Daily News from New York, New York • 215

DAILY NEWS, JUNE 3, 1974 fwiMo ti.im"it!'i'i I'lllHliiitililttttlli HH.mi(T!'!l!:iH1!if':' lli I tl EIH i a Pair With l(M) Set Begrees ft and we've been having a ball." said Dorothy as she spoke briefly on how it was having six members of the family in school over the last two years. Kids AH Over Kids seemed to be hanging from the rafters of the big hall as the organ struck up the grand march from "Aida" and the professors in their somber gowns and brilliant hoods began filing in. There was no way to keep it a solemn ceremony, for the children excitedly called out "Hi, Daddyl There's Daddy!" or "I can't see Mama!" There was much hand waving and the graduates themselves were waving back to their families. "Ill bet this commencement gets more children than any other school's" murmured one John Jay official. "Most of these men are cops with families and it' a big: deal for the kids to see their parents finish school" his wife helped each other put on their black gowns in a dressing room backstage.

He started going1 to school again in 1969, this time enrolled at John Jay and going "at night mostly." Four Children Mrs. Griffith who had four youngsters in school, started to school in 1969 "because 1 needed an outlet." She switched to John Jay in 1972 and had been going full-time since. "She's maintained being a good mother, a good wife, an excellent housekeeper, even going to school full-time," said Liddon. "I think that's pretty good." The four Griffith children Liddon 17, Way-man, 15, Kevin 16, and Ladonna, 13, had come equipped with cameras to record the big event and huge bouquet of red roses "for Mama." "They've been keeping house, they've been helping me with my homework, they've been tutoring me Iiy JEAN CRAFTON Liddon and Dorothy Griffith of the Bronx had their big moment at Carnegie Hall yesterday, and if you asked them how they got there, they'd tell you it had more to do with studying than practickfcr. The husband and wife, both 35, picked up degrees from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in this year's commencement exercises, marking the first time a married couple had ever graduated from the school.

For LUJon, a physical trainer of Housing Authority patrolmen, picking; up his degree in ethnic studies wrapped up a project he started back in 192 at Bronx Community College. "I stopped when I ram on this Job back in 1064 because of the hours," Liddon said as he and MMMHflllHIIIMIIWM iniMllllWMIIIIiHMIMIIIi Sign of Th eir Times There'll lie Mo togs In City of the Fufture On Roosevelt Island I By OWEN MORITZ Dogs will be barred from the $325 million futuristic city rising on Roosevelt Island in the East River the first community on record to ban an animal long regarded as not a mere pet, but as man's best friend. 7 Pf i 1 i vf 1 l-n I A- -J tlx I $mv 7 0 Du -lf "Dogs simply don't fit in with our plans," said Robert Litke, executive vice president of the Roosevelt Island Development and owner of an Irish terrier. But the ban was promptly denounced as unconstitutional by Max Sehnnpp, president of the Dog Owners Protective Association, who said: "How can you take any action before you prove what's wrong with having dogs as pits?" No "Leashes in Leases" It has long been policy of the New York Urban Development pnrent of the Roosevelt Island development, to bar "leashes in leases" for its housing projects, But the total ban for the Island community the "new town in town" for 18,000 persons of all incomes, due to open next January-Is milestone. "Our roads will have a brick-type paving material," I.itke ex plained.

"The dog droppings won't blend in with it." "Dogs don't lend themselves to keeping a place clean for people," he went on. "And since we're an island, there's very little argument to be made for security." Second Setback It was the second major decision here in eight months to go against the city's canine population estimated by Schnnpp to number 700,000. Last November, the New York City Housing Authority issued a "white paper" to justify the exclusion of all dogs from housing projects. Where dogs tread, slums are not far behind, the Housing Authority wrote. "A dog Is like appto pie, it's that American," Shnapp said.

"1 don't think it is American to ban animals without first proviner the reason why and I don't think Americans for long will stand for the keeping out of dogs." UPI photo This Is what girls usually wear while shopping in sunny Daytona Beach Fla. Sometimes in June, girls in New York get to wear their summer outfits usually covered by a raincoat. uouA Failure 'ilsonSour Legislators Exit in EDWARD O'NEILL Albany, June 2 The Senate and Assembly chambers are de- serted today, but the wreckage of one of the wildest, most confused Legislatures in the history of the utate is strewn about for all to see: hundreds of bills, crushed along with the high hopes of their sponsors, that failed to reach the floor; dozens of empty seats that will not be filled by the same bodies next year as a result of choice, reapportionment or defeat next November. Topping all is the enigma of Malcolm Wilson. When he assumed the governorship Pec.

18, Wilson's takeover drew ap-preriative cheers from the legislators. After 20 years as an assemblypian and 16 as lieutenant governor, Wilson was recognized as a veteran of the legislative process, a governor with more on-the-job training than any other man ever And, a practiced political mechanic best equipped to maneuver bills and programs through the State Senate and Assembly, Lnbelievably, with all that goinjr for him, he blew it. When the smoke of battle died down, he had: Angered and alienated almost every legislator, particularly members and leaders of his own party. Fought in public with Senate Majority Leader Warren Anderson (R-liinghamton) and Assembly Speaker cityJlhall mm tCjStimmmj Perry Duryea (R-Montauk), finally -forcing them into a public split with' each other. Suffered one public' defeat after another by pressing out loud for bills he had been warned would not pass, such as last-minute amendments to the fouled-up rent bill and his abortive effort to get approval for a measure that would allow Con Ed to burn coal and cheaper, air-polluting fuel oil.

That Con Ed thing, by the way, had already been beaten twice during the session, which made the guv's third try an act of rashness that destroyed his rep as a smooth operators -rr The final ignominy took place on the last day of the special session, last Thursday, when Anderson dutifully rallied Senate Republicans into passing the rent amendments only to learn that it had been an exercise in futility because the Assembly had adjourned. And when two veteran assemblymen Democrat Lous De Salvio of Manhattan and Republican Willis Stephens of Brewster were dispatched to his office to deliver the traditional ratification of the Assembly's adjournment, they found that Wilson had fled the field he wasn't even there. For Wilson, it was a tragic endinjr to a session that wasn't all that bad for him up until then. Result: the Legislature will be remembered as one marked by his final failures rather than for the many fine pieces of legislation he did get through and Will probably run on in November. Stunned Republicans, faced with an admittedly uphill fight this election year, spent this weekend asking themselves the one big question why? Most agree that the governor, somewhat overwhelmed by the magnitude of his new job, 'may -have taken himself too'' seriously) He was aloof, failed tor once visit the Legislature in friendly informality as other governors have, forced Anderson and Duryea to go to him and too frequently was unavailable because he was out campaigning around the state.

Wilson's most significant rebuff came at the end of the special session when Sen. Bernard Gordon (R-Westchester), chairman of the Judiciary Committee, flatly refused the guv's request to dispense with a committee hearing on the fitness of five nominees for judgeships on the Court of Claims. It was a meaningless hearing, as it turned out since the judgeships were uncontested anyway thus making the Gordon decision simply an act of defiance by a friendly senator from Wilson's home county! The key observation here is that Wilson, in trying to please wound up pleasing no one. In bewilderment, they are wondering why the governor ignored the old parliamentary axiom: Don't push anything unless you know you have the votes. Wilson's lack of crispness and professionalism clearly caught his.

party by surprise. And they're still, asking them-'wervbs-wh'y?.