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The Roslyn Times, Friday, November 13, 2015
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Booster parents warn Missing Roslyn of student drug use cardiologist found Amy Katz, Jenni Rebetti call for school board action
B y C atherine T eevan and H arrison M arder Two Roslyn Bulldogs Boosters Association parents told Roslyn school trustees Thursday that students are showing up “stoned” to school events and athletic functions. A school official identified the parents who made the claim as Amy Katz, who referred to herself as the Boosters Association treasurer, and Jenni Rebetti, a Booster’s Association board member. “As Bulldog reps, we’re saying [that] we’ve seen it,” Rebetti said during the public comment period of the school board’s regularly scheduled meeting. “We’ve hosted dinners at our houses where the kids have come visibly stoned. The coaches don’t say a word. It is a lot of athletes.” In addition to being the Boosters Association’s treasurer, Katz serves as an Education Chairperson for the district’s Education Forum and is on the board of the Roslyn Parent-Faculty Association. Rebetti is also the co-president of the Coordinating Council Of Parent Associations and, like Katz, is on the board of the Roslyn Parent-Faculty Association. Katz and Rebetti, who asked for their names not to be released, also said students smoking marijuana and driving has become a problem. “There is an inordinate amount of pot smoking and driving,” Rebetti said. “The pot smoking and driving now, it is terrible.” Pointing to what they referred to as, “this weekend’s potential catastrophe,” Rebetti and Katz repeatedly made references to a recent car accident involving a student driver suspected of
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A Silver Alert issued by Nassau County Police Saturday said missing Roslyn cardiologist Randy Kiewe was found, but police refused to confirm whether he was he found alive or dead. Police said there are no further details regarding Kiewe and they are unsure when additional information is going to be released. Kiewe, 47, was last seen parking his BMW near the Roslyn train station around 6:30 a.m. on Sept. 22, police said. A Silver Alert that was issued that day said Kiewe was in need of medical attention and medication for the treatment of depression. It also noted that Kiewe had attempted suicide in the past. Police described Kiewe at 5-foot-seven and 210 pounds, with straight brown hair, hazel eyes and glasses. Kiewe is the medical director
and founder of the Lake Success practice CompleteCare Cardiology PLCC, and is considered a regional expert in angina, arrhythmias, hypertension, cholestoral and lipid diseases, heart attacks and heart failure, specializing in the manifestation of heart disease in women, according to his biography on the CompleteCare website. With a bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University and his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh, Kiewe is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases and nuclear cardiology. A former cardiology fellow with North Shore University Hospital, Kiewe is a consultant to Long Island Jewish Medical Center’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and frequently lectures on the topic. The Long Island Press this year named Kiewe best cardiologist as part of its annual “Best of Long Island” contest.
Roslyn Board of Education President Meryl Waxman Ben-Levy being drunk or high on drugs. “They have not learned at all,” Katz said. “They think it is a safe means of [transportation],” referring to students who smoke marijuana and drive. “We’ve got big, big, big problems.” Katz and Rebetti were stopped from describing the incident involving a motor vehicle and a impaired student driver by community relations director Barry Edelson. Edeslson cut Rebetti off, mid-sentence, with a warning. “I’m not entirely certain everybody knows what happened,” Edelson said. Roslyn Superintendent Gerard Dempsey said he had no comment about the two women’s assertions or the alleged accident. Efforts to reach Board Presi-
dent Meryl Waxman Ben-Levy for comment were unavailing. Parent-Faculty Association co-president Amy Greenberg declined to discuss the problem, calling it “highly sensitive and ongoing.” “The less details, the better,” she said. Rebetti and Katz said Roslyn students usually obey laws about not driving after drinking alcohol. “For the most part, negating this weekend, we have kids who drink. Kids do drink in high school, [but] they typically know to [call] Uber, to call a parent, to call a cab,” Rebetti said. But, Rebetti said, the Boosters Association was alarmed to find students using drugs while driving. They said they were Continued on Page 50 Randy Kiewe
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