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TIMELY TRIBUTE Representatives of the Brooklyn Philharmonia present Brooklyn BoroughPresident Sebastian Leone with (appropriately enough) a metronome, a musical timekeeper, inrecent ceremonies held at Borough Hall. Leone will be honored at thePhilharmonia%u2019s annual symphony ball on April 20th in the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Seated areMrs. Sidney Bershatsky (left) and Mrs. Joseph Scorda, co-chairmen of the ball. Standing (fromleft) are Max L. Koeppel, Philharmonia president; Mr. Leone; Dr. Melvin Moore, chairman of thesymphony ball, and Philharmonia manager Maurice Edwards. The ball, to take place immediatelyafter the fourth presentation in the Philharmonia%u2019s 1973-74 major concert series, w ill help markthe orchestra%u2019s twentieth anniversary...............I MORE LETTERS TO THE EDITOR jCONTINUED2. Stop harassment of workers for their Union activity and fully reinstate any suspended or fired employees.We regard the cause of the Hospital employees as our own and will approach as many organizations and individuals in our community and citywide as possible to aid them in their struggle for justice.Very truly yours, The following list of names is still n formation. The signers are iniividuals with organizations listed or identification purposes only: Richard Ayers, Chairman %u2019rospect Towers Tenants Assn; ieorge Alwon, Park Slope Family >ay Care Center; Louise Finney, hstrict Leader 51st A.D.tU em ocratici; Zita Fitzgibbon, hairwoman Ambulatory Care %u2022'%u2022ervices Advisory Committee; atherine Graig, Chairwoman %u2022outh Brooklyn Anti-Poverty 'orp.; Joseph Ferris; Frank roldsmith, Neighborhood Tenants .'ouncil; Robert Furman, Cochairperson Park Slope Health Task Force; Victor Hausner, Cochairperson Park Slope Health 1'ask Force; Madeline Lee, Carroll St. Resident; Michael Shulman, 1'homasina Stith, and Thomas Scotto, Co-chairpersons Neighborhood Tenants Council; Gislaine Wallach, Uniter Block Associations; Frank Torres, United Fifth Avenue Coalition; Cary Wallach, Chairman Health Committee, Lincoln Place Block Assn.; Gerald Meunier, 9th St. resident; Michael Zagarell, Park Slope Club Communist Party; John Wojcik, President Central Brooklyn Independent Democrats; Dorothy Rubin, Methodist Hosp.Committee Neighborhood Tenants Council%u2019 Harry Mapp, Prospect Towers Tenants Assn.; Charles Monaghan, 51st AD Democratic district Leader; Steve Mueller, \\m bulatory Services Advisory 'ommittee; and Barbara Storace, im bulatory Services Sdvisory %u2019ommittee.Hospital &CommunityNeedsDear Sir:You and your readers do not seem to understand how Methodist and Long Island College hospitals are working to serve the community. Perhaps a second look at your March 21 issue will give you a better appreciation.An assistant administrator, no less, has taken the time from his busy schedule to write a letter to the editor informing you that his door at Methodist is %u201calways open%u201d if your reporters ever want to clear up their %u201c m isunderstandings.%u201d And in a news story it developes that LICH has told the state that it has community support for a plan that no now in the community knows about.You must try to understand that the purpose of a community is to be served as the hospital sees fit. So that %u201ccommunity problems%u201d may be dealt with effectively, the hospital devotes a certain amount of time and money to public relations -- paid for in full by the community through direct patient billings, Blue Cross premiums, etc. The purpose of public relations is the divulge information (or not) or misinformation in order that theLOCKSMITH SERVICE i%u00abJJ 24 Hour Service!LICENSED LOCKSMITH g, . _ . , . s , . .Sales - Repairs - installationsInstalled Segalocks 666 or .667 - $25 98 Police Locks from $25 98 up C ylinders Installed - Rim or M ortise - $12 98 M a il Box Locks Installed - from $7 98 up Pick Resistant Cylinders - M edeco, Duo,Tubular - %u00a31 598 and upiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniFirs f P.r&%u00a3 t}\\*+c*rin n cNoye s Fludde -A Joyful, Happy Eventcommunity%u2019s interest may appear to have been considered in whatever the hospital is planning.In general, then, if you and your readers do not know how your health needs fit in with your other community needs (muchless what your healthneeds themselves are), you can go straight to the hospital%u2019s assistant administrator. If you do not like what he says, you know what you can do. That, anyway, is the view from his end of the proctoscope.Name withheld on request of writer who is a local resident and a hospital administrator elsewhere.Task ForceCONTINUEDthe PHOENIX has learned, would be to see that such service as sanitation, fire and police are being adequately provided to a neighborhood, monitoring existing operations and facilitating the execution of various city construction contracts. No community-input mechanism has been described.The Task Force operations were originally created by Mayor John Lindsay in 1967 to cut red tape between neighborhood problems and various city agencies. They were designed to be headed by key city commissioners and administrators on the assumption that these men and women would use their %u201cclout%u201d to get other agencies moving on local problems in their assigned areas.Azadian has headed the Park Slope-Brooklyn Heights-South Brooklyn Task Force operation since it was opened, responding to thousands of calls for aid from individuals and community groups, inuring summers, iiie local Task Force office helped allocate hundreds of free bus trips to community groups and churches and provide special summ er recreation for local children.BY ANN GAFFNEYLast weekend the communitywas treated to a performance atthe First Presbyterian Churchof the opera Noye%u2019s Fludde, anadaptation by Benjamin Brittenof the Chester Miracle play.Judith Parker Taylor organized and directed the .production, and borrowed the extraordinary talents of many of ourneighbors in Brooklyn.The opera begins with Noahreceiving from God instructionsto build an ark and to gatheraboard his family and the animals. The words of God werespoken by Donald E. Moore.The part of Noah was dramatically and forcefully sung byGeorge P. Leighton. The role ofhis reluctant wife was sung inhaughty good humor by JanetWagner.The children of Noah, and thechorus of animals which arrivedtwo by two down the aisles ofthe church, were children of theMiddle School chorus of St.Ann%u2019s Episcopal School, children of the First PresbyterianChurch choir, and other children from the community.Soloists from among thechildren were Michael O%u2019Connell, Jon Fogler, Frank Montero, Margot Becker, Elis:ton and Naomi Gross.Liza Casson danced the pof the raven who was sentfirst from the ark, andiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiMethodistCONTINUEDimproving the situation employees.%u201dRobert Queen, the Public Affairs Officer at Methodist, termed thi action by the service employees %u201cwildcat strike%u201d , in that it was recognized by Local 1199. employees were out for eii hours, when the union asked t1 the employees disband,%u201d he When the union was contac the Phoenix, no one the available for comment ei confirm or disconfirn] assertion.%u201c There were irregularities in the electkl January, 1973,%u201d Queen %u201cAnd no determ inate union question has yet bJ So the union is not offf bargaining agent for ployees.%u201dConcerning the referal election question to the State Labor Relations Board, the hospital spokesman said, %u201c I don%u2019t rem em ber if there was any decision by them.%u201d He did say that the matter had been referred to the National Labor Relations Board on two occassions, and is now being investigated by an arbitrator chosen by this agency. The arbitration \can tell,%u201d said Queen, %u201cThere%u2019s still one measure remaining,%u2014 going to the courts for final ejudication.%u201dThe hospital adm itted that certain punitive actions were levied against those in the job action. Those Darticinating were docked one day%u2019s pay, and Vincent Dugo, the union delegate, was dismissed. %u201cThe reason for his dismissal was that he intimidated and threatened employees,%u201d the hospital spokesman reported,Haight danced the part of thedove who is sent out andreturns with the olive branch.The sets, designed by NorvidRoss, were extremely effectiveand ingenious. Wood fromcrates was used to incorporateand transform the pulpit intothe bow of the ship. After itwas built by Noah and hisfamily, and after the enormoussail was hoisted up the mast, Ifelt as though I was aboardreally as a passenger, in thestern of the ship. (Mr. Taylorhad spoken before the performance began of how we weremeant to be participants, not anaudience.) Being inside theark, and enthusiastically joiningthe singing of the Navy Hymnduring the storm, I really felt Iwas a participant.The children wore everydayplay clothes, with masks ontheir heads. The colorful maskswhich distinguished them asindividual animals were beautiful in design and created colorand gaiety against the subtlebrowns of the ark.It was a joyful, happy event,made so all the more by the factthat many people from manyparts of the community workedtogether on this production.i m o n \\ k ;h t IKIO H TO IK)OK SK K Y IC KHeights Car & Limousine Service Inc.local and l.nna Distance ('allsZone Flat Ratesoft-x 2 t not it- 111family and their 100,000- volume library of Americana, and Emily Ford%u2019s letters to her family, her grandfather Noah Webster, and her girlhood friend Emily Dickinson, and runs through May 31.The Ford%u2019s were one of the most terary families living in Brooklyn Heights in the latter part of the 19th entury, says the Society. Emily, the mother, was a minor ppoet. Paul Leicester, first-born son, was a famous novelist, biographer and bibliographer. Another son, Worthington Chauncey, produced dozens of historical works and was editor of the multi-volume %u201cWritings of George Washington.%u201d Malcolm, a third son, was an athlete of Olympicstature who was also a sportswriter.Dr. Simon Grolnick will give a short talk. A psychiatrist, Dr. Grolnick is a member of a fiveman group including a family therapist, an historian, a psychologist and an expert in research planning and methodology currently studying tneintrapsycnic, interpersonal and cultural-historical trends of at least four generations of the Emily Ford family.