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Fifth year of ‘Shakespeare at the Farm’ company. Its first production under Coonan was an original at Crossroads on Halloween The Malverne Community 2012, based on Edgar Allen T h e a t r e w i l l p e r f o r m t h e Poe’s poetry. “We based in on Shakespeare comedy “Much ‘The Raven’ and other poems Ado About Nothing” at Cross- like that,” Coonan said. “Shakespeare at the Farm” roads Farms at Grossmann’s July 9 to 11. This will be the started in 2022. Coonan had staged plays there fifth year of the before, but decided company’s “Shakeon this specific speare at the annual perforFarm.” mance because of Last summer, his love for Shakethe company perspeare’s plays and formed “Julius Caehis vision of how sar.” “No one gets they should be perstabbed 32 times in formed. The inauthis play, I can gural performance promise you that,” was “A Midsummer the theater’s direcNight’s Dream,” foltor, David Coonan, lowed by “Macjoked. “We alterbeth” in 2023 and nate between come- DAVID CooNAN “As You Like It” in dy and tragedy year founder, 2024 before all the by year.” Malverne Community b l o o d l e t t i n g i n The company, Theatre “Julius Caesar.” founded in the “Shakespeare 1960s but largely inactive since the late 1970s, was not written for a technicalhas been performing since 2012, ly elaborate stage,” Coonan when it was re-founded by said. “He wrote his works to be Coonan. He discovered that the performed in front of crowds in original nonprofit troupe had the 1600s in wooden buildings. never formally dissolved, so he They’d watch the plays in contacted the original founding broad daylight.” Coonan believes his rendiboard and presented the proper paperwork to re-establish the Continued on page 3
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Bob Houlihan, former athletic director and vice president of student affairs of Molloy university, pictured as he gave his farewell commencement address at the school’s graduation ceremony in 2017, died at age 81 on June 8, according to school officials.
Former Molloy A.D. Bob Houlihan dies at 81 By BRIAN KACHARABA & NoAH PERETZ of the Herald
Bob Houlihan, whose three decades of service helped shape generations of students and athletes at Molloy University, in Rockville Centre, died on June 8, the school announced. He was 81. Houlihan, a Malverne resident, is survived by his wife, Maysie; his son, Jason, the Malverne Fire Department’s 2nd assistant deputy chief and Molloy’s assistant director of public safety; his daughter, Lauren; and their extended family. “My father possessed an extraordinary character,” Jason said. “His remarkable
patience and deep empathy left a lasting impression on everyone around him.” Houlihan was Molloy’s athletic director, and later its vice president of student affairs. “Bob was part of the fabric of Molloy, dedicating more than three decades of service to the University,” Molloy President James A. Lentini said in a statement. “His impact on Molloy will be felt for generations.” For many who knew him, Houlihan’s greatest contribution was not measured by wins, championships or administrative milestones, but rather by the relationships he Continued on page 5
put together my love of the purity and history of theater and the community, and it all felt right.