May 1
General Meeting
CANCELLED

Executive Board Meeting
May 21
CANCELLED

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Meetings Schedule

IMPORTANT NEWS UPDATE ON ROBS MEETINGS
POSTED 5/1//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.

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BRENTWOOD SCHOOLS FOOD PANTRY
POSTED 5/8/20
     A food pantry has been set up to provide families experiencing food insecurity with much needed supplies of food in addition to the school cafeteria department providing grab-and-go breakfasts and lunches for the students'.    Anyone interested in donating to the Brentwood Schools site (all proceeds going to Brentwood families) can send a check to:
Wanda Ortiz, Assistant Superintendent Brentwood Public Schools
Felicio Center
52 Third Ave.
Brentwood, NY 11717
    The check should be made out to the Brentwood Schools with Food Pantry in the memo line.
    Any questions Wanda can be reached at her cell phone number: 631-974-4116.

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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.

SAD SHARING
POSTED 5/1/20
     Edmund Anthony Franchi Jr. and his wife Barbara both recently passed away within a week of one another. Edmund retired from Brentwood Schools in 1992 as the Coordinator of Security and Transportation. You can read his biography and view his interview below in the "ROBS History Column Project".

SAD SHARING
POSTED 5/18/20
    Alice Siciliano, the mother of Lynda Romano, passed away last week. Unfortunately, Lynda was hospitalized very shortly after her mom's passing. Lynda needed emergency abdominal surgery and hopefully will be released sometime this week. Lynda is a member of ROBS and retired from the Administration Building in 2006. Lynda's address is: 18 Danville Drive, Greenlawn, NY 11740.

SAD SHARING
POSTED 5/1/20
     Dr. Louis Nannini, Superintendent of Brentwood Schools in the 1970's, passed away recently from COVID-19 virus. at age 103.

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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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