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Friday, August 18, 2017
Vol. 5, No. 33
GUIDE TO ROSLYN SCHOOLS MARTINS OPPOSES PRIVATE SCHOOLS RANKED 29TH IN STATE ‘SANCTUARY’ LAWS PAGES 31-42
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Art museum appoints Riley new director
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Officials quiet about longtime leader Willers’ sudden departure from post BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I A new director has been appointed to head the Nassau County Museum of Art, but the museum did not explain what led to the outgoing director’s departure. In a statement issued Monday, museum President Angela Anton announced that Charles Riley II has been named museum director effective immediately. He will succeed Karl Willers, director of the Roslyn Harbor museum for seven years. The museum had not announced that it was looking for a new director. It did not say whether Willers had resigned or been fired. Riley is an arts journalist, reviewer and essayist with 32 books on business, art and public policy, including “Free as Gods: How the Jazz Age Reinvented Modernism.” Born and raised in Manhasset, Riley graduated from Princeton
University and received his Ph.D. from City College of New York. Before heading the museum, Riley was a Time Inc. reporter who covered the art market and Washington, D.C., for Fortune Magazine. Riley was a tenured professor at City University of New York and teaches in Clarkson University’s management program in Potsdam. Willers is credited with helping recently open the new Manes Family Art and Education Center as well as bringing many critically acclaimed exhibits to the museum during his tenure. “He may be returning to do guest curating,” Doris Meadows, a museum spokeswoman, said. “It was something he [Riley] hoped he could make happen, but no, he has no formal role going forward, although the expectation is he will stay involved.” When asked when the decision was made, Meadows said she did not know and declined to comContinued on Page 59
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The Mathnasium of Roslyn was honored as one of the best franchise locations in the country for the sixth year. See story on page 2.
Drucker hosts town hall in Old Westbury BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I Nassau County Legislator Arnold Drucker (D-Plainview) discussed a number of townrelated issues with concerned
residents at a town hall meeting last Thursday alongside a number of questions for the newly appointed acting Nassau County police commissioner. Drucker, a lifelong resident of Plainview, was elected last
November in a special election in District 16 after the death of longtime Nassau Legislator Judith Jacobs. During the town hall at the Wheatley School in Old Continued on Page 58
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