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125 years of learning in Hewlett By HERNESto GAlDAmEZ hgaldamez@liherald.com
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tHE HEwlEtt-wooDmERE SCHool District is celebrating 125 years. Above, Hewlett High’s cheerleading squad marching in last fall’s Homecoming parade.
As a student in the Hewlett-Woodmere school district, Gaelyn Rosenberg knew early on that she wanted to become a teacher. After she graduated from Hewlett High School in 2011, she pursued her dream in college. Rosenberg is now a teacher at Woodmere Middle School, where she once walked through the hallways as a student, and is instructing the next generation. “I knew from an early age that I would be a teacher,” she wrote in an email. “I also knew from an early age that it would be an honor, privilege and humbling experience to teach in the same district that kindled my love of learning.” Rosenberg’s is just one name on a very long list of students who have attended Hewlett and Woodmere schools, Continued on page 16
Margaret Carpenter to be honored for volunteerism By KEPHERD DANIEl kdaniel@liherald.com
Margaret Carpenter, of Lawrence, a longtime supporter of and volunteer for a number of organizations in the metropolitan area, will be honored by the Stecher and Horowitz Foundation at its annual benefit gala in Manhattan on April 14. Carpenter has been a board member of the foundation, which provides mentorship, career guidance, artistic development and performance opportunities for young pianists, for more than 40 years, and is currently the board chair. Carpenter, 88, was born Mar-
garet Owen in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1934. Her family moved to Lawrence when she was 7. She attended Lawrence Country Day School, now Lawrence Woodmere Academy. She and her first husband, Henrik Van Rensselaer, had four children, and after they divorced, she inherited three more children when she married her second husband, Tim Carpenter. Tim died in 2011. Carpenter is known for being an active volunteer, and as a member of Episcopal Health Services, she assists the medical group at St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway.
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t has been a great privilege and honor to be able to work with her all these years.
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co-founder of the Stecher and Horowitz Foundation She was volunteering for the hospital 45 years ago when she took her father there for treatment of his emphysema. Especially interested in women’s health, she wanted to help out at
the facility, she said, because it was an important place for her family and many others in the Five Towns, and she got involved in raising money for it. “Margaret is very giving, and it has been a great privilege and an honor to be able to work with (her) all these years,” Melvin Stecher, a renowned pianist and a cofounder of the foundation,
said. “A great supporter, a great friend, and a great humanitarian.” After playing an instrumental role in Episcopal Health Service’s development for more than 40 years. Carpenter was honored in 2022 with the opening of the Margaret Carpenter Women’s Health Center at the St. John’s Medical Continued on page 10