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RVC village board looks to the future community once it has established a charter. “I have full confidence in The Rockville Centre board of Nancy Howard’s ability to hantrustees hosted an in-person dle the rigors of this appointreorganizing meeting on July 6, ment,” Mayor Francis Murray at which it installed the winners said. “She has been an integral of the village election and part of village government for appointed Nancy Howard village the better part of a decade, and administrator. knows the ins and outs of the Howard previousjob.” ly served as a village Howard previoustrustee and deputy l y wo rke d a s a Mayor from July human resources 2011 to May 2017. She recr uitment and returned as a trustee training executive at from July 2019 to Macy’s and Solomon July 2021. She Brothers. She has worked with every been active in the department in the KATIE CONLON village PTA, the village, and was Rockville Centre South Side High involved in numer- village trustee School Booster Club ous projects, includand the Rockville ing infrastructure Centre Education upgrades, the downFoundation board, town revitalization and has helped raise and the renovations money for the RVC of numerous parks and ball Community Fund. Nancy and fields. her husband, Dave, have lived in Howard also worked with the the village for more than two village comptroller’s office to decades, and raised their four hold the line on taxes, and with children here. Village Hall to secure grants and Her appointment comes on gifts for residents. She is now the heels of the departure of Vilworking with the recently creat- lage Administrator Kathleen ed Rockville Centre Beautifica- Murray, who held the position tion Committee, which plans to from early 2016 until last month. expand its involvement in the CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
By TOM CARROZZA tcarrozza@liherald.com
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Courtesy Noreen Leahy
AFTER 20 YEARS, Noreen Leahy retired from Rockville Centre schools in June. Above, Leahy with student Bryan Nesdill.
‘I miss her already’
Dedicated RVC district administrator retires By MIKE SMOLLINS msmollins@liherald.com
In her two decades in the Rockville Centre School District, the goal for Noreen Leahy was always simple: prioritize the children. “In general, my focus was always to put children at the center,” Leahy said. “When a problem came up, I thought about what was best for the kids. Everything that I tried to do had that in mind. You build backward from that
goal.” Leahy, 62, a Lynbrook resident, retired from the school district after a 20-year tenure on June 25. She was a guidance counselor at South Side High School for five years, an assistant principal there for four years and then the district’s assistant superintendent of pupil personnel services and special education for 11 years. Leahy said she was proud of what she and her colleagues accomplished, citing
Centre Stage, an inclusive theater program in which general and special-education students have performed each year since 2008, and the Behavioral Health Center, a collaboration among Cohen Children’s Medical Center and the Rockville Centre, East Rockaway, Freeport, H e w l e t t - Wo o d m e r e a n d Oceanside school districts that enables immediate access to care for any student CONTINUED ON PAGE 7