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Vol. 7, No. 26
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Roslyn High School sends off 263 grads Marks district’s 113th commencement BY T E R I W EST
PHOTO BY TERI WEST
The Roslyn Board of Education congratulated each student after board President Meryl Waxman Ben-Levy presented the diplomas.
Roslyn High School salutatorian Gemma Schneider earned the second highest grade point average in her class of 263 graduates and admission to Harvard University. But when speaking at her school’s 113th commencement ceremony last Friday adorned in a blue cap and gown, she decided to linger on the embarrassing moments. A conversation with a train conductor, confused about why a teenager had a children’s ticket, led to a chat with an understanding fellow
passenger for the remainder of the ride, Schneider said. A compliment from a girl on the elementary school playground about Schneider’s underwear, which she had no idea was visible, turned into a friendship that remains to this day. “We will all leave this room forever bound by the knowledge that we did it together – growing up, that is,” Schneider told the audience at Long Island University’s Tilles Center. “Born into the brightness of a new millennium, we’ve shared so much together.” Continued on Page 58
Sater a no-show for committee hearing BY J E S S I C A PA R K S
intelligence committee last Friday. Sater told The Washington Felix Sater, a former Sands Point resident and past associ- Post before the scheduled interate of President Donald Trump, view that he would answer evfailed to appear for a closed- ery question that he was asked. The New York Times redoor interview with the House
ported that committee members had already gathered in the Capitol meeting room when they received notice from Sater’s lawyer, Robert S. Wolf, that he would be unable to attend due to health reasons but was willing to reschedule. Sater told Politico that he was feeling ill and had slept through his alarm on Friday morning. U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff
(D-California), the chairman of the intelligence committee, said in a brief interview after the canceled hearing that a subpoena would be issued calling for Sater to appear. Sater became central to investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election due to communications obtained between him and Trump’s former attorney, Michael D. Cohen. Messages be-
tween the pair revealed that negotiations for a proposed Trump Tower Moscow continued into June 2016 after Trump had been become the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Cohen had originally testified that negotiations had ended in January 2016. Cohen and Sater’s exchange of communications about a Trump Tower in Moscow and Continued on Page 71
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