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HERALD Also serving Bay Park
Students receive Seal of Biliteracy
Water stations installed in town
Post commander is honored
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Vol. 31 No. 31
JUlY 25 - 31, 2024
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Remembering co-founder of history society Studies at Island Trees Memorial Junior High School. She became chairperson of the P a t r i c i a S y m p s o n w a s Social Studies Department and instrumental in establishing then assistant principal of the the Historical Society of East junior high school. She then Rockaway and Lynbrook. Her earned her master’s degree and impact on the community was PHD in Political Science at St. memorialized last month when John’s University. she died at 87. During her time as a teacher, Sympson, born Nov. 29, 1936 Sympson married her beloved to Ann Colway and husband Robert and G e o r g e C o l w a y, moved to their house moved together to on Marion Street in Lynbrook in 1941. East Rockaway in However, their time 1965. Shortly after there was shor tmoving in, she wellived after her dad VERoNIcA comed their daughenlisted in the ter Veronica Symparmy following the SYmPSoN son Krendel. attack on Pearl Har- KRENdEl “ We w e r e s o bor. Sympson was daughter of Patricia close,” Veronica said sent to boarding of her mother. “She Sympson school in upstate was an educator and New York, while that really informed her mom moved back to Albany kind of everything she did. She to work. was very plain spoken, and she After the war, the family wasn’t the kind of mother that reunited and moved back to lied to you. If she thought there their home in Lynbrook. Symp- was something you needed to son attended St. Raymond’s know or that she needed to say, Grammar School, St. Agnes she would say it. So, our relaHigh School, and Albany State tionship was always very Teacher’s College, which is now open.” known as SUNY Albany. Veronica explained that her After graduating college in mom was a “hands on” parent only three years, she realized without being “overbearing.” her lifetime dream of becoming She allowed Veronica to follow a teacher of English and Social
By BEN FIEBERT
bfiebert@liherald.com
Maureen Lennon/Herald photos
A church is transformed into an art convention HurriCon returned last Saturday to Bethany Congregational Church in East Rockaway. Ethan Gemma, kneeling near right, was dressed as Spider-Man, Chase Kearns, above him in red, was in a Deadpool costume and Greyson Gallagher dressed as the Joker at the annual comic fundraiser. More photos, page 10.
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