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Clarke students fight hunger, one lunch at a time By JoRDAN VAlloNE jvallone@liherald.com
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Members of the National Junior Honor Society at W.T. Clarke Middle School packed 750 lunches, which were donated to food banks and organizations around Long Island.
In the cafeteria at W.T. Clarke Middle School, students rolled up their sleeves on Friday, donned hair nets and gloves and got to work, preparing 750 lunches for those in need. The school’s National Junior Honor Society spearheaded the effort, thanks to a grant it received after an extensive application process. Janine Loewy, the student group’s co-adviser, along with Maria Giannotti, explained that its student board, which consists of four students, chose to apply for a grant through the National Association of Secondary School Principals to complete a community service project. The student board decided to use funds to put together lunches for Long Islanders experiencing food insecurity. Originally, the students were aiming to pack 150 lunches, but after receiving an $800 grant, the operation expanded dramatically enough for the students to prepare 750 CoNTINued oN page 7
Billy Joel symposium to feature panelist from East Meadow By JoSEPH D’AlESSANDRo jdalessandro@liherald.com
Long Island’s place in American culture is inseparable from Billy Joel’s music. The Hicksville-bor n ar tist has taken listeners through stories of love, loss and life in the modern world, earning 5 Grammy awards and a spot in The Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame. LIMEHOF has planned a special event to celebrate and analyze Joel’s career, bringing together industry experts and people who helped shape the Piano Man’s story and success. The Billy Joel Symposium
will be held on June 6 and 7 at the LIMEHOF location at 97 Main Street in Stony Brook. The two-day conference will explore Joel’s performance, lyrics and cultural impact, featuring presentations of 23 analytical papers, panels and audience Q&A opportunities. Among the featured keynote speakers are Jon Small, an acclaimed musician, director and producer who has worked on various projects with Joel; Jason Hanley, vice president of education and visitor engagement at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum; and music jour nalist Wayne Robins, best known for his
work in Rolling Stone, Newsday and novels. Robins has worked e x t e n s ive ly w i t h Jo e l fo r decades, reviewing and thoughtfully critiquing the artist’s work and building a personal friendship. “My notion of being a music critic was to judge each performance on its own, within the context of the person’s entire body of work,” Robins said. Robins remembers a formative conversation with Joel regarding his performance in Carnegie Hall in 1976. “It was Billy Joel on a roller coaster. There were ups and downs and see, like a roller coaster, the highs were really
high, and the lows were very stee p,” he explained. “Six months later, I was doing a phone interview with him… he remembered the words of from my unflattering review of his band that summer. I said, oh, okay, so we need to have a talk. “What we talked about was that I would be covering him for a long time, and we had to
work together that I was neither for nor against anything he did, but that I promised to be fair,” he continued. “We had no more problems after that.” Rockville Centre resident Clive Young, an adjunct professor at St. Joseph’s University and co-editor of Mix Magazine, is the writer of “Billy Joel and CoNTINued oN page 5