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uoo r open at new women' s center YOU ARE INVITED TO DROP IN - Shown here are members of the p lanning group for The Open Door Women ' s Center. Left to right are Doroth y Vocht , Suffolk Community College intern; Ellen Drew and Bonita Sutin , project coordinators; Dee Martin , youth program director ; Roberta Kell y, volunteer planner. -Brianne Rizzo photo \Inside here , in this group, there ' s support. Outside , nobody cares - in here , people care . \ \But I , f or one , refuse to be identified as a problem. It' s not ' tell us y our problems ' ...it ' s just everybody together sharing new options. \ These are some of the words heaid recently during a very special meeting of creative community members and staffers of Catholic Charities Community Life Center in Patchogue where plans are coming alive and unfolding for a women ' s center to be known as \The Open Door . \ Thanks to the Venture Fun d Committee of the Adelphi University Center on Volun- teerism (COV) , \The Open Door \ Women ' s Center , a project of the Patchogue Community Life Center of Catholic Charities , has been awarded a $6 ,000 program development grant. Sixty-four proposals from Nassau and Suffolk County groups and agencies were sub- mitted to COV in a competition to encourage innovative , ex- periental approaches to volun- teerism . The gran t itself was made possibl e by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation which also funds the Adel phi Center . The Patchogue Catholic Charities Center applied to the Venture Fund Committee stating that \ yolunteerism through mutual - aid presents significant op- portunities for the self- actualization of the persons our center services. \ What is the purpose of COV? It was initiated to provide a link between higher education and the volunteer community, and to suppor t volunteers and voluntary agencies in Nassau and Suffolk Counties through training and consulting services , courses , counseling, a newsletter , research library, calendar of events and a Certificate Program in Volunteer Management. Through these efforts COV will consistently work to make volunteering a key to personal and professional growth and to upgrade the image of the volunteer . (continued on p age 19) \ \A Robin Hood suit for more state aid for hard-pressed local schools. \ That' s how Assemblyman I. William Bianchi this i week characterized a lawsuit being planned by a large number of western Suffolk school districts . The object of the suit is to enjoin the state legislature from amending Governor Hugh Carey ' s proposed new formula for state aid to education - which benefits the districts. Henry Read , superintenden t of the Patchogue- Medford School District - a leader in the lawsuit plan - Declared: \We think it is about time the state legislature move in the direction of Justice Kingsley Smith' s decision of last year. \ The Nassau Supreme Court justice ruled that there should be a more equitable distribution of state aid to assist school districts with \low wealth \ and tax rates higher than the state average. Mr. Carey maintains he is addressing that in his new aid formula. Under Carey ' s plan , noted Mr. Read , Suffol k school districts would be gaining \ over $35 million in ad- ditional aid beneficially affecting 294 , 000 students. \ However , although many districts and students would gain through Carey ' s proposal - Mr. Read says \ almost 90 per cent of students in Suffolk will benefit\ - - some school systems will lose , particularly those on the East End. Ten East End districts will lose all their state aid. \The Robin Hood approach will only weaken those districts providing the best educational programs in the state , \ declared the Southampton School Board in a recent telegram to the governor . Southampton schools stand to lose all their current $772 , 000 in state aid if the governor ' s formula is not changed by the legislature. , (continued on page 10) MAPPING STRATEGY for the school aid law suit with Assemblyman I. William Bianchi, Jr. (sixth from left ) are (left to right) School Board Vice-President Arthur Worthington , Bayport-Blue Point; Superintendent Arthur Becker , Board President John Denes and Vice-President Sylvia Springhorn , all of South Country; Robert Sapir attorney representing the districts; Assemblyman Bianchi; Board President Georee Mason p z tnh Qa » e . Medford; Board r resident Ruth Pasternak , Bayport-Blue Point; Vice-President Al Volkmann and Superin- tendent Henry Read , both of Patchogue-Medford. School old suit p its East vs. Wost As a result of a school ad- ministration proposal to equalize overcrowded and underused school buildings presented to the parents of children in the Pat- choeue-Medford School District March 12 , parents countered Tuesday night with a prop osal of their own . The original plan , derived from statistics gathered by school enrollmen t specialists Engelhard t and Engelhardt and presented by Superintendent Henry Read , called for ' reduction of population at Tremont Avenue and balancing out with other schools (and ) reduction of population at Oregon Avenue and balancing out below capacity . \ It requires transferring 51 students from Trernonf to Canaan , 25 from Medford Avenue to Bay, 101 from Barton to Medford , and 168 from Tremont to Barton . Many parents , particularl y those whose children attend Tremon t and Barton , felt the proposal lacking in consideration for the individual students. An ad hoc com- mittee , headed up by Pam Wright of Robinson Avenue , said they wanted to work out an alternate plan. \ This alternate plan was presented at the Tremont School Tuesday night at a meeting attended by a number of parents , Superintendent Read , Executive Assistant Hugh S. MacLeod , school princi pals and a representation of board members \The committee is made up of people from the entire district and . utilizing the same data given us by the school ad- ministration plus additional data obtained from princi pals , we have come up with an alternate plan that was very well received by the parents who attended , \ said Mrs. Wright She continued , \This plan has been utilized by some other districts who have a similar problem (Sachem , Massapequa ) and involves taking the kindergarteners out of Tremont and putting them into a unit at either aarton or Canaan where they will be kept together ( all Tremont students ) for one year After that they will return to Tremont and continue through fifth. \ Questioning Hugh MacLeod as to the administration ' s reaction to this , he said , \It would not solve the problem since tne kindergarten classes are counted as half (continued on p age 10)
