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This program is a real gem Baldwin High launches jewelry academy tive assistant and police science. The Future Jewelers AcadeOne classroom at Baldwin my, which comprises roughly a High School@Shubert began dozen students, gives them with just four walls and a floor hands-on experience in the jew— but what emerged is the elry industry. Participants are Future Jewelers Academy, a expected to complete eight to 10 unique collaboration with the jewelry projects by the end of Natural Diamond Council and the school year, and will earn college credits the Black in Jewelapplicable to a variry Coalition. T h e a c a d e m y, ety of programs in which introduces the State School Shubert School stusystem. dents to all aspects By applying of the jewelry principles of scii n d u s t r y, f r o m ence, technolo g y, design to “bench engineering, the work” to retail, offiarts and math, or cially opened at the STEAM, to the start of the school world of gems and year, and a ribbonjewelry, students ANNiE DoREScA cutting ceremony will lear n about l a s t F r i d ay w a s School board trustee potential careers in attended by memthe industry. bers of the Board of Shubert senior Education, representatives of S c a rl e t t K e f e r J a r a m i l l o the two organizations and elect- described her work in the proed officials. gram as “therapeutic.” The program joins others at “When I first got into the Shubert, where a non-tradition- program, I wasn’t really expectal high school cur riculum ing a lot,” Kefer Jaramillo offers students the opportunity acknowledged. “But when I saw to fulfill state g raduation the classroom and the equipr e q u i r e m e n t s by e a r n i n g ment, I was like, oh my gosh, Career and Technical Educa- this is serious. This is a career.” tion as well as academic credIn the classroom, students its, with programs including have their own workstations, barbering, medical administra-
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Town Supervisor Don Clavin, rear, center, and U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, front, left, recognized Pina Frassineti Wax, a Baldwin centenarian and Holocaust survivor, on Jan. 13. Councilwoman Laura Ryder, Town Clerk Kate Murray, Receiver of Taxes Jeanine Driscoll and County Executive Bruce Blakeman were also in attendance.
Holocaust survivor is celebrated
Pina Frassineti Wax of Baldwin recently turned 100 By HERNESTo GAlDAMEZ hgaldamez@liherald.com
Before Pina Frassineti Wax called Baldwin home, she was a young teenager growing up in Rome with her Italian-Jewish family. But when the dictator of Fascist Italy, Benito Mussolini, allied with Germany and Japan during World War II, her life — and the lives of her loved ones — changed forever. During the Holocaust, Frassineti Wax, her mother, Bianca, and her brother, Sergio, went into hiding to escape Nazi persecution, posing as nuns in a Roman convent for two years. With the last name Frassineti, they were able to blend in. Still able to recount the events of the Holocaust, Frassineti Wax, who celebrated
her 100th birthday on Oct. 24, was honored at the Merrick Senior Center on Jan. 13. “We have to remember,” Frassineti Wax said, as she addressed those in attendance. “First of all there were people — real people, that were taken.” One of those taken captive was her grandfather, Octavio, an Italian rabbi who was abducted by the Germans one morning and never had the chance to share his story. He was arrested and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Frassineti Wax’s father, Mario, spent the war in hiding, often sleeping in train cars to evade detection. Other relatives were killed at the Dachau concentration camp. In Rome, after World War II, she married Mario Wax, an Italian serving in the U.S. ConTinUED on PagE 16
dding this to our Baldwin High School@Shubert program just made sense.
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