Events

At our annual Holiday breakfast we had a new comedian Bill McCarty and our good friend Jim Graseck entertaining. This year we employed additional help from the audience our wonderful singer and Karaoke leader Anita Starlite, Hammer Magazine publisher, John Rigrod, Liz Kupchka, and, LIMBA administrative assistant Marguerite Moore and yours truly, all put our…

We may leave this open because it in the same week as the New Year holiday

Mr. Robert Schaefer is the recently appointed commissioner of the LI MacArther Airport and he was our guest speaker thus morning at LIMBA. Bob Schaefer has been deputy commissioner for several years before assuming his present title. His airport management experience goes back to the twenty five years he spent with the Port Authority of…

Today we were hosted by Eastern Suffolk BOCES at their Edward J. Miliken Training Center in Oakdale. The program emphasized the importance of career training. There are skills that are being taught at these various training centers that prepare for fields of work that do not always lead to college. The purpose of this meeting…

"This has been the longest recession in history." That is the sentence that our speaker, Ed Romaine began his formal remarks. Mr. Romaine won a recent election for Town Supervisor of Brookhaven. He will have to run again in one year As a result of the recession there has been a cut-back of town personnel,…

 The John Engeman Theater is showing "Wait Until Dark"  in January. LIMBA has secured a number of  tickets and we hope you can be there to enjoy, h a high quality theater exprience LIMBA and LIFT will be offering tickets to their friends and memberships. We have a limited number of tickets so I suggest…

  Dr. John King is the New York State Commissioner of education and president of the University of the State of New York. We made a request that he appear at LIMBA and he was with us Thursday morning.     Dr. King began by telling us that many students are deficient in basic skills…

The weather threat had a serious effect on our attendance so we had a very truncated meeting. Scott Bronson, BNL Manager of K-12 Educational Programs, Spoke to a very small group at the LIMBA meeting today. He gave an overview of the programs at Brookhaven National laboratories and how they are working with educators on every…