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Meetings Schedule

NEW RETIREE HEALTH AND WELLNESS WEBINAR
POSTED 2/1/21
     NYSUT Retiree Series announces a new Health & Wellness Webinar Series. All are invited to view on Zoom. For information view the attached flyer.

SAD SHARING
POSTED 2/20/21
     On Thursday, Feb 18, Cindy Fleming (clerical at HS and HR and eventually retired as HR Officer) lost her husband John. He hadn’t been feeling well for a while. Obviously, she’s devastated but has her family around her with their love and support. Condolences can be sent to Cindy at: 15 MacKay Drive, Hauppauge, NY 11788.

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ZOOM MEETING INVITATION ON FEBRUARY 15
POSTED 2/10/21
     Please join us on Monday, Feb. 15 at 4:00pm, when Moses T. Alexander Greene, son of Moe and Betty Brown-Greene, will be speaking about African American Migration Patterns to Long Island. Moses is an accomplished author and current director of performing arts and film at the North Carolina Museum of Music and Art.
Topic: Moses T. Alexander Greene
Time: Feb 15, 2021 04:00 PM ET
Join Meeting:
https://zoom.us/j/5346289006?pwd=Tmx
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Meeting ID: 534 628 9006
Passcode: 4WT0Ng

THANK YOU PROJECT HOPE
POSTED 2/10/21
     We received thank you letters from the families that were recipients of the Project Hope 2020 holiday gift cards and baskets. We thought you would like to see how your generous donations to Project Hope helped to make their holidays brighter. We want to thank all of our ROBS membrs for their continued support to Project Hope. A special "thank you" to Letty Sustrin and her helpers. (Please see "Operation Project Hope Mission Accomplished" in ROBS December 2020 Announcements page)

Check Out Member Benefits

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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THIS MONTH'S FEATURED    HISTORY PROJECT
INTERVIEW:
Edyth Welch
Head Nurse
Administration
August 27, 2004


Click on the image above to read Edyth Welch's Biography