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Vol. 71, No. 35
SCHOOLS & EDUCATION
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Mineola athletic legends to take place in HOF
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Former Nets executive, NCAA basketball coach among inductees BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y The second class of the Mineola Athletic Hall of Hame will be inducted Friday, Sept. 16, at Hampton Stadium during the Mineola High School football game against Island Trees High School from Levittown. This year seven alumni in graduation classes ranging from 1939 2001 will be honored. Class of 1939’s Jim Brown, class of 1953’s Bob Casciola, class of 1955’s Bruce Webster, class of 1963’s Jim Litterelle and Jack Emmer, class of 1971’s Manny Matos and 2001’s Katherine Hock Bennett will each be honored during the game. The announcement came from Dan Guido, another Mineola High School graduate who currently coaches the school’s wrestling team. The decision to resume Hall of Fame inductions primarily came from Guido and Frank Massaro, Mineola High School alumni and friends. who have been long involved with the district. Guido was the football coach from 1987-2019 and is currently the head wrestling coach, a post he assumed in 1980. Massaro was a girls’ lacrosse coach and assistant coach with Guido on the wrestling team before becoming a teacher. Guido, who wrestled with Massaro as a student, said Massaro approached
him about resuming Hall of Fame inductions after Massaro’s retirement and he thought it was a great idea. “We’re gonna try and do it every year from now,” Guido said. Brown was an all-scholastic athlete in football and track before captaining the Hofstra football team as both quarterback and running back. During his college career, Brown enlisted in the armed forces during World War II before returning to Hofstra and again was named captain. Brown also served the district as a physical education teacher and coached the wrestling team, which he started in 1955 despite never playing the sport. By Brown’s retirement in 1980, he had won two North Shore championships and four league titles in his 12 yeas of coaching. Casciola was tackle and captain for the Mustangs. The New Hyde Park native spent his college career at Princeton University. where he was all-league. Casciola’s broadcasting career included working for the Ivy League, Princeton and Rutgers University. His head football career included stops at the University of Connecticut and Princeton before becoming the executive vice president and chief operating officer for the National Basketball Association’s New Jersey Nets from 1987 to 1991. Continued on Page 46
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Low voter turnout marks Dem primary victories BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z Congressional candidates Robert Zimmerman and Laura Gillen won their respective primary elections despite a lower turnout from Democrat-
ic voters throughout Nassau County than June’s gubernatorial primary. A total of 46,229 votes were cast in both the 3rd and 4th Congressional District Primary elections two weeks ago.
Officials from the Nassau County Board of Elections said nearly 11% of registered Democratic voters cast ballots for the congressional primaries, more than 3% fewer than those who Continued on Page 47
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