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Four from Bay Ridge graduate from LIU By JOAN SHEPARD ft SUPER STARS: The finals of The Super Star Contest will be held on Sunday at the Ecstacy Discotheque, Nostrand Ave. and Eastern Parkway. The contestants are an amazing group of young people from Bed-Sty, East New York and Brownsville. Awards will be presented to the best all around performer, the best dance act, best vocalist, best instrumentalist, and best dramatic act One of the contest boosters is State Sen. Major Owens who told The News, "What started as a temporary project should now be soundly structured and made an annual Central Brooklyn happening." On Sunday more than 75 young talents will compete.

Committee members pulling the contest together are Barbara Barnes, Vicki Skinner, Margaret Moore, Teresa Barber, Matthew Bright, Wilma Carthan, Lem Peterkin and Howard Hunter A FIRST: On Saturday, Primera Conf erencia Hispana de Brooklyn (the first Hispanic Conference of Brooklyn) will be held at PS 1, 309 47th St Mayor Koch and Deputy Mayor Herman Badillo have promised to be there. The conference will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and- will include a luncheon. There will be series of informational workshops including discussion of landlord and tenant problems, and human rights.

The conference, a serious one, will also be a great gathering for many of Brooklyn's Hispanic residents. AN OPENING: The Brooklyn Botanic Garden will open its Shakespeare Garden on Saturday at 1:30 p.m. To celebrate the opening of the unusual garden which includes 80 plants mentioned in Shakespeare's plays, there will be performances by the Renaissance Street singers, commedia dell'arte performed by the Riverside Shakespeare Company plus songs from the bard's time performed by the Simply Shakespeare Recorder Group. Joseph Papp, producer of the New York Shakespeare Festival is the master of ceremonies. Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden, plus actress Estelle Parsons, W.

Stuart McDowell, artistic director of the Riverside Shakespeare Company, and Michael Moriarty, founder of Potter's Field Theater Company, will be there. It's all free. And you can get there by subway, no need to worry about gas and gas lines and odd and even. THEY LOVE KAYE: On hand to honor Park Sloper Kaye Brideson were Margaret and Matilda Cuomo and City Councilman Thomas Cuite amongst the crowd which numbered in the hundreds at the Joseph Diamond American Legion Post They were there to mark Kay's 14th anniversary as a columnist with the Home Reporter-Park Slope News. All the proceeds of the dinner went to the Baptist Hospital (formerly Good Samaritan Hospital).

CT1HE BAY RIDGE FOUR: Four Bay Ridge residents I graduated from Long Island University Brooklyn LJ Center. Jeffrey John Basti (B.S. physician's assistant); Frances L. Geraghty (B.S. nursing); Marion Guinan Molloy (B.

S. nursing), and Julie Elizabeth Thoman (B.S. management). Molloy not only made the Dean's List but graduated magna cum laude, received nursing department honors, and was elected to the Optimates, an honor society. Thomas received management department honors, a Student Services Award, graduated cum laude and is listed in Who's Who Among Students at American Universities and Colleges.

AND THEY ROARED: The Starrett City Lions and Lioness held their annual dinner dance this year at La Mer, 1060 Ocean Parkway in Midwood. All proceeds of the dinner and raffle went to help the mentally and physically handicapped residents of the Brooklyn Developmental Center in East New York take a much deserved trip to Disney World in Florida. In addition, new Lioness officers were installed: Vivian Smoot, president; Dorothy Cosenza, Joyce Peebles, and Johnnie Furrs, 1st, 2d and 3d vice president respectively; Myrian Gordon, secretary; Maria Gallok, assistant secretary; Faye Behr, tail-twister, Delia Wilson, lioness tamer. Myrna Sanabria, Constance Kirby and Golden were elected to the board of directors. DISCO DOWN THE HUDSON: That's the theme of this year's fund-raiser being thrown by Open House, a nursery school and day care center at 203 Atlantic Ave.

in downtown Brooklyn. The bash will sail off on June 29 from W.42d St where disco dancers will board the Circle Line boat for the cruise around Manhattan. Once aboard guests can learn the latest hustle steps from Mickey Knight In addition guests can bring their own bottles and food. Ice, soda, and sandwiches will be sold aboard ship.The ship will take off at 9 p.m. don't be late.

HOW SWEET: Author Norman Mailer and Norris Church showed off pictures of their year-old son, John Buffalo, while dining at Jimmy's, the ever popular Brooklyn Heights resturant There was a lot of oohing and aahing but no one could figure out if the young Buffalo looked more like mommy or daddy. Only time willtell. BRAVO: The indefatigable Olga Bloom, founder and director of Music Barge was honored for her cultural and environmental contribution by the Brooklyn Arts and Cultural Association. Brooklyn sculptor Marc Mellon designed a special "trophy" for Olga. This Lisa, of Trail and Lisa, dances.

energetic woman, a violinist, bought and refurbished a barge with her own money. She moored it in the East River at the foot of Cadman Plaza and since 1977 has been presenting both chamber music and jazz concerts aboard the barge. In addition the barge is now used by LIU for classes and some imaginative people have given private parties on the barge. There are some people in Brooklyn who feel that Olga should receive an award from the mayor for her unusual gift to the city. BACA officials at the award ceremony for Olga Bloom included Charlene Victor, Chuck Reichenthal, Greg Rajczewski, Abike Jo'tayo, Rosalind Greene, Adele Perlman and Liza Beckwith.

Sinatra a 300G one-night sellout at Coliseum tion launches the first of a summer series of Sunday afternoon shows for John Lomenzo of Muttontown, who was secretary of state under Gov. Rockefeller, opened a law office in Deer Park Good news, kids. Song star James Taylor just signed to do a one-night concert July 1 at the Nassau Coliseum. WALTER KAKER NOTEWORTHY: So what if Franklin Thomas, new president of the $Z2 billion Ford Foundation, ordered a Lincoln Continental to tool around in? He's done okay for a kid raised in a Bedford-Stuyvesant slum, who was fatherless at 11 and was raised by a widowed mom who toiled as a waitress North Hempstead Town Councilman Jerry Weinstein's son Jon joined GOP Presidential candidate George Bush's campaign Queens Borough Hall engineering consultant James Golia of Flushing passed his bar exam and now hangs out two shingles: professional engineer and lawyer- Nassau Assistant District Attorney William Uhllger and his wife, who belly-dances under the name Avesha. wieele off to EevDt next week on I3RANK SINATRA is expected to I gross around $300,000 for his one-L4 night concert this Saturday at the Nassau Coliseum.

The arena is sold out What's Sinatra's take? Nobody's Queens Councilman-at-large Eugene Mastropieri tells pals his wife expects the baby in William Garry, secretary of the Brooklyn Democratic Committee and prominent Court St lawyer, is in L.L College Hospital-Talk over at the Queens district attorney's office is that chief investigator John Mahoney up and quit and his spot will go to Sam Langone, a Nassau County Executive Francis Pnrcell and Hyatt have wrapped up a deal for the hotel chain to take over operation of the county-owned Coliseum. Next step is for the Board of Supervisors to okay the contract WHAT'S NEW? Queens Republicans set their annual clambake for Aug. 12 at Suffolk GOP headquarters in Blue Jay Anson, the Roslyn author who wrote "The Amityville Horror," got $225,000 for the British rights to his first novel, "The 666" after the publisher saw a two-page Help Wanted: Both the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce are shopping for Queens Borough President Donald Manes' wife, Marlene, will be honored by the Samaritan Halfway Society at a cocktail party next Thursday at An tun's in Queens Annie Golden of Park Slope, who co-stars in the movie "Hair" and heads a rock group, The Shirts, has a second album due out this month. A portrait of former GOP al -hairmaii--iaifiard HLttust Valley will be hung today in Nassau i CO a V) vacation Rebecca Singer, wife of the Lincoln Former Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Dominick Rinaldi, who retired last year and now lives in Oakdale, is practicing law in Suffolk-Marianne Schmeling of Astoria, who fled from Nazi Germany and the invading Russian army, put her experiences together in a new book titled "Flee the Morton Gould, Great Neck composer-conductor, flew off to San Francisco to attend a convention of orchestra Saul Moskoff, administrative judge of Queens Family Court, is back from vacationing in Scandanavia. HEARD AROUND: Patrick Deignan, Jackson Heights civic-political leader, is the new president of the L.L Emerald Association which stages the annual Emerald Ball at the Waldorf-Astoria When Nassau Assistant District Attorney Burton Ryan of Jericho plans a vacation he reaches for new heights.

Next week he heads for Alaska to climb the over Mount McKinley where the temperature hovers around 18 degrees below 0 in July Film actress Mala Powers will take part in a children's show July 15 at the Brooklyn Museum when the Brooklyn Arts and Cultural Associa Surrogate's Court in Mineola where he served briefly as a surrogate. Hall, who died earlier this month, was in the midst of writing a book about his 50-year political career. PARTY TIME: Hey, kids, it's party time again. Our annual "Fun in the Sun" outing to Rockaways Playland is set for Aug. 2 starting at 1 p.m.

About 500 handicapped, homeless and needy children from Queens, Brooklyn and Long Island will be treated to an afternoon of rides and refreshments. The kids will be able to go on any ride, as often as they want thanks to Playland president Richard Geist, who is donating the use of his fun place. And the youngsters will be treated to hot dogs, soft drinks and custard being donated by Lilco. Organizations that would like their youngsters to attend are asked to write this column. Groups must provide their own transportation.

THEY TELL ME: Singers Lois Hunt and Earl Wrightson, both of Brookville, signeUlfcapjpeajn axevival of rCojjtfec- ticut hi Milwaukee next month; then in August they'll do five concerts at rabbi of Manhattan Beach Jewish Center, -is mending at home after a lengthy hospital stay. MOVIE-MIXDED: Nan Sflva of Old Westbury is a big fan of Montgomery Clift and she wants a movie made about the late film star, but she isn't just waiting for it to happen. She's taking an option on the screen rights to Robert book, "Monty," and has hired a producer, a screenwriter and even Monty's former secretary as a script it.

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