April 3
General Meeting
CANCELLED

Executive Board Meeting
April 16
CANCELLED

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Meetings Schedule

     Just a reminder to everyone that it is not too late to consider making a contribution to our ROBS Scholarship Fund if you haven't all ready done so. We know that any contribution will be so important to the scholarships that we will be able to present to the current graduating seniors.
     This year we will be presenting 6 scholarships: ROBS in Honor of Jack Zuckerman $1000, Dorothy Zuckerman $1000, Lilian Kelly $750 and Sheila Sustrin $500. ROBS Valerie Kujawski Scholarship $1000 and ROBS in Memory of Our Departed Colleagues $500.
      Please put SCHOLARSHIP in the memo line of your check and send your contributions to:
Carmen Roldan
49 Linda Lane
North Babylon, NY 11703
     Thank you so much in advance for your contributions.

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IMPORTANT NEWS UPDATE ON ROBS MEETINGS
POSTED 4/25/20
     As per NYSUT and RC21 guidelines, ROBS will be canceling our Executive Board meetings and General meetings for May and June. This will include our June End-of-Year luncheon and our August Executive Board Thank You luncheon. The election of officers that usually takes place in May will be rescheduled as per NYSUT guidelines. We are taking these measures out of an abundance of caution for the safety and well-being of our members
     Please take good care of yourselves and your families! Stay safe and healthy.
  We look forward to when we can see each other again.

2020 CENSUS - EVERYBODY COUNTS!
POSTED 3/19/20
     April 1, 2020 is US Census Day. NYSUT is urging it's members to participate in the Census. You can go to NYSUT online for more information and to make a pledge to complete the Census form at nysutscounts.org/pledge
For more information you can also use the following links:
What is the Census?
Why in Five?To fill out the online Census
https://my2020census.gov

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ROBS MEETINGS UPDATE
POSTED 4/4/20
     Due to Covid-19 all meetings will be cancelled until further notice. We hope you are all healthy and coping as best you can during this trying time. Stay home and stay safe!

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SAD SHARING
POSTED 4/28/20
   Elaine Purcell, the wife of the late Joseph Purcell, has passed away from a brain tumor and Covid-19 on April 25, 2020. Joseph had passed away in December 2019.   He retired as the Brentwood High School Central Librarian in 1992.
    Our deep condolences go out to the Purcell family.

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Why did we do it?
     What was our purpose in taking on such an open ended “History Project”; for which we evolved a script of questions and got answers from over 150 subjects for two decades?
     We couldn’t answer the question in 1994 when people would ask “What are you going to do with the interviews?” All we could say was that for educational purposes we had to document our record now or lose the chance to preserve so many poignant accounts, funny stories and touching tales told by exemplary educators. We knew these dedicated public servants might shortly, for reasons yet unknown, be leaving Brentwood for good.
     So, we decided to let time sort out the details. We began scheduling appointments. We asked questions and listened saving for generations the essence of what it meant to have been an educator or employed, in this large public school system during the second half of the 20th century. Brentwood remains an exemplar to all others; a diverse microcosm of America reflecting 124 districts on Long Island while simultaneously resembling thousands across the U.S. We’ve accomplished something here to be proud of. Whether we were interviewed or not, ours is a claim of service that few professionals in the State of New York or elsewhere have positioned themselves to share in the way we have.
     INITIALLY the practice of sitting with a subject for an hour and giving them a hundred percent focused attention seemed somewhat daunting to a number of friends and colleagues. So much so in fact that many declined our repeated invitations to speak with us as they left careers or retired from full employment. Despite all assurances that we were not about investigative journalism or invading privacy, they deferred. Now, twenty years after we began, some are saying they may be ready. “Better late than never” we say. However, to all among you who were willing to share not only your classroom experiences and personal stories, but precious memories from your lives along with your fondest hopes for the future, we say “Thanks”. Thanks for allowing us to continue the process by paying it forward as we share these interviews with the Brentwood community and countless professionals and researchers near and far. Through an acceptance of ROBS offer of collaboration with Archivist Dr. Geri Solomon and The Long Island Studies Institute at Hofstra University our History Project lives on in academia as well as in the collection of the Brentwood Public Library, thanks to Director, Thomas A. Tarantowicz.
   You can enjoy unlimited visits to www.robsny.org where you can watch and listen to segments from featured Interviews in the ROBS History Project Section on our Announcements Page each month. Return here to listen and learn again and again.

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