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vice presidency and directorship of the Roslyn Bank & Trust Company. He has served his community as chairman of the board of appeals of the township of North Hempstead, the tenure of this office being from 1929 to 1943. Active in the affairs of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Mr. Hayes is a member of the Port Washington Lodge No. 1010. He also belongs to the Lions Club of Port Washington, and to the Manhasset Bay Yacht Club.
Mr. Hayes's family attends the Lutheran Church. In political conviction, he is a Republican.
At Kingston on September 27, 1905, Fred L. Hayes married Anna Munch, daughter of Michael and Barbara (Kenneth) Munch. Mr. and Mrs. Hayes are the parents of two children: 1. Joel H., who mar- ried Dorothy Storey and is the father of one son, Joel Frederick. Joel H. Hayes is vice president of the Nassau Utilities Fuel Corporation. 2. Natalie M. Hayes resides at Brookville.
GEORGE A. PROIOS -Identified with the field of real estate and insurance since the beginning of his business career, George A. Proios, since 1938, has operated his office at Lake Ronkonkoma, and also maintains an agency at Jamaica.
He was born in Smyrna, Asia Minor, February 6, 1897, son of Achilles and Despina Proios, the former of whom was engaged in general store keeping in his native country. George Proios came to the United States while a youth, after completing his education in the elementary and high schools of his native land, and also preparing for his business career by attend- ing a business college in Greece. He came to Lake Ronkonkoma in 1919, and from 1925 to 1938, com- muted to his insurance and real estate business in New York City. In that year, he opened his agency at Lake Ronkonkoma, in which he also serves as public accountant, and maintains his office at Jamaica, in charge of his son Achilles. In addition to his real estate and insurance interests, Mr. Proios pur- chased in 1943 the Village Bar & Grill. He is Fire Commissioner of Centereach Fire District, member of the Centereach Fire Department, member of the Smithtown Square Club, president of the Suffolk County Greek-American Club, and a member of the Greek Orthodox Church. Fraternally he is a Free and Accepted Mason, Suffolk Lodge No. 60, of Port Jefferson, Long Island, and member of the Ahepa fraternal organization, and for recreation derives pleasure and relaxation from business duties in the outdoor sports of hunting and fishing.
George A. Proios married at Lake Ronkonkoma, October 16, 1921, Angela Parathyra, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Parathyra, and their children are: I. Achilles, born June 9, 1922, a graduate of Smithtown High School, and the Pace Institute, served in the second World War from September 14, 1942 to No- vember of 1945, as staff sergeant of the 8th and 9th Army Air Forces in Europe, now associated with his father in business. 2. John, born in Patchogue, July 26, 1924, a graduate of Smithtown High School, served during World War II in the United States Navy, as radar operator aboard the aircraft carrier. "Belleau Wood," in the Pacific Theater of War from June 1944 to May 1946. He is now associated with his father in the local agency. 3. Alexander, born at Bay Shore Hospital April 4. 1927, a graduate of Smith- town High School, and now serving in the United States Army of Occupation as a member of the military police in Belgium. 4. Mary D., born at Bay Shore Hospital August 18, 1935.
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HILARY CORWIN was born on July 5, 1889, at Greenport, New York, a son of Seth M. and Lillias (Silleck) Corwin. He was graduated from Greenport High School in 1905, and later received his Bachelor of Science degree from Columbia University in 1912. Mr. Corwin was awarded his Bachelor of Laws de- gree in 1914 from Columbia Law School. He passed his bar exams and was admitted to the New York State Bar on October 7, 1915, and began a general practice of law in Huntington in 1916. His career was interrupted by the United States' entry into the World War, and for two years Mr. Corwin served in the United States Navy, receiving his discharge in June, 1919.
Active in the affairs of the community, Mr. Corwin holds membership in the Huntington Rotary Club and in the Huntington American Legion Post, No. 360. He is a member of the Suffolk County Bar As- sociation and the Huntington Lawyers Club.
On November 25, 1918, Mr. Corwin married Ethel Arthur of Smithtown, daughter of Ethelbert L. and Ellen (Smith) Arthur. They became the parents of two children: I. Nathaniel, born March 2, 1921, in Huntington and an alumnus of Huntington High School. He served in the United States Navy from October 30, 1940 to November, 1946 as chief quarter- master, assigned to the U.S.S. "Quincy." He is one of the survivors of the ill-fated Quincy which sank in the Pacific. 2. Robert Lawrence, born October 24, 1924, in Huntington, was also educated at Huntington High School. Like his brother, he served in the armed forces as private first class in the United States Mar- ine Corps, First Division, and saw action in the Pacific. He was wounded at Guadalcanal.
HOWARD C. TOMPKINS-The role of the civil engineer and surveyor has obviously been an impor- tant one in the recent decades of the phenomenal growth of Nassau and Suffolk counties as a suburban area and a region of homes, business centers and new industries small and large. The firm of George H. Walbridge Company of Babylon has long been en- gaged in this vital work of remodelling eastern Long Island, transforming it from a region of broad farms and leisurely villages into an aggregation of alert, brisk, very much up to the minute communities. Since the death of Mr. George H. Walbridge, this old firm continues operations under his name but under the capable direction of Howard C. Tompkins and Bazil C. Kime.
Howard C. Tompkins was born on December 16, 1881, at Chicago, Illinois, during his parents' tem- porary stay in that city in connection with his father's business. The late George W. Tompkins was a native of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York, who was associated with the mercantile business of Wilson Brothers of Chicago. His death occurred in Brooklyn, New York, and he is buried there. His wife, and mother of Howard C. Tompkins, was the former Jeanette Campbell of Voluntown, Connecti- cut, a daughter of Dr. Harvey Campbell, whose father was also a physician in Voluntown. Dr. Harvey Campbell served for some time in the Senate of the Connecticut State Legislature.
Howard C. Tompkins attended and graduated from the Cascadilla School at Ithaca, New York, and later attended Cornell University in that same city, from which he was graduated in 1903, with the degree of Civil Engineer. For a time he practiced as an in- dustrial engineer at Baltimore, Maryland, in partner- ship with Richard K. Meade. The Baltimore period of his experience extended from 1910 to 1920. In the latter year Mr. Tompkins came to Long Island to
enter into association with the late George H. Wal- bridge at Babylon in Suffolk County, where he also established his home. Following Mr. Walbridge's death, in 1931, Mr. Tompkins took over the business and continued its successful operation. In 1945 he formed a partnership with Bazil C. Kime, and these two competent civil engineers and surveyors today constitute the ownership and management of George H. Walbridge Company, ably maintaining the stan- dards established by the founder of the firm many years ago. Mr. Tompkins is a member of numerous engineering societies. His religious affiliation is with the Episcopal Church.
In the borough of Brooklyn, New York City, on October 6, 1909, Howard C. Tompkins married Lu Harrison, a native of Brooklyn and a daughter of Americus Harrison and his wife. Of this marriage there are two children: I. John H., who was born at Brooklyn, New York, in 1912. After graduating from the high school at Babylon he entered Prince- ton University at Princeton, New Jersey, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts, on gradu- ating with the class of 1933. During World War II John H. Tompkins served in the United States Army, which he entered as a private. While in active service in the Pacific Theater of Operations he was advanced to the rank of captain, which he held at the time of his honorable discharge. He is now employed with the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. He is married, his wife being the former Hope Coffey of Babylon, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Coffey. This young couple are the parents of one child, Hope, who was born at the Brooklyn Hospital in Brooklyn, in October, 1942.
Also 2. Janet, who was born in Baltimore, Mary- land, on November 28, 1916. She graduated from the Babylon High School and subsequently married Sherman Hoyt of Cooperstown, New York, the cere- mony occurring in 1940. Of this union there is one child, Sherman, Jr., who was born at New York City in July, 1942. The Sherman Hoyts now make their home in Babylon.
FRANCIS A. MYERS-When the guests of the Hotel Pridwin, "A Beautiful Spot Directly on the Beach," at Shelter Island, Suffolk County, in recent years found accommodations and service equal to the most exacting expectations, they were benefitting from the accumulation of experience through two generations of the Myers family, and from the fact that Francis A. Myers, the late proprietor of that delightful hostelry at one of America's most pleasant watering places, virtually grew up in the hotel busi- ness.
Francis A. Myers' father, Theodore A. Myers, was born on New York City's famous Wall Street, and for some part of his life was a custom house broker. He married Emily F. Goodale, a native of South- ampton, who was a daughter of Charles A. Goodale, one of the old type of whaling captains who sailed out of the little port of Sag Harbor in Suffolk County to search the distant seas in pursuit of their quarry. Mrs. Emily F. (Goodale) Myers conducted hotels at different periods in these Long Island resorts, namely Southampton, Sag Harbor and Shelter Island. Her establishment at Shelter Island was called Oxford Hall, and this widely-known hostelry she managed with great success for some forty years. After the death of Theodore A. Myers, his widow married Hannibal French of Sag Harbor. She died in 1932. The son of Theodore A. and Emily F. (Goodale) Myers, whom they named Francis A., was born at
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Southampton, Suffolk County, New York, on July 3, 1884. As a result of the migrations of the family in connection with the hotel business, the young Francis A. Myers received his education at various public schools in Sag Harbor, on Shelter Island, and in what is now the Borough of Manhattan, New York City, in a school which formerly stood at Twentieth Street and Sixth Avenue. As a boy, doubtless fas- cinated by his grandfather's tales of long voyages and foreign lands, he went to sea, becoming a quarter- master on the Ward Line running out of the Port of New York. He followed the sea for four or five years, then conducted several businesses in New York and New Jersey, finally returning to Shelter Island in the early twenties to go into the building business. Many residences and other structures on the Island, including the Hotel Pridwin, attest his success in this line. In 1929, Mr. Myers influenced perhaps by his mother's success, took over the owner- ship of the Pridwin, which he conducted with great success and to the comfort and enjoyment of a host of guests, from that time until his death on Novem- ber 30, 1946.
Mr. Myers was president of the Shelter Island Light and Power Company, and for many years chief of the Shelter Island Heights Fire Department, and he was an influential figure in Republican politics, having for a time served as a member of the Suffolk County Committee of his party. During World War II he was technical coordinator for the Bureau of Yards and Docks of the Navy Department, as a civilian attached to the Civil Engineer Corps. His service in this capacity extended from 1942 to 1944 inclusive. Mr. Myers was interested in fraternal affairs, and held membership in the Junior Order of United American Mechanics and in the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
At Brooklyn, New York, Francis A. Myers was married to Helen C. Fawcett, a native of Louisville, Kentucky, and a daughter of Jonathan C. and Caro- line V. (Weaver) Fawcett. Jonathan C. Fawcett was an executive of the Louisville and Nashville Rail- road. Francis A. and Helen C. (Fawcett) Myers were the parents of four children: I. Francis M., who was born in the Borough of Brooklyn, New York City, and is a graduate of Yale University at New Haven, Connecticut, holding the degree of Bachelor of Science. He is now associated with the Hege- man-Harris Company, Inc., builders and contractors, of New York City. 2. Madelaine F., who was born in Brooklyn and attended the New York State Normal School at New Paltz, Ulster County. She is the wife of William T. Hallman of Shelter Island. 3. George F., who was born at Somerville, New Jersey, and while attending The Peddie School, died at the age of eighteen years, and is interred on Shelter Island. 4. Caroline K., who was born at Somerville, New Jersey, and attended Randolph-Macon College at Lexington, Virginia, and the Alviene School of Dramatic Art in New York City. She is now married to Roy Adams of Greenport, Suffolk County, New York.
Through his married children, Francis A. Myers had six grandchildren at the time of his death. Francis M. Myers is the father of one son, George C. Myers; Madelaine F. (Myers) Hallman has three children, namely Frances, Carol Ann and John William; Caro- line K. (Myers) Adams is the mother of Jill and Jason Adams.
GINO L. GIORGINI, M.D .- Aside from conduct- ing a general practice in medicine at Copiague, Dr.
Gino L. Giorgini is physician to the school system and fire department of Copiague. He is a veteran of World War II.
Dr. Giorgini was born in New York City (the Bronx) on January 6, 1911, the son of Arthur and Ida (Reciputi) Giorgini, both now deceased and buried in Amityville Cemetery. Arthur Giorgini was the proprietor of the Copiague Hotel.
The doctor began his education in the public schools in the Bronx. But his family moved in 1921, when he was nearly eleven years old, to Copiague and there he finished his early education, graduating from the Amityville High School in 1921. He then went to Fordham University, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1931. In 1936, he was graduated from the New York University Col- lege of Medicine with the degree of Doctor of Medi- cine. He interned at Fordham Hospital from 1937 to 1939. On receiving his degree, Dr. Giorgini had ap- plied for and been granted a commission as first lieutenant in the United States Army Medical Corps Reserve. He served six months as a reserve officer in Civilian Conservation Corps in Idaho.
When he completed his internship, he returned to Copiague and began the practice of medicine. In 1941, when the United States entered World War II, Dr. Giorgini was called into the active service of the Medical Corps, with his original commission and rank. He served until September, 1945, when he was restored to the inactive list with the rank of captain. For eighteen months Dr. Giorgini served in the European Theater of Operations, participating in numerous battle campaigns. He also served in Africa, Rome- Arno, Southern France and the Rhineland. He re- ceived the European-African-Middle-Eastern cam- paign ribbon and the American Defense Service Medal.
On leaving the service, Dr. Giorgini resumed his practice at Copiague and soon added, also the work of school and fire department physician. He is on the staffs of Southside Hospital, Bay Shore; Nassau- Suffolk Hospital, Copiague, and Brunswick Hospital, Amityville.
Dr. Giorgini is a member of the American Medical Association, the New York State and the Suffolk County Medical societies and the Associated Physi- cians of Long Island. He also belongs to the Ameri- can Legion, the Catholic War Veterans, the Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks, No. 1253 at Free- port, the Knights of Columbus and the Lions Club of Copiague. In 1947, he was the third vice president of the Lions Club. His church is Our Lady of As- sumption Roman Catholic, where he is a member of the Holy Name Society. His recreations are golf, tennis and boating.
Dr. Giorgini married Bernice E. Giles, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Giles of Plattsburg, New York, at St. Martin's Roman Catholic Church, Amityville, on September 21, 1940. They have become the parents of two sons: Gino L., Jr., who was born on October 27, 194I, at Plattsburg and Frank Giles, born July 9, 1947, at the Southside Hospital, Bay Shore, New York.
Mrs. Giorgini was a graduate of Plattsburg Normal School and taught in the Copiague public schools prior to her marriage.
THE HEWLETT SCHOOL-Simplicity and truth, kindliness of thought and deed, and a broad outlook on life are the essential principles upon which the Hewlett School was founded.
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Hewlett. After a few years the school moved to Cedarhurst and in 1941 to its present location in East Islip, on the South Shore.
Hewlett possesses the healthful superiority of the country, yet has all the educational and cultural ad- vantages of the city. The primary department, the intermediate department, and the high school consti- tute the school. The college preparatory course in the high school is based on requirements of the colleges. A high scholastic rating is maintained, and thorough and well finished work results.
It has been the continuous aim of the school to carry out the ideals of simple life and close companion- ship between teachers and pupils. Hewlett endeavors to give every girl the care and sympathetic under- standing a loving home affords. Through the appeal of ideals and examples it seeks to develop in each student loyalty to the group and a sense of fitness in her actions. The pupils respond easily to the friendly atmosphere of the school and adapt them- selves naturally to its simple and well regulated order. Every day brings a wholesome round of study, play, and rest.
That each girl achieves satisfaction only by learn- ing to work and play with others, by exploring her own abilities and talents, and by respecting the rights and interests of others is the philosophy of the school. Thus the school year contains a busy schedule of activities. A complete program of sports, games, and dances is carried out. The school sponsors many social affairs. Frequent dinner parties and teas are given by the principal, by members of the faculty, and by the girls themselves so that every girl may learn the duties and responsibilities of a hostess as well as a guest.
In the greenhouse the girls study horticulture to supplement the classroom work in science. Under the guidance of a faculty advisor they assume responsi- bility for all phases of greenhouse work and chronicle their successes and errors in a greenhouse log as a blueprint for the next year's group.
In dramatics the girls not only present plays regu- larly but help to make their own scenery and cos- tumes. Hewlett believes each girl is an important link in every phase of school activity; thus the younger girls produce their own plays, help and are helped by the older girls.
The extensive grounds, the private lake, the athletic fields, the school buildings are all a setting for co- operative work and play while each girl learns that the needs of today require a thorough academic pre- paration as well as kindliness and thoughtfulness to- ward others.
EDWARD HALSEY HOWELL-Since 1892 Ed- ward Halsey Howell has been active in Southampton as an insurance and real estate man and for almost as many years as a banking official and trustee of the Rogers Memorial Library.
Mr. Howell was born in Bergen, New Jersey, on December 16, 1871, the son of Peter Halsey and Mary (Woodruff) Howell, both of whom were born in the town of Southampton, the latter in Water Mill. Peter Halsey Howell was one of the Forty-Niners. After a period in the West in quest of gold as well as adventure, he returned to Southampton. For a time he was in business, but eventually he became a farmer.
Edward Halsey Howell was educated in the South- ampton Academy and at Professor Hallock's Acad- emy at Bridgehampton. In 1892, when he was twenty- one, Mr. Howell entered the real estate and insur-
ance business in Southampton and is thus a veteran among the practitioners in his field. He is a vice president and director of the First National Bank of Southampton, a trustee of Rogers Memorial Lib- rary, a member of the Old Town Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, at Southampton and is a trustee of the Presbyterian Church of Southampton.
He married Annie Rickard Rose, native of the town of Southampton and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Rose, at Southampton on November 22, 1899. They are the parents of a son and daughter: Edward Halsey Howell, Jr., born in Southampton on August 24, 1908, and Eleanor H. Howell Cook, born in South- ampton on December 12, 1902. The son is a graduate of the Southampton High School and Pratt Institute at Brooklyn. He married Elizabeth Colledge of Southampton and they have two children, Edward Halsey, III, born April 4, 1940, and Dianne Howell, born on November 6, 1936. Eleanor Hall is a gradu- ate of the Southampton High School and the Normal School. She married William C. Cook of Brooklyn.
JOHN FOSTER TERRY-Few American families can boast of an older lineage, or of a more notable record of constructive enterprise and success in busi- ness combined with useful public service in the field of civic affairs, than the Terrys of Southampton, Suffolk County. They were established in Lynn Massachusetts, prior to the year 1640 when two of four brothers removed from that settlement in the Bay State to the fertile acres of Long Island's sea- locked eastern area. Of this family J. Foster Terry is a member, and like his father before him, not to mention more remote forbears, a substantial and res- pected citizen of Southampton.
J. Foster Terry's father, L. Emory Terry, who married Helen Halsey, a daughter of Isaac and Eliza- beth (Foster) Halsey, is one of Southampton's lead- ing citizens, a merchant, banker, trusted public official, leader in civic and religious works, and a distinguished musician to whom his community is much indebted for the promotion of cultural activities. Born and reared in Southampton, L. Emory Terry found his native place and its vicinity a sufficiently large field for the exercise of exceptional talents and initiative, and for the achievement of a highly successful career. In his earlier years he was a successful merchant, and as such, he perceived the desirability of increased banking facilities for the Southampton area. His was the initiative which brought about the organization of the Southampton Bank in 1888, with a capital of $25,000 and with James H. Pierson as president, Ed- ward H. Foster vice president, and L. Emory Terry, cashier. The growth of this bank was coincident with the development of Southampton as a fashionable summer resort, and in turn it has helped this develop- ment and has been a powerful factor in the general promotion of business and prosperity in the com- munity. Careful and conservative in management, the bank nevertheless was able in 1903 to double its capital by the declaration of a 100 per cent dividend, and again in 1916, capital was doubled to $100,000. In 1921 trust powers were granted to the bank.
With his business interests centered in the South- ampton Bank, L. Emory Terry, in other fields, has been one of the most active men in the public life of that community. For nineteen years he served as a member of the school board, being president of that body for several years. During World War I, he was chairman of all the Liberty Loan drives, as well as of the campaigns in behalf of the American Red Cross, Near East Relief and other war-time organiza- tions. He was, moreover, a member of the Suffolk
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County Fuel Commission. After the war, he was a factor in securing the attractive soldiers' and sailors' memorial which stands in Southampton, and was chairman of the committee for its erection. He serves on the board of trustees of the Southampton Public Library, and is president of the Colonial Society. An ardent Methodist, Mr. Terry has served for several decades as superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday school, and also as leader of its choir. L. Emory Terry's most characteristic activities, in- deed, have been in the musical sphere. For many years he trained the chorus of the Southampton Choral Society and conducted the concerts of that noted organization, whose performances of the great oratorios, such as Mendelssohn's "Elijah," and other choral works, have marked Southampton as a cultural center. Mr. Terry's conducting of these performances has been praised by critics for the delicate and dis- criminating interpretation of such master works, as well as for the precision and finish of the chorus under his baton.
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