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Daily News from New York, New York • 822

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Daily Newsi
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New York, New York
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822
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i Mop classes CwrnZiniiliiHi on holidays Officials of Queens College have announced the addition of two new c-3 features for the 1980-81 academic year classes to be held on three fall holidays, including Columbus Day, Election Day and Veterans Day, and early registration for the spring semester. The college administration offices will be closed on the three working holidays, the officials said. In order to encourage students to register at the beginning of December for the spring semester, the early registrants will be permitted to delay payment of tuition and fees until mid-January. The new schedule will give students a longer break between the fall and spring semesters, or specifically a 21-day vacation in January. Old cemetery to be cleaned for festival "The Old Remsen Cemetery at Alderton St and Trotting Course Lane, Forest Hills, will be cleaned up on Saturday in preparation for this year's Forest Hills Memorial Day Festival on May 26.

The cleanup is being sponsored by the Remsen Park Coalition, said spokesman Marc Wurzel, who added that the work Includes reseeding, planting shrubs, bushes, trees and other foliage on the site. Various community groups will take part in the cleanup beginning at 11 a.m. They will include Boy Scout Troop 349, the Forest Hills Community and Civic Association, and youth groups from St Lukes Church and Grace Lutheran Church. Wurzel noted that the cemetery, a long forgotten historic landmark in the area, was recently renamed Remsen Memorial Square by action of the City Council. A special ceremony will be held on the site prior to Memorial Day to mark the name change.

This year's Memorial Day Parade, which will be sponsored by Continental Post No. 1424, American Legion, is expected to fee one of the largest such observances in Queens. More than 2,000 marchers are scheduled to take part, with the line of march ending at the cemetery where the ceremony will take place. Wurzel pointed out that Revolutionary War CcL Jeromus Remsen is buried with his family in the old cemetery. -I -Hi Takes cancer post Raymond Smith has been named to Board of Directors and Executive Committee of Queens Division of the American Cancer Society.

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