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Losing locks to raise cancer awareness like her. Ohanian was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2015, but the cancer went into As the Rockville Centre St. remission while she was being Patrick’s Day Parade ended in treated at Winthrop University front of St. Agnes Cathedral last Hospital. Saturday after noon, many “Donating a little bit may not attendees filed into the church’s seem like a lot,” Ohanian said, Parish Center to “but all these donatake part in another tions pulled together charitable activity. can fund a research The St. Baldrick’s idea, which can turn program was back, into a study and a drawing a crowd of clinical trial, and a few hundred, who this trial can give a were willing to have kid with cancer their heads shaved hope.” and donate to chilOhanian said she dren’s cancer had been coming to research. the fundraiser since Village residents JOHN 2016. made up more than The outlook for 50 teams and raised WIESENBERG children and teens over $264,000 for the Teacher, with cancer has effort to make can- South Side improved over the cer more survivable past few decades. Middle School for children. The The National Cancer National Cancer Institute reported Institute estimates that in 2022, that improved treatments that 15,590 children and adolescents, started in the 1960s and ’70s from those under a year old to raised the five-year survival rate age 19, will be diagnosed with for children 14 and younger who cancer, and 1,780 will die of the were diagnosed with acute lymdisease. phoblastic leukemia from 57 perAt the event, Greta Ohanian, cent in 1975 to 92 percent in 2012. 23, used the lectern on the Parish The five-year survival rate for Center stage to thank the com- children diagnosed with nonmunity for supporting people CONTINUED ON PAGE 15
By TOM CARROZZA tcarrozza@liherald.com
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Courtesy Maureen Reid
RUSSELL REID, ABOVE — here with his wife, Maureen — died on March 15.
Beloved RVC teacher remembered ‘Legendary’ Russell Reid dies of cancer at 73 By TOM CARROZZA tcarrozza@liherald.com
Over his 50-year career in the Rockville Centre School District, Russell Reid touched the lives of an estimated 10,000 students at South Side middle and high schools. Reid, who died on March 15 at 73, after a second battle with cancer, became a muchadmired fixture in the community. He is remembered by many for his years of teaching English; coaching golf, basketball and football; and producing the high school’s theater programs. “He was always a teacher,” Russell’s wife, Maureen, said. “He was a teacher whether he
was in the classroom, in the arenas of athletic competition or with a drill and paintbrush in his hand on the South Side stage.” Reid was born in Jamaica, Queens on March 17, 1948, and graduated from Chaminade High School in 1966. He earned a bachelor’s degree and, in 1984, a master’s from Hofstra University. He was well-versed in the plays of Shakespeare, the works of 20th century American writers and the offensive strategies of the New York Jets. Over the course of five decades in village schools, Reid took on a wide variety of roles. He taught English, theory of knowledge and play production, while also coaching and CONTINUED ON PAGE 13
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