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PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED POLICE OFFICERS, INC. POST OFFICE BOX 442 • MINEOLA, NY 11501-0442 ARPO e-mail: [email protected] www.associationofretiredpoliceofficers.com

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ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED POLICE OFFICERS PRESIDENT Bob Livoti (516) 579-1195 e-mail: [email protected] 1st VICE PRESIDENT James Baralo (516) 579-7792 e-mail: [email protected] 2ND VICE PRESIDENT George Maher (516) 781-2671 e-mail: [email protected] RECORDING SECRETARY Richard Scibilia (516) 626-1569 FINANCIAL SECRETARY Vic Dolgos (516) 747-0138

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Presidents Message...........................................Bob Livoti

Hope you had a nice summer off. We probably all gained a few pounds from all those BBQ’s we went to. Say hello to our new members that we took on in June, Adele Burke, Howard Charney, Robert Hoehn, Jr, Daniel LaRusso, Patrick McGrath, John Mullaney, John Pescatore and Laura Sisti and Ron Zimmer. I’d like to welcome you all to ARPO and hope to see you at some of our meetings. Received a letter from Cliff Buttermark and Cliff also sent us a donation which I would like to thank him for and he also sent a little article from his local newspaper. Cliff received an award from the Pomfret Ct Lions Club, making him "The Citizen of the Year 2010." Cliff received the much deserved award for being such a great volunteer in Pomfret, CT. Since his retirement, he has served as the Justice of the Peace for almost 20 years, a volunteer for over 15 years at his local Food Bank and Homeless Shelter and the list goes on and on of all the organizations he volunteers at. He really is a great volunteer worker. You can read all about him in the article in this issue. Back a few months ago, I did the HR218 qualification course over at Mitchel Field with the company that gives ARPO members a discount. A nice group of people from SCPD run the course and you are in and out of there with no fuss, no muss and no hassle. The course goes as smooth as clock work. Too bad our own department doesn’t offer it. The county is missing out on making thousands of dollars giving the course. Where else do you go to a meeting to see old friends, catch up on the latest gossip and find out what is going on for retirees, have something to snack on before the meeting and then have your fill of pizza or hero’s after the meeting and then go home with a goody bag? Only place that happens is at an ARPO meeting. Thanks to Dave Fischer who brings in all those take-mehome items ranging from light bulbs to pens and pencils and a bag to take it home in! I get a lot of requests for more AARP Driving Classes than I can handle. The problem is that I’m away most of the winter and I try and squeeze in as many classes that I can do from April to January but I just have so much time that I can devote to these things. How about one of you becoming an AARP Driving Class Instructor? If you have ever taken the course you can become an instructor by taking a 6 hour course and then keep active by doing at least 3 courses during the year. You don’t get paid for it, but you are serving the community and friends by giving the courses. If we had another instructor, we could schedule more classes for our members. If you would like to become an instructor and help out, let me know and I’ll set things up for you. It would be nice to have someone pitch in and do courses while I’m away during the winter months. AARP Driving Class There will an AARP Driving Course on Friday, September

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2 at 10 AM at the PBA office in Mineola. For an application, send a stamped, self-addressed business size envelope to: Bob Livoti, AARP, 245 Sprucewood Dr., Levittown, NY 11756. Class size is limited so send for your application ASAP. Notes from Dave….I hope everyone had a good summer and with that I want to thank our advertisers who without their continued support this fine newsletter would not be possible. I also want to thank the following: Alex, Alex & Vadim and the staff at Bagel Master in Syosset for their great bagels served at all meetings, the Hon. Frank Trotta, President/Publisher of 50+ lifestyles magazine for their copies provided for all meetings and to a great group of recruiters at the recruitment center in Delco plaza, Hicksville first for their service to our country and for the knick knacks for our members. Thank you for knick knacks to: Chris Hogan of Oyster Bay, Lee Gerstein of Hearing Health Associates, the Long Island Radio Group KJOY Rep/Coordinator Keith Scoponich for K/K and raffles items, to the CVS/Caremark corp managers,Eric O’Connor, Lee Meyer, Jennifer Veillux and Bonnie Eastham for their great knick knacks as well. Jesse Vinson client relations mgr for BeneCard located in Lawrenceville, NJ, to Larry Burkart and his staff at Modells in East Meadow, the Bifulco family of All Weather Tires in Huntington who again remind members of their special discount, see Gary and tell him I sent you. Mike Esposito mgr and Rena Barkouras A/mgr at TD bank in Farmingdale for their K/K and to Xia Leto mgr at TD bank in Hicksville to Jeraldine Fedoriw supervisor with Gurwin Jewish Nursing & Rehab in Commack and Shawn Lockwood mgr and Nicole Mahecha a/mgr at Bethpage Fed Credit in Melville,,to Joe Livoti (no relation) mgr at Citibank in Old Brookville, Julian Huertas mgr at TD bank in Westbury, and to Matt Allgauer, mgr at Millers Ale House in Levittown who reminds members of their SPECIAL DISCOUNT (with proper I.D. as ARPO member).....thank you for knick knacks to:Karen Sprague mgr TD bank Commack, LI Ducks org and Lauren Brady, Donna Callegari mgr Bethpage FCU, Scott & Chris @ Modells, Rosedale, Carl mgr Modells, Westbury, Dom Trovato mgr TD Bank, Roslyn and Brian Christophersen @ Davis Vision, a shout out to the P.I.O. department of NCPD, Det. Mike Bitsko and Det. Vinny Garcia for a great job they do. Last but not least, with cooperation of Maureen O’Connell, Nassau County Clerk and her Rep Patrick Casey, they will be our special guest at the OCTOBER 12th meeting...bring your DD214 (Honorable Discharge Certificate) and they will scan it and then record it in the records of Nassau County and send you (2) certified copies of the DD214 and give you an I.D. card at the meeting which identifies you as an honorably discharged Veteran which will give you discounts at over 100 Nassau county businesses...remember, the OCTOBER 12th meeting, bring DD214.....also do not forget our first meeting back from summer, SEPTEMBER 14th. BE THERE or you are missing out. You will all go home with a nice GOODY BAG......stay healthy and BEAT THE SYSTEM! 10-4

Nassau County’s Own Haunted House

by Bob Livoti

POPPER THE POLTERGEIST Strange Happenings on New York's Long Island by Troy Taylor Troy Taylor is an occultist, supernatural historian and the author of 82 books on ghosts, hauntings, history, crime and the unexplained in America. He is also the founder of the American Ghost Society and the owner of the Illinois and American Hauntings Tour. Editors note: I didn’t know or work with Joe Tozzi, but a lot of you out there probably did. One of the guys at the June meeting gave me an article he printed out from the Internet about Joe and the poltergeist house in Seaford. I did some research on it and also on Joe and came up with a lo t of th ings. When Jo e w as on th e jo b, he wa s in volved i n q uite a few ca ses on t he job tha t ma de Life magazine, Time m agazine and a lot of newspapers. I t’s all very interesting to read and if you have a co mputer, you should take the time to read about many of the exploits of Det. Joe Tozzi while he was on the job. After he retired, he took on a job as Chief of Police in Colleyville, Texas. Joe Tozzi pa ssed away November 14, 2003 at 78 after a battle with cancer. Tozzi served as Police Chief of Colleyville from 1976 through 1984. His career in law enforcement spanned a fifty yea r period including Nassau County Detective, service with the DFW Police and Security and Chief of Colleyville Police. Now, onto one of his famous cases while he was assigned to the 7th Squad taken from an article by Troy Taylor: In 1958, a series of ghostly events that were occurring on Long Island, New York transfixed television viewers and readers all over the country. A house belonging to a family named Herrmann was being beset by strange and inexplicable incidents that were attributed to a ghost who was dubbed “Popper” (for reasons that will so on become obvious). But what was really happening in the house? An unseen force from beyond, or something else? The “Popper” case remains unique in the annals of the supernatural today for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that this beca me the first haunting that was actually s hown on television. Wide-eyed audiences all across the country stared at their television screens in amazement as Popper literally performed for the cameras. These films became the ghost’s claim to fame, but were not the first incidents to take place in the Herrmann house. Popper first made himself known at around 3:30 in the afternoon of February 3, 1958. The James Herrmann family lived in Seaford, New York, a suburb on Long Island, about 30 miles from New York City. Their white and green ranch-style home had been built in 1953 and con tained three bedrooms, a b athroom, a k itchen, a small d ining room, a liv ing ro om an d a basement th at was divided between a utility room and a playroom. In other words, it was a typical 1950’s-era home in a quiet, conservative neighborhood with public parks and tree-lined streets. It was the last place that you would expect anything out of the ordinary to occur.

That February 3 was a day like most any other. It was clear and cold outside and Mrs. Lucille Herrmann, a registered nurse, was there to welcome her children home from school and to prepare dinner. The children were Lucille, 13, and James, 12, two ordinary kids with ordinary interests. Their ordinary world, however, was about to change! Soon after the two Herrmann children entered the kitchen, chaos erupted in the house! In moments, various bottles containing liquid (in different rooms of the house) suddenly began to pop their caps and dance around. No one saw the bottles move or explode, but all of them heard the caps as they popped loose and the bottle’s contents went spewing into the air.

They would later disc over an opened bottle of bleach in the basement utility room, a bottle of liquid starch in the kitchen, bottles of s hampoo a nd m edicine i n the bathroom and a bottle of holy wate r t hat had opened i n t he m aster b edroom. E ach o f t he bottles had been sealed with twist-off typ e metal or plastic caps and there were no corks or crimped caps that might have somehow come loose. Puzzled, Mrs. Herrmann called her husband, who worked for Air France in New York City, and reported the strange “popping” sounds they had heard and the opened bottles. Herrmann was just as confused by the incident as his wife was, but as no one had bee n h urt by t he “ex plosions”, he decided t hat he would not l eave w ork ea rly an d c ome hom e. Fol lowing his us ual sc hedule, Herrmann took the train to Long Island and arr ived home just before 7:00 PM. During his commute, he pondered his wife’s call and was sure that he had a s olution for the mystery. He believed that some sort of chemical reaction in the products had caused the bottle lids t o bl ow a nd t he fact t hat t hey did so a t t he sam e t ime was m erely a coi ncidence. Per haps i t had been ca used by some sort of excessive humidity in the house? He quickly investigated the bottles when he arrived home and confessed to being baffled when he found that they were screw-top lids. How could they have simply popped off?

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Thankfully though, the excitement over the event had calmed down and th e Herrmann’s gave no indicatio n of being upset. With that in mind, they decided to just write the whole experience off as “just one of those funny things.” Two uneventful days passed after that and the popping bottles were almost forgotten. Then, on Thursday, and once again at about the same time that the Herrmann children came home from school, another half dozen bottles popped their lids. A bottle of nail polish burst open, as di d a bottle of rubbing alcohol, a bottle of bl each, detergent, starch and even the holy water. It was an almost exact repeat performance of February 3! On Friday night, it h appened again! Only this time, when the bottles began to pop open, James Herrmann began to suspect that h e knew the cu lprit resp onsible for t he m ultiple co ntainers’ strange b ehavior. He su rmised th at h is scien ce-loving son had somehow rigged the bottles to pop to scare his family. He thought that perhaps some carbonated capsules might have been planted by his clever son and timed so that he could get home from school in time to see the startled expression on his mother’s face. As he developed this theory, Herrmann spent the entire weekend secretly observing his son. He was determined to catch him in som e act ion t hat might gi ve away his pl ans. S o i t’s no wo nder t hat he was s o su rprised o n S unday morning, Fe bruary 9, when several caps popped off bottles of starch , turpentine and ho ly water and left their containers rocking back and forth on th e shelves! Herrmann had kept a cl ose eye o n James Jr., so how could the boy have managed to put something inside of the bottles? Even so, Herrmann burst in to t he bathroom, w here James Jr. w as brushing his t eeth, an d he accu sed th e boy o f rigg ing th e bottles to po p. Needless t o say, h is so n vigorously p rotested h is i nnocence and as if t o p rove th e point, Herrm ann was startled t o see a bo ttle of medicine suddenly move across the top of the sink and fall into the basin! A moment later, a bottle of shampoo also moved across the sink and fell with a thud to the floor! Still skeptical, Herrmann immediately examined the bathroom, searching for h idden wires or strings. He foun d nothing and finally realized that there were things going on in the house that he could not explain. Unsure of what else to do, he called the police and spent the next several minutes on the phone trying to get the officer who answered the call to take him seriously. When he heard the story, the officer first accused Herrmann of either playing a practical joke or drinking too much, but he was soon swayed by the tone of the man’s voice. Herrmann did, in fact, have a very good reputation in the community and because of this, the officer promised to send a patrolman to investigate. The patrolman w ho ans wered t he cal l, Ja mes Hu ghes, went t o t he h ouse very s keptical an d perhaps w ondering how he managed to wind up with the nutcase calls. Within a few minutes though, he had changed his mind about the nature of the case... when several bottles in the bathroom popped their lids and fired them in his direction! He quickly concluded that the Herrmann’s did indeed need help. Detective Jos eph T ozzi wa s assigned to l ook i nto the ca se. He read Hughes’ re port of t he i ncidents i n t he bat hroom wi th interest and while not willing to pass judgment on th e case without actually visiting the scene, he was relativ ely sure the Herrmann’s were experiencing some natural phenomenon or were simply hallucinating. Or, he noted with the cynicism of a veteran police officer, the popping bottles were getting some help a human source. On February 11, Detective Tozzi began his vigil at the Herrmann house. That same evening, a perfume atomizer overturned and spilled perfume in the daughter’s bedroom. There was no one in the room at the time, according to reports. Over the next few days, the disturbances seemed to cen ter around the bottle of holy water in th e bedroom. On several occasions, the lid of the bottle popped off and once, after hearing the distinctive sound, Mr. Herrmann dashed into the bedroom and found the bottle on the fl oor. He picked it up and found it strangely warm to the touch. Later t hat sam e d ay, on February 15 , th e poltergeist activ ity to ok ano ther t urn. As t he Herrm ann ch ildren were watching television in the living room with Marie Murtha, a middle-aged cousin of James Herrmann, a porcelain figure actually rose up off the coffee table and hovered in the air. It moved several inches and then fell to the rug. After this last demonstration, the Herrmann’s decided to turn to another source of comfort to aid the stumped Detective Tozzi in his investigations. They co ntacted Father William McLeod of the Church of St. William the Abbott for help. As devout Catholics, the Herrmann’s believed that the church could possibly help them where ordinary methods had failed. Father McLeod came to the house and sprinkled holy water in each of the rooms, blessing the building. Unfortunately though, “Popper” as the poltergeist came to be called had decided that he didn’t want to leave! During the two weeks since Popper had made his first appearance in the Herrmann house, news of the strange happenings had leaked to newspapers, radio and television reports. The story received a great deal of publicity and the onslaught of m edia and public attention became worse than any antics that the ghost could dream up. During the day, the Herrmann home was surrounded by reporters, photographers, curiosity-seekers and an astounding array of television equipment (especially for these days of e arly TV). While the Herrmann’s managed to get used to these intrusions into their lives, they weren’t quite prepared for some of the strangeness that came with it. Letters and telep hone calls ca me every day. Many of them proposed logical solutions, while others assured the Herrmann’s that Martians had landed nearby or that the problem in the house was the spirit of a long -dead Indian chief or that the Russians were tunneling under Long Island to invade New York. The Herrmann’s managed to stay patient with everyone though. They never turned anyone away an d th ey listen ed atten tively to th e calls an d suggestions that cam e in, eve n those who shouted “R epent!” into the telephone at midnight or proclaimed that “the Sputniks are here!” Many of the letters and visitors were not easy to remain patient with though. Letters arrived in barely intelligible scrawl, condemning the Herrmann’s for their sins and suggesting that they had invited these “tricks of Satan”. Ministers from all sorts of “faiths” conducted rituals on the front lawn of the house. One man in a blue serge suit, who claimed to be a “holy man from Center Moriches”, knelt in the yard and prayed for ten minutes. The he stood and announced: “Everything is all right. You have been forgiven”. With that, he left... but “Popper” remained.

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But not all of the suggestions and helps were so bizarre. One man who came to the house, Robert Zider, was a physicist from Brookhaven National Laboratory. He brought a set of dowsing rods with him and went over the property with them. When he was finished, he stated that he believed there were underground streams below the property, which might be affecting the house. He thought that the water might be creating a “freak magnetic field”. Detective Tozzi examined this idea at length, but a geological survey suggested that the information was inaccurate. Tozzi considered it anyway th ough, as he did a ny othe r information that came along. His case files becam e thicker and thicker with added notes, observations, research and facts that he collected. He had checked with the Air Force and after studying their flight pl ans, t hey ha d told him t hat soni c booms fr om pa ssing jets c ould not have ca used the disturbances. He al so r uled o ut radio waves by contacting the Radio Corporation of America (RCA). The Long Island Lighting Company had set up a delicate oscilloscope in t he ba sement, but t hey had detected n o u nderground vibrations. Inspectors from t he T own of H empstead B uilding Department pronounced the hou se structurally sound. The Seaford Fire Department even inspected a well on the property to see if th e changes in water l evel c ould be ca using t he di sturbances. However, t hey found t hat the water l evel had been stable for at least five years . Although puzzled, Tozzi remained determined and he tried valiantly to discover a source for the happenings. He finally found hope in a l etter from a w oman named Helen Connolly of R evere, Massachusetts. She wrote that she ha d experienced a living room in her home where chairs and furniture moved about. She didn’t have a ghost in her house, but rather a heavy downdraft through he r fire place. When ca pped with a r otary metal turbine, t he flying ta bles and c hairs cea sed to fly. Mr. Herrmann immediately had one installed on his own chimney, convinced that the strangeness was finally coming to an end. But that wasn’t meant to be.... No sooner had the workmen completed the installation than a porcelain figure launched itself from a table and smashed against a desk! The figurine had managed to travel a distance of more than 12 feet! It left a dent on the wood that was broadcast to television audiences all over New York. On February 20, events became even more violent. Another figure was smashed against the desk; a bottle of ink popped its screw cap, then sailed into the air and splashed its contents on the wall; and a sugar bowl flew off the table under the watch of Detective Tozzi. It had been close to James Jr. but not within his reach. Needing a break, the Herrmann family spent the night with a relative. Tozzi stayed in the house, but the rest of the night passed without incident. When the family returned the next evening though, the sugar bowl again flew from the table and this time it shattered into pieces. On February 24, Tozzi was startled to his feet by the sound of a loud noise in James Jr.’s room. No one had been in the room or near it, yet a large bookcase had managed to fall facedown onto the floor. The next night, while James was in the room doing his homework, his record player lifted and moved 15 feet across the room. A small statue of the Virgin Mary flew more than 12 feet and struck a mirror frame in the master bedroom. A bookcase filled with encyclopedias was upended. A heavy glass centerpiece from the dining room table flew up and stuck a cupboard, chipping away a piece of molding before falling to the floor. A world globe shot down a hallway and just missed Detective Tozzi. A newspaper photographer named John Gold from the London Evening News witnessed his flashbulbs lift off a table and fly through the air to strike a wall. In addition, Popper had begun knocking on the walls to get attention, although no attempts to “communicate” with the ghost (if there was one) were ever made. Tozzi had become concerned about the new violence in the disruptions. Until that point, the activity had been limited to popping bottle tops. He had attempted every possible explanation that he could come up with and while he was not prepared to say the house was “haunted”, he was all out of fresh ideas. About this same time though, the staff of scientists at the Parapsychology Laboratory at Duke University, North Carolina, became interested in the events reported in the Herrmann home. This group of men, under the leadership of Dr. J.B. Rhine had already compiled a mass of evidence that supported the idea that certain people, under the right circumstances, could influence the behavior of objects without touching them. They called it psychokinesis, or PK. As the disturbances on Long Island continued (and in fact, increased) Dr. Rhine’s assistant, Dr. J. Gaither Pratt, traveled to New York and arrived at the Herrmann house on February 26. Pratt believed that someone in the house was unknowingly causing the strange incidents to occur. Meanwhile, other researchers came to believe that the incidents in the house were being caused by an actual ghost, a poltergeist, or “noisy spirit”. These prankster ghosts traditionally targeted religious items, as the disturbances had done with the holy water and the Virgin Mary figure in the Herrmann house. On the other hand though, strong evidence remained for the idea that there was a human component behind the haunting. It had been noted by the Rhine researchers (and remember this was new and groundbreaking material at the time) that an adolescent child, usually a girl, was almost always among the members of the household being plagued by poltergeist phenomena. They believed it possible that this young person might be capable of psychokinesis during the height of puberty. In every case though, this person might manifest this without knowing, making them as bewildered as the adults around them. In the case of the Herrmann house, James Jr. (according to Detective Tozzi’s notes) was at or near the scene of the poltergeist disturbance more than 75 percent of the time. For many incidents, he was the sole witness. However, the detective had completely cleared the boy of faking or causing any of the disturbances. Like the others who came before him, Dr. Pratt was welcomed into the Herrmann residence and greeted warmly. He explained that he had come as an observer and he spent most of the time there chatting with James Jr., playing cards with him, helping him with his homework and generally just being around the young man. There was no sign of strangeness during the visit.... Popper was absolutely quiet. Pratt then summoned another colleague from North Carolina, William G. Roll. Together, they interviewed the family members and were convinced that none of them were perpetrating a hoax. “The family was much too shaken for it to be a colossal hoax,” Pratt told a United Press reporter.

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Things were quite for the next several days, as though the poltergeist did not want to perform for the scientists. Then, on March 2, one month after Popper first arrived, he decided to make himself known again. All of the Herrmann’s were in the house to witness what took place. First, a dish vaulted from the kitchen cabinet and shattered on the floor. Then, a night table flipped over in James’ room. Popper was back and yet there was still no explanation as to who, or what, he was. Two days later, a bowl of flowers slid down the dining room table and jumped into the air. A bookcase turned end over end in the cellar. But this would not be Popper’s “farewell performance”. That event would occur on March 10 while Mrs. Herrmann, James Jr. and Lucille were getting ready for bed (James Herrmann was away on business). Pratt and Roll suddenly heard a loud popping sound in the cellar and they hurried downstairs to see what it was. The found that a bleach bottle, sitting in a cardboard box, had somehow lost its plastic lid. For reasons unknown, this became the last act of the Herrmann family poltergeist. There had been a record of 67 recorded disturbances between February 3 and March 10. Unbelievably, the Herrmann’s had been visited by detectives, building inspectors, electricians, plumbers, firemen, parapsychologists and half of the “nutcases” on the east coast and yet none of them had been able to present a satisfactory explanation for what had occurred in their home. Weeks after the household returned to normal, “experts” still came to investigate and to theorize about what had taken place. As late as August 1985, the scientists at Duke still had no clue as to what had happened and why. By this time though, the Herrmann’s had had enough of investigations and just wanted their lives to get back to normal. James Herrmann no longer cared why the disturbances had taken place, he was just happy they were over. Mrs. Herrmann told an Associated Press reporter: “I don’t think there is a definite solution. It was just one of those things with no rhyme or reason to it. But there was a definite physical force behind it.” And what did happen at the Herrmann house on Long Island? No one really knows, as these events remain as puzzling today as they were in 1958! panies.

The grand jury returned a 60 count indictment against Ivan Jerome for pornographic evidence of Jerome and up to 20 girls from the ages of 11 to 17 having sex and being filmed at his house in Massapequa. Jerome skipped the country and bail of $100,000 and was never found again.

Photo top left, Joe Tozzi being interviewed for Armstrong Circle Theater TV Show. Top right, Ivan Jerome being taken to arraignment in radio car. Lower left, Joe Tozzi as Chief of Police in Colleyville, Texas.. Lower right, Joe Tozzi escorting Governor Connoly and his wife on a trip to Nassau County. 8

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RESIDENT SHARES ST ORIES OF LIFE LIVED TO THE FULLEST By Jack Meltzer, Villager staff writer, Pomfret, CT

They simply don’ t breed men like Clif ford Buttermark of the repair control department for the Apollo 12 mission. Apollo 12 was launched on November14, 1969, four months after the first anymore. Twenty years on the Nassau County Police Force, moon landing of Apollo 11. veteran of two wars, and working with engineers for the space At Grumman, he determined why and which parts were module Apollo 12, Buttermark is a rarity in society and truly from defective. He had engineers inspect them and try to fix them. If a different era. they couldn't be fixed within 24 hours, Buttermark would back Now 93, Buttermark is retired and lives in Pomfret Center at Seely Brown Assisted Living and Senior Center . When charge that company and in six months, Buttermark recovered he's not there; he spends most of his days either volunteering at more than $700,000 for Grumman. "They liked that very much, Day Kimball Hospital in Putnam, or receiving awards across the the work I did at Grumman. Especially saving all that money ," state for being an outstanding citizen. The Lions Club of Putnam Buttermark said. recently named him Citizen of the Year at Positively Pomfret In 1971, after three years with Grumman, Buttermark made his way up to Connecticut by the way of research and development for Day. Hull Forest Products, where he created a library of timberland that Buttermark volunteers Tuesdays and Fridays at Day Kimball Hospital — where he has logged more than 2,000 hours. HFP still uses to this day. Buttermark has been a resident of the Pomfret area for Furthermore, he served two terms of justice of the peace for the town of Pomfret. He volunteered15 years at theAccess Food Bank almost 40 years, and has been living in Seely Brown since 2008. in Danielson, 15 years the Emergency Housing in Danielson, and He has a daughter who lives in Florida, a son who lives in New Hampshire. He has three granddaughters and two great-grandsons. was awarded Knight of the Blind for his charity work with the collection of used eyeglasses and giving them to those who can't None of Buttermark's lineage has followed in his engineering afford new ones. He has been a member of the Pomfret Lions Club footsteps. "I feel pretty good," Buttermark said. "Hey, people think I'm 65 or 70 still. That's OK with me. for 32 years. Here is a list of some of Cliff’s Volunteerism: Cliff moved "I've been fortunate," Buttarmark said. "I've been through two wars, 20 years of police work, and I don't have a scratch on to Pomfret, CT from Long Island, NY in 1972. Before moving here, he was a WWII and Korean War veteran, serving with the me. That's why I do so much volunteer work." U.S. Navy as a Ship Fitter First Class. As a civilian. He was a ship Born in Staten Island, N.Y . and a second-generation Italian-American, Buttermark was one of 15 kids, and recalls the fitter first class for three years, a Nassau County Police Of ficer time of the Great Depression very well. He remembers going to for 10 years in uniform and 10 years as a Detective. He retired Aerospace rent parties where everyone from the neighborhood would throw in 1968 after 20 years of service, went to Grumman Corporation, Long Island, NY , worked on the F14 Navy fighter in $1 or a 50-cent piece to help your neighbor pay back rent. He recalls memories of going to Curtis High School (Class of 1936), plane and others. He also worked on the Lunar Module that landed men on the moon on Apollo 12 on Nov . 14, 1969. In addition he where they had 30 desks to a room and two students to a desk served 16 years as the Justice of the Peace for the Town of Pomfret — totaling 60 students to a classroom with one teacher. "Those were different times. Kids don’t know how they from 1977-1993, volunteered 15 years serving at the Access Food got it now," Buttermark said. "At school, I took elocution classes, Bank in Danielson, also 15 years serving at the Access Homeless where they showed you how to escort a woman through a doorway , Shelter. He served 20 years at The Soup Kitchen which became how to set a table properly . Now you go to the restaurant and all the Community Kitchen. He is a 32 year member of the Pomfret Club "The Knight of the Blind" and these kids are wearing baseball thelives restaurant. It's terrible. He Lion's Florida, acaps son in who in New Hampshire. has years and and was editorawarded of their Newsletter. was Secretary of the Lion's Club and Hospital editor of their The year was 1929. Europe was in shambles. Stockbrokers who three granddaughters and two great-grandsons. None At present, he has beentwo a Dayyears Kimball Newsletter. lost everything were jumping out of windows. Families couldn't of Buttermark's lineage has followed in his engineering volunteer with over 2,000 hours of working with At present, he has a Day Kimball pay the rent. Buttermarkfootsteps. said he remembers his father,said. a "Hey, special "I feel prettywatching good," Buttermark education boysbeen and girls over the lastHospital 6 years. volunteer with over 2,000 hours of working with special building contractor, draw out blueprints at the dinner table, and people think I'm 65 or 70 still. That's OK with me. For the last 6 years, he has been the Secretary for education boys and girls over thePomfret last 6 years. the last 6 years, how influential that was on hisHere life. is a list of some of Clif f’s Volunteerism: recording of burials for the South For Cemetery. he has been the Secretary for recording of burials for By age seven, Buttermark could read blueprints, and if it Cliff moved to Pomfret, CT from Long Island, NY in He did a 4-year historical research project for the the Pomfret South Cemetery. a 4-year research project for wasn't for the one summer where he moving had to take summer classes, 1972. Before here, he wasa WWII and Korean cemetery ofHe alldid graves datinghistorical back to the 1600's and the cemetery of all graves dating back to the 1600's and he wouldn't have gottenWar theveteran, chanceserving to takewith mechanical drafting the U.S. Navy as a Ship Fitter received an award from the Historical Conservation received — two things that wouldFirst shape his life forever. award from the Historical Conservation Commission. Commission. Class. As a civilian. He was a ship fitter an first After Curtis High School, with his ablueprint reading class for three years, Nassau County Police Of ficer . skills, he found a job at for a shipyard paid him a week, 10 yearsthat in uniform and $65 10 years as a and Detective. was ranked as a first-class . After a couple years at the went to He shipfitter retired in 1968 after 20 years of service, shipyard, Buttermark found himself being recruited by the Navy Grumman Aerospace Corporation, Long Island, NY , for World War II as a mechanic for their ship repair unit. In his worked on the F14 Navy fighter plane andfirst others. He year with the Navy Buttermark was on soon private also worked theconverting Lunar Module that yachts landed men on into gunboats. the moon on Apollo 12 on Nov. 14, 1969. In addition After more thanhe12 years16ofyears dutyasinthe theJustice Navy of the , Peace and for the served enduring two major wars; World War II and the Korean War, Town of Pomfret from 19771993, volunteered 15 Buttermark decided to work a police officer in Food Nassau County, years as serving at the Access Bank in Danielson, where he was promotedalso to detective after 10 years on the force. In Shelter. 15 years serving at the Access Homeless these years, he patrolledHe crime scenes, solved domestic disputes served 20 years atThe Soup Kitchen which became and aided people who the were injured in violentHe cases. Heyear spent Cmmunity Kitchen. is a 32 member of the 20 years on the force before deciding to go work for Grumman Pomfret Lion's Club and was awarded "The Knight of Aerospace Corp. in Bethpage, NY. wasSecretary a mid-level Cliff in his white Appolo 12 jacket the Blind" andHe was of themanager Lion's Club two

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