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Easiest and Best Way to Advertise Use Want Ads 20 Poughkeepsie Journal JOHN MEDEIROS MELANIE JACKSON 'West Side Story' Set In Wappingers 'WAPPINGERS F.ALLS and Mime Society, was written John C. Medeiros and Melanie by Robert Griffith with music Jackson have the lead roles in by Leonard Bernstein. the Roy C. Ketcham High School production of "West for the first time in The play is being produced this area, Side Story," slated Friday, SatMrs. Dolores Bove, Drama urday and Sunday nights.

Club adviser, is directing the Curtain time is 8 o'clock Friplay and John Ericson is diday and Saturday, and 7:30 on recting the orchestra and Sunday. chorus. They are being assisted John, 15, is the son of Mr. by: Mrs. Peg Berenotto and and Mrs.

John J. Medeiros, 60 Mrs. Larry Kanter. Imperial Wappingers Falls. His first play was "Guys, Other students with importlast sumant roles are: Brian Van Steenand Dolls," presented mer at Van Wyck Junior High burgh, Ray Mayron, Taren, School.

Richard Ackert. Charlie WildMelanie. 16, is the daughter man, Neal Edman, Dave Bacof and 29 Mrs. Pleasant Robert C. Steve VanderWinckle.

kus, Chuck Moran, Mike Hart, Chris Jackson, Ridge Her Bove, Gordon Drive, Red Oaks Mill. Kerr, Mike time on stage was with Sprague, Scott Stevens, Robert first the County Players' production Clark, Mitch Wildman, Stefan of "King and George, Robert DellaCorte. She has also, appeared in the Also, Cindy Joba, Sue Curau, Hudson Valley, Music, Theatre's Nancy Miller, Virginia Lyle, "Music Wyck JunDiane Ruf, Gay Boscove, Paula for High's Men "Little Mazie MoonMarshall, Judy Relyea, Bob shine." and the lead role Wheel." in Dave Nicholson, Elkenson Thomas and Wayne Gilbert, Upon a Spinning Melanie, who is seeking a Clark. singing career, also appeared Members of the cast have in Van Wyck's "Li'l Abner" made their own costumes and and Ketcham's "American sets. Proceeds of the show will Dream" and "South Pacific." be used as scholarship money "West Side Story," being prefor deserving seniors who have sented by the school's Masque helped the society the most.

Day School To Expand To Include 10-12 Grades The Poughkeepsie Day School board has announced completion of plans to expand to a full program through the twelfth grade. At present the school offers kindergarten through ninth grade. Joseph P. Murphy, president of. the board, said the tenth and eleventh grades will be added in the fall of 1970.

The twelfth grade will be offered starting in the fall of 1971. During the coming year students in the new grades will be accommodated in the present building at 39 New Hackensack Road, adjacent to Vassar College, according to the school's headmaster, Leonard E. Opdycke. Necessary modifications will be made in the building during the summer, he said, aimed at permitting greater utilization of space and improved flexibility of program. Space needs will also be met in part "by rental of" physteal education facilities at the Jewish Community Center, he said.

Long-range plans for major building expansion, either by additions to the present building or by construetion of an entirely new facility, are currently under study by the board. In announcing the expansion, Murphy and Opdyeke emphasized. the continuance of the school's commitment to an education which draws together parents, teachers and students in a cooperative arrangement. extending the range of the school, we will include a number of older students. We have found that there is much mutual gain for the older and the younger students when they work together in designing and carrying out projects," they said.

and teachers are continuing discussions as to the content and approach which is taken at the school, and students are also participants in some of these discussions, pointed out. The expansion and remodeling have been planned in consultation with representatives of the Educational Facilities Laboratory, an organization supported by the Ford Foundation to bring innovative education and architecture to schools. The' academic program will college preparatory and there will be continued significant emphasis on independent work, community service, shared responsibility and parent involvement. Board Failed In Firm Stand, Kustas Asserts Louis J. Kustas, candidate for election to the Poughkeepsie Board of Education, says the present board has "failed to take a firm stand to enforce discipline in the schools Kustas.

who is opposing incumbent Mrs. Marie Tarver, board president, said the board, under Mrs. Tarver's leadership, "shirked its responsibility" during the February walkout by teachers. "When students riot, when teachers walk out and schools are forced to close, you know that something went wrong. And what went wrong is that the Board of Education failed to take a firm stand to enforce discipline in the schools.

"It shirked its responsibility to our community and to our children and it left education in Poughkeepsie in worse shape than ever Kustas said the board must support teachers. "They know how important it is to maintain proper decorum in the classroom. They know that. violence, is the enemy of education. "Our city should have good schools.

It should safe schools. That's why I'm a candidate. right now we need a cool head on, the Board' of Education. I believe I can be that MARINER'S HARBOR RESTAURANT DINE ON THE SCENIC HUDSON LIVE LOBSTER-STEAK -SEAFOOD RAW CLAMS 46 River Rd, Highland, N.Y. It's easy to insert a Poughkeepsie Journal Want Ad Monday, Dial April 20, 454-5421 1970 Speakers And Panels Listed For Youth Board's morning; Symposium Mrs.

Jane Fishfor the Speakers and panel members Community "Marx, Center; Mrs. Vir-1 Recorders: Mrs. Mrs. Marion Thomas Paivanas, Recorders: Mrs. Cathy er, afternoon.

Beverly Roosevelt High School, and High School. ese, symposium on youth ginia psychologist, Day Ramon, morning; and. law enforcement, sponsored by the Dutchess County Youth Board, have been announced. The symposium will be Thursday at the YMCA in Poughkeepsie. Milton Luger, director of the New York State Division for Youth, will be the keynote speaker.

County Executive David C. Schoentag1 will welcome those who attend. The symposium will consist of five workshops in the morning, will be repeated after a break for lunch. Registration begins at 9 a.m. Lunch is slated for 12:30 p.m.

And summation will be at 3:45 p.m. All who are interested. in attending should contact the Youth Board at 485-9721. Following are the workshops and those who will participate in them: .1. "Early Crime Detection and Prevention" -Mrs.

Lawnin Gindele, moderator. Speakers: Capt. Richard Boland, Bureau of Criminal Investigation; Anthony Communale, guidance counselor, Poughkeepsie School; James Horn, director, Neighborhood Service Organization. Resources: Jack Cooper, former Poughkeepsie policeman and a Youth Board member; the Rev. Daniel O'Hare, St.

Peter's Church; the Rev. Fred Rothlauf, director, Union Street LOIS L. KAIN Dairy Priness Candidate Named Miss Lois Lorraine Kain, 18, a brown-haired Webutuck High School senior and daughter of an Amenia dairyman, has been named candidate for the title of Dutchess County Dairy Princess. Her application was received by the Dairy Princess Program Committee at meeting Friday afternoon in the Farm and Home Center, Millbrook. Mrs.

Dirck V. V. Coon, Amenia, contest chairman, reported more than 20 other young women have obtained applications with returns due by May 1. The Dairy Princess -the county's first-will be selected by, judges as the climax of a public program Friday, night, June 5, at the Farm Home Center. In addition to awards, the represent Dutchess in a later competition for selection of a New York State Dairy Princess.

The program atthe center, including entertainment and refreshments, will be. the highlight of the annual Dairy Month observance. Miss Kain is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L.

Kain, Amenia. Her father owns Rock Spring Farm, a 600-acre registered Holstein operation, with 100 milkers. She has been a 4-H Club member for nine years and, in school, has been a member of the girls' basketball team and in ballet, softball and baseball, Her hobbies include skiing, horseback riding, golf, tennis, swimming and dancing. Contestants for the title must be between 17 and 24 years old. a high school Sept.

1, 1970, and unmarried. Her parents must be actively in farming, or she may be the daughter a farm manager, herdsman or employe. Co-chairmen of the Dairy Princess Program Committee are Mrs. Richard V. Kain.

Amenia, and Mrs. John S. Pulver. Millerton. Both reported plans progressing satisfactorily for the 1970 innovation.

ART EXHIBIT FISHKILL An exhibition of the art works of Mrs. Verna F. Mills, a local resident and a student of Emil Walters, is at the Main Street office of the Fishkilll National Bank during April. Next month, the exhibit wilL be at the Hopewell Junetion, office of the bank. Care Center: Sgt.

William Van Knoblaugh, Town of Poughkeepsie Police. Recorders; Mrs. Anne Conroy, morning; Joan Fay, afternoon. 2. "Pretrial Handling of the -Tom Cooper, moderator.

Speakers: County Judge Raymond E. Aldrich Arnold Becker, Rockland County public defender; Sgt. John Gilmore, Vera Institute, New York City; Town Justice Harold Mangold, Hyde Resources: Wiley Jackson, president, NAACP; Town Justice John King, Poughkeepsie; and youth representatives Bruce Levine, Poughkeepsie High School, and Karen Cochrane and David Searles, Beacon High School. Recorders: Mrs. Anne Cross, morning: Mrs.

Barbara Pierce, 3. "Trial Procedures' -Herbert R. Shein, moderator. Speakers: Public Defender William J. Ciolko; Liberty Town Justice David Cohen; District Attorney Albert M.

Rosenblatt; and Noel Tepper, Poughkeepsie lawyer. Resources: Vincent Cuccia, attorney, American Civil Liberties Union; Gregory Fahlund, assistant professor, Vassar College; and. youth representatives Julia Benezet, Vassar College, and Tom Mark, Haviland Junior High School. Morse, afterribon. 4.

"Detention Before and After Trial" Mrs. Marie Tarver, president, Poughkeepsie Board of Education, moderator. Speakers: The Rev. Hugh S. Miller, executive minister, Dutchess County Council of Churches; John J.

Norton, warden, Federal Correction Institution, Danbury, Sheriff Lawrence M. Quinian. Resources: Assistant District Attorney James Brand; Theodore Schubin, captain, Wallkill Prison; youth representatives Debra Whitehead, Poughkeepsie High School; Michael Haines. Roosevelt High School. Recorders: Mrs.

Marge Godfrey, morning; Mrs. Ann 'Conroy, afternoon. 5. "Parole and Jean Murphy, moderator. Speakers: William Chamuris, supervisor, Dutchess County Probation Department; Robert Danskin counselor, State Employment Service; Robert F.

Kaiser, area supervisor, State Division of Parole: David Rothenberg, executive Fortune Society of New York. Resources: Undersheriff John Dakin; Matthew Fitzgerald, chairman, Police Science Department, Dutchess Community College; Lou Lewis, attorney; Robert MacNeil, director, Hudson Valley Opportunities Industrialization Center; youth representatives David Mark. Future Teachers Plan 2-day New Paltz Conference NEW PALTZ An ted 750 high school student members of the Future Teachers of America and their advisers from across New York State will attend their two day annual state conference to be Wappingers Sets Kindergarten Registration WAPPINGERS FALLS Kindergarten registration for the 1970-71 school year in the set for to Monday and Tuesday, Wappingers Central District is April 27 and 28. Letters have been sent to the parents of pupils whose names were on the school census list, according to Ralph A. Hemingway, assistant superintendent for elementary education.

However, he noted, many people have moved into the district since the census was taken. Parents who did not receive a letter concerning kindergarten registration should telephone one of the district's schools, he said. Children who are five years old on or before Dec. 1, 1970, are eligible for kindergarten registration. The children will be registered according to elementary school boundary said Hemingway.

The placement of children in definite schools will be made during August and parents with be notified by mail of the school which their children will attend. Parents are requested to present their child's birth certificate or other legal evidence of birth date at the time of registration. It also will save time if parents know the dates when immunization injections were given, concluded Hemingway. Vassar, Union Singers Schedule Concert Saturday The Vassar Madrigal Singers, under the direction of Alberti van Ackere, and the Union College Madrigal Singers, conducted by Hugh A. Wilson, will sing works of the 15th and 16th centuries, as as compositions by Debussy' and Poulenc at Vassar College Saturday.

In one group of numbers they will be accompanied by an instrumental ensemble. The concert in Skinner Hall is open to the public. Van Ackere, professor of music and director of the Glee Club as well as the Madrigal Singers, has been a member of the Vassar faculty since 1960. Before coming to Vassar, he taught voice and conducted three choral organizations at, Wilson College in Chambersburg, Penna. Earlier he had taught at the Royal tory Wilson of is Music in professor Brussels.

of music, director of the Glee Club and lof the Madrigal Singers at Union College. FREE PRIZE DRAWINGS Win a trip for 2 to the 1970 Indianapolis 500 as the personal guest of Mario AndrettiA set of new Firestone "500" tires! 500 "Come in and register for the big prize drawing no or obligation. You may win a free trip 1970 Indianapolis 500 race as the guest of Mario Andretti. a set of new, wide Firestone "500" tires. You owe it to yourself to see the new Firestone "500" today!" Mario Andretti Void where prohibited by law.

at the State University College on Friday and Saturday. Presiding will be president Nancy Lewis of Rondout Valley Central School in Ulster County. The theme for the conference, "Today's Shadows, Tomorrow's Realities," is reflected in some of the topics for discussion, many of them less than shadows a score of years ago: "The Teacher's in Dealing with Drug Abuse," "The Computer and How to Use it in Instruction," "Family Living and Sex "NonGraded Schools," "Black Studies in the Classroom," "Teaching A in a number Foreign of Land." Hudson motels and hotels have been booked solid to house the future educators overnight Friday, according to Dr. Richard MeBride, associate professor of science education at New Paltz and adviser to the Student Education Association on campus. The conference will be welcomed to New Paltz by college president John J.

Neumaier and Karen Van Deusen, president of the Student Education Association. McCarthy Goes Back Into Race BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) Democratic Rep. Richard D. McCarthy of Buffalo, whose opposition to chemical and tional warfare recognition, has given re him entered nathe race Sunday night for his party's senatorial nomination.

McCarthy, 42, said Sunday he renewed. his candidacy to. "test whether the vote of a man in Buffalo or a woman in Syracuse still counts as much as that of the political leaders in New York City." McCarthy is the only upstate Democrat in the race for the seat held by Sen. Charles E. Goodell of Jamestown.

McCarthy has criticized the state committee for picking its entire state ticket from the New York City area. "I will determine whether the accepted concept of geographic representation in a state the size of New York still has some validity," McCarthy said. Weather Report LOWER HUDSON VALLEY Rain ending this evening and becoming partly cloudy late tonight, and Tuesday, Rather windy this afternoon with a high in the lower 50s. Lowest tonight 40 to 45. High Tuesday in the 50s.

Precipitation probability near 100 per cent today, 30 per cen tonight and 20 per cent Tuesday. Winds becoming southeast to south 15 to 35 mph today gradually shifting to west15 to 30 tonight and Tuesday." TEMPERATURES Maximum and minimum temoeratures during the 24 hours before 6:30 a.m. Maximum Minimum Precipitation .05. Wind N.E. 10 15 p.h.

SUN The sun rose at 5:08 a.m today and sets at 6:50 p.m. TIME OF THE TIDES HIGH LOW 12:09 p.m. 1am. 12:27 a.m. (Tuesday) 6:21 p.m.

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