from fares. Chartered by the state Legislature in 1965, as the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation Authority, it was created to purchase and operate the bankrupt LIRR. In 1966, the state bought the railroad’s controlling stock from Pennsylvania Railroad and put it under the newly formed Metropolitan Commuter Transportation Authority. The MCTA changed its name to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in 1968 when it took over operations of the NYC Transit Authority. With MTA subsidies, the LIRR modernized further and grew into the busiest commuter railroad in the United States. Over the past 50 years, several billion dollars in combined county, city, state and federal taxpayer-generated dollars have subsidized both the capital and operating costs for the LIRR. Riders must be aware that fare hikes are periodically required if the MTA is to provide the services millions of New

Yorkers use daily. They are inevitable due to inflation, along with increasing costs of labor, power, fuel, supplies, materials, routine safety, state of good repair, replacement of worn-out rolling stock, upgrades to stations, yards and shops along with system expansion projects necessary to run any transit system. In the end, quality and frequency of service is dependent upon secure revenue streams. We all have to contribute — be it at the fare box or from tax revenues generated by different levels of government redistributed back to the MTA. Remember the adage TANSTAAFL: There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch — or, in this case, a free ride. Larry Penner Great Neck Editor’s note: Penner is a transportation historian, advocate and writer who previously worked 31 years for the U.S. Department of Transportation.

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to the left and right. When I was young, I used to figure out the exact middle of a book. I had an understated celebration when I reached the midpoint, even though the prologue, or introduction, often tilted the balance slightly. Of course, I could do the same thing with an electronic version of a book. And yet it’s just not the same for me. I also liked to see the names of the people who read the book in school before me. These students had perused the same pages, found the same shocking revelations and associated with the characters as they moved through the same year in their lives. When I reread a chapter, searched for symbols or literary devices, I could recall exactly where on a page I might have seen something. In an e-book, every page is the same. None of the pages is slightly darker, has a bent corner where someone might have stopped, or has a slightly larger “e” or a word that’s printed above the others on a line. The virtual pages are

indistinct from each other, except for the specific words on the page or the chapter numbers. I suppose people like me are why a store like Barnes & Noble can still exist, despite the ease and low cost of uploading books. And, yes, I understand when I travel how much lighter my suitcase would be if I uploaded 100 books without lugging the weight of the paper. I also understand that e-books are more environmentally friendly. Once a paper book is produced, however, it no longer requires constant battery recharging. Passing along books read by earlier generations connects us to our parents and grandparents. We can imagine them holding the book at a distance as their eyes started to change, falling asleep with the book in their laps, or sitting on the couch until late at night, eager to finish a book before going to bed. We can also picture them throwing a book that frustrated them across the room or out the window. Among the many Titanic stories that sticks out for me is the tale of Harry Elkins Widener, a 27-year-old book collector who boarded

the ill-fated ship with his mother and father in Cherbourg, France. Legend has it that he died with a rare 1598 book, “Essays” by Francis Bacon, that he had bought in London. Harry and his father died aboard the ship, while their mother survived the sinking. After her son perished, she donated $2 million — an enormous sum in 1912 — to Harvard to construct a library which is still on the main campus. While I’m sure it’s possible to pick a random section of an e-book, I have grabbed books from a shelf and leafed to a random page, trying to figure out where in the story I have landed. I am delighted to hold children’s books, including many of the Dr. Seuss collection. Also, I remember my children searched each page of “Goodnight Moon,” by Margaret Wise Brown for the mouse. There’s probably a mouse in the virtual version and touching it may even make the mouse grow, scurry across the virtual page or offer lessons about rhyming couplets. Still, for my reading pleasure, I’m old school: Hand me a book and I’ll carry around a friend.

many wild rides through the neighborhoods. He cut a fine figure in his scarlet hunting jacket at the head of the pack. And he probably broke every bone in his body at least twice in his many falls, always with good humor during the phone calls as he related the latest mishap to his wife on his way to the hospital. The other left NYU just shy of a doctorate in 1950 and ultimately found a job in 1951 with the Electronic Computer Corporation, a shop of engineers in Brooklyn. In between she married a tall Brit named Israel Wilenitz, who was a chemical engineer. She figured out how to design various computers including one that made range calculations for the U.S. Defense Department, another that kept accounts in business offices and one for an airline reservations system for United Airlines. She also built and marketed the world’s first computerized word processor. She went on to found her own computer company with two male colleagues, which was located in the Hauppauge Industrial Park, and eventually was bought out by Burroughs Corporation. For fun she loved attending cultural events, especially the American Ballet Theatre in New York City where she

held a subscription. Recently she joined us with a subscription to the Metropolitan Opera. Our best times together were probably on her back deck in Poquott, where she served us elaborate brunches of French toast, bagels and lox from the famous Russ & Daughters on the lower East Side of Manhattan and regaled us with historic events she had witnessed during her long life. She had something interesting to say about every subject, past and present, and was totally engaged in current events right up to the end. The last time I called her, she told me she had to get off the phone because she was watching “60 Minutes.” He was also my orthopedist and shared with me a precious bit of wisdom: “You Americans feel that there should be a cure for every pain that you may feel. But the body isn’t like that. Pains, minor pains, are a part of life and can be borne without rushing into surgery to have them fixed, which is a risky thing to do in the first place.” They were companions and their lives were an inspiration for me. I am diminished by the loss of my dear friends.

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of people. Educated well, he came to the United States to cap off his training, fell in love with one of the first women he met at Stony Brook — and Scotland’s loss was our gain. She was there, at his bedside all those years later, when, struggling to breathe, he finally succumbed to COPD. The second was born in the East Bronx and was 93. She was one of three children raised in an apartment under elevated railroad tracks. It was so small that the uncle who boarded with them, while he finished medical school, had to sleep on a mattress under the dining room table. She was bright enough to finish high school at 15 and attended Hunter College at night while she worked. Unusually tall for her generation, she lied about her age in order to get her job. Under a World War II City University program that allowed women to study calculus and other specialized subjects at an all-male school, she then transferred to Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and ultimately earned a degree in physics from NYU in 1946. Needless to say, she was in a distinct minority in her classes. He, when not practicing medicine, and as a passionate lover of horses and riding, participated in the Smithtown Hunt for many years and on

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