Daily News from New York, New York • 294

t. i 1 1 1 1 TAILSM NEW; BROOKLYN MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1976 BKL1 JNALENDAR I Jgj-r jtJAm. "i News photo by Ed Molinari The Brooklyn College campus, quiet yesterday, will reopen today. Heie are some of the activities scheduled for tomorrow, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. TOMORROW: The Crispus Attucks School holding a street fair and festival from 10 ajn.

to 5 p.m. on Patchen Ave. between Chauncey and Marion Sts. The Kings' Squares to hop at a square dance, with Clint McLean as "caller, at 8 p.m. in the Community Room at King's Plaza, Flatbush Ave.

and Avenue U. Paulette Hios gives a piano recital at 8 p.m. at the Brooklyn conservatory of Music, Seventh Ave. and Lincoln Place. WEDNESDAY: The Brooklyn Council of Pioneer Women holds its annual Donor Luncheon, at the Americana Hotel, Seventh Ave.

and 52d St. Public School 18 holds a bicentennial fair and parade at 1 p.m. in the school yard, 101 Maujer St. The Max Saltzman League-Jonathan Taft Foundation, City of Hope, to install officers at 7 p.m. at Cooky's Restaurant, Kings Plaza.

THURSDAY: Msgr. Mieczyslaw Mrozinski observes his 60th year in the priesthood with a Mass of thanksgiving at 6:30 p.m. at SS. Cyril and Methodius Church, 119 Eagle St Bill Sledge and his Hammers and Roland Alexander, lecturer, scheduled at 7 p.m. at the Concert-Lecture Series at the New Muse, 1530 Bedford Ave.

The Michael A. Rawley Jr. Post 1636, American Legion, to install officers at 7:30 p.m. at the post, 193 Ninth St. "Hit Tunes from Flop Musicals" will be offered at 7:30 p.m.

at Gallery 91, 91 Atlantic Ave. Performances at 8:30 p.m., Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Leif Ericson Day School holds graduation exercises at 7:30 p.m. in Bethany Lutheran Church, 1037 72d St. A strawberry festival and roolclyn College Set to Eeopen ByCASSVANZI Brooklyn College, the largest of the 20 Ciy University units, will formally reopen today and already has announced its schedule of final examinations for its 30,000 stu dents.

John Kneller, president of the college, said finals would begin tomorrow and continue until next Monday with special arrangements made on a "individual basis" for those students faced with an unusual, or hardship, condition as a result of the new schedule. Regrets Inconvenience The annual commencement exercises will be held on June 22 at 10:30 a.m. at the college's quadrangle, Bedford Ave. and Avenue H. Humorist Sam Levin-son, a Brooklyn College graduate, class of 1934, will be the guest speaker and will be award ed an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters.

"We regret the inconvenience to our students, faculty and staff," said Kneller, "but the closing of the college was an act beyond the control of the Brooklyn College administration." The college closed its doors May 28 when the City University of New York system found itself unable to pay its bills. A new aid package, signed into law by Gov. Carey on Saturday, enabled the 20-unit system to reopen but at the cost of setting tuition in September. Kneller said that the two-week closing also has forced the college to reschedule its starting sessions from June 21 to June 30. Those sessions also will remain tuition-free under the state-approved package.

Study Various Plans Details on the new tuition program have not been completed and a spokesman for Kneller said various plans are being reviewed. The three other City University colleges in Brooklyn are expected to announce reopening plans today. They are Medgar Evers College, Kingsborough Community College and New york City Community College. cara pany is siaiea irom io ii p.m. at xempie Anavatn Sholom, Avenue and E.

16th St. FRIDAY: Blessed Sacrament Home School Association holding a bazaar at 7 :30 p.m. at the school auditorium, Pine and Fulton Sts. Same time Saturday. Sunday at 1 p.m.

"Cavalcade of American Entertainment" will be presented at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of McKinley Junior High Scholl 259 at 7301 Fort Hamilton Parkway. The 81st Precinct Community Council holds its annual dinner-dance at 10 p.m. at the Le Cordon Bleu, Woodhaven, Queens. A Look Bmlward Illumined by Former lamplighter By DANIEL O' GRADY Moe Rabinowitz of Williamsburg knows the value of a dollar.

He learned--his lesson early and well hustling orders for his neighborhood grocery and butcher shops on Manhattan's lower East Side. No pay! Just two-cent and three-cent and nickel tips. That was before World War before got his first real job a3 a municipal lamplighter. It was 1915 and the 14-year-old graduate of Public School 20 had just gotten his working papers. For $3 a month, Moe lighted and extinguished the city's gas lights along a 10-block route.

Moe gets down $394.18 a month now $369.20 from Social Security for himself and his wife Sadie, and a $24.98 pension from the Schaef- NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT News photo by Ed Molinarl Moe Rabinowitz leaves the Good Neighbor Senior Williamsburg sion combined to put the stables out of business and Moe's store soon followed suit. "My friends told me there was work up at the brewery workers hiring hall in Williamsburg and good money 50 cents an hour." Moe got a job driving a coal truck for Schaefer. Coal was needed to fire the brewery's boilers. It was delivered by barge on the East River to the foot of Broadway. Moe ferried the fuel the few blocks to the company's Williamsburg plant.

"When I first got the job with the brewery, they weren't taking Jews," he said. "It was all Irish and German." So he signed up at the hall as Moe Brady. His brother, Dave, did the same. "But they all knew we were Jewish. We were the first Jews in there." Moe and Dave had to shape up at the hiring hall for 10 or 12 years before they got on steady.

During those years, they picked up work two or three days a week. More often than not they were told, "That's all for today, come back But the job "kept us going." Moe worked inside the brewery at various jobs, like washing out barrels, but he often worked a route and carried Schaefer kegs up two or three flights. "You kneed them up, step by step," she said. Dave retired after 29 years witih Schaefer. He died a few years ago.

Moe wound up working in the Schaefer leading yards. That was where his career ended, when he slipped off a truck and got smashed up. "I was five weeks in the hospital," he said. "Since then, I must have been in 10 more hospitals; they can't do nothing for me. "I wear a corset for my back and, of course, I walk with a cane," he said, hef ting his constant companion.

Rubbing gray stubble on his cheeks, he said: "I don't shave as often as I should, 'because my shoulder hurts me." Wistfuly he added: "I never went back to work, I wish I could." However, despite his pain and despite the slashed health benefits, he proudly shows off the employe identification card he received when he officially retired in Jan. 19o4. The card Carries a picture of a younger Moe and the logo of the Schaefer Brewing Co. It records that the card was issued to employee No. 60789 on On the face of the card is stamped "RETIRED." Center at Bedford Ave.

and Keap St. lock the Brooklyn Navy Yard and lower Manhattan. Moe is 75. Sadie is 76. Since his accident, the couple don't get around much.

Most of their days are spent at the senior center of the YWHA, at Bedford Ave. and Keap a few blocks from home. "Some play cards; I call Bingo," he said. "Sadie sits around and talks to the folks. We occupy our time that way." Center Meefing Place It is called Good Neighbors Senior Center and it provides lunches for the elderly, besides activities and a place to meet for the neighborhood couples, widows and widowers who have little but time on their hands.

Moe's first experience with wrestling beer barrels came in the mid-'20s when he latched onto a ob driving a wagon team for Trommer's Brewery, then on Bushwick Ave. He also had met and married Sadie Harris in 1921. But by the late '20s, Moe had opened a candy store on Manhattan's E. 17th St. between Lexington and Third near a garage and several stables.

Riding and work were auctioned off across the street from his store. They did a brisk business. By the Thid-30s7 th'e aufoih6bil and' the "D'epres-' er Brewing Co. where he once- worked. (His pension is small, because he withdrew pension funds during hard times over the years.

Moe figures he was better off as a lamplighter, especially since he is one of the 2,500 retired beer workers who just lost all of their medical coverage. The desertion of Brooklyn by the Schaefer and Rheingold breweries meant sharply curtailed welfare fund contributions by the companies. Without income, the Brewery Workers Pension Fund was forced to cancel, as of May 31, the retirees' Blue Cross, GHI and HIP coverage and individual life insurance policies of $500, and $6,000 total disability policies. "I can't afford to pay for those policies," Moe said. "I'll just go to Cumberland Hospital instead." And Moe figures we may have to go to Cumberland often.

He walks with a stooped, gingerly step "since he broke his back in an accident in- the Schaefer loading yards in 1962. Lives in Cfy Project The old man sat on a park bench under the shade trees in a mini-park in front of his building at 99 Wilson part of the low-income Independent Houses, a city project. Moe and Sadie have a neatly furnished, three-room apartment on the 20th floor. Their jfindowsover-?.