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Not one, but five Eagle Scouts By JUAN lASSo jlasso@liherald.com
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To BeCome eAGle Scouts, Jaden Gabb, far left, Colin McAleer, Drew Mihalick, Daniel Osborn and John Valencia successfully completed a number of projects across Valley Stream and even into Queens and the Rockaways.
he Eagle Scout rank is as high as you can get within the Boys Scouts of America. Its list of honored recipients includes household names such as Neil Armstrong and Gerald Ford. Yet, only a few Scouts — roughly 8 percent — ever attain Eagle. Getting one Eagle Scout in a troop is considered a significant accomplishment. But Valley Stream Troop 116? Try five. Jaden Gabb, Colin McAleer, Drew MihalContinued on page 12
Richard Freund, renowned scholar and archeologist, dies By JUAN lASSo jlasso@liherald.com
Richard Freund, a universally acclaimed Jewish scholar and biblical archeologist, rabbi, and University of Hartford professor, succumbed to cancer on July 14. He was 67. Barbara Stein who would babysit Freund growing up in Valley Stream, remembers him attending Temple Emanu-El, the reformed Jewish synagogue in Lynbrook, as a boy. Not long after graduating from Valley Stream North High School in 1972, the not-quite-yet-an-adult Freund booked a one-way ticket to Israel, with aspirations of
becoming a rabbi. He later returned to the United States, ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary in Manhattan. But rather than a life at the pulpit, Freund began what would be a long and celebrated career in academia, teaching Jewish history and archaeology. His first classes were taught at Oberlin College in Ohio, before traveling across the country to teach at a number of places, including the University of Denver and the University of California-San Diego. He spent the final years of his career as the distinguished Bertram and Gladys Aaron Endowed Professor in Judaic
studies at Christopher Newport University in Virginia. But Freund’s work took him well beyond the walls of the university. He embarked on more than a dozen archeological explorations alongside his team of geoscientists, students and engineering experts to sites ranging from Nazareth in Israel to Rhodes, Greece to Vilna, Lithuania. Colleagues considered him something of a pioneer in the archeological world for leading the way in noninvasive archeological techniques — from ground-penetrating radar to resistivity tomography and aerial imagery — that Freund told
industry publication Science Node could provide a structural representation of what lies beneath before a single trowel hits the soil. “Traditional archaeology is a destructive and very invasive method to achieve information on any site,” Freund said. Going against conventional methods was exactly something
Freund would do, according to brother Charlie. “When I say that my brother was stubborn, he was very stubborn,” Charlie said. “He had his position on things.” And that trait, Charlie suggested, allowed him to push for the use of non-invasive archeological techniques despite his Continued on page 18