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Man meets pilot who saved his life in crash By BEN FIEBERT bfiebert@liherald.com
Courtesy Lancelot Theobald Jr.
Plane crash survivor Lancelot Theobald Jr., right, meets former co-pilot Lyle Hogg, left, of Flight 458, which crashed in 1982.
Baldwin resident Lancelot Theobald Jr., who survived a plane crash more than 40 years ago, was finally able to personally express his gratitude to the co-pilot who saved his life. Pilg rim Airlines F light 458 crashed at 3:10 p.m. on Feb. 21, 1982 on the Scituate Reservoir in Rhode Island with Theobald and 11 other people aboard. There was one fatality among the occupants of the plane. After surviving the crash, Theobald said his life was immediately changed, believing that he had a greater purpose, and he became ConTinued on Page 6
Brookside Elementary students direct their own Macy’s parade Hallways were transformed into the iconic Thanksgiving parade route By BEN FIEBERT bfiebert@liherald.com
When the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade was scaled down in 2020 due to the pandemic, students at Brookside Elementary School created their own version of the parade using coding, designing and engineering. Now, three years later, the Brookside parade recreation has become an annual tradition. The students in kindergarten and second grade use what they lear n in their science, technology, engineering, art
and math, or STEAM, classes to recreate the renowned Thanksgiving event. On Nov. 20, the school hallways were transformed into the parade route of Central Park West, 7th Avenue and Macy’s Herald Square. The students decorated balloons with iconic characters including Minnie Mouse, Spider-Man, and more. The students learned to control and move each balloon via a motorized ball that was placed underneath a cup with the balloon attached to it. The balls, called Spheros, were controlled by laptops using coding
that the students learned. They were able to change the color, speed, lighting and direction of the balloons. “We have a special app on our computers called Sphero. edu,” Lauren Maywald, a second-grade teacher at Brookside, explained. “Students were able to drive the Spheros along a route using just a joystick and a keyboard.” The focus, Maywald said, was on nurturing “innovation, creativity and interdisciplinary learning.” That goes hand in hand with the Baldwin public schools’ 2035 initiative, which
is all about being “futurefocused.” According to Maywald, the initiative provided a platform to explore various facets of technology, history and design. “As part of our curriculum, students not only delved into the intricacies of the design
process and Sphero coding,” she said, “but also lear ned about the rich and meaningful history behind the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.” The work of creating the parade was split up between the kindergartners and secondConTinued on Page 8