Newsday (Nassau Edition) from Hempstead, New York • 7

College Chief Quits At Old Westbury who usually move on about once every six years So his announcement which state and local educators and faculty members said they regretted was not necessarily unexpected "Obviously we are very sorry he will be leaving done an outstanding job at Old State University Chancellor Clifton Wharton said Maguire is credited with a long list of accomplishments for the" college which began in 1968 as an experiment in education and quickly developed a reputation as an innovative campus with an older more socially and politically radical student body than most colleges From its opening in a warehouse it grew into a $75-million campus on 600 acres It has gone from 232 student and 19 faculty members to more than 3100 ftill- part-time students with 140 fulltime instructors A disciple snd friend of Dr Martin Luther TTig who participated in the freedom marches of Montgomery Ala Maguire was criticized by soine students who have said that he has altered the mission which loosely defined has been a commitment to social justice and human equality and the "traditionally women older students snd minorities Maguire has often been caught between students end faculty committed to this mission and demands by State University officials that the college had to accommodate more suburban commuter students The college council in the next couple of weeks will mummw the appointment of an interim president while it embarks on the search for a new president a process that usually takes from six months to a year Bj Laura Durkin Old Westbury John Maguire who led the State University College at Old Westbury through a decade of rapid growth and a struggle to define its purpose is resigning as president to head a consortium of six private colleges in California Maguire was elected yesterday president of the Claremont University Center and graduate school The move which Maguire announced privately yesterday afternoon to members of the original faculty staff with whom he had worked since 1970 will take effect July 1 I would hope that our departure might occasion a deep reaffirmation of the dream that founded Old he said in his announcement to the college at large "a multiracial multicultural college with a global perspective engaged in the reordering of knowledge and nrini criticism for the sake of social change wimmittsd to probing the riddle and realizing the promise of human justice" Reached at home last night he said "It is a good to go We had gone from nothing to a nxll range of programs And the college was fully reaccredited recently That seemed like a good time Also I am approaching SO and I had decided that by the time I was 60 1 had to make a Maguire was selected after an eight-month nationwide search by the trustees of the Claremont system which includes the Harvey Mudd College Pomona College Scrippe College the Claremont Men's College Pitzer College and the Claremont Graduate School tenure at Old Westbury was longer then the average for most college presidents Mkvaday Photo hr I Maguire at his desk at home Lunch Program Fraud Charged in a ftheme to defraud the school lunch program With the cooperation of the tipster Paul Snyder chairman and chief executive of Niagara Trading Carp the FBI set up a dummy firm called Martone Foods in a plant owned by Sovereign Food Service at 118 Allen Blvd in Farmingdale Mar-tone was listed as a subsidiary of Niagara Trading In connection with the "stintf operation investigators posing as vendors paid out $76000 in kick-backs an FBI spokesman said An FBI spokesman said aimilar investigations are under way in several cities around the country but declined to identify them Each of the 12 charged yesterday was indicted on one count of defrauding the government by falsifying records and submitting claims for meals never delivered They are to be arraigned Wednesday The other eight worked with nonprofit groups that allegedly filed false claims worth $200000 The groups were identified by the FBI as the Young Minds Food Service Day Care Program Brooklyn McGrifFa Civic Center Inc Jamaica and a program operated by the Church of God 1780 Seward Ave the Bronx The suspects were identified as Ralph Robinson 50 of 682 Lorentx St Elmont Alphonse Harris 33 of Manhattan Minnie Harris 52 of Brooklyn Minhaal age and address not given Allen Greenwald SI of Brooklyn Abraham Aviles 41 of the Bronx Thelma McGriff of Jamaica Robert Vitale age and address unknown Pleading guilty last week were Samuel Bernstein 40 and his wife Deena Bernstein 40 both of 69 Sutton PI Lawrence of Shaxjud Inc in Far Roekaway Gerald Etra 40 of Lido Beach an employee of Opportunities for Young Persons of Challenge Manhattan Donney A Masai ah of Brooklyn director of the Black Onyx Cultural Association in Brooklyn end Abraham Bernstein of Brooklyn and Judith Gross 44 of 1030 Rose St Far Roekaway both of Shaxjud By Pete Bowles and Paul Vitello Brooklyn Twelve persons including at least two Long Islanders were indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury accused of defrauding the al government by bilking a summer lunch program of $200000 Those indicted were vendors for the program who are accused of billing the government for meele that were never delivered and sponsors of the program who are accused of filing the phony claims UJ3 Attorney Edward Korman said the four vendors were all employed by Sovereign Food Service Carp a Farmingdale firm that transported meals to the lunch sites The lunch pro gram served youngsters enrolled in federally funded community projects in New York City during the summers of 1979 and 1980 Six others iimlnHing two Lawrence residents ml a resident of Lido Beach were indicted in connection with the alleged scheme last week and pleaded guilty to reduced charges The indictments resulted from an FBI investi- gation begun two years ago after a Buffalo food preparer told the agency that he had been approached by people who wanted him to take part The four employed by Sovereign Food Service rp were identified As Albert Goldstein 56 of Corp Brooklyn the manager of the firm surerEdward Byers 44 of Spring Valley bookkeeper Alexander Block age arid address not given and diytchor Prank Bishop 40 now of Philadelphia They are accused of writing invoices for more than 100000 lpnehaa that were never delivered A Year After Murder Still No Leads By Jim Mulvaney right said Lti Hans Dara Capt AlHoldorfi the Bay When Eve Wilkowits was mur- Honiicid aqciad commndr been a lot of derad Suffolk homicide detectives were optimistic kg work a lot dead ends that the case would be solved quickly The body of Miss Wilkowits worked as a aeaetuy for the MifMilln Tm wihlihinghffllSH ill MSTlhflttSTl Slid pUnnudtwtMdy social work She grew up in Oakdale end lived in Bay Shore at the time of her death She ftynjfwtly lafe tTVjnf ftwm Manhattan and had told her roommate Robert Grogan 21 about being followed home by strange inn She was last seen alive at 12:29 AM March 22 when a boyfriend Jack Dempsey of Manhattan watched her get on the train home after a date- Police theorize that she got off the train in Bay Shore snd was abducted during the 10-minute walk to her house at 150 fifth Ave After the two early both male ac- the 20-yearold woman found in a yard less than one block from her home a year ago yesterday She had apparently been abducted after taking the train home from Manhattan early on March 22 held captive and sexually abused for three days and then strangled But the hopes fedad quickly Two early had alibis and passed lie Detectives interviewed hundreds of people with criminal records in the Bay Shore area concentrating on those with histories of sex crimes They irwwkad on every door in the neighborhood and visited every local establishment that Miss Wilkowits might have stopped at on the way home An FBI "abstract profile" compiled from many imilnr cases from across the country said that Miu killer would likely be a white male between 19 and 30 years old who drives a well-kept late-model performance car and lives in the neighborhood Even seemingly fkr-fetched dues have been pursued This week a detective spotted a personal item in Nowaday's classified section that said "I Love ou! Eve Thanks Coming on the anniversary of the discovery of Miss body detectives thought the' ad plight he alead tlwcaae 1 Rj tibft itm had beeq placed byi convey Iesoent man named Evs-oiithlv for suspects.