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B2 ROCKLAND JOURNAL-NEWS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1991 Church coalition discusses drugs, brutality at conference black churches, urged police and drug dealers to use the churches for drug counseling and sensitivity training. Ministers are sure there's a drug problem in the village. They've heard several complaints of police brutality, but haven't decided whether the complaints are justi ground Sept. 5. Police said they were forced to use batons, before Holmes was handcuffed, when he violently resisted arrest on drug charges.

Conrad Lynn will defend Diana Seward, Tim Downing and John P. King, who were charged Sept. 21 with disorderly conduct. The three said they were sprayed with Mace by village police when they tried help Seward's fiance, James Montgomery, during Montgomery's arrest on harassment charges. James said the alliance hopes to meet with police soon to discuss the problems.

Peacefully curbing drug abuse and sales is a priority, he said. "The alliance cannot and will not condone the wave of violence and the illegal use of drugs which is raging in our community," James said. "As we know, the illegal use of drugs and abuse of drugs leads to violence, maims lives, disrupts families, kills and will eventually destroy the nation." Police Chief Howard Goldin has been cooperative with the alliance, James said. "As an individual, the chief is not interested in anyone getting hurt. He just wants to see a job done that the community demands," James said.

The Rev. Henry Geohaghan, assistant rector at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, joined James and McWilliams at a press conference yesterday. The alliance includes churches in Spring Valley, Nyack, Sparkill, Piermont and Haverstraw. founder of Waldorf Institute in Chestnut Ridge Airmont residents again oppose group home Wlj Original AIRMONT I i rVi -3 Alternate 1 1 nj fied, three ministers said yesterday.

"We're saying if there is (police brutality), it's wrong," said the Rev. Weldon McWilliams of First Baptist Church. "Drug dealers and users have to be stopped, but not with such violence," said the Rev. C. Norman James, president of the alliance and to 1961; and a Waldorf High School English teacher at Rudolf Steiner School in Edinburgh, Scotland, from 1951 to 1958.

Mr. Glas was co-general secretary of the Anthroposophical Society from 1986 to 1990 and a member of its council from 1970 to 1990. He was president of the Waldorf Institute Board from 1986 to 1990 and chairman and board president of the Waldorf Schools Fund from 1970 to 1991. He also was a member of the Pedagogical Section Council Hague Circle of Waldorf Educators, a trustee with the Rudolf Steiner Foundation and the International Kindergarten Association and president of the board of trustees of the Sunbridge Development Fund from 1986 to 1991. He wrote two books, "Speech da on Feb.

13, 1906, to Joseph and Zillah Garlic Wilton. She moved to the United States in 1930. She lived in Richmond Hills, Queens, and Sunrise, before moving to the Washington Manor Nursing Home seven years ago. Mrs. Sclafani worked as a nurse at the Gouverneur Nursing Hospital in New York City for 15 years before retiring in 1945.

She was a graduate of the Toronto School of Nursing. She is survived by one son, James of New City; one daughter, Rosemary Brunjes of Davies, one sister, Rita McKillop of Canada; seven grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. Her husband, Salvatore, died in 1965. A service will be held Saturday at 9:30 a.m. at St.

Francis of Assisi Church, 128 Parrott Road, West Nyack. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery in Queens. Calling hours will be tomorrow from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Higgins Funeral Home, 321 S. Main New City.

Memorial donations may be made to the Alzheimer's Association, Dr. Robert L. Yeager Health Center, Bldg. Room 236D, Pomona, 10970; or the Church of St. pastor of St.

James Full Gospel Church, in a prepared statement. Civil rights attorneys have stepped into several cases in Spring Valley in which people claim they were beaten by police. C. Vernon Mason is defending Terry Holmes, whom witnesses said was beaten while handcuffed on the Education in Waldorf Schools," in 1974, and "Waldorf School Approach to History," in 1963. Mr.

Glas is survived by his wife, Barbara Bushnell Glas; one daughter, Fiona, and one son, Ian. A service will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Threefold Auditorium, 260 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge. Arrangements are being handled by the George M. Holt Funeral Home, 50 New Main Haverstraw.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Waldorf Institute Classroom Building Fund, 260 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge, 10977. Staff writer Tim Henderson contributed to this report. Maurice Hunger Program, 2851 Sterling Road, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. 33315. Allen Roosevelt White 28-year Rocklander A service will be held tomorrow for Allen Roosevelt White of Lakeview Village, Spring Valley, who died Tuesday at Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern after a long illness.

He was 85. Born Oct. 22, 1905, in Clinton, N.C., to Jim and Sarah Peterson White, Mr. White moved to Spring Valley in 1963. His wife, Mary White, died in 1970.

He is survived by one daughter, Mary Bryant of Spring Valley; one sister, Hanah White of Clinton, N.C.; one brother, Ira White of Clinton; and five grandchildren. Tomorrow's service will begin at 11 a.m. at St. John's Deliverance Tabernacle at 35 Piermont Nyack, with the Rev. Elizabeth Alston officiating.

Burial will be at the Summit Park Cemetery in Ramapo. Calling hours will be today from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Alphonso E. Brown Funeral Home, 1 Lawrence Spring Valley. Smartly Styled I17S Jl 1 liJWV Rnft Snrr1v Nylon Fleece Lined With 100 Polarite Whisks Away Cnln Moisture Oillv $55 Reg.

Retail $85 in store stock. 'M I again in Airmont By Tim Henderson Staff Writer Residents of the Lee Drive area again protested the village of Air-mont's choice of a house on the street as an alternative place for a group home. The village Board of Trustees proposed 3 Lee Drive as an alternative to Venture choice of 8 Plymouth Place as a group home for 10 mentally retarded people. At a Monday meeting, residents asked the board to rescind the alternative site. Venture had recently told the village the Lee Drive house met state standards for a group home.

Mayor Maureen Kendrick made no decision, but said she will consider a formal protest of safety problems on Lee Drive. Residents said Lee Drive is a busier street than Plymouth Place, a dead-end street. Over the past several weeks, Lee Drive, Regina Road and South Monsey Road residents have protested the choice of Lee Drive as an alternate site. Last week, they submitted a petition with 100 signatures calling for a legal challenge to both sites, an idea the board rejected as unfeasible. "I'm really shocked by the opposition," said Trustee Robert Fletcher, who defended the Lee Drive site as a larger, better place for the retarded people.

"It would be ambivalent now to go back and say we don't like the POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT Will iimiOI Christopher Schaefer, co-director of the institute, said the center bases its training on the works of the Austrian social philosopher Rudolf Steiner. Because Mr. Glas was trained as an actor, he had tremendous charisma and presence, Schaefer said. "He was a very capable and entertaining public speaker," Schaefer said. "He was known and loved by many people." Mr.

Glas was a professor of education at Mercy College in Detroit, which was affiliated with the Waldorf Institute, from 1979 to 1986. He was director of Waldorf Teacher Training at Highland Hall School in Los Angeles from 1961 to 1967; principal at LaNeueva Escaela in Mexico City from 1958 Jimmy E. Norfleet Letchworth retiree Jimmy E. Norfleet, a longtime North Rockland resident, died Friday in Virginia. He was 77.

Mr. Norfleet was born in Norfolk, on March 22, 1914. He lived on Conklin Avenue in Haverstraw. Mr. Norfleet was a therapy aide at Letchworth Village Developmental Center in Thiells for 24 years.

He retired in 1980. Mr. Norfleet is survived by his wife, Linda J. Weiler Norfleet; three sons, James E. Jr.

of Suffolk, Charles of California and Larry of Highland Falls in Orange County; four daughters, Sallie Garner and Janice Stafford, both of Valley Cottage, Barbara of California and Kathy of Highland Falls; one sister, Gladys Warren of Suffolk, and several grandchildren and greatgrandchildren. A funeral was held yesterday in Suffolk. A memorial service will be held Oct. 20 at 2 p.m. at the home of his wife, 224 Warren Knolls Apartments, Haverstraw.

Ada I. Sclafani retired nurse Ada I. Sclafani, mother of a New City resident, died yesterday at the Washington Manor Nursing Home in Hollywood, Fla. She was 85. Mrs.

Sclafani was born in Cana AGENCY 24 South Main Street Spring Valley INSURANCE POOR? Our insurance agency is a direct agent for Aetna, CNA, Kemper, Travelers, and others IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE! 356-9000 By Tim Henderson Staff Writer A coalition of Rockland churches spoke out against both drugs and "alleged police brutality" in Spring Valley yesterday. The Rockland Ministers' Alliance, which includes pastors of 12 OBITUARIES Werner Glas, By Alan Rittner Staff Writer Werner Glas, the founder and director of the Waldorf Institute in Chestnut Ridge, died Tuesday at Valley Hospital in Bergen County, N.J. He was 62. The institute is one of two Waldorf teacher training centers in the United States. The other is in Sacramento, Calif.

They train teachers for about 500 Waldorf elementary and high schools worldwide. The institute moved to Chest-: nut Ridge in 1986 from Detroit, where Mr. Glas founded it in 1967. Mr. Glas was born in Vienna, Austria, on Aug.

18, 1929, to Otto and Alice Glas. He lived on Ray-; mond Avenue in Chestnut Ridge. Mary R. Conklin lifelong Rocklander Mary R. Conklin, of Haverstraw Road in Montebello, died Tuesday at Good Samaritan Hospital in Suf-fern.

She was 83. Born in Ladentown to Edward and Martha Starr Jones on Nov. 20, 1907, Mrs. Conklin was a lifelong Rockland resident. Her husband, Albert Conklin died in 1986.

Her son, Albert died in 1985. She is survived by a sister, Cora Smith of Pomona; a brother, William Jones of Saddle River, N.J.; one grandaughter, Karen Miraglio of Wesley Hills; and four greatgrandchildren. A funeral service will be held tomorrow at 10 a.m. at the Wana-maker and Carlough Funeral Home, Route 59, Suffern. Burial will be at the Brick Church Cemetery in New Hempstead.

hours will be today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the funeral home. family requests donations to the Tallman Fire Department Building Fund, co Tallman Fire Department, Route 59, Tallman, 10982, or the Ramapo Valley Ambulance Corps, Route 59, Suffern, 10901. Joseph Kersting Sr. former Rocklander Joseph Kersting a former Orangeburg resident, died Tuesday at Mercy Hospital in Scranton, Pa.

He was 72. iAr. Kersting was born in New York City on Aug. 31, 1919, to Arthur and Elizabeth O'Donald Kersting. Mr.

Kersting was a truck driver for the American Book Co. of Saddle Brook, N.J. He retired in 1979. Mr. Kersting was an Army veteran of World War II.

He is survived by his wife, Gertrude LeCount Kersting; two sons, Joseph Jr. of Northvale, N.J., and Kevin of Milford, one daughter, Irene DeLalla of Lake Ariel, and! five brothers, Walter of Rhode Island, William of Golden, Frank of Virginia, Robert of the Bronx and Richard of Ellenville, N.Y.; A Mass will be said Saturday at 9:30 a.m. at St. Anthony's Church in Northvale. Burial will be in the Tappan Cemetery.

Calling hours will be today and tomorrow from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Anthony R. Pizzi Funeral Home, 120 Paris Northvale. To Publish: Death Notices Card of Thanks In Memoriams St. Jude Lodge Notices Call: 694-5147 Bfor.

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Venture and several other agen- cies are working to relocate 108! retarded people from the former! Greer Woodycrest School near Po- mona, scheduled to close in 1992. Also, about 600 retarded and handicapped people will be relo-. cated to community group homes from Letchworth Village about five years from now. POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT HM ii'iniJ- i' ti DISCOVER THE WORLD OF SAVINGS 3 DAYS ONLY Fri. Oct.

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