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East Meadow students get valuable interviewing practice
Felicity Fitzpatrick, 7, wasn’t fooling around on St. Patrick’s Day with her attire. More photos, Page 3.
kids a leg up on interviewing,” Hodish said. “It could be helpful for a summer job at a day “So, tell me a little about camp, for college interviews or yourself,” I asked Chelsea Lee, regular business interviews.” a junior at East Meadow High The Academy of Finance is School. a program offered to the two This was only one of the high schools by the National questions I asked her and Academy Foundation, a compaAngelina Calabro, also a junior, ny that supports career acadeon March 18 during their virtu- mies within traditional high al mock interviews. schools. It allows The East Meadstudents to take a ow C h a m b e r o f variety of business Commerce has been classes. The mock hosting the Millie interviews are just Jones mock interone requirement view event for the that the students past 13 years. need to complete to Juniors in the get NAF-certified, Academy of Fisaid Melissa Woinance program at son, the secretary East Meadow and o f t h e a dv i s o r y W.T. Clarke high MElISSA board for the Acadschools participate emy of Finance at WoISIN in the interviews, East Meadow High. w h i c h a i m t o Secretary, Chamber memimprove their skills Advisory board bers, East Meadow and prepare them Kiwanis members for college or future and this year, me, a jobs. jour nalist from the Herald, Alan Hodish, a past presi- played the par t of future dent of the chamber, is the mas- employers. We were assigned a termind of the event. Hodish student or students to intersaid he’d been told that stu- view. Then the students — or, dents who had come to the for this exercise, the potential chamber for jobs or internships employees — introduced themwere not very prepared for selves to their interviewers. interviews. Beforehand, each interviewer “We wanted to give back to was given the student’s resume, both Clarke and East Meadow a list of potential questions to high schools and give these Continued on page 13
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veryone who participates is so kind and so professional.
Courtesy Jen Fitzpatrick
Following a blood donor’s example Friends, family honor Alexis Zayas by donating By MARIA CESTERo and MAlloRY WIlSoN mcestero@liherald.com, mwilson@liherald.com
She was only 27 when she died, but already Alexis Zayas had demonstrated a passion for helping others. Among the good works attributed to her was her commitment to donating blood in her community whenever the opportunity arose. It’s part of what sparked the idea for an annual blood
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drive that has become something of a tradition in East Meadow. Over three years after her daughter’s death, her mother, Ava Jacobs, once again surrounded herself with friends, family, and community members at the blood drive to commemorate the vibrant life of her daughter. This year, the #LiveLikeAlexis blood drive was held at Temple B’nai Torah on Jerusalem Avenue in Wantagh on March 20. Old friends, boy-
friends and coworkers were among those who came to donate. It was the Sunday before Zayas’s birthday. She died in June 2018, in a skydiving accident in Massachusetts. “She encouraged everybody she knew to donate blood,” Jacobs said at the blood drive. “So this is very meaningful because it was so important to Continued on page 9